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  • But if we want to use the 1900 base­line, just how close our targets are would depend on how we compare with regards to rela­tive increase in emis­sions since then.

    hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Math-Checking the Carbon Pledges 2009

  • Some time just long enough ago that emis­sions data is firmly on record, but recent enough that the propor­tional calcu­la­tion includes all the increases in emis­sions that have gone on since we were supposed to get serious about reduc­tions back in the ‘90s.

    hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Math-Checking the Carbon Pledges 2009

  • Although we have neither the expertise nor the authority to evaluate these policy judgments, it is evident they have nothing to do with whether greenhouse gas emis-sions contribute to climate change.

    Ruling in Mass v EPA « Climate Audit 2007

  • Lower nitrogen oxide emis signs as well as fewer internal deposits were found with methanol.

    1 Production and Use 1983

  • The result was a wasteland, quite apart from the emis - sions of the protonite mines.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • The result was a wasteland, quite apart from the emis - sions of the protonite mines.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • Satan himself, adversary of the suffering Job, is viewed in the Old Testament variously as the emis - sary of Yahweh, the opponent of such emissaries (in the Balaam episode), and as one of the sons of God

    MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES FRANCIS LEE UTLEY 1968

  • When similar radioactivity was found in other heavy chemical elements, their atoms were regarded as breaking down into lighter atoms, while the process of disintegration was marked by the emis - sion of charged particles.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas EDWARD ROSEN 1968

  • 'Aera domi non sunt, superest hoc, Regule, solum, ut tua vendamus munera: numquid emis?'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Will Regulus buy? aera domi non sunt, superest hoc, Regule, solum ut tua vendamus munera: numquid emis?

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

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