Sentences with phrase «trapping emissions»

But you don't need to look hard to find the deleterious effects it's having on our local environment — all of which are traceable to our dependence on fossil fuels and their heat - trapping emissions.

In 2009, the EPA finalized its science - based endangerment finding for heat - trapping emissions, including carbon pollution.

Opposing the EPA's efforts to regulate heat - trapping emissions under the Clean Air Act, including the endangerment finding, remains a priority for the US Chamber.

From 1989 to 2002, the GCC led an aggressive lobbying and advertising campaign aimed at achieving these goals by sowing doubt about the integrity of the IPCC and the scientific evidence that heat - trapping emissions from burning fossil fuels drive global warming.

These rising temperatures — caused primarily by an increase of heat - trapping emissions in the atmosphere created when we burn coal, oil, and gas to generate electricity, drive our cars, and fuel our businesses — are what we refer to as global warming.

Numerous scientific studies... show that if heat - trapping emissions continue unabated, global warming is likely to cause more extreme heat in our cities, severe water shortages, loss of species, hazards to coasts from sea level rise, and extreme weather.

A crucial part of that effort is to significantly reduce the amount of heat - trapping emissions we are putting into the atmosphere.

There is a wide range in the estimated heat - trapping emissions and other environmental impacts from each biofuel over its life cycle (i.e., from farm to finished fuel to use in the vehicle), depending on the feedstock, production process, and model inputs and assumptions.

That is pretty much the role now being played by most of the news media in refereeing the current wrestling match over whether global warming is «real,» and whether it has any connection to the constant dumping of 90 million tons of heat - trapping emissions into the Earth's thin shell of atmosphere every 24 hours.

New Jersey lawmakers launched one of nation's most aggressive attacks on global warming yesterday by approving a measure to cut the state's heat - trapping emissions to 15 to 25 percent below current levels by 2020 and 80

Acting quickly to make deep cuts in our heat - trapping emissions can help protect permafrost against complete degradation.

Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the new Senate majority leader, has said he wants new legislation this spring to regulate heat - trapping emissions.

To help avoid the worst of these effects, the United States must play a lead role and begin to cut its heat - trapping emissions today — and aim for at least an 80 percent drop from 2005 levels by 2050.

That's why the LCFS is so important: it directly limits heat - trapping emissions from fuel, ensuring there's a market for low - carbon fuels, regardless of the price of gasoline.

To help avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate change, ranging from extreme heat, droughts, and storms to acidifying oceans and rising sea levels, the United States must play a lead role and begin to cut its heat - trapping emissions today — and aim for at least an 80 percent drop from 2005 levels by 2050.

Both ExxonMobil and Chevron fail to set targets for reducing heat - trapping emissions — a glaring omission in any fossil fuel company's consideration of its plans for a low - carbon world.

By employing best practices and investing in new technologies, states can more efficiently protect public health and substantially reduce heat - trapping emissions.

In fact, if we continue on our current path of high heat - trapping emissions, the region is projected to see forest fires during June and July at two to three times its current rate.2, 6 Some 1 billion metric tons of organic matter and older - growth trees could burn7, 15 — accelerating the release of stored carbon and creating a dangerous global warming amplification or feedback loop.5, 14

Given methane's potency and the urgency of cutting heat - trapping emissions to avoid the worst damage from global warming, the administration's strategy was less a bold step forward and more of «a toe in the water,» said David Doniger, director for the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate and clean air program.

The Energy and Policy Institute recently learned, thanks to Seth Heald at the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, that vice president and deputy general counsel for Dominion, David Shuford, has in his spare time penned some misleading letters to the editor skeptical of the science on the causes and risks of climate change, and questioning the need to limit heat - trapping emissions.

The frequency and intensity of forest fires in the region have been increasing along with rising temperatures.5, 7,13 An average of around 9.9 million acres (4 million hectares) of boreal forest burned annually in Russia from 1975 to 2005 — and that rate more than doubled in the 1990s.15 One of West Siberia's largest forest fires on record occurred in 2003, claiming some 47 million acres (20 million hectares) of land7, 15 and emitting heat - trapping emissions equal to the total cuts in emissions the European Union pledged under the Kyoto Protocol.2, 7,16 Higher temperatures and thawing permafrost are probably contributing to the rising frequency and severity of forest fires in West Siberia.5, 7,14

The 2007 IPCC report found that the cost of actions to stabilize concentrations of heat - trapping emissions at a level that gives us a good chance of avoiding dangerous warming would amount to less than a 0.12 percent reduction in average annual global gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate in 2050.

Mr. Bush began reorganizing climate research in 2001, focusing on the uncertainties about the relationship between rising global temperatures and rising concentrations of heat - trapping emissions.

The Public Message: Climate Uncertainty: In the early 1990s, the Global Climate Coalition was the leading voice for industries concerned that a prompt push to cut heat - trapping emissions could raise energy costs.

