Sentences with phrase «nothing about carbon dioxide»
If we eliminated emissions of methane and black carbon, but did nothing about carbon dioxide we would have delayed but not significantly reduced long - term threats posed by climate change.
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«I believe it would be irresponsible to ignore emerging information about the contribution of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to climate change and the potential harm to our environment and health if we do nothing.»
7It is particularly ironic that Lomborg would offer such a ridiculously precise estimate of the cost of the impacts of climate change from carbon dioxide emissions, inasmuch as the entire thrust of his books chapter on «global warming» is that practically nothing about the effects of greenhouse gases is known with certainty.
In contrast, if we eliminated carbon dioxide emissions but did nothing about methane and black carbon emissions, threats posed by long - term climate change would be markedly reduced.
If it was warmer then that it is now, but that warmth had nothing to do with any carbon dioxide, how does that tell us anything about today's sensitivity?
«We've emitted 500 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide and we only recently have any certainty this is affecting our climate, so limited field tests would tell you next to nothing about the climate effects of solar geoengineering.»
Nothing, right... except when you consider that the radiative forcing due to doubling of the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is only about 3.7 W / m ², and that's expected to change the average surface temperature by about 3 °C, eventually ³.
Artificially increasing the Earth's reflectivity, for example, does nothing about the ongoing acidification of the oceans resulting from carbon dioxide being added to the atmosphere.
He said nothing specific about ways of fighting emissions of carbon dioxide from polluting internal combustion engines.