Sentences with phrase «higher carbon state»

Other land will be abandoned, but be so degraded that it won't recover to a diverse higher carbon state.

Some land will be abandoned and without interference will revert to more complex, diverse higher carbon state.

Not exact matches

Comparing the capital and operating costs of various forms of energy — even factoring in US$ 50 a tonne for carbon emissions (a higher rate than is currently levied by any North American state or province)-- natural gas comes out as a clear winner.

A value for Hoyle state 2 % higher than the measured value would prevent the formation of carbon.5 A value 2 % lower than the measured value would produce lots of carbon, but no oxygen.5 Both are essential atoms for life.

Norman Baker MP, Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State for Transport gave the keynote address and outlined that the Department for Transport's high level targets were creating growth and reducing the carbon output.

«It is not clear that this program has a whole lot of bite for a lot of very high carbon emitting states in the rust belt area, and by contrast it appears that it has a much heavier impact along the southern tier of the country including the south - east and Texas.»

The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Davey, is arguing that airport expansion may not lead to higher carbon emissions - given new technology and more efficient planes.

The announcement does not mean that the state has completely divested from companies that produce high carbon emissions.

At night, for example, water in the estuary had higher carbon dioxide, lower pH levels, and a lower saturation state from the collective «exhale» of the ecosystem.

The CPP will require a 32 percent cut in utility - sector carbon emissions from 2005 levels by 2030, with some states seeing reduction requirements as high as 45 to 47 percent.

«They are using this information to test state - of - the - art climate models under conditions of high atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, similar to those expected by the end of this century.»

The scientists prepared the molecules so that the temperature — judged by the probability of an atom's nucleus being found in a higher energy state — was greater for the hydrogen nucleus than for the carbon.

Carbon pricing globally — already implemented or planned by some 42 countries and 25 states, provinces and cities but there is an urgent need for higher carbon prices.

«Research is necessary to determine the exact state of our forests,» stated Manuel Pulgar - Vidal, Peru's Minister of Environment, «For that, the Carnegie Institution, with the support of the Peruvian Environment Ministry, has developed the first high - resolution map of Peru's carbon stocks.

States that use coal power, such as Wyoming, West Virginia and Kentucky, have the highest carbon dioxide emissions.

And researchers in the United States have just come up with a new process to use sunlight to make high - strength and light carbon nanofibers, which are used in consumer products and building materials.

The product's developers, engineers and scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, Tsinghua University in China, and Case Western Reserve University in the United States, believe the storage capacity by volume (called volumetric energy density) is the highest reported for carbon - based microscale supercapacitors to date: 6.3 microwatt hours per cubic millimeter.

In this high - energy state the carbon was unstable, and it broke apart into helium nuclei.

«Maybe we can have the best of both worlds: a price on carbon to create an innovative environment for clean technology in California and keep businesses within state lines and not cause an adverse impact on consumers through radically higher prices for transportation fuels or electricity.»

Higher carbon price needed to slow coal The coal infrastructure and capacity for exports are saturated in the United States, said Carlos Alvarez Fernandez, one of the authors of the IEA report.

In its supercritical state, carbon dioxide is nearly twice as dense as steam, resulting in a very high power density.

«Bivalves have been around for a long time and have survived different geologic periods of high carbon dioxide levels in marine environments,» says George Waldbusser, an Oregon State University (OSU) marine ecologist and biogeochemist and lead author of the paper.

Some ecosystems had surprisingly high emissions — grasslands in the United States converted to corn farms would increase carbon dioxide for 93 years.

In other homogeneous (or heterogeneous) catalyst systems in which the metal is likely to be in a relatively high oxidation state, such as molybdenum (VI) or tungsten (VI), metal - carbon multiple bonds may play an important role.

This breakdown showed that certain states, such as New York for example, that would expected to see its increasing population and affluence bring along significantly higher carbon dioxide emissions instead saw those emissions fall thanks to politics that favored environmental protections.

The What We Know report further states that «according to the IPCC, given the current pathway for carbon emissions the high end of the «likely» range for the expected increase in global temperature is about 8 ˚ F by the end of the century.

«We are proud to be part of this groundbreaking endeavor in the state of Sabah, which sets us apart in accelerating the quest and capacity to protect, restore, and conserve more high - conservation and high - carbon forests in this country,» said Sam Mannan, Chief Conservator of Forests.

They found that about 40 percent of the state's carbon is contained in forests that are not protected at the highest designation.

