Sentences with phrase «warming gases perfluorocompounds»

However, there are fears that, due to factors like worsening wildfires or carbon dioxide emissions from Arctic permafrost, this could change in the future, causing even more global warming gases to flow from the land to the atmosphere.

A clear message from sceptics is that the effect of CO2 and other global warming gases has been greatly exaggerated and it does not make economic sense to solve the problem by reducing emissions.

Alternatives like engineered porous liquids could offer better options for carbon capture, a technology which may be essential to bridge the gap between increasing emissions of global warming gases and commitments to adopt alternative energy solutions to reduce these climate changing emissions.

Each sticker will include an index that compares the emissions of global warming gases from the vehicle with the average projected emissions from all vehicles of the same model year, and identifies the vehicle model within its class with the lowest emissions of that model year.

Again: if we carry on pumping out warming gases, we will carry on getting warmer.

That's why I won't use the word «sceptic» to describe the people who deny the link between releasing warming gases and the planet getting warmer.

It was discovered more than a century ago that burning fossil fuels would release warming gases and therefore increase global temperatures, and since then, hundreds of thousands of scientists have independently reached the conclusion that it will have terrible consequences...

In the end, there are two climate threats: one created by increasing human vulnerability to calamitous weather, the other by human actions, particularly emissions of warming gases, that relentlessly shift the odds toward making today's weather extremes tomorrow's norm.

It is exceptionally unlikely that we would be seeing a record year, during a record warming decade, during a multi-decadal period of warmth that appears to be unrivaled over at least the past millennium if it were not for the rising of planet - warming gases produced by fossil fuel burning.»

It assumes that the world population and economy continue to grow but no policies are put in place to mitigate emissions of climate - warming gases, such as carbon dioxide.

(D) the United States must work to promote new renewable energy technologies that reduce contributions to global warming gases and improve domestic energy production.

GENEVA - Global warming gases have hit record levels in the world's atmosphere, with concentrations of carbon dioxide up 39 per cent since the start of the industrial era in 1750, the U.N. weather agency said Monday.

Even as some utility executives are joining environmentalists in supporting controls on carbon emissions, TXU is betting $ 10 billion on 11 new coal power plants that will produce huge amounts of global warming gases for decades to come.

By Brad Plumer, NYTimes, Feb 2, 2018 Exxon Mobil's shareholders — concerned that the company's main businesses, oil and natural gas, may be imperiled — had demanded last year that the company give a more detailed accounting of the consequences of global policies aimed at curbing emissions of earth - warming gases.

Visibility (particulates and nitrous oxides) and acid rain (sulfur dioxide) dominated in the formation of policy established via the 1970 Clean Air Act and subsequent Clean Air Act Amendments in 1977 and 1990, while global warming gases remained unregulated.

«It is exceptionally unlikely that we would be seeing a record year, during a record warm decade, during a multi-decadal period of warmth that appears to be unrivaled over at least the past millennium — if it were not for the rising levels of planet - warming gases produced by fossil fuel burning.»

The first article linked below reports on a recent study that says that «Global warming gases traped in the soil are bubbling out of the thawing permafrost in amounts far higher than previously thourght and may trigger what researchers warn is a climate time bomb

China has now clearly overtaken the United States as the world's leading emitter of climate - warming gases, a new study has found.

These new solutions must be implemented until such time as we see radical reductions in the emissions of warming gases.

Negotiators in Copenhagen are trying to set targets for controlling emissions of carbon dioxide and other global - warming gases, including by the leading contributors, China and the United States.

In order to meet the evolutionary challenge of an environment that no longer will accept the byproducts of human activity without destroying our future, we will have to care enough about ourselves and future generations to institute new systems and sets of rules that coordinate nationally and internationally our use of the environment, starting with the concentration of warming gases in the atmosphere.

Ample technology exists to cost - effectively reduce emissions of smog - forming pollutants and global warming gases.

We focus on the cars, SUVs, minivans, and pickups sold by the six largest companies in the US market, analyzing their emissions of smog - forming pollutants and global warming gases.

Companies that continue to lower emissions of smog and global warming gases will climb the green rankings.

Although the point is not universally accepted, the weight of scientific opinion suggests that global warming gases (GWG) produced by human activity form one important component of potential climate change.

Emissions from human activities, particularly the combustion of fossil fuels, are changing atmospheric composition, especially by raising the concentrations of climate - warming gases;

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Reducing food waste around the world would help curb emissions of planet - warming gases, lessening some of the impacts of climate change such as more extreme weather and rising seas, scientists said on Thursday.

However, Connie Hedegaard, the Danish minister for climate and energy, told the Associated Press the most workable solution would be global limits on the pollution blamed for global warming, rather than an outright tax on carbon dioxide and other major industrial warming gases.

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Some of the budget estimates also make an allowance for the effects of anthropogenic emissions of warming gases other than CO2, such as methane.

Previously, some scientists compared the sun's changing heat solely to the warming added by greenhouses gases and not the combined influence of warming gases and cooling pollution.

Businesses that share the view Mr. Bush expressed in March, when he rejected any binding limits on the warming gases, whether in a global accord or federal legislation, say they are confident that there will be no big shifts.

For energy companies willing to accept some limits on warming gases, one goal is to firm up a market for tradeable credits earned by companies that make sharp cuts in emissions or plant or protect forests, which absorb carbon dioxide.

Combustion of coal, oil, and natural gas, and to a lesser extent deforestation, land - cover change, and emissions of halocarbons and other greenhouse gases, are rapidly increasing the atmospheric concentrations of climate - warming gases.

Also risen have other warming gases like methane.

It is entirely due to excess global warming gases.

Couric: John McCain proposed legislation calling for mandatory caps on global warming gases or CO2 emissions.

The fear is that this could lead to a vicious spiral - fewer trees to soak up CO2 means more global warming gases in the air, which means higher temperatures and therefore fewer trees.

Their leaders absolutely do, and that's why, even though they will be the dominant source of warming gases in coming decades, the climate treaty talks have remained stuck in «you first» mode.

According to the environmental group WWF, Sumatra has lost 48 percent of forest cover in the past 23 years releasing vast amounts of planet - warming gases — making the Sumatran forest problem a global problem.

This big shift from coal to gas has had a huge impact on national emissions of warming gases.

WASHINGTON — After a brief but lively internal debate, the Obama administration has decided not to seek an immediate phase - out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFC's), a potent group of climate - warming gases, under a treaty aimed at protecting the ozone layer.

Many analysts say such a tax would be a more straightforward way of limiting planet - warming gases from industry.

The EU has done a lot, unilaterally, to cut its emissions of warming gases.

According to a paper his group published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2007, humans are now pumping out climate - warming gases nearly three times faster than the IPCC authors anticipated in their worst - case scenario.

The global warming gases derived from human activity are produced by fossil fuels used in cars, in industry and in power plants, the agricultural production and the burning forests.

Manure stored in lagoons releases methane and nitrous oxide, global warming gases more powerful than carbon dioxide.

But with added global warming gases, each heating event could be hotter than the last.

The sum of these efforts in developing countries will reduce growth in warming emissions by billions of metric tons of warming gases per year over the coming decade.

The party opposes «any and all cap and trade legislation» that would create a system of tradable pollution permits designed to reduce industrial emissions of warming gases such as carbon dioxide.