Sentences with phrase «real impact of greenhouse gases»

Not exact matches

Scientists have generally said there is about a 40 year time lag between a large injection of greenhouse gases and the start of real climate impacts.

(2007) • Contribution of Renewables to Energy Security (2007) • Modelling Investment Risks and Uncertainties with Real Options Approach (2007) • Financing Energy Efficient Homes Existing Policy Responses to Financial Barriers (2007) • CO2 Allowance and Electricity Price Interaction - Impact on Industry's Electricity Purchasing Strategies in Europe (2007) • CO2 Capture Ready Plants (2007) • Fuel - Efficient Road Vehicle Non-Engine Components (2007) • Impact of Climate Change Policy Uncertainty on Power Generation Investments (2006) • Raising the Profile of Energy Efficiency in China — Case Study of Standby Power Efficiency (2006) • Barriers to the Diffusion of Solar Thermal Technologies (2006) • Barriers to Technology Diffusion: The Case of Compact Fluorescent Lamps (2006) • Certainty versus Ambition — Economic Efficiency in Mitigating Climate Change (2006) • Sectoral Crediting Mechanisms for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Institutional and Operational Issues (2006) • Sectoral Approaches to GHG Mitigation: Scenarios for Integration (2006) • Energy Efficiency in the Refurbishment of High - Rise Residential Buildings (2006) • Can Energy - Efficient Electrical Appliances Be Considered «Environmental Goods»?

If the null is that human effects are real and significant, and if that hypothesis can not be falsified, the implication is that we should make a serious effort to blunt the magnitude and impact of our greenhouse gas emissions.

Post Reporter Juliet Eilperin claims: «As the real - world impacts of climate change begin to materialize... regulation of greenhouse gases appears more likely» — September 23, 2009)

While I acknowledge that the levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere are increasing, that climate change is real, that human activity plays a role in these changes and that these changes are impacting our state, I simply disagree that RGGI is an effective mechanism for addressing global warming.

«Based on the science going into them, the [next] IPCC reports will have a real impact in offering diplomats a reckoning — and they don't handle reckonings well — with the observation that [greenhouse gas] emissions are all following the worst of the worst - case scenarios for the future.»

«The BLM's environmental analysis for the March lease sale completely fails to quantify of the very real, direct greenhouse gas emissions that will result from allowing these areas to be drilled and fracked and both analyses fail to quantify cumulative impacts from greenhouse gases.

For one thing, they're linear models, in which the impacts of various factors (man - made greenhouse gases, ENSO, natural climate forcings) are additive, but while that is often a good approximation, the real world is nonlinear.

Climate change — inducing greenhouse gas emissions have real impacts, and the cost of inaction is high.