Sentences with phrase «controls on global emissions»

At some point, however, even he must consider the consequences of the inevitable controls on global emissions that are to come.

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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.

The study, led by researchers at Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), highlights the importance of maintaining domestic emission controls on motor vehicles, power plants and other industries at a time when pollution is increasingly global.

Guenther is a world - leading expert on the processes controlling chemical emissions from plants and how these emissions affect air quality and regional and global climate.

It was not until he embraced the movement to combat global warming with new controls on carbon emissions that voters began to identify him as an environmentalist Republican.

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.

While pressing for cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions and better efforts to control hunting, both legal and illegal, the participating scientists concluded on an optimistic note, saying they were «optimistic that humans can mitigate the effects of global warming and other threats to polar bears, and ensure that they remain a part of the Arctic ecosystem in perpetuity.»

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.

It's my hope Al Gore takes on the role of being the global «Czar» of controlling greenhouse gas emissions.

BACKGROUND: JAMES HANSEN ENDORSEMENT: Back in February 2006, we hoped recognition of plug - ins» role would grow after PHEVs got strong backing from one of the world's leading experts on global warming, James Hansen, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Institute for Space Studies: «The plug - in hybrid approach, as being pursued by CalCars, seems to be our best bet for controlling vehicle CO2 emissions in the near - term.

• 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.

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Even if climate sensitivity is on the lower end, if we don't get our emissions under control, we will still see a dangerous amount of global warming (more details on this to come in a future blog post).

Even as some utility executives are joining environmentalists in supporting controls on carbon emissions, TXU is betting $ 10 billion on 11 new coal power plants that will produce huge amounts of global warming gases for decades to come.

No policy to abate global warming by controlling CO2 emissions would prove cost - effective solely on grounds of the welfare benefit from climate mitigation.

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.»

The announcement to control emissions of byproduct HFC - 23, however, represents a new commitment by China that could have a substantial impact on the global climate.

The voluntary measures put on the table at Paris by over 100 nations are a welcome step, but unless there are strong measures to reduce emissions beyond 2030, global emissions would remain at a high level, practically guaranteeing that young people inherit a climate running out of their control.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change used its strongest language yet in a report on the causes of climate change, prompting calls for global action to control emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

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.

«They've got three more years, and the only way to control this issue and do nothing about it is to muddy the science,» said Eileen Claussen, the president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, a private group that has enlisted businesses in programs cutting emissions.

Determined to protect the ozone layer by taking precautionary measures to control equitably total global emissions of substances that deplete it, with the ultimate objective of their elimination on the basis of developments in scientific knowledge, taking into account technical and economic considerations and bearing in mind the developmental needs of developing countries,

As to» the truth», researchers have not expressed any evidence based on empiric observations according to which the trend of recent multidecadal global warming could have been controlled by anthropogenic CO2 emissions to atmospere.

«The more we talk about the need to control emissions, the more they are growing,» said John Reilly, co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.