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We should be open to other ways to stop warming – such as cutting carbon emissions in the future instead of now, or focusing on reducing emissions of other greenhouse
gases.
Professor Brent Sohngen of Ohio State University points out that forests could be important: including forestry in the control of greenhouse
gases
could somewhat reduce costs.
It will be difficult for the world to achieve the twin goals of ensuring sustainable energy supplies and curbing greenhouse
gases
unless nuclear power remains an important part of the global energy mix.
The Fourth Assessment, which was just issued, confirms the mounting evidence and the increasing conviction that global warming is the result of the increase in greenhouse
gases
in the atmosphere.
But solar radiation management does not remove greenhouse
gases
from the atmosphere.
The US is the largest source of greenhouse gases, but three quarters of the sources originate outside its borders.
That is appropriate, for it is of the utmost importance that the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics has unequivocally stated that scientific studies attribute “most global warming” in recent decades to greenhouse gases, “released mainly as a result of human activity.”
They projected that developing countries would enter the Kyoto framework at some point, and would trade their rights to emit CO2 and other greenhouse
gases
to the United States and Europe in return for development aid.
The choices, singly or in combination, are: 1) nothing (the current response); 2) mitigation (reducing emissions of greenhouse gases); 3) attempted adaptation to the ongoing climate changes; and 4) geoengineering.
It has surpassed the United States as the world’s largest source of greenhouse gases, and it became developing nations’ diplomatic champion at the recent United Nations climate negotiations in Bali.
The focus on China intensified late last year, when new data from the International Energy Agency and other research organizations revealed that China had overtaken the US as the largest source of greenhouse
gases
– and, more ominously, that its emissions are growing at a rate that exceeds all wealthy nations’ capacity to decrease theirs.
Despite China’s official hard line, some Chinese environmental officials privately express alarm at run-away carbon emissions, and suggest that foreign green tariffs would actually strengthen their hand in domestic policy struggles over controlling greenhouse
gases
by helping to win political support for emissions cuts.
Earlier conferences of the UNFCCC signatories sought to reach legally binding agreements on emission reductions, at least for the industrialized countries that have produced most of the greenhouse
gases
now in the atmosphere.
Studies ahead of the Paris conference suggest that international cooperation could allow for rapid reduction of greenhouse
gases.
But, as the British newspaper The Guardian assured readers, this was a breakthrough, because developing countries, including India and China, were, for the first time, “agreeing to be legally bound to curb their greenhouse gases.”
This was especially strange, given that Australia has been one of the big beneficiaries of the Montreal convention, which banned ozone-destroying
gases.
At its core, globalization entails the increasing volume, velocity, and importance of flows – within and across borders – of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, goods, dollars, drugs, viruses, emails, weapons, and a good deal else, challenging one of sovereignty’s fundamental principles: the ability to control what crosses borders in either direction.
During his presidential campaign in 2000, George W. Bush promised to renounce nation-building adventures abroad, to maintain fiscal discipline, and to treat greenhouses
gases
as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
This is because the animal sector is responsible for a third of all anthropogenic methane and two-thirds of nitrous oxide emissions – both potent greenhouse
gases
that trap more heat than carbon dioxide.
The atmosphere is filling with greenhouse
gases
from heavy use of fossil fuels.
In almost all of the rich-country proposals about targets, limits, commitments, and permits for greenhouse gases, there is hardly a word about helping poor countries to finance the transition to sustainable technologies.
The world has flagrantly failed in its response to the 2005 Kyoto Protocol: Today, we emit more greenhouse
gases
than at any point in history.
A Day for Planetary JusticePRINCETON – What we are doing to our planet, to our children and grandchildren, and to the poor, by our heedless production of greenhouse gases, is one of the great moral wrongs of our age.
The need to cut greenhouse
gases
has become increasingly clear as predictions of global warming – denounced as “alarmist” when they were first made just a few years ago – have repeatedly turned out to have been too conservative.
In other words, our greenhouse gas emissions have, by causing enough warming to melt the arctic ice, created a feedback loop that will generate more warming, and melt more ice, even if we were to stop emitting all greenhouse
gases
tomorrow.
The money that developing countries would receive for this would not be aid, but rather a recognition that the rich nations must pay for something that in the past they simply appropriated: far more than their fair share of our atmosphere’s capacity to absorb our waste
gases.
Historically, the US has added disproportionately to the rising concentration of greenhouse
gases
in the atmosphere, and among large countries it remains the biggest per capita emitter of carbon dioxide by far – more than twice China’s rate and nearly 2.5 times more than Europe in 2013 (the latest year for which the World Bank has reported complete data).
Because natural-gas combustion produces fewer greenhouse
gases
than other hydrocarbons, such as coal or oil, it can be a bridge to a less carbon-intensive future.
The world’s “great powers” do not adhere to UN agreements meant to regulate industries that emit greenhouse
gases
and dump heavy metals in the sea and soil.
Likewise, China’s annual per capita income is $5,450, but it emits only 4.7 tons of CO2 per person (though, overall, it is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases).
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