"Whilst gas is better than coal in terms of its impact on greenhouse gases and climate change, nonetheless it's still a carbon intensive fuel, " he said.
But this also impacts the steps that we're taking to wean ourselves off our dependence on foreign oil, which means progress as it relates to greenhouse gases and climate change.
It is believed that dried peat releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, one of the greenhouse gases responsible for climate change.
And just like the oceans, the climate and greenhouse pollution concerns that Dems emphasized in their platform never rose to gain much attention on their 2012 DNC podium in Charlotte either.
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The ocean also absorbs almost 25% of the CO2 added to the atmosphere from human activities each year, greatly reducing the impact of this greenhouse gas on the climate, while becoming more acidic in the process.
China will "endeavor" to cut emissions of carbon dioxide -- the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change -- by "a notable margin" in coming years, Hu said, adding that China also will "vigorously develop renewable energy and nuclear energy" with the goal of increasing the share of non-fossil fuels in total energy consumption to 15 percent by 2020.
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That will help those who seek to understand the carbon cycle and with it, the consequences of greenhouse-gas-induced climate change.
Public discussions of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions also help to highlight the benefits of using more renewable sources of energy.
Along with advances in renewable energy and increased efficiency, our investments in natural gas can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
Solar power, of course, does not produce climate-changing greenhouse gases.
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Officials here in California have decided to make this state the first in the nation to require reductions in emissions of the greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.
On Monday, the World Meteorological Organization of the UN said greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change have reached record levels in the atmosphere and show no sign of receding.
The latter include health-damaging and smog-forming airborne pollutants like hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxide, particulate matter, carbon monoxide and formaldehyde, as well as greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change, like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane and other compounds.
Using a market mechanism to pass on the true cost of fossil fuel usage, including the environmental damage here at home AND in the third world, and the longer term effects of greenhouse gas emissions and resulting climate change.
"They are designed to increase our scientific understanding of climate change, to tap the enormous promise of technology in addressing greenhouse gas emissions, and to promote further cooperation on climate change with our partners in the Western Hemisphere and beyond, " he said.
Cars already contribute around 10% of the man-made greenhouse gases that are responsible for climate change.
Without sharing costs and technology, it is not at all clear, for instance, that China will invest in the holy grail of climate science: funnelling greenhouse gases underground.
Yet many people still hope to solve the problem of climate change just by eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions.
Other work focused on the warming and cooling effects of clouds and the climate's sensitivity to greenhouse gases.
Soliman's 20-year-old son, Kareem, says he's worried that other countries aren't doing their part to curb climate change by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.
Just as public concern about climate change bottomed out during the recession, Republican lawmakers warn that any steps by Washington to curb greenhouse-gas emissions blamed by many scientists for contributing to climate change or to add regulations on fossil fuels such as coal could harm the recovery.
The younger Soliman says it's unfair that Egypt, which contributes only 0.5 percent of global greenhouse emissions, will be disproportionately affected by climate change.
This is problematic because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says time for reducing greenhouse gas emissions is short perhaps as short as 40 years.
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Negotiators are struggling in The Hague this week to hammer out rules on implementing a pact sealed in Kyoto, Japan, three years ago that set targets for cutting greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide implicated in climate change.
Opponents warn that fracking is an environmental disaster waiting to happen, citing, among other risks, air and water pollution, the release of radiation and cancer-causing substances, and the acceleration of global climate change as methane and other greenhouse gases escape during fracking.
But before Westerners begin pointing fingers at Asian countries for contributing to greenhouse gases and other anti-sustainability actions, it should be understood that while they may be growing in their contributions to deleterious effects on the earth, they still lag far behind western nations in terms of per capita production of Carbon Dioxide, the greenhouse gas identified as the greatest contributor to climate change.
In later years, when he and his colleagues had pushed climate change, and in particular greenhouse warming, on to the agenda, people keen to ensure a lack of action made much of his about-face over cooling, preferring to accuse him of modish inconsistency than to see him as someone who had worked to improve his models, and as a result had changed his mind.
Models have typically attributed half of the loss of ice to greenhouse gases and half to natural variations in the climate cycle.
They want the funds raised to be used for aid, and an increasingly popular idea is to use the money specifically to help developing countries respond to climate change - to curb their own greenhouse emissions and to adapt to the warming that is likely to take place.
Groups in favor of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions to reduce the threat posed by climate change say far deeper reductions than that 17% are needed.
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