Sentences with phrase «fewer emissions of carbon»

Compared to coal, the use of natural gas for power generation emits 50 percent fewer emissions of carbon dioxide, and even more substantial reductions in traditional air pollutants.

Not exact matches

The 747 - 8 model emits 16 fewer tons of carbon dioxide emissions per trip and it can fly 1,000 miles farther than its current counterpart.

The paper is a straightforward look at the how different shade coffee systems store carbon and their levels of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as how a few certifications (organic, Rainforest Alliance, UTZ Certified) influence those metrics.

Plus, «the manufacturing process for some eco-friendly crib mattresses tends to produce fewer carbon emissions,» says Dennis Schuetz of Colgate.

Combining the asylum - application data with projections of future warming, the researchers found that an increase of average global temperatures of 1.8 °C — an optimistic scenario in which carbon emissions flatten globally in the next few decades and then decline — would increase applications by 28 percent by 2100, translating into 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year.

Add a few more centuries of similar emissions, and carbon dioxide levels rise to those not seen in 420 million years, causing unprecedented sea level rise.

A new study shows that without significant reductions in carbon emissions, deadly heat waves could begin within as little as a few decades to strike regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

This long view, they note, should add urgency to efforts to significantly curb carbon emissions within the next few decades, not gradually across the remainder of the 21st century.

However, under business - as - usual scenarios, without significant reductions in carbon emissions, the study shows these deadly heat waves could begin within as little as a few decades to strike regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, including the fertile Indus and Ganges river basins that produce much of the region's food supply.

The site provides some 150 lifestyle change suggestions that will cut carbon emissions — from hanging your clothes to dry to sending postcards instead of letters to taking the bike instead of the car to work a few days a week.

The U.S. saw a period of rapid economic growth and increased consumption of fossil fuels over the last few decades, leading to a corresponding large increase in carbon dioxide emissions.

But although multiple projects around the world examine or test aspects of CCS, few of them have been connected to a full - size power plant: one producing on average 500 MW and upward of 10,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a day — the core of the emissions problem.

GM crops that tolerate herbicides deserve some praise: They help minimize mechanical weed removal, which means less soil erosion, more carbon stored in the soil and fewer carbon emissions from tilling equipment making trips across fields, scientists noted in 2012 in a special issue of Weed Science focused on herbicide - resistance management.

-LSB-...] Third, even the very few analyses that conclude the sun was a significant contributor in the past century find that the sun's impact relative to carbon dioxide has been shrinking (since, of course, greenhouse gas emissions and concentrations have been soaring).

Within the last few days I've read in news services of Dr. Mike Raupach «s and Dr. Pep Canadell's report for the Aussie CSIRO Global Carbon Project that emissions have intensified and carbon - loading of the atmosphere has increased near or beyond IPCC worst - case scenarios.

Power plants are expected to pump out more than 300 billion tons of carbon dioxide over their expected lifetimes, creating a 4 percent jump in emissions each year over the next few decades, according to scientists from Princeton University and University of California at Irvine.

Indeed, impacts of Arctic warming include the melting of major Arctic glaciers and Greenland (containing the potential for up to 7 meters of sea level rise if it were to melt entirely), the thawing of carbon rich permafrost (which could add to the burden of atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions) and signs of worsening wildfires across the boreal forests of Alaska, to name a few.

The International Energy Agency identified the few existing greenhouse gas regulations as a key reason for the leveling out of carbon emissions.

Oh, to be sure, the lucky few that can afford BMW's top - of - the - line sports car will laud its picayune emissions (just 49 grams of carbon dioxide emitted every kilometre according to the New European Driving Cycle) as motivations to park the i8 in their driveway, but the real reason they'll fork over $ 145,000 + is what happens when they push the throttle.

The aircraft structure is made of lightweight carbon fiber reinforced plastic, therefore, it uses 25 percent less fuel and produces 25 percent less fewer environmental damaging emissions.

In the last few days, three online tools have been launched, showing links between utilities and Appalachian mountaintop coal mines, a list of proposed coal - burning plants and the amount of carbon dioxide emissions from thousands of power plants and utilities around the world.

And nearly all of the projected growth rates in emissions of carbon dioxide (and five other kinds of heat - trapping gases included in the determination) in the next few decades are expected to occur in fast - growing developing countries, led by China and India (which by midcentury is expected to be have more people than China and even today has the population density of Japan).

Our activities are warming the world's atmosphere at such a rate that most of our agriculture will be seriously dislocated over the next few decades — even if we were to get down to business now and start controlling our emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

In pushing passionately for aggressive action to cut carbon dioxide emissions, «Asteroid Miner» is a staunch defender of nuclear power as a non-polluting energy option, a stance that's in sync with quite a few commenters who reject his view of risk from accumulating greenhouse gases.

Related Brad Plumer filed a nice summary of the findings of a new Dutch government report showing that business as usual on global carbon dioxide emissions is no longer what it was thought to be even a few years ago: «Global carbon emissions grew more slowly in 2012.

