Sentences with phrase «get to level emissions»

We can slow it down, and should, but realistically I don't believe that we will ever get to level emissions, let alone reduced ones.

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Still, getting carbon emissions from in situ projects down near the level of conventional oil will take more than that, which is where the new alternatives to SAGD come in.

A 30 percent cut in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030 is a big number — less than environmental groups want but far more than the president can get via Congress, where climate change skeptics rule the House and the Democratic Senate so far avoiding bringing a climate change bill to the floor during Obama's presidency.

Additional country - level data on emissions and the damage they cause have also become available, as detailed in a more recent IMF book, Getting Energy Prices Right: From Principle to Practice.

Yet even with this car's emissions being on the level, hitting the EPA standards and being thoroughly scrutinized, it's very hard to get over the fact that once you say «diesel,» its stock drops.

If set at the right level (and McCain outlined exactly what that would be: reducing CO2 emissions by 60 % from 1990 levels by 2050, with incremental steps to get us from here to there) it will require the right level of reduction in CO2.

To have a discernible impact on the growth in emissions from coal burning, carbon dioxide disposal would have to get to the billion - tons - a-year leveTo have a discernible impact on the growth in emissions from coal burning, carbon dioxide disposal would have to get to the billion - tons - a-year leveto get to the billion - tons - a-year leveto the billion - tons - a-year level.

I think the only hope we have of phasing down emissions and getting to the middle of the century with a much lower level of fossil fuel emissions — which is what we will have to do if we want young people to have a future — we're going to have to have alternatives and at this time nuclear seems to be the best candidate.

Thus, the concept of an emissions budget is very useful to get the message across that the amount of CO2 that we can still emit in total (not per year) is limited if we want to stabilise global temperature at a given level, so any delay in reducing emissions can be detrimental — especially if we cross tipping points in the climate system, e.g trigger the complete loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Even if industrial emissions stop, we will need to keep going for some time before we get down to pre-industrial levels.

Removing the carbon - storing forest ecosystem to get at the tar sands will be even more detrimental to carbon emissions levels.

But the president's move to expand such controls to existing plants can, all by itself, get Obama a long way toward his goal of a 17 percent reduction in US greenhouse gas emissions — from 2005 levels — by 2020.

Because we had to set a deadline for ourselves so that we could actually get our recommendations in the hands of the Chinese, our analysis unfortunately does not include China's most recent announcement regarding its target to reduce its carbon intensity per unit GDP by 40 - 45 percent by 2020 (see previous post «China to adopt «binding» goal to reduce CO2 emissions per unit GDP by 40 to 45 % of 2005 levels by 2020 «-RRB-.

In a joint announcement, President Obama said the U.S. would cut its GHG emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025 — about double the pace the U.S. had been targeting in the 2005 - 2020 period — while President Xi Jinping said China would aim to cap its emissions increases by 2030, by which time it expected to get 20 percent of its total energy consumption from zero - emissions sources.

The fossil fuel industry has gotten us into this climate mess, and listening to their advice is almost certainly going to lead to false solutions that do not result in the changes to society and emissions levels that are needed.

As part of the project of getting our emissions down to the levels many scientists recommend, we once again have the chance to advance policies that dramatically improve lives, close the gap between rich and poor, create huge numbers of good jobs, and reinvigorate democracy from the ground up.

Brazil has put up actual emissions reductions of 36 to 39 percent below 1994 levels by 2020, if it gets financial help.

Assuming that human CO2 emissions are going to continue at the same exponential rate we have seen in the past would get us to 1040 ppmv (Vaughan Pratt's Figure 7), a level that is most likely not even possible to reach because of the constraint in total fossil fuel availability).

But in order to get US President George HW Bush to attend the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, a much watered down target of stabilization of 1990 levels of emission by 2000 was signed, but then ignored.

This is a terrific, ongoing story that sometimes can get lost in the daily back and forth over who's doing what on climate: Industry reducing emissions while also producing a natural gas abundance that benefits consumers, manufacturers and the environment, taking a lead role in reducing carbon dioxide levels to 25 - year lows.

Leonard had long supported unsuccessful efforts to get Congress to adopt some form of carbon cap and trade initiative, where the federal government would enforce a slowly lowering cap on emissions, with some companies selling reductions beyond their cap levels to others that were likely to violate the cap.

And besides, Jim, in case you failed to get the world, accelerated warming stopped around 2001, despite unabated human CO2 emissions and CO2 concentrations reaching new record levels.

United Nations negotiators struggle to get a global agreement for reducing the world's CO2 emissions, which would stabilise atmospheric CO2 level and keep the temperature rise below 2 °C.

As a result of the growing role played by natural gas in generating electricity, our air is getting cleaner and the country has lowered greenhouse gas emissions to levels not seen in two decades.

Mr. Hadley He also nails another takeaway — we need political support for the carbon price — particularly as the price increases to the levels we need to get emission reductions (e.g., $ 100 / ton in less than 10 years with the McDermott bill).

