Sentences with phrase «warming pollution emissions»

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Formula production and use generate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which accelerate global warming and produce pollution and toxic emissions upon disposal.

But the situation is exacerbated in blue states, where power - sector emissions have plummeted and planet - warming tailpipe pollution remains stubbornly high.

The scientists expect further warming in the Arctic as levels of greenhouse gases will continue to increase and aerosol particle emissions will likely decrease to combat air pollution in different parts of the world.

This newest threat follows on the heels of overfishing, sediment deposition, nitrate pollution in some areas, coral bleaching caused by global warming, and increasing ocean acidity caused by carbon emissions.

«With land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative.

But they are very sensitive to changes in ocean chemistry resulting from greenhouse gas emissions, as well as to coastal pollution, warming waters, overdevelopment, and overfishing.

That would help to rein in the greenhouse gas emissions from buildings — both from building them and powering them once they are built — that makes up 48 percent of U.S. global warming pollution.

To hold global warming in check requires reducing current emission levels by as much as 70 percent by 2050, compared with 2010 levels, and nearly eliminating such pollution by 2100.

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.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

As I understand it (from the IPCC report and from Ramanathan en Feng, Sept 23 2008 in PNAS) stopping all emissions suddenly would cause about 1.6 degree Celsius of extra warming, because short - lived pollution would quickly be removed from the atmosphere.

As it turned out, the world's temperature has risen about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F) and mainstream scientists continue to predict, with increasing urgency, that if emissions are not curtailed, carbon pollution would lock in warming of as much as 3 to 6 °C (or 5 to 11 °F) over the next several decades.

He cited Australia's Parliament, under a conservative coalition elected last year, which last week repealed a two - year - old tax on carbon dioxide emissions — the country's only legislated policy for reducing global warming pollution.

CLIMATE LAW INSTITUTE Protect species and habitats from global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.

Indeed, the rehabilitation of our water bodies can not happen with a denial of science that portrays the toll of global warming on our oceans due to excessive carbon dioxide emissions and human folly in overexploitation, unregulated and destructive fishing, marine pollution and habitat destruction.

«A rapid cutback in greenhouse gas emissions could speed up global warming... because current global warming is offset by global dimming — the 2 - 3ºC of cooling cause by industrial pollution, known to scientists as aerosol particles, in the atmosphere.»

Among those who are seeking a new direction on energy and emissions, the discussion appears to remain locked where it's been for years — over the balance between treating global warming like a 20th - century pollution problem and a 21st - century technology challenge.

Each year, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) gives environmental scores to automakers based on average per - mile smog pollution and global warming emissions of the entire fleet of vehicles sold.

Using carbon dioxide emissions data from 2006 and 1750 - for an estimate of preindustrial levels - Jacobson found that each extra degree of warming accounted for roughly 1,000 out of every 50,000 - 100,000 air pollution - related deaths.

Particle Pollution's Cooling Effect... Plus Death Interestingly, this particle pollution has the opposite effect on the climate as does the ship's carbon emissions: The particles have a cooling effect that is at least five times greater than the warming effect of the CO2 emissions.

A new study by Stanford University atmospheric scientist Mark Jacobson has revealed that worsening air pollution and higher carbon dioxide emissions go hand - in - hand - the results suggest intensifying global warming will increase the number of smog - related deaths.

This shift away from CO2 - centric emissions debates is also evident in a group blog post by analysts at the Center for American Progress, who propose a «multiple multilateralism» approach on climate that, among other things, seeks quick steps on sources of warming other than carbon dioxide — particularly sooty Arctic pollution and gases already considered under the existing ozone - protection treaty.

This is forward going action for getting control of global warming by stopping unneeded GHG emissions increasing the overload of carbon dioxide on the globe while also getting control of water pollution.

I don't know Seth, but I totally agree there's huge potential in electric vehicle retrofits, because the volume of new electric and plug - in hybrid cars is, at present, too small to meet the demand or to make a big dent in local air pollution and global warming emissions.

CUTTING FUEL COSTS ON THE ROAD: Here's ACP's take: CO2 emissions from cars and trucks account for about one - third of all energy - related global warming pollution in the United States.

King said green energy already had advantages over fossil fuel power in cutting deadly air pollution and reducing the carbon emissions that drive global warming.

Until now, power plants have been allowed to dump unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into the atmosphere — no rules were in effect that limited their emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global warming.

By March 31, governments from 192 nations are supposed to submit their plans for reducing their emissions of climate - warming pollution to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Investments that encourage the construction of new renewable resources will cut the demand for fossil fuel - based electricity, reducing air pollution and global warming emissions.

Steps the EPA Must Take to Reduce Global Warming Emissions The president is ensuring that the EPA fulfills its legal obligation to protect our health and environment from the consequences of a warming world by reducing carbon pollution under the Clean AWarming Emissions The president is ensuring that the EPA fulfills its legal obligation to protect our health and environment from the consequences of a warming world by reducing carbon pollution under the Clean Awarming world by reducing carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act.

... Cutting local air pollution from, say coal, can also reduce carbon emissions that cause warming.»

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.

According to the IPCC, the costs of reducing emissions to limit warming to below 2C are modest, even before taking into account co-benefits such as energy - security benefits and health improvement due to reduced air pollution.

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Because of these impacts and its contributions to global warming pollution, it is critical that this region take swift action to curb global warming emissions.

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Someone ought to tell him that despite highest emissions and carbon «pollution» in history there is no warming whatsoever today and there has been none for fifteen years.

Brazil, for example, has reduced its deforestation - related emissions by two - thirds in just six years, and Indonesia, a large emitter of global warming pollution because of high rates of deforestation, has pledged to cut overall emissions by more than 25 percent by 2020.

Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.

«Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles» found that even when accounting for the metals required to build PV cells, the efficiency of the cells, and the waste produced, PV cells still emit less global warming pollution throughout their life cycle than the fossil fuels needed to produce the same amount of power.

For example, the environmental degradation from «acid rain» caused by high levels of Sulfur emissions, the economic impact of global warming, the health damage to humans from air and water pollution (from particulate matter and mercury), all are measurable with an economic cost to society.

«Suspends air pollution control laws requiring major polluters to report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, until unemployment rate drops to 5.5 percent or less for full year.»

«Suspends implementation of air pollution control law (AB 32) requiring major sources of emissions to report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, until unemployment rate drops to 5.5 percent or less for full year.»

Considering Californians drive some 320 billion miles every year, these standards help ensure significantly less pollution, fewer global warming emissions, and fuel savings at the pump — and they're already working.

For all intents and purposes, the two phenomena are unrelated, since the scourge of air pollution relates to the presence of dangerous fine particulate matter in the air while global warming propaganda focuses on carbon dioxide emissions.

If not managed and monitored carefully, biomass for energy can be harvested at unsustainable rates, damage ecosystems, produce harmful air pollution, consume large amounts of water, and produce net global warming emissions.

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«The bill declares that current law does not authorize or require the regulation of climate change or global warming and nullifies certain proposed rules relating to greenhouse gas and carbon pollution emissions,» the description reads.

Global warming appear to have slightly slowed in the last decade despite record greenhouse gas emissions, and this cooling pollution could be the cause.

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