Sentences with phrase «damaging than carbon»

These gases are not only damaging to the ozone layer, but are super greenhouse gases, thousands of times more damaging than carbon dioxide (CO2).

Methane, a gas more damaging than carbon dioxide, is enveloping the California air continuously.

Not exact matches

The combination of selective logging and wildfires damages turns primary forests into a thick scrub full of smaller trees and vines, which stores 40 % less carbon than undisturbed forests.

Methane is far more damaging as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide — 25 times more so.

This is especially dangerous because red blood cells can uptake carbon monoxide faster than oxygen so if there is a lot of carbon monoxide in the air, it can replace oxygen in cells, leading to injury, tissue damage and eventually death.

The bulk of the age - related tissue damage classified as «glycation end - products» (or «advanced glycation end - products,» AGE) is produced by decomposition of the polyunsaturated fats, rather than by sugars, and this would be minimized by the protective oxidation of glucose to carbon dioxide.»

But today's carbon - depleted and environmentally damaged world is very different than the post World War II environment that found new peacetime uses for chemicals.

However, if some (or many) of these efforts have some smoke - and - mirror aspect to them, or if they become the seemingly easy «solution du jour» and allow us to think that we can avoid larger solutions (fuel efficiency standards; carbon tax, or firm carbon cap combined with a robust and regulated carbon credit trading mechanism; substantial investments in new energy technologies; energy conservation; etc.), their net impact can be more damaging than beneficial.

True the politics are much more fraught, our economies are much more carbon dependent than they were ever CFC dependent, and much more damage is in the pipeline, but the dangers of not tackling AGW head on will be self - evident.

However, in phasing out CFCs, humans created new gases, HFCs, which do not deplete the ozone layer, but are hundreds to thousands of times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide.

As Arctic and sub-Arctic regions warm more than the global average, the increase in temperature could lead to more regular fire damage to vegetation and soils and carbon release.

With an estimated social cost of carbon — a damage estimate of global warming pollution — of $ 65 (far less than other estimates), the GED for coal - fired generators is 4.7 cents / kWh.

From 2007 to 2013, corn ethanol interests spent $ 158 million lobbying for more mandates and subsidies — and $ 6 million in campaign contributions — for a fuel that reduces mileage, damages engines, requires enormous amounts of land, water and fertilizer, and from stalk to tailpipe emits more carbon dioxide than gasoline.

Here is the relevance of carbon to investing: There is consensus within the scientific community that increasing the global temperature by more than 2 °C will likely cause devastating and irreversible damage to the planet.

«If droughts become more frequent, as expected, the time between droughts may become shorter than drought recovery time, leading to permanently damaged ecosystems and widespread degradation of the land carbon sink.»

Thanks to increasing pressure to reduce carbon emissions and cut the use of foreign oil, biofuels - renewable, home - grown and marketed as less damaging than fossil fuels - have used corporate and political clout to win billions in subsidies from the US taxpayer.

Climate change will be infinitely more damaging to Yorke Peninsula than the Ceres wind farm, and the wind farm will abate a couple million tonnes of greenhouse carbon dioxide each year.

So, once we clear away the underbrush, we can see that the case for a carbon tax or a cap - and - trade emissions rationing system is really that it would be a hedge against the risk that actual damages from warming would be much, much worse than current risk - adjusted projections indicate.

The main argument for a carbon tax rather than a trading scheme is that, if there is a lot of uncertainty about the cost of reducing emissions, and not much uncertainty about the damage caused by climate change, a fixed price for emissions (that is, a tax) will get closer to the optimal outcome than a fixed quantity.

Applying to carbon tax this means that the tax is good, if producing CO2 is indeed at least as damaging as the level of the tax implies, but bad, if CO2 is not damaging or if the tax is much higher than the damages would make justified.

Moonbats: «Jacobson found that domes of increased carbon dioxide concentrations — discovered to form above cities more than a decade ago — cause local temperature increases that in turn increase the amounts of local air pollutants, raising concentrations of health - damaging ground - level ozone as well as particles in urban air.»

It is a powerful greenhouse gas, and in the short term it does much more damage than the far more abundant carbon dioxide.

Australian scientists researching environmental restoration projects have found that the reforestation of damaged rainforests is more efficient at capturing carbon than controversial softwood monoculture plantations.

HFCs are hundreds and thousands of times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide.

And their high - GWP HFCs (hydroflourocarbons) that do not harm the ozone layer, but are hundreds and thousands of times more damaging to the global climate than carbon dioxide (CO2).

These overlooked, shorter - term pollutants — mostly from burning wood and kerosene and from driving trucks and cars — cause more localized warming than once thought, the authors of the report say.They contend there should be a greater effort to attack this type of pollution for faster results.For decades, scientists have concentrated on carbon dioxide, the most damaging greenhouse gas because it lingers in the atmosphere for decades.

HFCs — used in refrigeration, air conditioning, and other industrial applications — are hundreds to many thousands of times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide and were commercialized as replacements to ozone depleting substances (such as HCFCs), which are being phased out under the Montreal Protocol.

