Sentences with phrase «on carbon emissions draws»

Any cap on carbon emissions draws fierce opposition from coal - state lawmakers and those from states with manufacturing industries that could be taxed for emissions.

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Grimes has made it a point to draw a bold line between herself and the White House - most recently on the Obama administration's new Environmental Protection Agency rule that would drastically reduce carbon emission from power plants.

In 2008, they drew on data covering 1980 to 2006 to argue that there had been «declining intensities of impact, from energy use and carbon emission to food consumption and fertiliser use, globally and in countries ranging from the US and France to China, India, Brazil and Indonesia» (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 105, p 12774).

He wrote a fascinating piece for the journal Science on the results of a study testing hundreds of very smart M.I.T. students to see if they could draw an emissions curve that would stop the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from rising.

There are alternatives I don't think I convinced either of my two audiences that fossil fuels are going to disappear overnight, but once I drew their attention to recent declines in Chinese coal production and a stall in global carbon emissions they did appear to concede that basing future investment decisions simply on past patterns of consumption might not be the wisest of strategies.

In a story published on the WSU website and now getting wide distribution Deemer said she measured dissolved gases in the water column of Lacamas Lake in Clark County and found that methane emissions — a substance 25 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere — jumped 20-fold when the water level was drawn down.

The Democratic platform now contains language that brings shape to the enormity of the climate crisis, and thanks to Sander's Policy Director Warren Gunnels, climate leader Bill McKibben, filmmaker Josh Fox and many others begins to point towards policy that we must implement if we are to transition away from fossil fuels and begin to draw down carbon sharply on the path to 100 % clean, renewable energy and zero net greenhouse gas emissions.

I suppose the battle - lines here are drawn between on the one - hand those who believe in either significant natural feedbacks impacting the carbon cycle as - we - speak or who believe today's mitigation measures are useless, and on the other - hand those who would welcome some signs of a weakening of the accelerating CO2 - rise as this would encourage more mitigation actions (and less hand - wringing) and who consider CO2 emissions reporting is more than «fluff».

Example research papers on the impact of fossil fuel emissions on tropical cyclones, on sea level rise, and on the carbon cycle demonstrate that the conclusions drawn by researchers about their anthropogenic cause derive from circular reasoning.

Conservatives who support, or at least are willing to consider, taxing carbon emissions (yes, there are some) fall into two camps on revenue treatment: backing the carbon dividend plan proposed by the Climate Leadership Council (which in turn draws on the fee - and - dividend approach espoused by the Citizens Climate Lobby); or urging that the carbon revenues be applied to reduce the U.S. corporate income tax.