Sentences with phrase «much overall emissions»

But late Tuesday, Bali time, the United States bluntly refused to consider language — even in the nonbinding preamble — that included any specific numbers for how much overall emissions from wealthy countries would need to be cut to have a chance of avoiding the worst climate dangers.

Not exact matches

Road emissions make up two - thirds of Seattle's overall greenhouse gas output, a share that is twice as much as in the rest of the country.

The big differences will be in the new «cluster architecture» CLAR platform underpinning the new X3: Although the car is expected to be longer overall — and therefore more spacious — it is also tipped to be lighter, by as much as 100 kg, to improve performance, emissions and fuel economy.

I will have more to say on this as the latest SST / SHA maps (2 days behind Real - Time) come to hand and I can determine just how much Florida has cleaned up those wasteater emissions off its west coast and what effect that has had on overall GOM temperatures and dynamic circulation couplings.

At the same time, we need to be careful so that we don't create another excuse for continuing to fly as much as we do, because it's not only about offsetting our current emissions with something else, it's actually about reducing overall emissions as well.

These were incorporated into a new model published in 2016 with colleague David Pollard, projecting an overall 2 metre of sea level rise by 2100 for high CO2 emissions but much less than 1 metre for low emissions.

This combination allowed the team to do a much more detailed assessment of the way different policies would affect decisions by the power producers and distributors — a key point, since the electricity sector has the most immediate potential for changes that could reduce emissions, and is the biggest contributor to emissions overall.

How much of a problem is delayed participation by developing countries in terms of raising the overall burden of global mitigation costs, and what does this imply for appropriate near - term emissions pricing goals for the United States, if eventual targets for global stabilization are still to be met?

-- Muller believes humans are changing climate with CO2 emissions — humans have been responsible for «most» of a 0.4 C warming since 1957, almost none of the warming before then — IPCC is in trouble due to sloppy science, exaggerated predictions; chairman will have to resign — the «Climategate» mails were not «hacked» — they were «leaked» by an insider — due to «hide the decline» deception, Muller will not read any future papers by Michael Mann — there has been no increase in hurricanes or tornadoes due to global warming — automobiles are insignificant in overall picture — China is the major CO2 producer, considerably more than USA today — # 1 priority for China is growth of economy — global warming is not considered important — China CO2 efficiency (GDP per ton CO2) is around one - fourth of USA today, has much room for improvement — China growth will make per capita CO2 emissions at same level as USA today by year 2040 — if it is «not profitable» it is «not sustainable» — US energy future depends on shale gas for automobiles; hydrogen will not be a factor — nor will electric cars, due to high cost — Muller is upbeat on nuclear (this was recorded pre-Fukushima)-- there has been no warming in the USA — Muller was not convinced of Hansen's GISS temperature record; hopes BEST will provide a better record.

• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial overall • Quotes from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not damaging • Quotes from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the damage functions used for estimating damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty range.

The net effect would simply be to make the WWF and its partners much richer while making no contribution to lowering overall CO2 emissions.

To simplify the idea — if 95 % of atmospheric CO2 is natural but we do not know how much overall the natural emissions amounts change over time, but we do know they change, it is easy to see that a 10 % change in natural emissions would have potentially great change to total CO2.

You have no data on ocean pH, or on how much the overall ocean pH COULD (or will) be lowered by human CO2 emissions or how marine life COULD (or will) likely respond.

So much so, that despite a slight rise in transportation emissions, overall emissions are down to levels last consistently seen in the 1890s.

And yet now they submit that this same private sector is utterly incapable of coping with a limit on overall emissions, even though such a cap would, from the private sector's point of view, operate very much like a limited supply of a resource, like land.

I also believe that the method of fracking is much worse overall for methane emissions than conventional gas drilling methods.

Unless Germany brought an additional 40 billion kWh of generation from its older, more carbon - intensive coal - fired power plants offline, this planned uptick in fossil fuel generation would cause the country's overall carbon emissions to rise by as much as 14 % of the country's 2008 total carbon emissions (33 million tons of CO2), illustrated in Figure 1 below.