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By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal Kvisle Published in the Hill Times — December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Despite the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, global regulations are still trending towards stricter environmental and emissions regulations, requiring businesses to invest in cleaner technology in order to meet those standards.

Governments» lack of power Despite years of negotiations we have no effective global agreement on limiting carbon emissions.

These conflicts have stalled some high - profile projects despite the fact that renewable energy sources do not produce heat - trapping emissions of carbon dioxides, the primary greenhouse gas driving global warming.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, however, made clear several times during a press conference announcing the department's decision that, despite his acknowledgement that the polar bear's sea ice habitat is melting due to global warming, the ESA will not be used as a tool for trying to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for creating climate change.

Despite the report's regional focus, the authors clarify that the most urgent need is to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions.

Despite concerted global efforts to reduce carbon emissions through the expansion of clean and renewable energy resources, fossil fuels continued to dominate the global energy sector in 2012, according to new figures released yesterday by the Worldwatch Institute.

While there is no single silver bullet solution that will address the majority of global greenhouse gas emissions, eliminating fossil fuel subsidies is an obvious way to harvest low - hanging fruit, and, despite the odd framing, this study's findings seem to confirm that eliminating fossil fuel subsidies has the potential to make a major contribution to global climate action.

The Kyoto Agreement completely fails to tackle tropical deforestation, despite its signigicance for global carbon emissions.

President - elect Barack Obama sent a video message to a summit meeting on global warming organized by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, implying that despite the continuing economic turmoil, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions will remain a central component of Mr. Obama's energy, environmental and economic policies.

The G8 countries emit more than 40 % of global CO2 emissions, despite being home to only 13 % of the world's population.

Terrell Johnson, reporting on a recent NASA publication concluding that deep ocean temperatures have not increased since 2005 (http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/deep-ocean-hasnt-warmed-nasa-20141007): «While the report's authors say the findings do not question the overall science of climate change, it is the latest in a series of findings that show global warming to have slowed considerably during the 21st century, despite continued rapid growth in human - produced greenhouse gas emissions during the same time.»

Americans will have to pay much higher electricity prices despite the minuscule benefits of the Clean Power Plan, which reduces global carbon dioxide emissions by less than 1 percent and global temperatures by 0.02 degrees Celsius by 2100, according to EPA's own models.

«We show that, despite international efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, total remaining commitments in the global power sector have not declined in a single year since 1950 and are in fact growing rapidly,» their paper says.

Despite an approximate 35 % monthly increase in human CO2 emissions subsequent to the Super El Niño, the global warming trend decelerated to a per century trend some 50 % less than that prior to the El Niño event.

Despite their recent flattening, global energy - related CO2 emissions increase slightly to 2040 in the New Policies Scenario.

A new report assesses the credit risks that power plants face from the global transition to an economy with lower carbon dioxide emissions and finds that some U.S. coal plants are still exposed to those risks, despite Trump administration efforts to roll back CO2 reduction rules.

When flatlining temperatures wreck your global warming agenda, refusing to rise after 18 + long years in hiatus, despite record human CO2 emissions over that same period, simply homogenise, adjust (tamper) with the data.

This analytical report looks at climate change as a tragedy of the commons: despite the global benefits of reducing green - house gas emissions, no individual has any incentive to reduce his or her own emissions.

On the other hand, despite the overwhelming evidence that global warming will transform the Earth's climate for centuries, with fearful consequences for human health and wellbeing (not to mention the survival of many species and ecosystems), the world can not agree to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions because of concerns about the effects on economic growth.

The key pieces of empirical data are that average global temperature has now failed to increase for 17 years despite an accompanying increase of about 8 % in carbon dioxide which represents 34 % of all the human emissions since the start of the industrial revolution (NIPCC SPM, Figure 6).

As global population rises and more people move into cities, global cement production is set to grow by 12 to 23 % by 2050, and despite increasing efficiencies, direct carbon emissions from the cement industry are expected to increase by 4 % globally by 2050 under the IEA Reference Technology Scenario (RTS).

Based on the most up - to - date, peer - reviewed literature on emissions modelling, economics, policies and technologies, today's report reveals how governments, industry and the general public could together reduce the energy and carbon intensity of the global economy despite growing incomes and population levels.

In the meantime, despite already obviously real global climate change, global emissions are still on the increase.

According to the International Energy Agency, energy - related CO2 emissions were flat that year, despite an increase of around 3 % in global GDP.

Despite improvements in some countries, the global CO2 emission factor for energy generation has hardly changed over the last 20 years.

Of course, if the NYTimes or WAPO or CNN or CBS or the AP were ever to report the actual cooling trend over the last 15 years (despite the massive amounts of human CO2 emissions) this would establish that they have been grossly misleading the public for years about consensus «global warming.»

