Sentences with phrase «dominant emissions component»

If only additional emissions were counted with reference to a stay - home scenario, air travel may well come out as the dominant emissions component.

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And remember, energy is far from the dominant component of the economy, and phasing in a 50 or 75 % reduction in carbon emissions doesn't mean a 50 to 75 % reduction in energy usage — still less a 50 to 75 % reduction in productive use of energy, given likely efficiency gains.

Multiple lines of scientific evidence overwhelmingly show that human greenhouse gas emissions are the dominant cause of the current global warming, that the consequences of that warming will on the whole be bad, and that there are cost - effective solutions to the problem, of which carbon pricing systems are a critical component.

However, one aspect of the Howarth study uses work that I've been involved in to better estimate the indirect effects of short - lived emissions (including methane, the dominant component of shale gas).