Sentences with phrase «higher emissions mean»

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New pipelines would allow production to continue to expand, meaning those emissions would only head higher.
High prices, plus the added pressure of the necessary emissions standards, mean Canadian manufacturers are struggling to remain competitive against companies in China where such standards don't exist.
While the implications for the UK are minor compared with member states that will have to implement RWTs for the first time, the BMF say that nevertheless the wider scope of the tests could mean higher costs for UK bike maintenance, especially with the emissions testing implications.
Despite efforts to reduce emissions, unusually high gas prices in 2006 meant more electricity was generated by coal, the environment secretary explained.
The announcement does not mean that the state has completely divested from companies that produce high carbon emissions.
Record emissions of carbon dioxide mean atmospheric concentrations have reached levels that lead to the highest temperature increases
Cars release these gases as they burn fuel, so the proposed reduction in emissions «effectively means higher fuel mileage cars,» Herz points out.
Increased cooling means increased consumption of electrical power and therefore higher emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, driving global warming even faster.
^ 90Y has a high β - energy emission, with a mean path length of 5 mm and a maximum of 11 mm.
Higher carbon prices mean a bigger incentive to cut emissions.
Unfounded health fears mean Europe is on the brink of banning the herbicide, risking greater soil damage and higher carbon emissions
Diffuse emission nebulae are often called H II regions because they are mainly consisted of ionized hydrogen, H II - the roman number after the element symbol (here H) designating the ionization level: «I» would stand for neutral atoms, the «II» here means first ionization, i.e. the hydrogen atoms have lost their single electron, and for other elements higher numbers (ionization levels, or numbers of lost electrons) would be possible (e.g., He III, O III or Fe V).
Naturally it wants to climb up to the highest ratio as soon as possible in order to meet its faux emission targets, but the combination of its speed and willingness to change gear on its own accord with a sharp immediacy, combined with the V10's traction and low - end grunt means it's rare for you to have to step in and flick a paddle to find the right gear.
As the performance of road cars climbs ever higher, all - wheel drive starts to make even more sense, harnessing ever greater outputs through ever smarter means - and in recent years, those means have included hybrid 4x4 systems that negate the need for complex transmissions, bringing the added benefits of improved economy and emissions.
The petrol engine is capable of 41mpg and its CO2 emissions of 154g / km mean tax is much higher at # 180 per year.
The Boxster's purchase price, high CO2 emissions and relatively scant standard equipment mean we wouldn't recommend either the Boxster or the Boxster S as a company car.
Diesel fuel in the USA (prior to late 2006) had a significantly higher level of sulphur than the fuel used in Europe, which meant that diesel cars from European makers had to either be fitted with specially developed fuel and emissions control system for the (prohibitively small) North American market, or simply could not be sold in that market.
Both offer performance in line with Infiniti's image, but their high CO2 emissions and poor fuel economy issues mean the QX50 is destined to remain a niche model.
An engineer we independently consulted estimated 12 percent loss in fuel economy which still would mean high 20s, low 30s so not overly much, and emissions regs will of course be met too.
Choosing the six - speed automatic gearbox means a small sacrifice in efficiency — fuel economy drops to 42.2 mpg and CO2 emissions go up to 177g / km for a higher annual tax bill of # 230 at current rates.
Less slippery aerodynamics mean the bluffer and higher - riding C - HR can't match the Prius for economy and CO2 emissions, but Toyota's claims of 74.3 mpg and 87g / km put it ahead of traditional diesel rivals such as the Nissan Qashqai 1.5 dCi and SEAT Ateca 1.6 TDI.
The multi-hole injector design means that fuel droplet size is reduced for better fuel atomization, resulting in improved cold weather start - up, better fuel economy, lower emissions and higher horsepower.
But, poor residual value, high emissions, expensive insurance and a lack of engine variety means that the G37 saloon is not the most finacially appealing car in its class.
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Still, CO2 emissions of 228g / km mean a high Benefit in Kind tax bill if you're lucky enough to use the NSX as a company car.
Given that impacts don't scale linearly — that's true both because of the statistics of normal distributions, which imply that (damaging) extremes become much more frequent with small shifts in the mean, and because significant breakpoints such as melting points for sea ice, wet - bulb temperatures too high for human survival, and heat tolerance for the most significant human food crops are all «in play» — the model forecasts using reasonable emissions inputs ought to be more than enough for anyone using sensible risk analysis to know that we making very bad choices right now.
Emphasizing the high end does indeed mean we should reduce emissions a little more (a carbon tax that is $ 22 / ton CO2 rather than just $ 4).
