Under these facts, it is simply inconceivable that
those emitting high levels of greenhouse gases compared to others are not exceeding their fair share of safe global emissions given the enormity of reductions that are needed globally to return total global emissions to levels that are not already causing harm.
When you argue that nations such as the United States or states, regional, or local governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals that
emit high levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) need not reduce their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions because of scientific uncertainty about adverse climate change impacts:
Last year, humanity
emitted the highest level of greenhouse gas emissions in history — even after factoring in the expansion of renewable energy.
Not exact matches
They don't need as much space as livestock,
emit lower
levels of greenhouse gases, and have a sky -
high feed conversion rate: a single kilogram
of feed yields 12 times more edible cricket protein than beef protein.
In fact, the emissions
of all types from the modern, scrubbed, coal plants have an impact on Kansas that is barely detectable even in pessimistic estimates in comparison to those from a
gas plant (since
gas plants
emit higher levels of Nitrous Oxide, another
greenhouse gas.
A new study reveals that
levels of greenhouse gases being
emitted by wastewater treatment plants are
higher the previous estimates.
The second is the urgency
of the need for hard - to - imagine action to dramatically reduce
greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions at all scales, that is globally, nationally, and locally, but particularly in
high -
emitting nations such as the United States in light
of the limited amount
of ghgs that can be
emitted by the entire world before raising atmospheric ghg concentrations to very dangerous
levels and in light
of the need to fairly allocate ghg emissions reductions obligations around the world.
This is so because in addition to the theological reasons given by Pope Francis recently: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people
emitting high -
levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part
of the world who are harming or threatening tens
of millions
of living people and countless numbers
of future generations throughout the world who include some
of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many
of the world's most vulnerable victims
of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to
levels that constitute their fair share
of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.
This is so because: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people
emitting high -
levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part
of the world who are harming or threatening tens
of millions
of living people and countless numbers
of future generations throughout the world who include some
of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many
of the world's most vulnerable victims
of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to
levels that constitute their fair share
of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.
A new study reveals that
levels of greenhouse gases being
emitted by wastewater treatment plants are
higher the previous estimates and could increase from 12 to 23 percent.
Although some developing nations can make a presentable argument that they could increase
greenhouse gas emissions without exceeding their fair share
of global emissions, the developed nations, including the United States can not make this argument because it is known that existing total global emissions
levels need to be significantly reduced and the developed nations are very
high emitting nations compared to most nations in the world.
As we
emit more and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the amount
of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere steadily increases, constantly pushing the radiating
level (where the atmosphere loses energy into space)
higher and
higher.
However, unless managed carefully, coal - fired power plants
emit pollutants such as sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrous oxide (NOX), particulates, and
high levels of greenhouse gases.
With global
greenhouse gas emissions at their
highest level in history, the impacts
of climate change have already been felt «on all continents and across the oceans»; the more we
emit, the more the warming will continue, and the likelier we'll all be to experience «severe, pervasive and irreversible» consequences.