For the avoidance of doubt, Gross Revenues shall (A) exclude monies received from any source other than the sale of electric energy and capacity, including, without limitation, any of the following: (i) any federal, state, county or local tax benefits, grants or credits or allowances related to, derived from, or granted to the Wind Energy Project or Grantee, including, but not limited to, investment or production tax credits, or property or sales tax exemptions, (ii) proceeds from financing activities, sales, assignments, partial assignments, contracts (other than the power purchase agreement) or other dispositions of or related to the Wind Energy Project (such as damages for breach of contract or liquidated damages for delays in project completion or failures in equipment performance), (iii) amounts received as reimbursements or compensation for wheeling costs or other electricity transmission or delivery costs, and (iv) any proceeds received by Grantee as a result of damage or casualty to the Wind Energy Project, or any portion thereof and (B) include any revenues derived from Grantee's sale of carbon dioxide trading credits, renewable energy credits or certificates, emissions reduction credits, emissions allowances, green tags, tradable renewable credits, or Green - e ® products, any of which are allocated to Grantee, if applicable, through its participation in any voluntary registry, association or market - based exchange.

HFCs are included among the basket of seven GHGs targeted by the UNFCCC as they are super GHGs hundreds to thousands of times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide.

Not only have global carbon emissions continued to rise 3 percent a year, but the science has made more clear that human populations and natural systems face serious risk of substantial climate damage at warming less than 2 °C, they said.

However, the social cost of carbon (SCC) is higher (by about 15 %) under uncertainty than in the certainty - equivalent case because of asymmetry in the impacts of uncertainty on the damages from climate change.

Each person living in a developed country does far more damage to the planet than any poor African; every extra Briton, for instance, has the carbon footprint of 22 more Malawians — and the poor will suffer first and worst from climate change.

«Imposing a tax on carbon dioxide emissions would reduce the damage from climate change but would also impose a larger burden, relative to income, on low - income households than on high - income households.

HFC - 23 is a byproduct of HCFC - 22 production, and is 14,800 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide (CO2).

It also will lead to a phase - down of the «super» greenhouse gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are hundreds and thousands of times more damaging to the global climate than carbon dioxide.

The impact of one molecule of HFC on the climate is thousands of times more damaging than one molecule of carbon dioxide.

It would also send 500 extra coal ships with their cargo through the Great Barrier Reef each year, bringing new risk of damage to its fragile corals on their way to releasing an equivalent of more than 4.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The committee also separately derived a range of values for damages from climate change, and found that each ton of carbon dioxide emissions will be far worse in 2030 than now: «even if the total amount of annual emissions remains steady, the damages caused by each ton would increase 50 percent to 80 percent.»

Since HFCs are hundreds and thousands of times more damaging to the global climate than carbon dioxide, more than 100 countries, including the United States, support an amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase - down HFCs.

The difference between Professor Nordhaus's optimal carbon tax policy and a fifty - year delay policy is insignificant economically or climatologically in view of major uncertainties in (1) future economic growth (including reductions in carbon emissions intensity); (2) the physical science (e.g., the climate sensitivity); (3) future positive and negative environmental impacts (e.g., the economic «damage function»); (4) the evaluation of long - term economic costs and benefits (e.g., the discount rate); and (5) the international political process (e.g., the impact of less than full participation).

IMF says in these countries, air pollution other than greenhouse gases, and congestion from incorrectly priced fuels, cause an extra $ 57.50 in damage per ton of carbon dioxide, although the damage is not from the CO2.

Air pollution other than greenhouse gases, and congestion from incorrectly priced fuels, cause an extra $ 57.50 in damage per ton of carbon dioxide, even though it is not the CO2 doing the damage.

Over 50 percent of the waste created in Europe is thrown away in landfill sites, generating climate damaging methane emissions, which are 20 times worse than carbon dioxide.

It is 20 % lighter and 20 % stronger than clay brick, it prevents the environmental damaged caused by digging up clay, reduces carbon emissions and increases the income

He should also try to rally the nation and globe in support of an international Manhattan Project, in which the best scientific minds would devise carbon - sequestration technologies that could clean the air of the heating elements we've put there — rather than simply seeking to limit the damage.

Australian scientists studying the amount of carbon stored in monoculture tree plantations and reforested areas of damaged rainforests have found that, though reforestation is more expensive than establishing a

Finally, even if Ausubel is right and decarbonization magically jumps from 1 to 5 % / yr with no policy intervention other than R&D, that might not affect the marginal product of avoided carbon emissions much because the logarithmic concentration - forcing relationship offsets the ~ exponential forcing - damage relationship.

A 2011 Cornell University study found that the process of fracking also releases methane, which according to the EPA, is 21 times more damaging greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

I know, it's apples and oranges; carbon in the form of oil is more immediately toxic to the environment than it is as CO2 (although CO2 may be more damaging on geologic time scales).

With the stroke of a pen the technocrats quietly absolved government of all responsibility to reduce emissions from some of the most obvious and most tractable sources of pollution in the land: the fossil - fuel devouring power stations and factories whose smokestacks belch millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year — not to mention huge amounts of other pollutants which damage our health more directly than CO2.