In the interest of disclosure, I'll mention a few: One occurs if a new energy source puts carbon - based sources «out of business» and displaces them quickly, even without any cost assigned to carbon dioxide emissions: In other words, if the economic cost of the new energy source is so low that it completely and quickly beats even the lowest - cost carbon - based sources (even without a «carbon price») and justifies investments associated with replacing the associated infrastructure.

In particular, while North America may have sinks totalling a few tenths of a Pg of carbon, the total world emissions of carbon from fossil fuels are something like 5.5 Pg, of which North America accounts for something like 25 % or more... i.e., ~ 1.4 Pg.

A few posters have suggested that no amount of sequestering can come close to offsetting carbon emissions.

As I wrote at Green Inc. a few weeks ago, carbon markets still are in their infancy and have been strongly criticized for failing to push up the price of polluting to levels where companies and citizens responsible for most of the planet's harmful emissions actually change their behavior.

The ancient Chinese mask - changing dance that I saw here Tuesday night (at a dinner for participants in a meeting on science and sustainable development) came to mind in considering the unraveling of news a few hours earlier of an official Chinese plan for a firm cap on emissions of carbon dioxide, hard on the heels of President Obama's proposed carbon pollution rules for existing American power plants.

An assessment belied by the fact that quite a few nations met their Kyoto goals and have already achieved significant emissions reductions; that Paris NDCs are much more inclusive and ambitious, and there is already visible action toward meeting them; and that beyond treaty obligations and commitments, carbon intensity is falling over much of the world including the US and China.

His critics show few signs of ever accommodating the ideas he now presses, which include a prompt moratorium on new coal - burning power plants until they can capture and store carbon dioxide and a rising tax on fuels contributing greenhouse - gas emissions, with the revenue passed back directly to citizens, avoiding the complexities of «cap and trade» bills.

In the last few years, Europe as a whole has made a variety of efforts to reduce carbon emissions, by encouraging use electric and hybrid vehicles as well as of alternative modes of transportation.

Coal is the prime factor determining the pace of growth in emissions of heat - trapping carbon dioxide as human populations and appetites crest in the next few decades.

Today the surface ocean is almost 30 % more acidic than it was in pre-industrial times, and over the next few decades, the level of acidity of the surface ocean will continue to rise without deliberate action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Atmospheric scientist Tim Garrett has a few papers on this subject and a new paper on collapse which I'll mention at the end, but first let's review and get an understanding of what he said in his censored paper, «Are there basic physical constraints on future anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide?

Today the surface ocean is almost 30 % more acidic than it was in pre-industrial times, and over the next few decades, the level of acidity of the surface ocean will continue to rise without deliberate action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and stabilize»

Only in the past few decades have scientists begun the measurements necessary to establish a relationship between current carbon levels and temperatures, and the science conducted since then has consistently pointed in one direction: that rising greenhouse gas emissions, arising from our use of fossil fuels and our industries, lead to higher temperatures.

A few Indian companies and entrepreneurs have been even more ambitious, pioneering local carbon - capture solutions that could keep even more emissions out of the air.

Gates has been speaking out publicly over the last few months — first in a blog post on his website, then in a talk at the TED conference, and now as part of the American Energy Innovation Council — for radical energy innovation to drive carbon emissions to zero.

A key study published in 2017 by the Universities of Lund and British Columbia found that the single most effective measure an individual in the developed world can take to cut their carbon emissions is to have one fewer child.

Though ground and aircraft sensors provide the most accurate measurements of carbon monoxide for a localized area, satellites offer the best way to monitor wildfire emissions over broad regions, particularly in remote areas where there are fewer ground - based instruments.

To this day, there are few federal limits on emissions of carbon dioxide by utilities, one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gases.

In the Assessment's 1200 horror - studded pages, almost everything that happens in our complex world â $» sex, birth, disease, death, hunger, and wars, to name a few â $» is somehow made worse by pernicious emissions of carbon dioxide and the joggling of surface average temperature by a mere two degrees.

[Doha — Qatar]-- December 6, 2012 — The Qatari Presidency of the UN climate talks needs to show leadership now and help ministers finalise a deal in Doha that sees countries reduce their carbon emissions more quickly and provides adequate finance to help poorer countries deal with climate change in the next few years.

To minimise the danger of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) by carbon dioxide emissions, international institutions require an investment of about 10 times the material cost of the entire World War II within the next few decades.

A new study finds Australia's «fair share» of carbon emissions will be exhausted within a few years.

It would require that carbon emissions peak in the next few years and that the global economy becomes carbon neutral by the end of the century.

There have been a few news stories out of Durban suggesting that China (the worlds largest CO2 emitter) has turned a corner on carbon emissions and has tentatively agreed to limit them, with Bloomberg running an article titled «China Climate Plan Makes «Excited Buzz» as U.S. Lags: UN Envoy.»

A recent study from the Swedish Ministry of Sustainable Development argues that males have a disproportionately larger impact on global warming («women cause considerably fewer carbon dioxide emissions than men and thus considerably less climate change»).