Sentences with phrase «warming activists carbon»

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Union activists have warned the government's plans to reduce carbon emissions by 60 per cent before 2050 will not be adequate to stem global warming.

And these are just a handful of the many actions that activists have already taken to physically and peacefully put their bodies on the line to keep carbon in the ground and slow our climate's warming.

The vast majority of those involved — scientists, economists, commentators, activists, environmentalists and sceptics — accept that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that will, other things being equal, warm the planet.

Why else would activists be denouncing the decision of statistics celebrity Nate Silver to add a University of Colorado professor to his new website's list of contributing writers — a professor who agrees that greenhouse emissions are warming the Earth, favors a carbon tax and, in his words, has «supported what President Obama has done to combat climate change, including stronger regulations on efficiency [and] power plants... ``?

Exxon Mobil Corp., a favorite target of global warming activists, said Wednesday that it's hopeful for a deal out of the climate - change talks in Paris and still thinks the best solution is a tax on carbon pollution.

While many scientists and climate change activists hailed December's Paris agreement as a historic step forward for international efforts to limit global warming, the landmark accord rests on a highly dubious assumption: to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global average temperature to less than 2 °C (much less the more ambitious goal of 1.5 °C), we don't just need to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to essentially zero by the end of this century.