Sentences with phrase «curbs on carbon dioxide»

Soon and Baliunas had specifically sent their paper to one Chris de Freitas at Climate Research, an editor known for opposing curbs on carbon dioxide emissions.

When I do that, aggressive curbs on carbon dioxide emissions fall well behind the immediacy of filling the world's energy gaps (and work to limit vulnerability of poor places to today's norms for climate and coastal hazards).

Not exact matches

Trump has called climate change a hoax and has promised to refocus the EPA on protecting air and water quality, while scrapping many of Obama's initiatives to curb carbon dioxide emissions.

Emerging economies such as China and India have not joined the Coalition, arguing that its membership of mostly developed nations including Japan, Canada and Australia should focus more on curbing carbon dioxide, released from burning fossil fuels.

Most of the discussions centered on devising strategies to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases from automobiles, power plants, and the burning of tropical forests.

As for the ethics of all of this, Donald A. Brown of Pennsylvania State University argues that the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases are morally obligated to curb carbon dioxide and similar emissions based on the level of certainty that is already established on the impacts of those emissions — most of which will be in poorer places with small contributions to the human - caused gas buildup in the atmosphere.

I often try to step back and take the point of view of the atmosphere in considering claims of progress on curbing emissions of carbon dioxide from human activities.

Many experts on climate and energy policy say China will never move meaningfully to curb its carbon dioxide emissions until it sees such steps in the United States.

As signs grew that the Senate was in no mood to set up a trading system for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, as I noted how the climate policy debate had circled back lately to the emissions - capping plan for power plants that had been proposed in the 2000 Bush campaign for the presidency, I found myself thinking about the vacuum that's persisted where President Obama should have been on this issue (if he planned to live up to his campaign commitments).

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

I've written off and on about how the divide in the United States over how quickly to curb carbon dioxide emissions has little to do with the now familiar red state versus blue state dynamic, and is more about which regions have grids and economies most wedded to coal and oil, and which don't.

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.

«Ecological treaties should seek to curb emissions of sulpher dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals and other highly - toxic pollutants instead of targeting carbon dioxide, which is a non-toxic gas whose impact on global warming has not been proved,» says Dr. Golubchikov.

In 1997, The Climate Trust was founded as a nonprofit organization to acquire carbon offsets on behalf of new fossil - fueled power plants regulated by the Oregon Carbon Dioxide Standard, the nation's first legislation to curb emissions of carbon dDioxide Standard, the nation's first legislation to curb emissions of carbon dioxidedioxide.

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

The tragedy of Earth Day is that governments spend billions of dollars on meaningless efforts to curb carbon dioxide while billions live in poverty and squaller around the world.

Andrew G. Keeler, who until June 2001 was on the president's Council of Economic Advisers and has since returned to teaching at the University of Georgia, said the Clinton administration had also played with economic calculations of the costs of curbing carbon dioxide emissions, in its case to show that limiting emissions would not be expensive.

If curbing pollutants like arsenic, a known human carcinogen, is warranted, there is no excuse for our avoidance of placing limits on carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas most responsible for climate change.

President Trump visited the EPA headquarters on March 28 and before an audience of coalminers, signed an executive order to overturn the Clean Power Plan to curb carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants, and to allow coalmining leases on federal lands.

After making headlines last year for pledging to invest $ 3 billion in renewable energy technologies, he's upped the ante on curbing climate change by offering a $ 25 million prize to whoever comes up with the best way of removing significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Earlier this month, scientists who authored the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which predicted the dire consequences and inevitable global warming, called for governments to take immediate action to curb carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that have contributed to climate change.