Sentences with phrase «emission system raises»

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Organising a car pooling system among your colleagues, planning fund - raising activities and increasing your online collaborations can all help to reduce your research team's overall carbon emissions, and help you to justify your adventures abroad while keeping your conscience clean.

Add an auto box, and emissions rise to 149g / km, while adding the 4x4 system raises emissions to 152g / km.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

I've written an essay for Wednesday's Op - Ed page offering a short look at extreme weather in a warming world and the two prongs of the climate challenge — the need to limit human vulnerability to the worst the climate system can throw at us and to curb emissions that are steadily raising the odds of unwelcome outcomes, particularly extreme heat and either too much, or too little, water.

The push for a cap - and - trade system has fresh momentum in neighboring Oregon, where the state Department of Environmental Quality released a study last week asserting that the program could lower emissions without raising consumers» electric bills.

Nonetheless, President Obama plans to include in his 2010 budget the introduction of a massive energy cap - and - trade system designed to raise $ 300 billion a year for the federal government in a bid to get industry to curtail emissions of so - called «greenhouse gases.»

To create an honest market, we need to restructure the tax system by reducing taxes on work and raising those on carbon emissions and other environmentally destructive activities, thus incorporating indirect costs into the market price.

«One issue not raised in the debate, which centered on market concerns, was changes to the electric system to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.

These include tax restructuring — raising the tax on carbon emissions and lowering the tax on income — and carbon cap - and - trade systems.

Since the CO2 looses 4.7 watts emission in a century, the earth accumulates this over the century raising temperature by 0.012 C / yr while the random chaos of the hydrological system with its raising temperature will radiate an additional power of 0.047 watts / year with its atmospheric water vapor temperature rise.

This impasse raises the prospect that in a year's time — even as the scientific evidence mounts that human impact on the climate system is veering out of control — there will be no internationally agreed legally binding commitments regulating greenhouse gas emissions.