Word: capping
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...October 2008, the U.N.'s International Maritime Organization (IMO) introduced a gradual phase-in of emissions restrictions, lowering individual boats' sulfur oxide emissions, which contribute to respiratory illnesses and exacerbate existing heart and lung problems, near coastlines 900% by 2020. Industry insiders expect the IMO will also cap greenhouse-gas emissions. "If the shipping industry was a country, it would be the sixth largest emitter of greenhouse gases," says Fanta Kamakate, a program director at the International Council on Clean Transportation. (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...
...unchecked CO2 emissions. Then, what was meant to be a quick, cheap fix would turn out to be a trap. And while Levitt and Dubner say the fix is appealing at least in part because it's politically impossible to imagine the world agreeing on a common carbon cap - pointing to the problems with the Kyoto Protocol - in reality, the geopolitics of geoengineering are even tougher. Would the world stand idly by if China unilaterally decided to begin geoengineering our collective climate? What if the U.S. did? And even if we did allow geoengineering to commence, could we agree...
...battle of culture and class between the petit bourgeois and the aristocrat; between the lofty, cerebral leadership figure and the pragmatic official driven to get things done - and it cuts across France's entire political landscape," says political analyst Stéphane Rozès, president of CAP, a consultancy. "Dominique de Villepin is a man of the 19th century whose weapons are words, while Nicolas Sarkozy is a postmodern man who wants action, not talk ... Each man represents a class of French politicians seeking ascendancy over one another." (See pictures of the French celebrating Bastille...
Obama challenged lawmakers to pass comprehensive clean energy legislation and touted the benefits of the current cap-and-trade proposal that he said would make the “best use of resources we have in abundance,” including biofuels and wind and solar energy...
Although Otavio Fluery replaced Cloud in the second half, he shanked a 10-yard punt at the end of the third quarter to cap off a miserable day for the Tigers’ special teams...