Sentences with phrase «emissions of carbon dioxide often»

The debate about how to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide often focuses on emissions from generation of electricity and transport.

Not exact matches

For vegetable products, energy use often is the dominant contribution of carbon dioxide emissions, but nitrous oxide emissions related to nitrogen application and fabrication also may be significant.

Frederike Böhm Department of Philosophy, Kiel University I like to follow the concept «reduce — reuse — recycle» when it comes to consumption: borrowing, sharing or buying second - hand are often good alternatives to purchasing new things, the production of which causes additional carbon dioxide emissions and use resources.

However, the high end of the IPCC range (or even higher) is often waved about in order to hype the issue and draw «concern» from the general public such that they stand behind efforts to limit carbon dioxide emission.

I often try to step back and take the point of view of the atmosphere in considering claims of progress on curbing emissions of carbon dioxide from human activities.

The world's existing power plants are on track to pour more than 300 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and current monitoring standards often fail to take these long - term emissions into account, according to new research from scientists at UC Irvine and Princeton University.

Critics of President Barack Obama's landmark regulation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions almost always highlight a series of flawed studies (which are often paid for by utility or fossil fuel interests) to attack the Clean Power Plan.

If the regulations are extremely costly, such as the current proposed regulations to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) or the ban on DDT in 1972, it is often not possible to justify them.

A remarkable amount of specious reasoning is often encountered whenever we contemplate reducing carbon - dioxide emissions.

The claim is often made that climate realists (a.k.a. skeptics) can not point to peer - reviewed papers to support their position that there is no evidence of «dangerous global warming:» caused by human emissions of so - called «greenhouse» gases, including carbon dioxide.

Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and associated global warming are often in the news — for example, coverage of an international environment summit (like that held in Johannesburg in 2002) or of local initiatives to cut carbon dioxide emissions (like «Walk to School Week»), or energy - saving initiatives in school.

Amidst reports of rapidly accelerating carbon dioxide emissions, it is not surprising that we often forget the many aspects of our life that cause carbon dioxide emissions.

Purchasers of carbon credits do so to offset carbon dioxide emissions; often, this means corporations buying large amounts of credits to help cover one of the environmental costs of industry.