Sentences with phrase «times less carbon emissions»

And according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, nuclear produces four times less carbon emissions than solar does.

Not exact matches

Studies indicate carbon dioxide emissions from transportation in the province have declined 16 % in that time, and while it's impossible to draw a direct causal relationship between the tax and the emissions decline, it's fair to say it was a factor contributing to indisputable behavioural changes — you can't emit 16 % less CO2 by doing the same things you did before.

But if humans, through carbon dioxide emissions, are affecting climate less than we think, would that mean we may have more time to reduce the harmful effects?

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

Scientists measured how much carbon dioxide the artificially warmed plants respired — released into the air via their leaves — and learned that over time, the trees acclimated to warmer temperatures and increased their carbon emissions less than expected.

It also supports over the counter sales, allows either caterers and schools to justifiably claim that the containers they sell can be recovered for recycling after - use, and also carries numerous other benefits; such as improved janitor utilisation (so less time's spent on litter control / cleaning), reduction in skip use as materials are removed separately for recycling and / or are stored in a compacted form, and reduction of carbon emissions within the recovery chain.

A two in three probability of holding warming to 2 °C or less will require a budget that limits future carbon dioxide emissions to about 900 billion tons, roughly 20 times annual emissions in 2014.

As I wrote in The New York Times last week, the Swedish government is already encouraging its citizens to modify their diets (less red meat, more seasonal vegetables) to reduce personal carbon dioxide emissions.

So in our time ice is experiencing a similar forcing, but with more longwave flux, less shortwave — although we also have the dubious benefit of anthropogenic black carbon emissions.

At the same time, less carbon emissions are released into the atmosphere, improving the efficiency and reducing the environmental impact of the power plant.

Peatlands and mangroves are well known for their huge carbon - storing potential — mangrove soils alone store up to 4 times more carbon than trees — however, less is known about methane and nitrous oxide emissions, which may be important for their global warming potential, warns Hergoualc» h.

He could nod to opening up new land for drilling with less red tape, while at the same time proposing an elusive carbon tax that reduces aggregate U.S. emissions over time.

Moreover, even when emissions from the generation of electricity (upstream emissions) were considered, electric vehicles produced 21 times less carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per year than their gasoline - powered alternatives.

I also found it interesting to see the less than strident call for abatement of carbon dioxide emissions at the time those papers were published.

The change of emission rate in 2000 from 1.5 % yr - 1 to 3.1 % yr - 1 (figure 1), other things being equal, would have caused a sharp increase of the airborne fraction (the simple reason being that a rapid source increase provides less time for carbon to be moved downward out of the ocean's upper layers).

In an April 1, 2012 column in The New York Times, Prof. Richard H. Thaler of the U-Chicago Booth School of Business aptly summed up the near - unanimity among economists that carbon taxing is the optimal way to reduce CO2 emissions: «Consider a recent poll of a panel of economists conducted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where I teach... [Forty - one] economists in [a poll conducted by the] University of Chicago... were asked whether they agreed with this statement: «A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles.»

Too bad, as the New York Times point out, that even though natural gas does have a far less impact on global warming than does coal, if we're going to reduce carbon emissions by 2050 enough to prevent the worst of climate change, the increase in natural gas usage won't cut it.