Sentences with phrase «to curb emissions of greenhouse gases»

David M. Herszenhorn has a piece today examining this week's Senate action (or inaction, more accurately) as the debate over the Warner - Lieberman - Boxer bill aimed at curbing emissions of greenhouse gases stalled amid partisan parrying using age - old rules of order.

But this is clearly a case of the wrong tool for the job, if the job is, in fact, to curb emissions of greenhouse gases as human populations and energy appetites crest.

President Obama has charted a creditable course given the limits set by a paralyzed and polarized Congress, moving toward regulations curbing emissions of greenhouse gases from proposed and (more important) existing power plants.

He has tried everything over the decades to mobilize people to aggressively curb emissions of greenhouse gases that climate experts say will lead to centuries of rising seas, ecological disruption and changing weather patterns.

I had the pleasure of being the «guest of the month» for April on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, visiting five Thursdays, including today, to discuss population and consumption trends, the legacy of Earth Day, the longstanding paralysis over curbing emissions of greenhouse gases and a variety of other themes.

One lesson, discussed by me for many years, is that short - term variability even on the scale of a decade (in either the hot or not hot direction) is a distraction if one is looking for evidence of human - driven warming or trying to build an argument for or against curbing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Schneider, who was 65, spent decades studying the forces influencing climate and the policy implications of human - driven warming, as well as pressing the case for action to curb emissions of greenhouse gases even as he battled and subdued a rare cancer in recent years.

And assertions that such losses are the new normal distract from glaring opportunities to cut unnecessary (and costly) exposure to this danger in the West, even as the grander task of curbing emissions of greenhouse gases proceeds.

In theory, the goal of the Paris talks over a new global climate agreement is to create a more sustainable human relationship with the climate system by curbing emissions of greenhouse gases and boosting poor countries» capacity to withstand climate shocks.

Geoengineering has been attacked by some environmentalists as creating a possible end run around the need for curbing emissions of greenhouse gases at the source, and also for coming with its own basket of potential environmental consequences.

He retired in 2013 to focus on activism aimed at curbing emissions of greenhouse gases linked to warming.

The report says that even with a lack of any policy aimed at curbing emissions of greenhouse gases, United States emissions of carbon dioxide are not expected to top those measured in 2005 until 2027 (click here for a graph).

Drawing on experience building a customer base for various products over many years, Clark sees efforts to curb emissions of greenhouse gases as a solution that — because of the long - term and cumulative nature of warming risks — is offered well ahead of public recognition of the problem (truly disruptive changes to conditions and resources humans depend on).

California is taking the initiative and moving forward with plans to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, even as prospects for national and even international efforts fade

While keeping the rule — which limits use of the Endangered Species Act to curb emissions of greenhouse gases — Salazar held open the possibility of adding habitat protections for the polar bear later.

In contrast to RealClimate and Skeptical Science, which are focused tightly on science questions, this initiative appears to be trying to both clarify the state of the science on global warming and, in the same breath, promote policies that could curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

It focused on a substantial intensification of efforts to boost resilience to climate shocks, particularly in the poorest, most vulnerable places, and to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

The article cites a draft two - page text circulated at the meeting, which appears to indicate movement toward long - term (2050) and near - term (2020) steps to curb emissions of greenhouse gases — although with all of the soft language required to get both developing and rich countries on board.

Finding ways to curb emissions of greenhouse gases is an important part of this century's energy challenge, for sure.

Over the weekend, negotiators in Paris produced a slimmer, but still heavily - bracketed final draft of a proposed climate change [accord][protocol][agreement][anything but a treaty] aimed at doing what the first climate treaty, adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, failed to do: curb emissions of greenhouse gases and boost the capacity of poor countries to handle climatic and coastal dangers amplified by warming.

The latest comes as basic flaws have been exposed in a panel finding on thawing Asian glaciers that, while buried in the back matter of the panel's 2007 report on impacts of warming, had become a prime talking point among campaigners calling for action to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

He deconstructs the merits and drawbacks of the Hartwell Paper, an endeavor by a variegated crew of economists, political scientists and others to chart a reality - based path toward limiting risks from climate extremes while, in the long haul, curbing emissions of greenhouse gases.

But I'm deeply doubtful that this is a path to changing public attitudes and — more importantly — behaviors related to curbing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Just to be clear, while Emanuel was long a registered Republican (he switched to independent status last spring, he told me) and Frumhoff is straight from Central Casting if you're seeking a scientist who's also a liberal Democrat, they have both long been calling for action to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

That error and other recent disclosures about the report's section on the effects of global warming have set off a wave of criticism of the panel, just as governments are trying to use its findings to support policies aimed at curbing the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Two of the treaties finalized in Rio 20 years ago — one aimed at conserving biological diversity, the other at curbing emissions of greenhouse gases — are widely viewed as failures.

The world's largest energy company is still spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund European organisations that seek to cast doubt on the scientific consensus on global warming and undermine support for legislation to curb emission of greenhouse gases.

As western nations step up pressure on India and China to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, Russian scientists reject the very idea that carbon dioxide may be responsible for global warming.

Putting a price on carbon, in the form of a fee or tax on the use of fossil fuels, coupled with returning the generated revenue to the public in one form or another, can be an effective way to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

Putting a price on carbon, in the form of a fee or tax on the producers of fossil fuels, can be an effective way to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

To support this transition, the industry should use its unique knowledge base to inform the debate on climate change and actively lobby government to take action to reduce risks and curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

By the mid-2000s, General Electric, Walmart and other companies were pledging to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, according to Spencer Weart, author of «The Discovery of Global Warming» and former director of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics.