Sentences with phrase «do with emissions»

As you point out, there are issues even with the 2 degree variance limit, and it looks like we're headed for 4 degrees, which I think will indeed mean every increasing likelihood that this process will continue regardless of what we do with emissions, and also an increasing likelihood that none of humanity will survive the outcome.

The solar wind, by modulating the galactic cosmic rays which reach the earth, determines both the formation of clouds and the carbon dioxide level in the earth's atmosphere — which has nothing to do with emissions from factories or automobiles.

What has this got to do with emissions?

The Scottish study you mention has to do with emissions from peat bogs that and would like to the study find that wind power doesn't result in substantially reduced emissions.

«We have discovered that the warming in New Zealand over the past 156 years was indeed man - made, but it had nothing to do with emissions of CO2 — it was created by man - made adjustments of the temperature.»

Thus the long term increase of CO2 in the atmosphere has little to do with temperature and much to do with the emissions.

I'm pretty sure the country of manufacture has a lot less to do with emissions than the destination country.

His other challenge came out of my major moral claim, that any serious effort to reduce emissions by any significant amount, let alone the 60 - 80 % called for by the European Union and some of our presidential candidates, would destroy economies all over the world and condemn the poor to perpetual poverty - which is why China and India will have nothing to do with emissions caps.

This could be done with an emissions - trading scheme, or by developing the proposed «safeguard» mechanism that features in the Senate - amended version of the Emission Reduction Fund.

Not exact matches

Volkswagen has set aside 6.7 billion euros ($ 7.3 billion) to make its cars comply with emissions rules — but the sum doesn't begin to take into account the fines, compensation, restitution, and attorneys» fees the company will eventually have to fork over.

The trial was one of three scheduled for the first half of this year over claims that Volkswagen deceived customers with the deliberate rigging of emissions controls to perform differently when being tested than they do on the road.

Despite the Trump administration's efforts to do away with the Obama - era Clean Power Plan, Dominion says it expects power stations» emissions of carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas, are still virtually certain be regulated.

Pretty well every economist you talk to will agree: If you want to reduce pollution, carbon or otherwise, the most cost - effective way to do so is with a price on the emissions of that which you seek to reduce.

OSLO, Oct 7 - Greenhouse gas emissions rise when economies expand but don't fall as quickly when recession strikes, perhaps because people stick with a higher - emitting lifestyle from the boom times, a study showed.

Not only does driving a truck with outdated equipment put the driver and surrounding motorists at risk, the truck's emissions cause a range of serious illnesses, lung cancer, and even death.

Painting the Keystone as something that would simply enable Canadian exports with no obvious economic benefit for Americans has a better chance of resonating with blue - collar Democrats than anything to do with green - house gas emissions.

But it was still hard to comply with other requirements, such as finding suitable firms to do bleaching and dying, or monitoring the factory's greenhouse gas emissions.

Friday's result didn't get us all the way there, but it did commit to a «Canada - wide strategy for zero - emission vehicles» by 2018, along with a promise of more charging infrastructure for electric cars.

This will only get worse if Albertans do not make any changes, as the move to increased underground extraction of oil will only increase the problem with greenhouse gas emissions.

How else could he argue, as he did recently in a Maclean's opinion piece, that blocking the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — and along with it, increased GHG emissions from Alberta's oil sands — would jeopardize Canada's climate change plan and make it impossible to meet our emissions reduction target under the UN Paris Agreement?

Rick Perry, the U.S. Secretary of Energy who infamously once said he would do away with the Department of Energy, told CNBC that he didn't believe that carbon dioxide emissions...

Rick Perry, the U.S. Secretary of Energy who infamously once said he would do away with the Department of Energy, told CNBC that he didn't believe that carbon dioxide emissions from humans are the main cause for climate change.

Given that agriculture, along with the deforestation associated with it, drives 24 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, we are dependent upon farmers to do the heavy lifting when it comes to fighting climate change.

What the deforesters do with the felled trees — either leaving them to rot on the forest floor or burning them — creates further emissions.

