Sentences with phrase «not less carbon dioxide»

The world needs more, not less carbon dioxide, as frequently discussed on this blog.

Not exact matches

As with carbon dioxide emission rankings, less developed nations tend to score better on electricity consumption because access to electrical power is not as widely available.

Studies indicate carbon dioxide emissions from transportation in the province have declined 16 % in that time, and while it's impossible to draw a direct causal relationship between the tax and the emissions decline, it's fair to say it was a factor contributing to indisputable behavioural changes — you can't emit 16 % less CO2 by doing the same things you did before.

Hansen's assessment is simple: we need, as a planet, to be emitting less carbon dioxide inside of ten years — an enormous task given that China and India are finally beginning to use power in appreciable quantities (and not for luxuries but for the second light bulb or first refrigerator in a house).

Replacing some of the lawn with groundcover would mean spending less weekend time behind a power mower, which produces more carbon dioxide, not to mention noise, per mile than any automobile.

Overturning textbook knowledge, the researchers discovered that the trees «exhale» less carbon dioxide during the day than previously thought, and that forest photosynthesis doesn't decline over the course of the summer.

The assessments shall reflect the relative carbon dioxide emission rates of different fossil fuel - based electricity, and initially shall be not less than the following amounts for coal, natural gas, and oil:

Now, if you have all this very cold, nearly freezing water surrounding these ice caps, sucking up carbon dioxide out of the polar atmosphere, at nearly the highest possible rate, 30 times faster than oxygen, and 70 times faster than nitrogen, doesn't it stand to reason that the air that remains might just have a lot less carbon dioxide in it than the atmosphere across the rest of the planet?

EPA is not even requiring reporting of greenhouse gas emissions for sources emitting less than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually.

Indeed, the FAR widened the likely range of temperature increase for a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from the previous assessment, indicating greater uncertainty, not less, about this issue.

New and refurbished coal - fired power plants will not be eligible for funding unless they emit less than 550 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt - hour (gCO2 / kW), which could be met either by a combined heat and power plant or one that also burns biomass.

the Administrator may by rule lower such threshold to not less than 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions.

If the food doesn't have to travel far, there's less carbon dioxide from the trucks that ship it [Related Story].

Carbon dioxide, that is, the aerial form of the carbon of which we have up till now spoken: this gas which constitutes the raw material of life, the permanent store upon which all that grows draws, and the ultimate destiny of all flesh, is not one of the principal components of air but rather a ridiculous remnant, an «impurity», thirty times less abundant than argon, which nobody even notices.

Recent studies have separately warned that high levels of carbon dioxide, or CO ₂, make crops less nutritious for reasons that are not totally clear, and put shellfish and other key parts of the food chain at risk by making oceans more acidic.

With fewer leaves to absorb sunlight, the trees can't photosynthesise as much, and they absorb less carbon dioxide from the air.

The latest in the series puts the gap between emissions trends and what is actually required to keep the rise in global temperature at a level which does not spell catastrophe for the planet at between 8 - 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide - equivalent (CO2e) by 2020 — less a gap than a gaping chasm!

E.g., research assumes greenhouse gas emissions cause warming without explicitly stating humans are the cause»... carbon sequestration in soil is important for mitigating global climate change» (4a) No position Does not address or mention the cause of global warming (4b) Uncertain Expresses position that human's role on recent global warming is uncertain / undefined «While the extent of human - induced global warming is inconclusive...» (5) Implicit rejection Implies humans have had a minimal impact on global warming without saying so explicitly E.g., proposing a natural mechanism is the main cause of global warming»... anywhere from a major portion to all of the warming of the 20th century could plausibly result from natural causes according to these results» (6) Explicit rejection without quantification Explicitly minimizes or rejects that humans are causing global warming»... the global temperature record provides little support for the catastrophic view of the greenhouse effect» (7) Explicit rejection with quantification Explicitly states that humans are causing less than half of global warming «The human contribution to the CO2 content in the atmosphere and the increase in temperature is negligible in comparison with other sources of carbon dioxide emission»»

The bottom line from the new report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is that the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) knew, but didn't highlight, the fact that the best available scientific evidence suggests that the earth's climate is much less sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide input than the climate models they relied upon to forecast future global warming portray.

They say that, despite the wind farms that have been built, Victoria's coal - fired power stations have not generated any less greenhouse carbon dioxide.

Ocean acidification has only one possible solution — less carbon dioxide emitted in the atmosphere so that the ocean doesn't have such a burden of absorbing it.

Sunlight, not microbes, key to carbon dioxide in Arctic http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140821141548.htm So, I take it, even less methane.

The Kyoto Protocol entered into force on 16 February 2005 in accordance with Article 23, that is on the ninetieth day after the date on which not less than 55 Parties to the Convention, incorporating Parties included in Annex I of the Convention which accounted in total for at least 55 % of the total carbon dioxide emissions for 1990 of the Parties included in Annex I, had deposited their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.

I am not holding up China as a model of, of environmental activism, but what the reality here is, is that the United States with less than 5 percent of the world's population, contributes to 25 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions.

While many scientists and climate change activists hailed December's Paris agreement as a historic step forward for international efforts to limit global warming, the landmark accord rests on a highly dubious assumption: to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global average temperature to less than 2 °C (much less the more ambitious goal of 1.5 °C), we don't just need to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to essentially zero by the end of this century.