Climate Change Technology Research: Do We Need a "Manhattan Project" for the Environment? : Hearing Before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, September 21, 2006, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006 - 207 pages |
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... wedges . A stabilization wedge is a strategy that produces a reduction of 1 billion tons of carbon and global carbon dioxide emissions 50 years from now relative to what would happen in the absence of attention to climate problem . The ...
... wedges . A stabilization wedge is a strategy that produces a reduction of 1 billion tons of carbon and global carbon dioxide emissions 50 years from now relative to what would happen in the absence of attention to climate problem . The ...
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... stabilization wedge " as a new unit of measure for quantifying climate Carbon Emitted ( billion tons & yox ) mitigation strategies 1 151.
... stabilization wedge " as a new unit of measure for quantifying climate Carbon Emitted ( billion tons & yox ) mitigation strategies 1 151.
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... stabilization wedge is a strategy that produces a reduction of 1 billon tons of carbon in global CO2 emissions fifty ... wedge . ) The size of the world's job is seven wedges under specific assumptions about the world's emissions if ...
... stabilization wedge is a strategy that produces a reduction of 1 billon tons of carbon in global CO2 emissions fifty ... wedge . ) The size of the world's job is seven wedges under specific assumptions about the world's emissions if ...
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... stabilization re- gime is down here . It is an 80 percent reduction . It is a large , over- all process . Notice there is a gap , as Dr. Socolow calls it , a wedge here . If you go to the next slide there is a remarkable experience in ...
... stabilization re- gime is down here . It is an 80 percent reduction . It is a large , over- all process . Notice there is a gap , as Dr. Socolow calls it , a wedge here . If you go to the next slide there is a remarkable experience in ...
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