Sentences with phrase «controls emissions of carbon»

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

When Alberta announced its latest strategy to control industrial greenhouse gas emissions several years ago, it anticipated carbon capture and storage (CCS) would deliver 70 % of planned reductions.

If the company can control and contain this energy, it would have a positive impact on the problem of carbon emissions and climate change in the decades to come.

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).

On Monday, Gina McCarthy, the E.P.A. assistant administrator for air issues, told state environmental officials in a letter that if Texas would not regulate carbon emissions from smokestacks, the federal government would seize control of the state's permitting program on Thursday.

It had a near - miss for capping carbon emissions after the House passed the «American Clean Energy and Security Act» by a narrow vote of 219 - 212 in June 2009, only to see it dissolve in the Senate controlled by Democrats a year later.

«If this is going to be a significant part of controlling carbon emissions, it would have to be on the scale of one [billion] to 10 billion tons per year.»

The Bulletin acknowledges that the increased use of carbon - free nuclear energy could help mitigate global warming brought on by fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions but concludes that the possibility of misusing enriched uranium and separated plutonium to create bombs is a «terrible trade - off» for trying to control climate change.

Ramanathan and colleagues will deliver a complementary report detailing the «three - lever» mitigation strategy of emissions control and carbon sequestration on Sept. 18 at the United Nations.

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.»

This will also require an improved knowledge of the mechanisms controlling the degradation, preservation and emissions of carbon along the aquatic continuum to fully understand the impact of human activity on carbon transfer.

The functionalized carbon nanotubes have significant prospects for further development, Doorn noted, including advances in functionalization chemistry; integration into photonic, plasmonic and metamaterials structures for further control of quantum emission properties; and implementation into electrically driven devices and optical circuitry for diverse applications.

An adequately - large ensemble of model runs would provide a distribution of possible severities of an extreme event in control runs and those forced with prescribed carbon emissions.

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.

The project aims to integrate and advance the control of air quality and carbon emissions in European cities in the context of climate change through the development of sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives.

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

It also supports over the counter sales, allows either caterers and schools to justifiably claim that the containers they sell can be recovered for recycling after - use, and also carries numerous other benefits; such as improved janitor utilisation (so less time's spent on litter control / cleaning), reduction in skip use as materials are removed separately for recycling and / or are stored in a compacted form, and reduction of carbon emissions within the recovery chain.

Key drivers for the use of Modular Volumetric Buildings include: sustainability; reduction in on site waste — controlled factory waste; and reduction of carbon emissions.

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.

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The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) heralded the agreement in October, of a new global market - based measure to control carbon emissions from international aviation, as an «historic agreement».

Bill says the global financial system is so insane that a market - based solution to reduce carbon emissions could spin out of control and freeze / starve us to death.

The rationale for the R, D&D of a reliably benign mode of Albedo Restoration rests on the points above: in the absence of any prospect of sufficient cooling by Emissions Control, it is required as a means to cool the planet sufficiently to avoid the ruinous climatic destabilization of agriculture, as well as to ensure the continued viability of forestry both as a major carbon bank and as a means of optimized Carbon Recovery.

EPA Rules Controlling Greenhouse - gas Emissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natEmissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natemissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natural gas.

At root I'm not qualified to argue with actual economists, but I'll hazard a guess that, just as with CFCs, tetraethyl lead and a host of other examples, the increased costs associated w / controlling carbon emissions will quickly be lost in the general noise level of economic statistics.

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.

Since co-ops have lobbied for exemption from carbon controls (i.e., the Lieberman / Warner Energy Security Act of 2007), their emissions could be cost - free, making an economic justification for investment in unrequired cleanup unlikely at best.

Kunz laid out a pretty convincing case for high speed rail as the solution for a number of problems facing American transportation, including outdated infrastructure, peak oil (or «energy independence,» depending how you look at it), out of control carbon emissions, and more.

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.

The next crew in the White House might not be as blatant as the current masters of evil, but we shouldn't think that the struggle to control carbon emissions will be easily won by changing presidents.

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.

Actual and projected emission levels are already at the high end of Hansen's «alternative scenario» which was suggested as an achievable outcome (based on significant control efforts) that kept forcings (including Co2, CH4 and black carbon) below a level that Hansen considered would be «dangerous» (specifically a level that would avoid the melting of any significant fraction of the WAIS or Greenland ice sheet).

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

It is absurd that, with the experience of these other democracies before them, and at the very time when the whole IPCC CAGW meme is in a state of collapse that Obama has decided to side step Congress and force through by regulation carbon emission controls based on his naïve faith in the failed predictions of the IPCC process.

Even very severe controls on carbon emissions might fail to halt the destruction of many coral reefs: We don't know the effects of the carbon that has already been emitted.

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 project aims to integrate and advance the control of air quality and carbon emissions in European cities in the context of climate change through the development of sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives.

• Global temperatures are likely to rise by 0.3 C to 4.8 C, by the end of the century depending on how much governments control carbon emissions.

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.