Sentences with phrase «control emissions of carbon dioxide»

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, on a mostly partisan vote, approved the bill that would halt EPA regulations that began this year to control emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants linked to climate change.

The international solution proposed was to control emissions of carbon dioxide.

Our activities are warming the world's atmosphere at such a rate that most of our agriculture will be seriously dislocated over the next few decades — even if we were to get down to business now and start controlling our emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

In the fight against climate change, most experts focus on controlling emissions of carbon dioxide, but methane is actually the more potent greenhouse gas, even more effective at trapping heat in Earth's atmosphere.

After all, it only controls emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), which is simply plant food.

Negotiators in Copenhagen are trying to set targets for controlling emissions of carbon dioxide and other global - warming gases, including by the leading contributors, China and the United States.

Not exact matches

There is probably no practical way to achieve the necessary reduction in greenhouse emissions (chiefly carbon dioxide and methane) without controlling the numbers of people in the world (Ehrlich & Ehrlich 1990).

Its members include many big American producers and consumers of coal, oil and electricity — such as Dow Chemicals and the National Coal Association — all of whom might suffer from controls on emissions of carbon dioxide.

«It is very important to know the sources of carbon dioxide in running waters as well as the processes controlling respiration and emissions if we are to understand what happens when the environment changes,» says Erin Hotchkiss, researcher at Umeå University.

Boxer and the Senate's other senior Democrats — who control the body — have largely deemphasized the issue since 2010, when they abandoned a major effort to pass legislation aimed at curbing U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

A host of new techniques and technologies will be required to reduce emissions from these sources that includes reusing heat and power generated in manufacturing processes; recycling materials or substituting them; controlling greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide (CO2); and, ultimately, capturing and burying the CO2 produced.

Adds Aronson: «We absolutely must control emissions of the principal greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, if we are going to preserve life in the oceans in some approximation of the way it should be.»

It would be hard to find an ocean expert who does not agree that global carbon dioxide emissions must be brought under control — and quickly — if we are to prevent the wholesale deterioration of our oceans.

This suggests that storing carbon in forests, agricultural areas, and other ecosystems is an important and cost - effective part of a bigger carbon dioxide emissions control strategy that includes dramatic changes to the global energy system.

Heterogeneous catalysis for controlling gaseous emissions from automotive and stationary engines, alternative energy using catalytic reforming of gaseous and liquid fuels to hydrogen for fuel cells, catalytic processes for upgrading carbon dioxide to useful products

As a result, it affords precise control of the intake - valve events — beginning and end — which reduces engine - pumping losses, increases volumetric efficiency and cuts carbon - dioxide emissions.

It's not the cutting of GHG emissions that are the real issue: it's the cutting into the 35 % and growing overload of carbon dioxide already on the globe that has to be addressed for getting some control of global warming.

Reductions in near - term warming can be achieved by control of the short - lived climate forcers whereas carbon dioxide emission reductions, beginning now, are required to limit long - term climate change.

This is forward going action for getting control of global warming by stopping unneeded GHG emissions increasing the overload of carbon dioxide on the globe while also getting control of water pollution.

Of course, the plant that was closed in Tongliang lacked basic pollution control equipment to limit the emission of pollutants like carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matteOf course, the plant that was closed in Tongliang lacked basic pollution control equipment to limit the emission of pollutants like carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matteof pollutants like carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter.

Pacific islanders are the «victims of industrial countries unable to control their carbon dioxide emissions»

Key elements include curbing human carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, improved control of local pollution sources, reducing coastal habitat destruction, and better preparing coastal human communities to withstand the amount of ocean acidification and climate change that is unavoidable.

The research draws upon work first begun by Richard Heede in 2014, when he published research tracking the carbon dioxide emissions of the world's largest publicly traded and state - controlled fossil energy companies.

