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The rising concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse
gases
is leading to more extreme storms, higher-intensity hurricanes, rising ocean levels, melting glaciers and ice sheets, droughts, floods and other climate changes.
The actions that are needed are difficult to introduce, because they go to the heart of the world’s use of energy, particularly its use of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), which, when burned, release carbon dioxide – the key source of rising greenhouse
gases
– into the atmosphere.
And recent reports show that emissions in China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, also did not increase from 2013 to 2014.
Not only will these power plants emit large quantities of greenhouse gases; they will also devastate the Sundarbans, where the Ganges and other rivers meet the Bay of Bengal in a spectacular delta of mangrove islands that is home to endangered Bengal tigers and river dolphins.
Such a reversal would reduce hunger, poverty, and malnutrition; help protect our planet’s natural resources; and slow the emission of greenhouse
gases
from agriculture.
When I served in 1995 on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the scientific group that periodically assesses the science of global warming, there was overwhelming evidence that the concentration of greenhouse
gases
in the atmosphere had increased markedly since the beginning of the industrial revolution, that human activity had contributed significantly to those increases, and that they would have profound effects on climate and sea levels.
Over the past two years, it has been established that the Montreal Protocol has also spared humanity a significant level of climate change, because the
gases
that it prohibits also contribute to global warming.
Scientists now estimate that somewhere close to 50% of climate change is being caused by
gases
and pollutants other than CO2, including nitrogen compounds, low-level ozone formed by pollution, and black carbon.
Meanwhile, many of these
gases
need to be curbed because of their wider environmental impact on public health, agriculture, and the planet’s multi-trillion dollar ecosystems, including forests.
These countries agreed to reduce their emissions of greenhouse
gases
in order to slow the process of global warming.
These calculations indicate that a Blueprints world with CO2 capture and storage results in the least amount of climate change, provided emissions of other major manmade greenhouse
gases
are similarly reduced.
Africa has thus contributed nothing to the historical accumulation of greenhouse
gases
through carbon-based industrialization.
Pollution would be reduced by 70% as a result of fewer nitrates in the surface water, and greenhouse
gases
would be cut.
Premature deaths from breathing in small particles and toxic gases, and the pain and suffering from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, do not have a market price.
This damage will become worse, with risks becoming unmanageable if emissions of greenhouse
gases
are not reduced to net zero levels between 2055 and 2070.
HFCs, which are one of the six main greenhouse gases, are commonly used in air conditioners and refrigeration systems worldwide.
However, HFCs, some of which are 4,000 times more potent as greenhouse
gases
than carbon dioxide, are a disaster for climate change, and their use is still increasing annually by 10%.
The West industrialized rapidly without worrying about climate change, contributing mightily to the stock of greenhouse
gases
that has led the world ever closer to the tipping point at which global warming can no longer be halted.
Concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse
gases
in the atmosphere have reached 435 parts per million (ppm) of CO2-equivalent, compared with about 280 ppm before industrialization in the nineteenth century.
Both Chu and Locke are aware that the US and China are now the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases, and that, if there is any hope of remedying global climate change, the two countries must quickly find a way to collaborate.
In the long term, emissions of CO2 and other long-lived greenhouse
gases
constitute the main problem.
As a consequence, the greenhouse effect would come more fully into view, which we could then hope would further strengthen the resolve to reduce emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse
gases.
Indeed, when asked by Bush to look into the matter, America's National Academy of Sciences came to a resounding verdict (the only one they could honestly reach) that greenhouse
gases
are a menace.
On the contrary, globalization – the immense flow across borders of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, goods, services, currencies, commodities, television and radio signals, drugs, weapons, emails, viruses (computer and biological), and a good deal else – is a defining reality of our time.
In the absence of effective national and international legislation to curb greenhouse gases, a growing number of city leaders are acting to protect their citizens and economies.
Similarly, a taboo against using poisonous
gases
in warfare developed after World War I, and the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibited the use of chemical and biological weapons.
Managing forests, rivers, grasslands, and coral reefs in sustainable ways makes them more resilient and increases their ability to absorb greenhouse gases, which is good for business.
One key element is setting a price on carbon emissions, which would address the massive market failure resulting from the fact that products and services that involve emissions of greenhouse
gases
do not reflect the cost of the damage that they cause through climate change.
The Paris climate agreement, reached last December and signed last month, not only established a consensus on the importance of addressing climate change, but also explicitly affirmed that ecosystems play a role in capturing greenhouse
gases
and helping communities adapt to the effects of climate change.
Large coal-burning countries such as China and India can keep emitting greenhouse
gases
until 2030, which will attenuate any net reduction in global emissions.
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