Getting greenhouse gas emissions to 60 percent below the 1990 level will require four types of measures: aggressive energy efficiency, aggressive electrification, decarbonizing electricity (such as by using renewable energy sources) and decarbonizing the remaining fuel supply (such as by using biofuels).

Climate skeptic scientists have long questioned whether the effects of relatively minor (compared to other CO2 sources and sinks) human - caused emissions of CO2 have more than a minor effect on global temperatures and some have even questioned whether the UN and USEPA have even gotten the causation backwards (i.e., because on balance global temperatures affect atmospheric CO2 levels).

For example, a power plant could continue to emit the same level of carbon as it does today, so long as it can show that the utility had caused carbon emissions to go down elsewhere, such as through programs that get consumers to use energy - efficient appliances.

President Obama managed to get fairly wide spread support for the Copenhagen Accord on the last day of the Copenhagen negotiations despite the fact that the United States was not able to commit to emissions reductions at levels to prevent dangerous climate change.

Concerns about methane emissions persist, but notwithstanding that challenge, two greater problems loom: First, shifting significantly away from coal to natural gas doesn't get the planet anywhere close to the carbon - reduction levels scientists say we must reach.

While he says categorically that the prospect of geoengineering should never provide polluters or governments a «get out of jail free card» to avoid their absolute duty to drastically cut CO2 emissions, he maintains that «climate change could actually be reversed with the help of geoengineering, and it would be far simpler, safer and cheaper than trying to adapt to ever worsening climate change, and sea level rise to boot.»

That is, for instance, among other things, the Copenhagen Accord failed to get commitments from the United States and some other developed countries to reduce ghg emissions at levels necessary to prevent serious climate change damage.

In terms of how I got the numbers, I integrated the rate of anthropogenic CO2 emission to measure the total CO2 emitted versus time, then compared it to the % change in concentration level.

The need to turn up the visibility on the ethical and equitable unacceptability of national ghg commitments is not only important to get nations to increase their emissions reductions commitments in international negotiations, it is also important to change the way climate change policies are debated at the national level when climate change policies are formed.

«By expanding the number of charging stations across New York under Governor Cuomo, we are getting closer to meeting our nation - leading goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030 from 1990 levels,» said Richard Kauffman, Chairman of Energy and Finance, New York State.

Many negotiators tell Ecosystem Marketplace that REDD itself is no longer a contentious issue, but that things get hairy when they try to digest the decision made in Bali to expand the land - use debate from REDD alone into broader issues of «conservation, sustainable management of forests, changes in forest cover and associated carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks to enhance action on mitigation of climate change and to the consideration of reference levels.»

To do its part in keeping global warming under two degrees Celsius, the United States will need to get its carbon emissions down 25 to 40 percent below 1990 ′ s levels by 202To do its part in keeping global warming under two degrees Celsius, the United States will need to get its carbon emissions down 25 to 40 percent below 1990 ′ s levels by 202to get its carbon emissions down 25 to 40 percent below 1990 ′ s levels by 202to 40 percent below 1990 ′ s levels by 2020.

The Clean Power Plan, which EIA expects to cut emissions 25 % from 2005 levels by 2020 (see table 5 above), gets the American economy close to the lower end of the IPCC's target, but it's measured from the 2005 baseline rather than the IPCC's 1990 date, when American emissions were lower.

The central objective is to get the planet on low levels of CO2 emissions and fossil energy depletion.

Dr. Wilson added that the report's analysis was «deliberately high - level to get a feel for the scale of the emissions reductions, in part to sense check whether it would be worth the effort to undertake a more detailed analysis into particular markets.»

But let's don't overlook the key point that the emissions to atmosphere come from burning hydrocarbons (and we should be happy if only CO2 gets out when we burn them), so we need to discourage burning the fuels and the obvious way to do that is raise taxes on hydrocarbon fuel (at the retail level please — be honest, don't try to bury it at the wholesale level so consumers think the oil producers are gouging them).

The worrisome thing is that we don't have all that much time to get global emissions to level off and begin falling towards zero.

The problem of getting from 60 percent to a full 80 percent reduction in emissions from the 1990 level will require technologies that are not currently on the market, or even in demonstration.

But experts have warned that China's anti-smog campaign is getting even harder, with improvements in air quality starting to level off now that relatively straightforward programs like the desulphurisation of power plant emissions have been completed.

In fact it's going to take everything we've got to get close — see here for a discussion of the level of effort it will take to meet these emissions targets.

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Re 422 wili — I was looking at figure 2 (as best I could in the little version you get from behind paywall)-- it looks like, for the DEP 4.5 emissions -LRB-(DEP refers to forcing (from anthropogenic emissions, I think) W / m ^ 2 in 2100) a bit more than doubling CO2 by 2100, setting aside other GHGs), if sensitivity is 3 K / doubling, the permafrost reservoir declines but starts to level off significantly before reaching 0 (I believe that's 0 % of the permafrost reservoir?).

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 lower).

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