Sentences with phrase «put on carbon dioxide»

I am involved in a community radio program for the unemployed in Wollomngong and last November we started to discuss the fallacy of the carbon dioxide catastrophic glogal warming hypothesis and the catstrophic consequences for employment in Wollongong if ever a price was put on carbon dioxide emissions.

If the human population continues to grow, more pressure will be put on carbon dioxide emissions — leaving future generations vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Not exact matches

A senior oil executive is urging federal and provincial governments to put a significant price on carbon dioxide to encourage the industry to reduce emissions even as it increases production and accesses new and growing markets.

Balmy ocean waters are putting the squeeze on phytoplankton, tiny plants that collectively fix as much carbon dioxide as all terrestrial greenery combined.

They put glass jars on top of the area and tested for carbon dioxide enriched with carbon - 13 — an indicator that the soil contained bugs that metabolize the chemical.

«Most people probably expect that temperature and carbon dioxide will rise together and then temperature will come down when the carbon dioxide input is shut off, but carbon dioxide has such a long life in the atmosphere that the effects really depend on how much you put in.

The goal is to develop a national carbon market over the next decade that could help put the brakes on the world's largest carbon dioxide emitter.

Experts on greenhouse - gas emissions tell me that every time my car burns a gallon of gasoline, I am putting more than 25 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as well as a smaller amount of methane, nitrous oxide, and various other toxic gases.

The idea is to impose a tax on fuels based on the amount of carbon dioxide they put into the air when burned.

More than 40 mainly developed countries, including New Zealand and members of the European Union, have, or are in the process of developing, markets to help cut their output of climate - warming emissions by putting a price on carbon dioxide.

Recent research indicates that unless forests are guaranteed to regrow to carbon parity, production of wood pellets for fuel is likely to put more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and preserve fewer species on the landscape during the next several decades.»

Any such federal policy would put a price on carbon dioxide pollution, which is currently free to vent into the atmosphere, Yohe note.

He points to mitigation efforts discussed at Copenhagen, such as REDD (reduced emissions from forest deforestation and forest degradation), which would encourage forest preservation, thereby both helping to put the brakes on carbon dioxide levels and providing more room for many species to move — a plan he calls a «win - win situation.»

Okay, PSEC is PxSxExC, and again, that equals carbon dioxide, 36 billion tons of which we put into the atmosphere last year, we being everybody on the planet.

With the human activity associated with industrialization, however, came the burning of fossil fuels for manufacturing and transportation, putting more carbon dioxide into the air and creating an increased pressure of this gas on some regions of the earth's surface — including coastal areas.

By vacuuming carbon dioxide out of the air — something the world may need to do in earnest one day, in order to avoid the worst - case scenarios associated with global warming — the plant has effectively put a cost ceiling on what it would take to de-carbonize any industry in the world.

«JCAP's work to produce fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide holds the promise of a potentially revolutionary technology that would put America on the path to a low - carbon economy,» said Lynn Orr, undersecretary for science and energy.

The ideal scenario for Europe would be for the United States quickly to establish a system to cap and trade carbon dioxide, and then pledge to put pressure on other rich countries to do the same thing.

«Fighting climate change successfully will certainly require sensible government policies to level the economic playing field between clean and dirty energy, such as putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions.

The official, Jason K. Burnett, once a Bush appointee and now an Obama supporter, told the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming that the argument for putting off any carbon dioxide limits was made by «individuals working for particular oil companies, Exxon Mobil,» as well as oil industry trade associations.

On the other hand, if such a person answers «no» (in other words, if such a person does not agree with the need for some system that generates a «price» for putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere), then the discussion, logically, should shift, as follows:

Particularly given how Supreme Court machinations now potentially imperil the president's Clean Power Plan cutting power plant carbon dioxide emissions, it's more important than ever for the administration to «push on what the President put his his Climate Action Plan in 2013.»

Eric Pooley, the deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, spent long stretches of the last three years immersed with a variety of combatants in the intensifying battle over legislation aimed at putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions.

Marc Roberts has once again put his finger on a disturbing facet of the climate challenge — that the longevity of carbon dioxide makes it extremely difficult to stabilize its concentration in the atmosphere.