Figure 01: High - resolution images of the ground - state carbon monoxide spectral line at 115.27 GHz.

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Fuel economy specs haven't yet been revealed, although Lexus does state that the new model engines have been «tuned in anticipation of high fuel economy ratings and low carbon emissions.»

That is what they are called by independent environmentalists researching the role of power companies responsible for the highest levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.

-- Climate impacts: global temperatures, ice cap melting, ocean currents, ENSO, volcanic impacts, tipping points, severe weather events — Environment impacts: ecosystem changes, disease vectors, coastal flooding, marine ecosystem, agricultural system — Government actions: US political views, world - wide political views, carbon tax / cap - and - trade restrictions, state and city efforts — Reducing GHGs: + electric power systems: fossil fuel use, conservation, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, tidal, other + transportation sector: conservation, mass transit, high speed rail, air travel, auto / truck (mileage issues, PHEVs, EVs, biofuels, hydrogen) + architectural structure design: home / office energy use, home / office conservation, passive solar, other

In this case, you're getting something (a higher energy state carbon) for something (energy released by nuclear fission).

In the United States, new HWPs can be deployed in place of carbon - intensive concrete, steel, and aluminum products in non-residential and high - rise construction.

Further, sea levels, of great significance to the state of various submarine carbon stores, were of course also very different, too, and while we normally think of higher sea levels as always making hydrates more stable (explaining the lack of release then), there could potentially be an opposing effect as well, discussed by Archer, in fact (Archer, 2007).

«Our study shows that very high climate sensitivities are virtually impossible, suggesting that we still have enough time to deal with the problem and reduce carbon emissions, which could avoid the most severe impacts,» said Andreas Schmittner, a climate scientist at Oregon State University and the study's lead author.

In the previous year's annual study, the researchers found for the first time that China had become the world's leading emitter, with carbon emissions 7 percent higher by volume than the United States in 2006.

International equity — letting poor countries emit more carbon than rich countries from here on out — demands that the United States, Europe, and other historically high emitting countries should position themselves for at least 80 percent reduction in emissions by 2030.

WMO will issue its full Statement on the State of the Climate in 2017 in March which will provide a comprehensive overview of temperature variability and trends, high - impact events, and long - term indicators of climate change such as increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, sea level rise and ocean acidification.

And though this cost is similar to projections for the cost of solar PV in South Carolina, if scaled to the output of the Summer reactors, solar would rapidly lose its carbon reduction capabilities due to the high amount of existing clean energy production in the state.

According to Kenneth Miller, lead author and Earth Science professor at Rutgers University, «the natural state of the earth with present carbon dioxide levels is one with sea levels about 20 meters higher than at present.»

This current research has definitively stated the likely importance of blue carbon conversions and the unaccounted emissions that have very much higher estimates.

The Sierra Club said the pledge made in Beijing «keeps the United States on track to cut its carbon pollution by 80 percent by 2050... setting a high bar for future administrations,» and the Obama administration said it would submit the 2025 target to the U.N. process seeking a deal on post-2020 emissions.

Readers who actually want a thorough and careful account of the pros and cons of I - 732 from a policy point of view should read the three detailed articles by the Sightline Institute here: http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/01/pros-cons-carbonwa-carbon-tax-swap-ballot-initiative-732/ http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/02/does-initiative-732-carbon-tax-have-a-budget-hole/ http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/03/weighing-critiques-of-carbonwa-i-732/ Readers who are interested in the messy political conflict over the initiative might start with a couple of Patrick Mazza's articles: http://cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com/2015/11/can-wa-state-climate-policy-train-wreck.html http://cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com/2015/12/wa-climate-initiative-conflict-on-road.html If you want to know why the Alliance's proposal won't do much for low - income families facing higher energy costs as a result of a carbon fee (though it would produce a lot of union trade jobs by funding State infrastructure spending) start here: http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/16/green-stamps-a-climate-equity-proposal-for-the-pacific-northwest/

The United States — which accounted for a good third of the Annex I countries» emissions of carbon dioxide in 1990 and has the world's highest emissions per capita — abandoned the protocol in 2001, with the excuse that it excluded 80 per cent of the world's population and would, moreover, be detrimental to the US economy.

«The natural state of the Earth with present carbon dioxide levels is one with sea levels about 70 feet higher than now.»

«New remote sensing approaches using light detection and ranging (Lidar) and radio detection and ranging (radar) from airborne sensors have been successful in providing high - resolution estimates of forest carbon density for small areas,» he wrote in a paper published in May by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.