Sentences with phrase «emissions by significant amounts»

The only good news in the study is that if we act to cut emissions by significant amounts, the risk of temperature rise is similar to previous projections.

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.

Not exact matches

Reducing demand for meat, even by a relatively small amount, would have a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions.

Today's construction industry is more environmentally - conscious than ever, and the amount of CO2 emissions released by vehicles is a significant factor in deciding which ones to use during an assignment.

The UN expects China to account for 41 % of all carbon credits issued by 2012, but a recent paper in Nature suggests that a loophole in the system has allowed investors to get rich without cutting significant amounts of emissions.

Human aerosol emissions are also offsetting a significant amount of the warming by causing global dimming.

The addition of a petrol particulate filter should reduce the 308's emission of fine soot particles - known to be a contributor to severe respiratory issues - by a significant amount.

's emission of fine soot particles - known to be a contributor to severe respiratory issues - by a significant amount.

In the tugging on the temperature profile (by net radiant heating / cooling resulting from radiative disequilibrium at single wavelengths) by the absorption (and emission) by different bands, the larger - scale aspects of the temperature profile will tend to be shaped more by the bands with moderate amounts of absorption, while finer - scale variations will be more influenced by bands with larger optical thicknesses per unit distance (where there can be significant emission and absorption by a thinner layer).

The Abstract described significant reductions in emissions of the greenhouse gases Carbon Dioxide, Nitrous Oxide, and Methane that could be accomplished by reducing the amount of Bituminous Coal used as energy for processing pulps in the manufacture of fiber - loaded newsprint.

Most of these emissions can be reduced through pollution controls — sometimes by a significant amount — though many plants don't have adequate controls installed.

If emissions stay as high as they are, that means even a low value of climate sensitivity would see a significant amount of warming by the end of the century.

A CAT country could, if it wished, introduce procedures whereby additional emission permits could be issued if the trading price of permits exceeded the agreed carbon charge by a significant amount for a significant period of time.

To avoid a significant amount of warming this century, he added, «you must cut emissions by a dramatic factor» — by ten or twenty times.

According to a new study of 28,000 measurements collected between 2000 and 2006 and analyzed by NOAA's CarbonTracker system, only about a third of the carbon dioxide is absorbed by carbon sinks such as the soil and forests; a large portion of it ends up in the atmosphere - but that still leaves a significant amount unaccounted for.Interestingly, the CarbonTracker found carbon emissions to be highest in the Midwest; that single region released more carbon dioxide than any other country - except Russia, China, India and, of course, the U.S. Carbon dioxide was found to be most readily absorbed east of the Rocky Mountains and in northern Canada.

Recent model results, by contrast, suggest that significant impacts will persist for hundreds of thousands of years after emissions cease;» Matthews and Caldeira (2008): «We show first that a single pulse of carbon released into the atmosphere increases globally averaged surface temperature by an amount that remains approximately constant for several centuries, even in the absence of additional emissions.»