There's some sobering news on two fronts that many climate campaigners, and politicians, have put at the forefront of their climate agendas: passing legislation capping carbon dioxide emissions and demonstrating technology for capturing and burying the main human - generated greenhouse gas.

Global warming is everyone's problem — but with China on course to overtake the United States by 2009 as the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, the report adds to the crucial call for the Middle Kingdom to put all hands on deck.

The Plan puts the first - ever limits on the nation's biggest source of carbon pollution — some 1,500 coal - and gas - fired power plants that together emit nearly two billion tons per year of carbon dioxide.

Research commissioned by RAN in 2010 estimated that APP's emissions from paper production on peatlands were 16 — 21 tons of carbon dioxide per ton of paper, or 500 times the figure put forth by the company at the time.

On our current course, the world will put enough carbon - dioxide in the atmosphere by mid-century to breach the 2 °C target.

Human activity that puts carbon dioxide into the atmosphere never has and never will have any influence on global climate.

Reducing the nation's dependence on oil and carbon dioxide emissions in the next 25 years is not unlike the 1960s challenge to put a man on the moon.

But a memorandum issued by Mr. Johnson late Thursday puts the agency on record saying that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant to be regulated when approving power plants.

The fact that the global temperature has remained unchanged for a decade requires that the quantity of reflecting aerosols dumped put in our atmosphere must be increasing year on year at precisely the exact rate needed to offset the accumulating carbon dioxide that wants to drive the temperature higher.

Fraction of attributable risk puts a number value on the influence that a particular factor (e.g., smoking or carbon dioxide) had on a particular event (e.g., lung cancer or a heatwave, respectively).

What the article points out is that the elementary chemical concepts of chemical equilibrium and charge balance put restraints on the ability of the ocean to release carbon dioxide to the air.

This trend was reinforced by the reciprocal climate deal that China struck with the Obama administration in November, under which China agreed to peak its carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and put a cap on coal burning by 2020.

Go on Fan, put this carbon dioxide line back together with the temperature data which should accompany it...

Geologist David Archibald reveals CO2 is «tuckered out as a greenhouse gas» — May 12, 2008 — Excerpt: The more carbon dioxide you put into the atmosphere, the more you are helping all plants on the planet to grow, and of course that makes you a better person.

We also looked at carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, finding that 2040 CO2 emissions would be reduced by 35 % relative to the 2040 business - as - usual scenario, and also put carbon emissions on a 50 % reduction path by 2050.

Peatlands store 100 years of CO2 emissions May 8, 2007 The UN Convention on Climate Change is putting global climate at risk by ignoring carbon dioxide emissions from the destruction of carbon - rich peatlands in Indonesia, charged Wetlands International, a Dutch environmental group that has highlighted the climate impact of land - use change in southeast Asia.

«Washington's Initiative - 732 would make a bad thing — pollution — more expensive by putting a tax on each ton of carbon dioxide created by cars, power plants and the like.

It is not widely understood that carbon dioxide persists in the atmosphere for centuries, so our future will depend on the total amount we humans put there over the next several decades.

There is a room where carbon dioxide has pooled on the ground, and nothing changes to the conditions which allowed the carbon dioxide to pool, no work is done, no windows opened, no fan put on.

While the EPA has, under the Clean Air Act put federal limits on toxic emissions of arsenic, mercury, and lead pollution that power plants emit — as well as on pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — there are currently no such limits on the carbon emissions from new or existing power plants.

Update 2016: NASA's Lead «Global Warming» scientist goes political: Calls for a carbon tax — NASA's «global warming» scientist in charge of keeping temperature records admits his bias: «We have to have a price on carbon because right now it's still free to put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

So if you put a price on carbon that is commensurate with the damage that carbon - dioxide emissions cause, then people will be smarter.»

The report argues that only firm action, including putting a price on carbon - dioxide emissions, will avoid more catastrophic events.

There is no one answer for the residence time of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — there are ranges put forward which depend on conditions of soils, oceans, forests and so on — statistically expressed.

We therefore accept the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution's (RCEP's) recommendation that the UK should put itself on a path towards a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of some 60 % from current levels by about 2050.

Even if governments successfully put a high price on carbon, doing so would not dramatically reduce carbon dioxide emissions.