Sentences with phrase «unchecked carbon»

We seriously have to question the motivation of those people referred to as climate change sceptics, who are denying the evidence of human - caused climate change and preventing us from moving forward by spreading disinformation and supporting unchecked carbon pollution.

Today, we have the chance to make our collective voice heard and rein in unchecked carbon pollution.

No longer will new electric plants be allowed to endanger our health with unchecked carbon pollution and the climate change it causes.

Short - lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) and unchecked carbon dioxide emissions are the main contributors to climate change and pose a serious threat to human health.

Recent scientific reports continue to sound even louder alarms about the threat to public health and our environment from unchecked carbon, methane, and other climate pollution.

The nation, straining under accusations of rampant industrial pollution and unchecked carbon emissions, last month unveiled a new conservation strategy for safeguarding its plant

At 1 p.m., environmental activists call for action on unchecked carbon pollution from power plants to protect public health, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

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«But if the current trajectory of carbon pollution levels continues unchecked, the world is on track for at least three degrees of warming.

The findings come after UEA research revealed that up to half of all plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

Up to half of plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas, such as the Amazon and the Galapagos, could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

But carbon emissions from the sector could triple by 2050 if left unchecked, the International Coalition for Sustainable Aviation, which represents a half dozen non-profit groups, warned in a statement.

Danger that, if allowed to manifest unchecked, will prove far more costly than retooling our energy systems and biogenically sequestering the excess carbon that's already in the air.

Many of the world's leading scientists believe that increased emissions of carbon dioxide since the industrial revolution have led to increased global temperatures and if left unchecked, they threaten to wreak havoc on Earth.

The unchecked emission of climate pollutants such as carbon dioxide and methane threatens to make our planet unfit for life.

«Carbon taxes or carbon trading schemes — in particular for aviation — may be required to curtail unchecked future growth in tourism - related emissions.»

Via our society's use of fossil fuels we are, if our combustion of these fuels remains unchecked and in addition we further destroy the carbon fixing capacity of natural systems, destroying almost all wealth, the likelihood of their being future civilizations, and even the possibility for existence for future generations.

These studies compare a particular climate policy scenario with a reference scenario corresponding to the model projection of business as usual (BAU)-- that is, a world in which the economy continues on its current course with carbon emissions unchecked.

Compared to the real world in which unchecked increasing GHG emissions will certainly lead to numerous adverse economic impacts, putting a price on carbon emissions to reduce those impacts will almost certainly prove to be a net economic benefit.

But if the current trajectory of carbon pollution continues unchecked... [bold added]

Ocean acidification will severely impair coral reef growth before the end of the century if carbon dioxide emissions continue unchecked, according to new research on Australia's Great Barrier Reef led by Carnegie's Ken Caldeira and the California Academy of Sciences» Rebecca Albright.

But the upside is three-fold: (i) your tax reduction or dividend check will offset much, perhaps more than 100 %, of those price increases; (ii) you'll be able to minimize your tax bite by cutting down on fuel usage (e.g., shortening those country drives, buying locally - grown produce, purchasing «green power» from wind and solar cells); and (iii) Americans» combined behavior changes in response to the carbon tax will go a long way toward protecting the climate and averting the cataclysmic consequences of unchecked global warming.

Serious damages are already underway, there's enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to ensure more damages to come, and if carbon emissions continue unchecked, species - threatening damages become a non-trivial risk.

The UK's «dash for gas» will be halted by the government because if unchecked it would break legally binding targets for carbon dioxide emissions, Chris Huhne, energy and climate change secretary, said on Monday evening.

Washington, DC — Ocean acidification will severely impair coral reef growth before the end of the century if carbon dioxide emissions continue unchecked, according to new research on Australia's Great...

The paper urged policymakers to exercise caution when considering carbon regulations and warned that if «climate change regulation proceeds unchecked, it will likely produce policy that is out of touch with both the real world and objective science.»