Sentences with phrase «emit less climate»

«The efficiency of converting coal into electricity matters: more efficient power plants use less fuel and emit less climate - damaging carbon dioxide,» wrote the authors of the International Energy Agency report on measuring coal plant performance.

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The only real climate change solutions that I have seen are to reduce carbon dioxide in the air by having human activity emit less of it.

Current climate change models indicate temperatures will increase as long as humans continue to emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but the projections of future precipitation are far less certain.

The analysis clearly shows that the research is biased towards countries that are wealthier, better educated, more stable and less corrupt, emit the most carbon, and are less vulnerable to climate change.

For example, burning compressed natural gas emits roughly 30 percent less CO2 than burning diesel but, if the new methane leakage estimates are true, the practice ends up being worse for climate change.

Because switching from coal to cleaner and more affordable energy would result in less coal mined, less coal burned, and less carbon pollution emitted, BLM's decisions do have a climate impact — and a big one at that.

A new 1,000 - page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report appears to ignore both nuclear power and shale gas — even though both these energy sources emit far less CO2 than does coal.

The 2009 State of the Climate report gives these top indicators: humans emitted 30 billion tons of of CO2 into the atmosphere each year from the burning of fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas), less oxygen in the air from the burning of fossil fuels, rising fossil fuel carbon in corals, nights warming faster than days, satellites show less of the earth's heat escaping into space, cooling of the stratosphere or upper atmosphere, warming of the troposphere or lower atmosphere, etc..

To solve this problem, Stiglitz (along with many other top climate experts) points out that a global price commitment would exert an identical pressure to reduce emission without requiring poor countries to emit less than rich countries.

A new initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank, the government of Honduras, and the Climate Investment Fund is helping to replace open - fire cookstoves in Honduras with «ecostoves,» which use less wood and emit less smoke.

We hardly noticed A somewhat recent, but hardly noticed paper (open link) has appeared in Energy and Environment 18 (5) 2007 emitted by William Nierneberg's accomplice in killing off early, and less expensive action on climate change, Gary Yohe, Eli's old friend Richard Tol who thought Nicholas Stern should be stood up against the wall and striped of his economic stripes,

And in fact when you look at the scientific literature, it's an interesting disconnect because the modelers who study emissions and how to control those emissions are generally much more comfortable setting goals in terms of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas concentrations because that comes more or less directly out of their models and is much more proximate or more closely connected to what humans actually do to screw up the climate in the first place, which is emit these greenhouse gases.

All we need to do to avoid the possibility of triggering disastrous climate change is emit less CO2.

Finally, as gray bodies GHGs emit less than do true black bodies, so for reasonable accuracy any climate - sensitivity calculation based on their emission must be reduced accordingly.

That's right, the latest climate science (some 10 studies published in just the past 3 years) indicates that the earth's climate sensitivity — that is, how much the global average surface temperature will rise as a result of greenhouse gases emitted from human activities — is some 33 percent less than scientists thought at the time of the last IPCC Assessment, published in 2007.

Although corn ethanol as modeled here emits marginally less GHGs than does gasoline, the combined climate and air quality impacts are greater than those from gasoline vehicles.

Yet, since the world averages 6.5 CO2 tons of per capita emissions while countries like the United States are emitting 19 tons per capita, and the world must reduce per capita emissions to perhaps less than 2.0 tons per capita to prevent dangerous climate change, it is very unlikely that many groups or people in developed countries can make a respectable argument that they are already below their fair share of safe global emissions.

They found that open oceans are much less efficient than sea ice when it comes to emitting in the far - infrared region of the spectrum, a previously unknown phenomenon that is likely contributing to the warming of the polar climate.

To meet U.S. and international climate goals we need to emit less greenhouse gas into the atmosphere and, eventually, emit none.

In the climate world, the more carbon you emit, the less chance you have of achieving a certain temperature limit.

Climate science estimates that to have a 66 % chance of warming less than 2 °C, we must emit less than 1000 more gigatons of CO2 after 2011.

The fact that climate change is likely to deal its harshest blows to less developed nations is one of the cruel ironies about this issue — considering that it was largely the rich, industrialized world that emitted the greenhouse gases that caused the problem in the first place.

But overall, especially with climate, since nearly all of the growth in emissions is going to come in poor countries, if you can't come up with energy choices that are less greenhouse gas emitting and also are cheap, they are just going to keep burning fossil fuels.

While in the former area climate campaigners are Big Oil's enemy, in the latter area they are its ally, as gas emits less CO2 than its main rival (coal) for a given amount of energy.