More than 2,000 economists and scientists recently called on «our nation's leaders to swiftly establish and implement policies to bring about deep reductions in heat - trapping emissions.»

These sketch out a very broad cap - and - trade program that would cover 85 — 90 percent of all heat - trapping emissions from participating states and provinces.

Over two dozen lawmakers who favored efforts to clamp down on heat - trapping emissions were swept away on Tuesday's anti-incumbent wave, ushering in a new class of Republicans who doubt global warming science and want to upend President Barack Obama's environmental and energy policies.

For the next decade — as the emerging science was becoming increasingly robust, and as international efforts to curb heat - trapping emissions gained steam and calls for action grew more urgent — the company persisted in emphasizing the lingering uncertainties of climate science and the costs of ambitious policies, the documents show.

They warn that scant time is left to reduce heat - trapping emissions to safer levels.

These companies have known for decades that their products — coal, oil, and natural gas — cause harm, yet even today they continue to fund front groups and trade associations who seek to sow confusion about climate science and block policies designed to reduce the heat - trapping emissions that cause global warming.

This slide in status has occurred amid a growing scientific consensus that rising levels of heat - trapping emissions from smokestacks and tailpipes are warming the climate and could become the biggest environmental problem of the next 100 years.

As the climate of the Pacific Northwest warms, more winter precipitation is falling as rain, compared with historical averages.2 With declining snowpack in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, peak stream flows are occurring earlier, and summer flows are declining.2 These changes are expected to continue as heat - trapping emissions grow, putting more stress on already endangered salmon that return to the Columbia and other rivers in the region to spawn.2

Tropical deforestation accounts for roughly 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, but slowing deforestation slows emissions of heat - trapping emissions.

One of the first populous countries to industrialize, the U.S. was the leading producer of CO2 for all of the 20th century, and thus is responsible for the biggest share (about 28 percent) of cumulative heat - trapping emissions already in the atmosphere.

They also highlight the need to reduce heat - trapping emissions to ensure that farmers can continue to provide the world with healthy, nutritious food.

According to a study published this year by Climate Central, a non-partisan organization of scientists and journalists who focus on climate change, nearly half of Galveston's homes face a yearly risk of flooding by the end of the century if heat - trapping emissions continue to be spewed at the current rate.

Putting a limit on heat - trapping emissions and encouraging the use of healthier, cleaner energy technologies, such as solar and wind power, would help us to avoid the worst potential consequences of global warming.

The «burner» in global warming is represented by the heat - trapping emissions released to the atmosphere from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas — and since that burner has not (yet!)

However, the costs of coping with health risks linked to severe climate change are often higher than the costs of curbing heat - trapping emissions in the first place.

Most experts in the Kilimanjaro debate accept three things: for more than a century, its ice has been in a retreat that is almost assuredly unstoppable and was not caused by humans; so far, there is scant data on conditions there; and the main scientific question now is how, and how much, climate shifts driven by heat - trapping emissions are accelerating that trend.

Thousands of people across Europe died from heat - related causes in the sweltering summer of 2003 — the hottest in at least 500 years.2 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at current rates, 26 a summer like the one in 2003 could be considered ordinary by the end of the century.

The expert, Dr. James E. Hansen, and his colleagues conclude in a new analysis that the warming seen in recent decades has been caused mainly by other heat - trapping emissions — methane, chlorofluorocarbons, black particles of diesel and coal soot and compounds that create the ozone in smog — which are easier to control than carbon dioxide, with many of them already on the decline.

Unless we make deep and swift cuts in our heat - trapping emissions, 26 Europe could experience a heat wave similar to the one in 2003 every other year by the end of this century.23 A summer like that of 2003 would be considered ordinary4 — or even cool.25 Summers in central Europe are expected to feel like those in southern European today.27

Obama's pledge is the latest in a series of executive - led efforts to bolster US climate policy ahead of this December's international talks in Paris — widely seen as a last - ditch opportunity to foster unified global action to curb heat - trapping emissions.

These activities are the third - biggest contributors of heat - trapping emissions.

Public financing for energy alternatives should be focused on fostering innovation and achieving the largest possible reduction in heat - trapping emissions per dollar invested — not on promoting the growth of an industry that has repeatedly shown itself to be a highly risky investment.

And it launches the state on an ambitious path toward cutting its overall heat - trapping emissions by 80 % by mid-century.

The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement that establishes binding targets for reducing the heat - trapping emissions of developed countries.

Working Group III assessed options for limiting heat - trapping emissions, evaluated methods for removing them from the atmosphere, and examined other means of slowing the warming trend, as well as related economic issues.

If we do nothing to reduce our carbon emissions, scientists project that global sea level could rise as much as nearly two feet (59 centimeters) over recent average levels by the end of this century.14, 15 If, on the other hand, we make significant efforts to reduce heat - trapping emissions, sea - level rise between now and the end of the century could be limited to at most 1.25 feet (38 centimeters).14, 15