Every option – carbon capture and storage to reduce coal-fired power stations' emissions, expanding wind and solar power, developing other renewables such as tidal power, cutting consumption and bringing new nuclear capacity on stream – each has its own daunting problems, although some look a lot cheaper to fix than others.
Assuming Franken is ultimately confirmed, the Republicans will be hard-pressed to hinder Obama's agenda, including provisions to lessen greenhouse gas emissions, expand government health insurance programmes, his $3.7tn budget, his judicial nominations, and potentially more costly fiscal stimulus measures.
Still, she's generally supportive of the White House's approach: "The president has a credible and comprehensive plan to cut emissions, expand clean energy, and strengthen resilience to climate impacts.
Now that the Paris Agreement has been reached, we look forward to seeing China's continued climate leadership, and to work with our Chinese partners on reducing coal consumption and GHG emissions, expanding renewable energy, improving efficiency and developing low carbon cities.
Increased carbon dioxide emissions expand the demand for the ecosystem service of gas regulation (regulating service).
Previous studies [ Radioti et al., 2011] have shown that during the presence of bifurcations, the main auroral emission expands with time to lower latitudes, which is indicative of opening of flux.
The question then becomes how much insurance and what kind, and here I think the skeptics are especially useful in challenging what's mistakenly called "the scientific consensus": that if you believe global warming is a risk, you should be supporting drastic cuts in carbon emissions and expanded versions of the Kyoto Protocol.
The comparison is made with respect to the life-cycle energy use, the life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the expanded cumulative exergy consumption (ECExC), the energy and exergy efficiencies, and the life-cycle cost.
The environmental impact is more straightforward -- allowing companies to export oil from the United States will facilitate more drilling and fracking and result in more greenhouse gas emissions from expanded fossil fuel use.
Laws sponsored by Kuehl imposed new penalties on stalkers, gave businesses a tax break for using zero-emission vehicles, expanded parkland in the Santa Monica Mountains, gave prosecutors tools to enforce disabled-access rules and required histories of domestic abuse to be weighed in child custody disputes.
