Sentences with phrase «emit carbon»

For example, cars, trucks, stoves, grills, lanterns, gas rangers, and furnaces all emit carbon monoxide.

These sources emit carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and the toxic fumes from gasoline, industrial solvents, etc..

While it may remain profitable to build renewable energy installations, incentives against cutting carbon emissions were not strong enough: Prices for allowances to emit carbon dioxide have dropped and cheap gas in the United States is pushing an additional supply of hard coal on the market, reducing coal prices to their lowest in four years and incentivising utilities to sell more power from brown - and hard coal - fired power stations.

If a carbon tax is established at a price that economists and policymakers agree compensates society for the potential dangers of climate change, then anyone who wants to pay the price is implicitly welcome to emit the carbon dioxide.

And every year that we continue to emit carbon will whittle this slim buffer...

But because of the pressing need for thousands of large generating stations that emit no carbon dioxide while providing electricity day and night, many technologists keep returning to potential improvements in nuclear power.

And while he hopes this will spur action including a tax on the burning of fossil fuels, which emit carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas, others doubt it.

First, it will emit no carbon emissions while underway.

The idea of a carbon tax has slowly been gaining support, not only among scholars and environmentalists, but also in an unlikely quarter: business groups and even the companies that emit carbon dioxide and would be the most directly affected.

Some sources of electricity emit no carbon into the air and produce no heat - trapping gases.

Power plant owners and speculators yesterday bid for the right to emit carbon dioxide (CO2) as part of a new multistate government program designed to reduce global warming pollution.

But the reason states are preserving nuclear capacity is not that those plants are necessary for reliability (they aren't), but that those plants don't emit carbon.

Set up in January 2005, this «cap and trade» system has enabled companies to buy extra allowances to emit carbon dioxide over and above their EU - imposed limit.

In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world's leading climatologists, predicts that if we continue to emit carbon dioxide we may eventually cancel the next ice age and raise the oceans by 50 meters.

Why not just allow everyone to emit carbon freely?

Rudd backs a clean coal strategy with three tenets: first, develop new coal - burning power plants that emit carbon dioxide in a more - concentrated stream.

If you heat the surface of the ocean, it tends to emit carbon dioxide.

We're continuing to emit carbon at unprecedented levels.

The model in this study, Canadian Earth System Model 2, also incorporates updated data on volcanic eruptions, and it simulates in a more sophisticated way the biosphere's ability to take in or emit carbon.

Fiorino said even a call for a national cap - and - trade plan, where power plants and other emitters can buy and sell permits to emit carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, would be labeled a tax by opponents.

His proposal: instead of us extracting the oil (which, by the way, happens to sit under a fantastically biodiverse rainforest) and selling it to you, we'll leave it untouched - and sell you the right to emit the carbon dioxide that we save.

No consumer or businessman takes action because a cap is set at X million tonnes, but only because that cap makes it costly to emit carbon.

Using this equation, we can determine just how much «global warming» would be forestalled if the entire world were to shut down its economies and emit no carbon dioxide at all for an entire year.

In contrast to fossil fuel - generated energy, renewable sources do not emit carbon dioxide or diminish any finite supply in the process of generating useful energy.

When mangroves, seagrasses or tidal marshes are destroyed, they not only lose their capacity to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, but also emit carbon that is estimated to have accumulated over thousands of years.

After 2040, coal capacity would need to emit no carbon to remain consistent with the 2 °C budget.

plants and animals emit carbon dioxide.

As Mr. Green has pointed out here, setting up a trading system in carbon credits encourages corruption when it comes to setting caps on emissions and handing out credits to industries that emit carbon:

Under a carbon trading scheme, a country with more carbon emissions is able to purchase the right to emit more while the country with less emissions trades the right to emit carbon to other countries.

Sure, solar panels themselves don't emit carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, but there are other things to consider.

So if we're going to deal with this problem, you have to recognize we're not the only people that burn coal, emit carbon dioxide or pollutants of any kind.

In Preacher's Daughter, we learn how coal plants can emit carbon dioxide (CO2), mercury, sulfur, and other harmful pollutants.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)-- California's market for buying and trading permits to emit carbon pollution is expanding to include the province of Ontario.The market is the centerpiece of California's cap - and - trade program, which aims to reduce carbon...

We must emit carbon.

Plants also carry out the opposite process — known as respiration — in which they emit carbon dioxide, but generally in smaller amounts than they take in during photosynthesis.

Dr. Thorning: S. 2028 might well increase dependence on foreign oil since producing domestically will become even more costly due to the need for producers to pay for the right to emit carbon as they produce oil, gas and coal.

«I wish the world at large found it easier to get together on this because a carbon tax is a very important tool to encourage the invention of low - cost energy technologies that don't emit carbon,» he told ABC Television.

Biomass power plants do emit carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, but they release no more than what is naturally in the carbon cycle as trees are planted, downed — by man or nature — and replanted.

All of Bullfrog Power's electricity comes from wind and low - impact hydro facilities that do not emit any carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide (precursors to smog), particulate matter (which gives rise to respiratory disease), heavy metals (mercury, lead, cadmium) and carcinogens.

People emit carbon.

The panel contends that atomic energy is an option for building a low - carbon society on grounds that nuclear power generation doesn't emit carbon dioxide.

And because mangrove forests are carbon sinks, «mangroves also emit carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and naturally, the balance is positive — unless they are heavily degraded, such as from aquaculture, and then they will become carbon emitters.»

FutureGen plant is coal powered, but it would emit no carbon dioxide because it would trap the greenhouse gases, store them underground using experimental technologies.

Emit carbon.

Friedman... would have viewed climate change as a negative externality associated with burning fossil fuels and would have believed that society was entitled to recover its losses from those who emit carbon to advance their economic interests... While there is a market for the products that are associated with greenhouse gas emissions — like electricity, fuel and steel — there is no market for the pollution inflicted by their manufacturers on the public.

But the Senate measure so far leaves a number of crucial questions unanswered, chief among them how the permits to emit carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases would be distributed to utilities, manufacturers, agribusiness and other interests.

To provide adequate transition time, the industries will receive allowances to emit some carbon dioxide through 2025, at which time the President will determine whether they are still needed.

And, sure, electric cars don't emit carbon - dioxide on the road.

These would emit carbon dioxide for at least 30 years, and for over a century, that pollution will warm the atmosphere — whether there are solar panels on the ground or not.

I only know of people who want to generate the energy society needs in a way that doesn't emit carbon to the atmosphere.