This graphic depicts the carbon intensity of shipping wine from various global wine regions to key U.S. cities and bases its data on a seriously flawed, two - year - old working paper that is filled with untested assumptions, has not been peer reviewed, and does not accurately reflect the complexities of greenhouse gas emissions in the wine sector.

While there is a built - in ionizer that can't be shut off, it does comply with California Air Resources Board standards that limit emissions to fewer than 50 parts per billion.

A single, small, retrospective case - control study examined the use of newborn transient evoked otoacoustic emission hearing screening tests as a tool for identifying infants at subsequent risk of SIDS.343 Infants who subsequently died from SIDS did not fail their hearing tests but, compared with controls, showed a decreased signal - to - noise ratio score in the right ear only (at frequencies of 2000, 3000, and 4000 Hz).

Campaigners say the decision to review the plans to reduce CO2 emissions in early 2014 if the EU does not keep up with Britain's ambitious pace fundamentally undermines the commitment.

Along with most people who recognise the reality of climate change, I do not doubt that markets and private property rights have, or can have, an important role to play in handling the problem, e.g., through suitably designed emissions trading systems and the like.

«But it won't be maximised unless there is that true global deal, one with everybody in it, one that has in its heart a substantial cut in emissions and that most crucially has the means of doing it.

We have found that the spatial distribution of this emission does not coincide with the spatial distribution of the bright collision lines.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.

For example, with UK targets demanding a 34 per cent decrease in carbon emissions compared to 1990 levels by 2020, companies are increasingly required to change the way they do business, says Som Narayan, co-founder of Carbon Masters, an Edinburgh - based company which helps organisations reduce their carbon emissions.

Reducing emissions of black carbon and methane can be done today with existing technologies, and could significantly slow climate change

«We now have an independent measurement of these emission sources that does not rely on what was known or thought known,» said Chris McLinden, an atmospheric scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Toronto and lead author of the study published this week in Nature Geosciences.

Clearly, humans have something to do with it, and we ought to begin reducing our CO2 emissions.

STEPHANOPOULUS: But it sounds like from what you're saying that you don't believe that Republicans need to come up with a plan to control carbon emissions?

«We control the below - threshold harmonic light emission by using electromagnetic fields with time - dependent ellipticity, like we have done to the above - threshold high - order harmonics,» said Chang referring to the creation of a 67 - attosecond pulse of extreme ultraviolet light, which earned him international recognition.

The «pan-Canadian framework» on climate change is not fully fleshed out but does call for a national meeting with provinces within 90 days of the Paris climate conference in December to establish new national emissions targets and «targeted funding» to provinces to meet those targets.

In particular, dealing with greenhouse gas emissions is about to «become as professionalized an industry as IT did in the»80s,» predicts DeSafey.

«We did not detect significant emission with the LAT, but the dwarf galaxies that DES has and will discover are extremely important targets for the dark matter search,» said Peter Michelson, spokesperson for the LAT collaboration.

Although natural gas generates less greenhouse gas than coal when burned, when its total life - cycle emissions associated with extraction and distribution are factored in, it does not seem much cleaner than coal

In a separate result also announced today, the Large Area Telescope Collaboration for NASA's Fermi Gamma - Ray Telescope mission reported that they did not see any significant excess of gamma ray emission associated with the new Dark Energy Survey objects.

Does anyone else think we risk losing sight of the wood for the trees with all this bean - counting over the extremely spurious calculations of carbon emissions for various activities?

Decades of climate change bring risks that people will accept higher temperatures, with more heatwaves, downpours and droughts, as normal and complicate government plans to do more to cut emissions of greenhouse gas emissions.

«With land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate InitiatWith land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate Initiatwith the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative.

They did so by adding the extra emissions to an existing model used in the UK government's 2006 Stern Review, designed to assess the economic cost of coping with climate change between now and 2200.

«Once we can capture CO2 emissions, here's what we could do with it.»

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burniWith more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burniwith electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

Does it makes sense to replace old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas power plants today, as a bridge to a longer - term transition toward near zero - emission energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, or nuclear power?