Sentences with phrase «warming pollution back»

Canada's federal government, in a pledge that skeptical climate campaigners called a triumph of hope over experience, promised on Friday to reverse years of emissions growth and get its global warming pollution back on a downward slope.

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Indeed, conventional wisdom held that higher levels of aerosol pollution in the atmosphere should cool the earth's climate because aerosols can increase cloudiness; they not only reduce precipitation, which raises the water content in clouds, but they also increase the size of the individual water droplets, which in turn causes more warming sunlight to be reflected back into space.

by Will Denayer, President Obama took action back in January to reduce global warming pollution from passenger vehicles by 1.

President Obama spent too much political energy backing the traditional environmental stance that human - driven global warming was a conventional pollution problem that could be cleaned up like sewage or smog through regulation.

If global warming does slow down or partially reverse with a sunspot crash, industrial polluters and reluctant nations could use it as a justification for turning their backs on pollution controls altogether, makingmatters worse in the long run.

Stepping back from there, Hansen looks at 1940 and above: «The approximate stand - still of global temperature during 1940 - 1975 is generally attributed to an approximate balance of aerosol cooling and greenhouse gas warming during a period of rapid growth of fossil fuel use with little control on particulate air pollution, but quantitative interpretation has been impossible» That's the excuse and it is laughable.

No, the point of this bill is to cap global warming pollution, put Americans back to work building out our clean energy future, and free us from our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.

While he branches off into specific detail about particular species or systems, Safina continually brings the issues of pollution, global warming, and environmental abuse back to our backyard.

With hopes for an economy - wide approach to global warming dashed, Congress is now weighing a scaled - back proposal that would ratchet down carbon pollution from the nation's electric utilities.

But step back from the microscope: Greenhouse gas pollution is contributing to warming and melting.

Unlike private cars, which are often used to commute back and forth in the morning and evening, these are often driven around all day, making fuel a major expenditure and their contribution to air pollution and global warming disproportionate to their numbers.