Sentences with phrase «global carbon emissions seems»

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This seems really odd: the publlc demand made by scientists who are most alarmed by global warming is precisely not that more money go into reasearch, but rather that money go into research to increase fuel efficiency to develope carbon - emission - free fuel sources.

BTW, Hansen's «Global Warming in the 21st Century: An Alternative Scenario» seems to accept that CO2 control would be much more difficult than cleaning up black carbon emissions from power stations.

«Absent a dramatic global policy shift, such as a universal tax on carbon emissions, the study seems to suggest that the 2 °C goal is far out of reach,» National Geographic reported.

It is not particularly surprising that they could not find one to argue against the reality of carbon emissions - driven global warming, but it still seems a bit of an unfair difference in stature to have the position backed up by corporate - sponsored pseudoscience be represented by a member of Congress, against a man known primarily for shouting «science!»

Most of the modest and short - term reductions in emissions seem to be related primarily to the 2008 global recession, not to the carbon tax.

Given the global economic implications of carbon dioxide emission mitigation and the fact that geopolitical strategising tends not to be shared with the public at large, it seems inevitable that any attempt to answer your question will be denounced as a conspiracy theory.

In fact, it is true that reducing carbon emissions blamed for global warming depends on changing behaviour across society, but even that conviction seems to be missing, Seidl said.

As a non-climatologist, it seems logical to me that carbon dioxide emissions will cause global warming in some form — but if global warming meltdown starts in eight years» time, I will eat my copy of Six Degrees, appendices and all.

It may seem a bit wonky as an issue itself, but the growing carbon trade war precipitated by the European Union airline emission trading program, now roughly six weeks in effect, really is indicative of the continued global denial about the environmental impact of our activities.

Thus, for instance, resistance to climate science in the United States seems to be linked to a libertarian economic outlook: People who resist what experts tell them about global warming often appear, at heart, to be most worried about the consequences of increased government regulation of carbon emissions.