Sentences with phrase «say deep emission»

Even its supporters conceded that the technology, if it worked, would have no impact on global emissions until at least the 2030s, well beyond the time scientists say deep emission cuts must begin.

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«Stabilizing or reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, therefore, requires very deep reductions in future emissions to compensate for past emissions that are still circulating in the Earth system,» the draft report says.

The electric power industry can achieve deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by building new nuclear plants, sequestering coal - plant emissions, boosting wind energy and improving efficiency, the industry's top research group said yesterday.

«Instead of focusing on the exact timing of China's emission peak, the more important question is whether China is building a foundation for deep decarbonization over the long term,» Song said.

WISE 0855 is too faint for conventional spectroscopy at optical or near - infrared wavelengths, but thermal emission from the deep atmosphere at wavelengths in a narrow window around 5 microns offered an opportunity where spectroscopy would be «challenging but not impossible,» he said.

To prevent coral reefs around the world from dying off, deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are required, says a new study from Carnegie's Katharine Ricke and Ken Caldeira.

The climate treaty being hammered out this month at The Hague may be doomed to failure, as numerous observers say the United States simply won't ratify any treaty that requires such wrenching reductions in carbon emissions, and if the United States bails out, the protocol is in very deep trouble.

Just a day before the Paris accord takes effect, the U.N. says nations must make deeper emissions cuts

Duncan Marsh, director of international climate policy at the Nature Conservancy, praised Indonesia's climate efforts and noted that the government said it can achieve the deeper end of its 29 - to -41-percent emissions curb by 2030 if it receives international finance.

«If we are serious about climate change, the 10 per cent of the global population responsible for 50 per cent of total emissions need to make deep and immediate cuts in their use of energy — and hence their carbon emissions,» says Anderson.

Professor Corinne Le Quéré, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, says the paper is «timely» and makes it «very clear» that even steep and deep emissions reductions will not be sufficient unless accompanied by a net - zero emissions strategy.

Yet recent emissions growth sets us on a pathway toward significant climate change, unless deep emission cuts are secured urgently», said Professor Matthew England, an author of the report.

Physics and chemistry demand swift and deep cuts in carbon emissions; political realism says to move slowly.

«First,» he said, «the developed countries should commit to deeper reductions of their emissions of greenhouse gases.

Terrell Johnson, reporting on a recent NASA publication concluding that deep ocean temperatures have not increased since 2005 (http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/deep-ocean-hasnt-warmed-nasa-20141007): «While the report's authors say the findings do not question the overall science of climate change, it is the latest in a series of findings that show global warming to have slowed considerably during the 21st century, despite continued rapid growth in human - produced greenhouse gas emissions during the same time.»

Leif Knutsen 35 «To stop climate change, flat CO2 emissions aren't enough, say scientists» IMHO the movement of heat into the deep ocean with heat pipes as explained in the above references is also required and can produce as much zero emissions energy as we currently derive from fossil fuels.

It's notable that Lewis said this in a chat recorded weeks ago, well before publication of the new Science paper — «The Technology Path to Deep Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts by 2050: The Pivotal Role of Electricity.»

Mr. Barnes says the only approach that guarantees deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions is to sell a steadily declining number of permits to emit the gas — forcing polluters to pay the full cost of using the shared atmosphere — and returning the revenue to citizens in a streamlined way, as in the Social Security system.

[UPDATE, 11:30 pm: On Sunday, Obama administration officials in Paris firmly rejected calls for deeper emissions cuts, saying they would be politically impossible.]

Poor countries say industrial powers, which have spent a century or more benefiting from fossil fuels while adding billions of tons of heat - trapping greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, owe them both financial assistance in dealing with rising seas or shifting rains and a stable climate, which they say can be achieved only if rich countries commit to deep prompt cuts in their emissions.

Campaigners for legislation requiring deep cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases say this is just a first draft of an eventual strong bill that will be forced as public fervor over climate builds.

«Canada's leaders have missed an opportunity to lay out a strong plan that would ramp up renewable energy and drive deeper cuts in their emissions,» said David Waskow, international climate director of the World Resources Institute.

Nithi Nesadurai, CAN Southeast Asia (CANSEA) Regional Coordinator, said: «COP23 set the momentum to ramp up ambition through the Tanaloa dialogue but the best results can be only achieved if deep and meaningful emission reductions take place before 2020, especially by the major industrialised countries.

Asked for comment, a spokesman for the Edison Electric Institute, one of the trade associations scrutinized in the report, said only that the industry has made deep reductions in its emissions of carbon dioxide since 2005.

DeBrum said countries such as his, on the frontline of climate change, needed to see concrete signs that leaders were prepared to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and put up the cash needed to help poor countries cope with climate change.

The conclusion that deep cuts in net emissions of carbon dioxide are required to avoid a global calamity is «a scientific conclusion,» he said.

Climate Change Authority chair Bernie Fraser says other wealthy nations have already pledged far deeper emissions cuts than Australia.

«Calling for swift and deep reductions in emissions, although essential, is not sufficient,» said the scientists.

Denmark's Hedegaard said the road map's most valuable feature is that «the doors are not shut» to a future pact prescribing deep emissions cuts.

If we stopped generating CO2 emissions today, the rate at which the oceans would return their excess CO2 into the atmosphere is governed by the overturning rate of the deep ocean, which as I said is roughly 500-1000 years.

The Kyoto Protocol adopted in 1997 was based on the principle of «common but differentiated responsibility,» which is to say that developed countries, with their disproportionate historic responsibility for past emissions, were expected to cut sooner and deeper.

Many states and companies have said they don't think they are able to comply with the EPA emissions regulations as they are proposed — much less deeper and faster carbon cuts.

In support to: Monckton of Brenchley says: July 22, 2013 at 1:47 am Some commenters have suggested that the additional heat supposed to be generated by manmade greenhouse - gas emissions is going into the deep oceans.

Solar thermal technology is capable of producing Australia's entire electricity demand and is the only renewable energy capable of making deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, a confidential coal research report obtained by The Canberra Times says.

He also said, «The agreement and the decisions surrounding it needs to be a long term development plan providing the policies, pathways and finance for triggering a peaking of global emissions in 10 years» time followed by a deep, decarbonisation of the global economy by the second half of the century — a development plan that crucially also supports the growth as well as the climate ambitions of developing countries.»

Specifically, McConnell said that he plans to go after the agency's plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plants, saying he feels a «deep responsibility» to stop it from being implemented — a plan also known as the absolute worst - case scenario for U.S. climate action.

What we did say was that carbon regulations and pricing, while sufficient to achieve modest reductions in global carbon emissions, would not be sufficient to achieve the deep reductions that climate scientists and environmental organizations, including your own, have called for.