Sentences with phrase «drive global carbon emissions»

And second, the math just doesn't add up; even in the most ideal circumstances, voluntary economic contraction in the developed world can't drive global carbon emissions towards zero.

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Recognizing that carbon emissions resulting from consumption of these fuels is driving catastrophic global climate change, my role as leader of the company is to ensure that Virgin provides financial support to non-profit groups that are exploring renewable energy and seeking market - based solutions to climate change, like the Carbon War Room.

The drive to curb carbon emissions has waned further in the wake of financial meltdowns, global instability, and slumping public confidence in the science of climate change.

These conflicts have stalled some high - profile projects despite the fact that renewable energy sources do not produce heat - trapping emissions of carbon dioxides, the primary greenhouse gas driving global warming.

Michael Replogle of ITDP, a co-author of the report «A Global High Shift Scenario», said transport, driven by a rapid growth in car use, had been the fastest growing source of carbon dioxide emissions in the world.

EUROPE»S plans for tackling global warming by driving down emissions of carbon dioxide may have backfired in Germany, where they have encouraged energy companies to build coal - fired power stations instead of gas - fired stations, which emit less CO2.

More important, the plant could also capture nearly all of coal's most elusive and potentially disastrous emissions: carbon dioxide, the main gas that drives global warming.

«In particular, Mexico's target to peak its emissions by 2026 and drive them down thereafter is a landmark step in the global transition to a low - carbon economy,» the White House said in a statement.

Rosenthal says that if carbon dioxide emissions become taxed in the future due to continuing concerns about global warming, his solar - driven catalyst for making synthetic fuel will compete even better economically with fossil fuels.

«My perspective is that it is not settled science,» he told the Senate spending panel, arguing that the jury is still out on whether carbon dioxide emissions from human activities are driving global warming.

The close relationship between ENSO and global temperature, as described in the paper, leaves little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions.

Hence the irony in Bob Carter's conclusion «The close relationship between ENSO and global temperature leaves little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions».

According to one of its authors, Bob Carter, the paper found that the «close relationship between ENSO and global temperature, as described in the paper, leaves little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions».

The study, published today in Nature, places the blame squarely on rising global temperatures driven by human carbon emissions.

But the annual amount of human - caused global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas driving climate change, is now about 50 percent larger than in 1992.

Last week I posted a «Your Dot» contribution from Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, a University of Chicago climate scientist concerned that policy makers and the public keep in mind the primacy of carbon dioxide emissions if they are serious about limiting the chances of propelling disruptive human - driven global warming.

Extrapolating from their forest study, the researchers estimate that over this century the warming induced from global soil loss, at the rate they monitored, will be «equivalent to the past two decades of carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and is comparable in magnitude to the cumulative carbon losses to the atmosphere due to human - driven land use change during the past two centuries.»

It took a decade for those seeking a rising price on carbon dioxide emissions as a means to transform American and global energy norms to realize that a price sufficient to drive the change was a political impossibility.

King said green energy already had advantages over fossil fuel power in cutting deadly air pollution and reducing the carbon emissions that drive global warming.

The fine balance of chemicals in our air and seas has been disrupted with dangerous consequences — our carbon emissions are driving global warming and ocean acidification, while excesses of nitrogen and phospohorous from industry and agriculture are turning parts of the sea into dead zones.

In a press release boldly titled «Nature, Not Man, is Responsible for Recent Global Warming,» study coauthor Bob Carter claimed that the findings left «little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions».

Global upper - ocean chemistry trends driven by human carbon dioxide emissions are more rapid than variations in the geological past.

Jon Norman, president and COO of bulk energy storage firm Hydrostor, said technology change and the dropping costs of renewable power are crucial factors driving the global shift to non-emitting resources, in addition to concerns about carbon emissions.

The drive to meet the world's ever - growing energy demand means that global power sector commitments — the projected lifetime carbon emissions of currently working power plants — have not declined in a single year since 1950.

It is not particularly surprising that they could not find one to argue against the reality of carbon emissions - driven global warming, but it still seems a bit of an unfair difference in stature to have the position backed up by corporate - sponsored pseudoscience be represented by a member of Congress, against a man known primarily for shouting «science!»

At a time when we need to be taking steps to reduce auto travel and global carbon emissions, new ride - hailing and self - driving car technologies will...

Driving this point home, the global climate cooled after 1940 until about 1975 — in spite of the copious emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the industrial boom years after World War II.

In the study, Monier and his co-authors applied the IGSM framework to assess climate impacts under different climate - change scenarios — «Paris Forever,» a scenario in which Paris Agreement pledges are carried out through 2030, and then maintained at that level through 2100; and «2C,» a scenario with a global carbon tax - driven emissions reduction policy designed to cap global warming at 2 degrees Celsius by 2100.

Cost advantages of hydropower based electricity generation and the substitution of fossil fuel based power production in an attempt to reduce carbon emission is expected to drive global hydropower market demand.

The current political cycle is dominated by shrill attacks on anyone who questions whether man - made emissions of carbon dioxide are driving global warming.

Combined with the growing understanding that carbon emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels are driving global climate change, the debate is now focused on how to restructure the U.S. transport system to solve these two problems.

And coal power, more than any other single factor, is what has driven the steady rise in global carbon emissions.

And researchers report in the journal Science Advances that unless there are serious reductions in global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that drive global warming and could trigger catastrophic climate change, the most extreme, once - in -25-years heat waves could increase wet bulb temperatures now at around 31 °C to 34.2 °C.

This is good news for air pollution and the carbon emissions that drive global warming.

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry are expected to rise 2 % in 2017, mainly driven by increases in China and other developing countries.

These laggard coal - reliant companies are responsible for ecologically destructive coal mining and the carbon dioxide emissions that drive global climate change, not to mention a litany of dangerous pollutants.

In the debate over climate change, [Stanford climatologist Stephen] Schneider said [to reporters 10 years ago], there simply was no legitimate opposing view to the scientific consensus that man - made carbon emissions drive global warming.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

But the annual amount of human - caused global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas driving climate change, is now about 50 percent larger than in 1992.

The Paris accord, agreed by nearly 200 countries in 2015, seeks to limit planetary warming by curbing global emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that scientists believe drive global warming.

And increasingly businesses [see the UN Global Compact's Business Leadership Criteria on Carbon Pricing] are putting an internal price on carbon emissions, which is a great way to identify and channel investment to drive down greenhouse gas emissions in most efficient way.