But despite a few recent successes, clean - energy progress is falling short of the levels needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet global climate targets.

«Despite the progress so far, electric vehicles still have a long way to go before reaching a scale that would make a significant dent in global oil demand growth and greenhouse gas emissions,» said Dr Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency.

Each person on the planet produced 1.3 tons of carbon last year — an all - time high — despite a global recession that slowed the growth of fossil fuel emissions for the first time this decade, according to a report published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Fifth, implementing emission reduction mandates and targets under each New England state's global warming solutions laws will likely cause economy - wide natural gas use to decrease by 20 percent by 2030, despite recent policies and trends that incentivize fuel - switching to natural gas.

Officially NO «global warming», at all, for ~ 20 years despite record CO2 emissions over the same period!

In contrast to the sophisticated climate model predictions of runaway («tipping point») global warming, in reality, real - world global warming, as measured by satellites, has disappeared for over 16 years despite the gargantuan increases in CO2 emissions... (Ramez Naam denies this)

For instance the following illustration prepared by EcoEquity and the Stockholm Environment Institute shows that the US fair share of global emissions, making what the authors of the report claim are moderate assumptions of what equity requires, demonstrates that equity not only requires the US to reduce its emissions to zero quickly almost immediately but that US obligations to prevent a 2 degree C rise requires the US to substantially fund ghg emissions reductions in other countries by 2025 despite achieving zero emissions by 2020.

This example brings us all the way back to the start of my essay, and the central problem for advocates of aggressive emissions abatement advocates: despite the rhetoric, the projected damages from global warming just don't appear to justify the costs of the proposed remedy.

A paper published in the Nature Geoscience journal as part of the Global Carbon Project has found that despite the deep financial crisis last year, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2009 dropped only 1.3 per cent on 2008 levels.

The global HadCRUT4 dataset, updated through July 31, 2013, reveals little warming over 15 years despite the huge influx of human CO2 emissions and the subsequent large growth in atmospheric CO2 levels

Despite the considerable uncertainty associated with the reservoir - specific GHG emission estimates synthesized here, we argue that these data provide a low - end estimate of global emissions.

Rapid growth in global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and industry ceased in the past two years, despite continued economic growth.

Despite massive amounts of CO2 emissions since the super El Niño event, the atmospheric temperature change has been a paltry +0.1 °C per century trend - essentially, global warming has been non-existent.

It's pretty hard to «overinterpret» a 10 + year stop in global warming (actual slight cooling instead), despite unabated human GHG emissions and concentrations reaching record levels, plus IPCC model - based predictions of 0.2 C per decade warming.

Despite various loopholes, the system of global emission caps supplemented by an international system of emissions trading including the opportunities provided by the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation, is a beautiful structure.

South American diplomats expect to make progress towards a global climate deal at this week's UN talks in Lima, despite growing criticism from NGOs that governments in the region are backtracking on pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect the environment.

I predict not only global cooling but atmospheric CO2 decrease too, despite rising CO2 emissions.

Global warming appear to have slightly slowed in the last decade despite record greenhouse gas emissions, and this cooling pollution could be the cause.

However you slice it, lolwot, there is a current «pause» (or «standstill») in the warming of the «globally and annually averaged land and sea surface temperature anomaly» (used by IPCC to measure «global warming»), despite unabated human GHG emissions and CO2 levels (Mauna Loa) reaching record levels.

Europe has also seen a general decline in emissions despite continued economic growth, and a small drop in global emissions in 2015 was the first that did not coincide with a worldwide economic downturn (see «Have Global CO2 Emissions Peaked?emissions despite continued economic growth, and a small drop in global emissions in 2015 was the first that did not coincide with a worldwide economic downturn (see «Have Global CO2 Emissions Peaked?&raglobal emissions in 2015 was the first that did not coincide with a worldwide economic downturn (see «Have Global CO2 Emissions Peaked?emissions in 2015 was the first that did not coincide with a worldwide economic downturn (see «Have Global CO2 Emissions Peaked?&raGlobal CO2 Emissions Peaked?Emissions Peaked?»).

SINCE Viner's epic fail in 2000, the global temperature dial has been stubbornly stuck on Pause, with some of the «snowiest» and coldest winters on record occurring over the same period, despite record and rising CO2 emissions...

This latest report was made at the conclusion of these negotiations during which almost no progress was made in defining equity under UNFCCC by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Durban Platform For Enhanced Action (ADP), a mechanism under the UNFCCC that seeks to achieve a adequate global climate agreement, despite a growing consensus among most observers of the UNFCCC negotiations that nations need to align their emissions reductions commitments to levels required of them by equity and justice if the world is going to prevent extremely dangerous climate change.

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