Before Cuomo took office, New York joined eight other northeastern states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont) to set a cap
on carbon dioxide emissions within the region.
Not exact matches
Bowen says the two relatively rapid
carbon releases (about 1,500 years each) are more consistent with warming oceans or an undersea landslide triggering the melting of frozen methane
on the seafloor and large
emissions to the atmosphere, where it became
carbon dioxide within decades.
A failure to reduce
carbon dioxide emissions significantly
within the next decade will have large adverse effects
on the climate that will be essentially irreversible
on human time scales.
Libby's article speaks volumes about the difficulty of moving a world that is more than 80 percent dependent
on fossil fuels toward one largely free of
carbon dioxide emissions from such fuels
within two or three generations, even as the human population heads toward 9 billion (more or less).
Sections 243.1 - 243.4 of Article 243 of the Code, specifically: rate of the tax due
on emissions of certain pollutants into the atmospheric air, caused by stationary sources of pollution; rates of the tax due
on stationary sources»
emissions into the atmospheric air of pollutants (compounds), which are not listed in Section 243.1 of this Article and are falling
within a certain substance hazard category (except for
carbon dioxide), shall be applicable subject to determined approximately safe impact levels of such substances» (compounds») impact
on the atmospheric air of urban settlements; and rates of tax due
on emissions of
carbon dioxide
«These
emissions,» says National Geographic, «must remain
within a «
carbon budget» of about 1,100 gigatonnes of
carbon dioxide by 2050 to meet the internationally accepted goal of limiting the rise in temperatures to 2 °C (3.6 °F) above preindustrial levels, according to the United Nations - led Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change.
A failure to reduce
carbon dioxide emissions significantly
within the next decade will have large adverse effects
on the climate that will be essentially irreversible
on human time scales.