Sentences with phrase «focuses on carbon dioxide emissions»

For all intents and purposes, the two phenomena are unrelated, since the scourge of air pollution relates to the presence of dangerous fine particulate matter in the air while global warming propaganda focuses on carbon dioxide emissions.

(April 21, 2014) There is a growing realization that the Green Movement and its focus on carbon dioxide emissions may be not fully justified by the facts.

As Breitbart News reported in October, a number of nations have quietly begun backing away from the Paris energy goals, which are part of the non-binding agreement focusing on carbon dioxide emissions.

With a greater focus on carbon dioxide emissions and global warming, federal and state governments have provided incentives for individuals to upgrade and replace existing heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems with newer, energy - efficient units.

Not exact matches

«If you choose to focus in the management plan on reducing carbon dioxide emission slightly, you'll achieve a significant environmental gain for a very small price,» says Associate Professor Petersen.

A problem is that markets for trading carbon dioxide focus on cuts in emissions at power plants and factories burning fossil fuels, not renewable energies which are viewed as green.

«Many cities have outlined goals to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions, and obviously tree - planting is one way to achieve that goal,» said Chang Zhao, a graduate student in the Geographical and Sustainability Sciences department at the UI and corresponding author on the paper, published in the journal PLOS One, «but our study shows it plays a minor role and that we need to focus on reducing carbon emissions over removing them.»

Even the 350 - ppm limit for carbon dioxide is «questionable,» says physicist Myles Allen of the Climate Dynamics Group at the University of Oxford, and focusing instead on keeping cumulative emissions below one trillion metric tons might make more sense, which would mean humanity has already used up more than half of its overall emissions budget.

Ultimately, the group focused its investigation on the five strategies that appear to hold the most promise: reducing emissions, sequestering carbon through biological means on land and in the ocean, storing carbon dioxide in a liquefied form in underground geological formations and wells, increasing Earth's cloud cover and solar reflection.

The debate about how to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide often focuses on emissions from generation of electricity and transport.

Earlier today, The Hill newspaper reported that the plan «would roll back funding for nuclear physics and advanced scientific computing research to 2008 levels, eliminate the Office of Electricity, eliminate the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and scrap the Office of Fossil Energy, which focuses on technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.»

Considerable research focuses on capturing and storing harmful carbon dioxide emissions.

-- http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/12/124002/article «It is known that carbon dioxide emissions cause the Earth to warm, but no previous study has focused on examining how long it takes to reach maximum warming following a particular CO2 emission.

Rather than focus on high - and low - polluting rich and poor nations, they focus on the emerging global class of a billion or so individuals — whether they reside in Shanghai or Chicago — who are responsible for an outsize portion of the world's emissions of carbon dioxide.

The other focuses on New York City, where Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the City Council Speaker, Christine C. Quinn, are pursuing an ambitious plan to cut energy use and carbon - dioxide emissions by the city's huge assortment of older buildings (nice map at this link).

In both, he asserts that the current legislative proposals, by focusing incentives on deployment of today's wind and solar technology, could actually stifle the vital need to build the capacity for achieving deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions once the easier reductions are achieved.

[UPDATE 5:30 p.m. Voices added below] Most concerns about growing emissions of carbon dioxide have focused on the gas's heat - trapping effect on climate.

Perry's confirmation comes amid reports of draconian cuts to the department's budget, including rolling back funding for nuclear physics and advanced scientific computing research to 2008 levels, eliminate the Office of Electricity, eliminate the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and scrap the Office of Fossil Energy, which focuses on technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Our organization, which focuses on igniting action to develop and implement «negative emission» systems capable of cleaning up excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, hopes to help BECI demonstrate its leadership in emerging issues across the energy and climate space.

Hergoualc» h says most of the research in tropical peatlands has focused on monitoring soil emissions of carbon dioxide.

He instead focused on his attacks on the Clean Power Plan, which set the first - ever national limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants that contribute to climate change.

Over the last three decades, five IPCC «assessment reports,» dozens of computer models, scores of conferences and thousands of papers focused heavily on human fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, as being responsible for «dangerous» global warming, climate change, climate «disruption,» and almost every «extreme» weather or climate event.

In the fight against climate change, most experts focus on controlling emissions of carbon dioxide, but methane is actually the more potent greenhouse gas, even more effective at trapping heat in Earth's atmosphere.

«NRSP's first campaign is focused on dispelling the notion that Canada will benefit from carbon dioxide emission control,» claims this so - called scientific group, which fails on its Web site to disclose where it gets its funding while at the same time calling themselves «non-partisan.»

Two new studies have warned that climate change mitigation efforts will fail by merely focusing on checking of carbon dioxide emissions.

Victor argues that policymakers should instead focus on a suite of «vital signs» that are more tightly linked to carbon emissions, including atmospheric carbon - dioxide concentrations, ocean heat content, and high - latitude temperature changes.

We are also told that the science on man - made global warming is «settled», and instead of debating the science, we should be focusing on how to urgently reduce our carbon dioxide emissions:

More recently, the focus has been on developing and deploying technologies to tackle carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

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.

More recently, the focus of the climate debate has centered on man - made or anthropogenic warming, particularly as a consequence of the burning of natural resources like coal, oil, and natural gas and the associated carbon dioxide emissions.

The carbon offsets acquired by Santa Margherita to compensate for non-eliminable carbon dioxide emissions, which means essentially transport and distribution, focus on the quality of life and the reduction of emissions in Canada through three strategic interventions:

[note] I mainly focus here on solar radiation management (SRM) forms of geoengineering, but even carbon dioxide removal (CDR) can trigger moral hazard if it implies that delay in emissions reduction is acceptable or desirable.

This methane has climate change impacts that, on a pound - for - pound basis, will be far more powerful over the next two decades than the carbon dioxide emissions that have been the focus of most climate change discussions.

To remove and reuse the carbon dioxide emissions associated with the modern world's energy appetite, experts are stressing the continued research and development of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) systems, as well as a renewed focus on carbon recycling technologies.

On May 2, 2009, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, the MA students in Columbia's Climate and Society Masters Program and Dr. James Hansen will host their first 350 Conference focusing specifically on the idea that we have to get our current atmospheric levels of 385 parts per million (ppm) carbon dioxide emissions down to at least 350 ppm (or lowerOn May 2, 2009, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, the MA students in Columbia's Climate and Society Masters Program and Dr. James Hansen will host their first 350 Conference focusing specifically on the idea that we have to get our current atmospheric levels of 385 parts per million (ppm) carbon dioxide emissions down to at least 350 ppm (or loweron the idea that we have to get our current atmospheric levels of 385 parts per million (ppm) carbon dioxide emissions down to at least 350 ppm (or lower).

The planetary boundaries advocates, consist with their hierarchical values framework, call for «universal clean energy» and recommend development targets focused not on measuring expanded energy access, but rather carbon dioxide emissions (here in PDF).