This has implications for future scenario's, as a lower sensitivity for CO2 (and a higher for solar) means that there will be less warming for the same CO2 emissions (assuming no large excursions of solar).
What I meant was that Planck radiation increases with body or amb ient temperature, but higher temperature, per the Boltzmann distribution, makes it more probable that rotation, vibration, and / or electronic levels will be excited, and therefore less likely to emit relaxation energy, though as you point out this may not be exactly what happens physically — emission radiation is more flat than anything with increasing temperatures.
Those scenarios are excluded from this analysis, because we are trying to understand if a low - sensitivity world means CO2 emissions can be high.
As defined in Title 26 of the US Code (The Internal Revenue Code of 1986), refined coal means a fuel which is a liquid, gaseous or solid fuel produced from coal (including lignite) or high carbon fly ash, including such fuel used as a feedstock; and is sold with the reasonable expectation that it will be used to produce steam, resulting in a qualified emission reduction.
Some commentators recycle vague notions about Australia being a wide brown land with long distances to transport goods and people and that this means that our greenhouse gas emissions must be higher than other, more compact countries.
That may mean that some of the highest estimates of future temperature rises, of more than 6C within several decades, are less likely, but it does not let the world off the hook — warming of more than 2C is still highly likely on current high emissions trends, and that would cause severe consequences around the world.
This means Republicans and Democratic moderates will in effect be choosing higher cost command and control regulation of emissions by EPA rather than a lower - cost market approach that helps the economy.
The mean high temperature projections for 2050 and 2100 were derived from a suite of 28 climate models (CMIP5 / Oak Ridge National Laboratory) under IPCC emissions scenario RCP8.5, averaged over November 22 - 28 for 2030 - 2049 and 2080 - 2099, respectively.»
Current U.S. dietary guidelines and many health professionals have recommended diets higher in fruits and vegetables and lower in red meat as a means of helping to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and some cancers.316, 319,320,321,322,323,324 These changes in food consumption, and related changes to food production, could have co-benefits in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
It clearly states that (a) emission of energy by radiation is accompanied with cooling of the surface (if no compensating changes prevent it), and (b) the tendency to a radiative equilibrium means that the emitter with the higher surface temperature will loose energy due to a negative net radiation balance until this net radiation balance becomes zero.
Further, increased human - caused CO2 emissions mean more energy use, which results in more human productivity since humans generally use fossil fuel energy to increase their productivity and reduce their dependency on other less reliable and higher cost energy sources.
To pursue a 2oC pathway to address the risks of climate change, the need for efficiency gains is likely to ramp up significantly, meaning that capturing the most cost - effective efficiency gains will become even more important in order to spare society an unnecessary economic burden associated with high - cost options to reduce emissions.
-- The term «Climate Registry» means the greenhouse gas emissions registry jointly established and managed by more than 40 States and Indian tribes in 2007 to collect high - quality greenhouse gas emission data from facilities, corporations, and other organizations to support various greenhouse gas emission reporting and reduction policies for the member States and Indian tribes.
Projections of future summer mean WBGT under the RCP8.5 emissions scenario that are constrained by observations indicate that by 2030s at least 50 % of the summers will have mean WBGT higher than the observed historical record value in all the analyzed regions, and that this frequency of occurrence will increase to 95 % by mid-century.
• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.
If emissions stay as high as they are, that means even a low value of climate sensitivity would see a significant amount of warming by the end of the century.
The first sensor is used to identify the low levels of methane gas emissions and the second one is meant to read high levels of emission.
Part of this shift has meant that high - emissions activities, such as the production of raw materials and intermediate goods, are moving from rapidly developing countries like China and India to lesser developed countries like Bangladesh and Vietnam, a move that could have serious consequences for the success of the Paris agreement.
This means that, up to roughly 1.8 °C, the cumulative emissions between 2010 and 2050 has some skill in predicting peak CO2 - induced warming, but this skill is reduced for higher temperatures.
The higher mean CH4 emissions reported here are likely due to the exclusion of diffusive - only estimates and a preponderance of high CH4 flux estimates in the recent literature.
Whatever value of CS you fancy, according to the reality this is the higher CO2 emission - concentration year for the last 10,000 years with an amount of warming that makes this year with the less ever «amplifying» of warming, meaning that the 2014 regardless of so much CO2 in atmosphere shows no «amplifying» and therefor showing that there is no warming whatsoever but actually the climatic signal is one of cooling, to the extent of it been the higher COOLING CLIMATIC signal for this year than any other year for the last 10,000 years.
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Projections from process - based models of global mean sea level (GMSL) rise relative to 1986 — 2005 as a function of time for two scenarios — RCP2.6, a low emissions scenario, and RCP 8.5, a high emissions scenario.
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