That changed today during the 2016 China - US Climate - Smart / Low Carbon Cities Summit in Beijing, when Chengdu formally announced its commitment to control carbon dioxide emissions so that they reach a peak around 2025 and decline after that — a target five years ahead of China's national aim to peak carbon emissions by 2030.

Limits the trading of allowances with facilities other than electricity generating facilities to certain carbon dioxide emission control programs.

In the absence of emission controls, these new plants will increase worldwide annual emissions of carbon dioxide by approximately 7.6 billion metric tons by 2030.

If carbon dioxide is indeed a pollutant when present in excessive concentrations in the atmosphere — which the EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding for carbon says that it is — then by law and by past precedent the Clean Air Act is the appropriate means for controlling all of America's own greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of their source.

And in fact when you look at the scientific literature, it's an interesting disconnect because the modelers who study emissions and how to control those emissions are generally much more comfortable setting goals in terms of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas concentrations because that comes more or less directly out of their models and is much more proximate or more closely connected to what humans actually do to screw up the climate in the first place, which is emit these greenhouse gases.

The expert, Dr. James E. Hansen, and his colleagues conclude in a new analysis that the warming seen in recent decades has been caused mainly by other heat - trapping emissions — methane, chlorofluorocarbons, black particles of diesel and coal soot and compounds that create the ozone in smog — which are easier to control than carbon dioxide, with many of them already on the decline.

Moreover, Dr. Hansen said, in contrast to the difficulties of controlling carbon dioxide, technologies already exist for capturing or eliminating many of the other kinds of emissions.

[10] Although new power plants, when equipped with state - of - the - art pollution controls, have significantly less of the type of pollutants that cause acid rain, fine particulate pollution, and mercury toxicity, no currently proposed plants include any equipment to capture emissions of carbon dioxide.

When asked on CNBC's «Squawk Box» to admit that the primary cause of global warming is carbon dioxide emissions, Perry instead claimed that «most likely the primary control knob is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.»

It also depends on what assumptions you make about how effective carbon - emissions control is; Lenton and Vaughan calculate all the forcings in terms of what extra relief the carbon - dioxide drawdown provides in a world that is already making serious cuts in emissions).

It claims that an out - of - control industry has launched an irreversible movement toward human catastrophe, a movement that can be only mitigated by what amounts to finishing off what remains of the World's crippled economy, all in the name of climate and the hope of cutting back carbon dioxide emissions.

Global warming due to humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide, he wrote, was likely to «gain the upper hand in the next century unless stronger controls are instituted than any that are believed to be contemplated...» (p. 677).

As a result of that you can be convinced that the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does not dominate warming, and that the warming does control the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, where the influence of manmade CO2 emission is too minimal to be found in reality.

And this cost projection assumes optimal conditions — the immediate implementation of a common global price or tax on carbon dioxide emissions, a significant expansion of nuclear power and the advent and wide use of new, low - cost technologies to control emissions and provide cleaner sources of energy.

The nonprofit Clean Air Trust named Ebell its «clean air villain of the month» in 2001, citing his «ferocious lobbying charge to persuade President Bush to reverse his campaign pledge to control electric utility emissions of carbon dioxide.»

Indeed, in Europe the price of electricity is forcing entire industries to close down, including aluminum, ceramics and steel, for minimal reductions in Europe's carbon dioxide emissions, and none worldwide since the shuttered industries simply move to other countries where emission controls and electricity generation efficiencies are much lower.

... Robert Murray, chairman and chief executive of Murray Energy Corp., warned the coal industry could collapse with the loss of 3 million to 4 million jobs if carbon dioxide emission controls are introduced.

However, in India and China a lot of coal and biomass is burned in domestic settings where inefficient low - temperature combustion and a lack of pollution controls mean that the mix of emissions is much more complicated — carbon dioxide, of course, but also large amounts of carbon monoxide, black carbon and sulphates.

According to the Kyoto Protocol, which the United States did not ratify, countries were told to reduce their overall emissions, which they can achieve by controlling carbon dioxide, methane or any of the other greenhouse gases.