Humans
worry about greenhouse gases, but between 1.8 billion and 800 million years ago, microscopic ocean dwellers really needed them.
Also pack up all your cares and woes if you're concerned about the future of renewables, especially solar power, the same section contains an article in which Dr. Ray Kurzweil says in part:»
Worried about greenhouse gas emissions?
Public
worries about greenhouse gases might lead to government regulations, following the example of restrictions on smog and spray - can chemicals.
Not exact matches
The trend
worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned
about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting
greenhouse gas emissions.
While rising carbon dioxide emissions are a primary concern of those
worried about climate change, emissions of methane, another potent
greenhouse gas, have also risen in recent years.
As if we didn't have enough to
worry about with all the pollutants and
greenhouse gases floating in our atmosphere, now scientists say there are bacteria up there as well.
Man - made climate change has been a global concern for several years, but as industrial emissions of some
greenhouse and ozone - depleting
gases drop, scientists are finding new sources to
worry about.
The promise of fusion eliminates the need to burn fossil fuels, accumulate
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, warm the Earth, and
worry about nuclear waste — instead, providing clean energy that uses ordinary seawater as a fuel.
If carbon dioxide and other long - lived
greenhouse gases were not building up in the atmosphere, we would not be particularly
worried about the climate effect from the short - lived
gases and aerosols.
Do not
worry about the economic impacts of putting the brakes on
greenhouse gas emissions.
Words only have meaning in context and while it may be true that water vapor is a
greenhouse gas in the sense that more of it in the atmosphere will absorb more infrared radiation and warm the climate, it is not a
greenhouse gas in the sense that it is a
gas we need to seriously
worry about adding directly to the atmosphere.
I am very
worried indeed
about biofuels, unless we had mandatory certification based on good studies of life - cycle
greenhouse gas assessments.!
It's almost as mind - boggling as the amount of energy some individuals and organizations spend trying to convince the public that this heating up isn't anything to
worry about and / or that anthropogenic
greenhouse gases aren't the cause!
Another reality is that while
worries about climate - related instability are rising, near - term concerns
about energy insecurity are already a top - tier issue both here and in China, the two dominant contributors to the planet's
greenhouse -
gas blanket.
For countries
worried about global warming, there is a target to reduce EU
greenhouse -
gas emissions by at least a fifth of their 1990 level before 2020.
As if we didn't have enough to
worry about with a depleting ozone and buildup of
greenhouse gases, now a recent study shows that there is a new ozone - eating
gas on the rise.
For example, under the ranges stated by the IPCC, the world might well have cooled 0.1 degrees over the six decades —
greenhouses gasses could have produced 0.5 degrees of warming and aerosols -0.6 degrees — and Nuccitelli would still be
worrying about global warming.
But Magambo is also
worried about plans for increased oil production in Uganda, a major source of future
greenhouse gas emissions in the country.
Just three days before the United States and China, the world's two biggest carbon polluters, signed what could be a ground - breaking agreement to accelerate the reduction of
greenhouse gas pollution, Oliver was telling the La Presse editorial board (in French) that, «I think that people aren't as
worried as they were before
about global warming of two degrees.
GREENHOUSE GASES: But these days we're most
worried about CO2.
In other words, there remains plenty to
worry about with respect to
greenhouse gas emissions.
But until now, climate forecasters who
worry about what
greenhouse gases could be doing to climate have ignored what's happening naturally.
Lomborg is also right to note that even if we're
worried about worsening hurricanes due to global warming, it doesn't necessarily follow that our most immediate policy solution should simply be to cut
greenhouse gas emissions.
Greenhouse gas is not the only pollutant we should be
worrying about.