Sentences with phrase «whether overall emissions»

Canadians should measure proposal like Redford's «40:40» — referring to a 40 per cent cut in the carbon - emission limit and a $ 40 - per - ton tax on production above that limit — by whether overall emissions will actually stop growing.

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While the 2030 target is explicit that carbon dioxide absorbed by forests will count towards its overall emissions reductions, it is unclear whether they are permitted in its 2020 target.

But it is true that they don't seem to be addressing the question of overall uncertainty as to whether, or to what degree, increased CO2 emissions will translate into a warmer climate long - term.

While the 2030 target is explicit that carbon dioxide absorbed by forests will count towards its overall emissions reductions, it is unclear whether they are permitted in its 2020 target.

Lead author Carmody McCalley, postdoctoral research associate at the University of New Hampshire, explained that the question has always been whether these microbes matter for models of GHG emissions to the overall role of thawing wetlands in climate change.

Whether temp changes causes CO2 change (good evidence for that, at least coincidentally, from the Vostok record) or as a coincidence based on volcanic emissions, CO2 does nothing to change overall climate.