Yet by focusing
entirely on carbon dioxide emissions, major environmental organizations have failed to account for published data showing that other gases are the main culprits behind the global warming we see today.
Not exact matches
If deforestation played as great a role as fossil fuels in CO2 accumulation, then responsibility for reducing
carbon dioxide emissions would not fall
entirely on the energy industry.
Unfortunately, RECs are almost
entirely non-additional (e.g. the wind turbines producing them in Iowa would have been built independent of the REC income stream), so buying RECs has no real effect
on carbon dioxide emissions.
«Although it is probable that introduction of wind power onto the grid produces a net reduction in
carbon dioxide emissions, it is possible, or even likely, that a grid based
entirely on gas turbines would actually produce
carbon emissions that were lower still.»