Sentences with phrase «production growth scenario»

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The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

David Rutledge, an engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology who studies world coal production, said the IPCC's «business as usual» scenario is unrealistic because it essentially assumes that growth of fossil fuels like coal will continue apace, which is unlikely.

However — the statement that global hydrocarbon usage (and hence CO2 production) has continued to surge greater than the 20th Century average, and Hansens scenario B was for less than 20th Century average in growth of CO2 was correct.

As far as CO2 production goes, we have vastly exceeded the expectation of scenario B (which does not include the crazy CFC growth) in terms of CO2 production, and yet the ppm count in the atmosphere is slightly lower than what Hansen would have been expecting from capped growth with flat consumption after 2000 (if I remember scenario 2 correctly).

The possible production growth until about 2020 according to this analysis is in line with the two demand scenarios of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in the 2006 edition of the World Energy Outlook.