(n.) A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
Example Sentences:
(1) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(2) The agreement, hailed as a "landmark" deal and a breakthrough by politicians and the green lobby alike, came before a crucial EU summit opening in Brussels tomorrow at which 27 prime ministers and presidents are supposed to finalise an ambitious package to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020.
(3) Nick Nuttall, a spokesman for UNEP, said the latest findings should encourage more governments to follow moves by some politicians to invest billions of dollars in clean energy and efficiency as a way of curbing greenhouse gases.
(4) You could easily replicate the biggest threat he faces in the film by slipping off your shoes and taking a broom handle to a greenhouse.
(5) But Lyndon Schneiders, national campaigns director of the Wilderness Society, says the new data shows Australia is “lying to the world and lying to ourselves” about the true state of greenhouse emissions.
(6) Talking ahead of a UN climate summit in Peru next month, Kim said he was alarmed by World Bank-commissioned research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, which said that as a result of past greenhouse gas emissions the world is condemned to unprecedented weather events.
(7) Administration officials, briefing reporters ahead of the speech, said Obama would reiterate his commitment to cutting America's greenhouse gas emissions 17% from 2005 levels by the end of the decade.
(8) "It would be ridiculous to encourage shale gas when in reality its greenhouse gas footprint could be as bad as or worse than coal.
(9) Power plants alone account for about a third of America's greenhouse gas emissions.
(10) I learned about this more extreme form of PMS a couple of weeks ago, at a conference dinner, where I ended up sitting next to Peter Greenhouse, consultant in sexual health in Bristol.
(11) Tackling deforestation, which contributes up to 20% of all greenhouse gas emissions, took a step forward, with the UK, along with Japan, Norway, America, France and Australia, agreeing that by 2010 a total of $3.5bn would be spent on saving trees.
(12) But Matt Collins of Exeter University said it was unlikely to cause an absolute cooling: "It could offset some of the warming, but really the greenhouse gas signal wins over the AMOC.
(13) The UK government's plan to push Europe to deeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions has been dashed by the EU's energy chief.
(14) The federal court is being asked to overturn the environment minister, Greg Hunt’s approval of Indian company Adani’s $16.5bn Queensland coalmine because he did not take into account the impact on the Great Barrier Reef of the greenhouse gases emitted when the coal is burned.
(15) The US president is under pressure to show he can deliver on his promises to reduce America's greenhouse gas emissions — especially as China's president, Hu Jintao, is expected to announce a new climate initiative at the summit.
(16) It’s just one piece of New York’s air quality strategy, which also aims at slashing greenhouse gas emissions 80% from 2005 levels by 2050, says Mark Chambers, director of the mayor’s Office of Sustainability.
(17) The energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, said the new policy balanced three challenges: the need to ensure the security of the UK's energy supply, the need to build a low-carbon economy and the need to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
(18) An unprecedented alliance of business, welfare and environmental groups and trade unions recently demanded an end to Australia’s climate policy paralysis , issuing principles including that Australia be able to buy cheaper international permits, and that greenhouse reductions occur “across all sections of the economy”.
(19) In Barcelona, where last-ditch negotiations are taking place, it became clear today the best hope for Copenhagen is a "politically binding" agreement, which rich countries hope will have all the key elements of the final deal, including specific targets and timetables for greenhouse gas emissions cuts and money for poor countries to cope with climate change.
(20) Even before the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had put climate change on the international political map with a landmark speech in 1988, the company was doing ground-breaking work into photovoltaic solar panels, wave power and domestic energy efficiency as part of a wider drive to understand how greenhouse gas emissions could be curbed.
Hothouse
Definition:
(n.) A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.
(n.) A bagnio, or bathing house.
(n.) A brothel; a bagnio.
(n.) A heated room for drying green ware.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were no differences in the frequency of gynecological diseases, complications of pregnancy course and labour during adaptation to working conditions in the hothouses.
(2) By now it should be clear that Nichols is a strategic thinker as much as an aspiring auteur; a necessary personality trait, perhaps, for someone coming into film-making from outside the NY-LA hothouse.
(3) Stanford University might have been the cradle for a hundred Silicon Valley startups and the hothouse for some of its greatest technical innovations, but the Singularity University is an institution that has been made in the valley's own image: highly networked, fuelled by a cocktail of philanthro-capitalism and endowed with an almost mystical sense of its own destiny.
(4) Cameron and Clegg are creatures of the political hothouse.
(5) Europe, for all its reputation as some kind of dastardly machine for the promotion of crypto-communism, is really just a hothouse environment in which the promised fruits of neoliberalism are forced into ripening more quickly.
(6) The content of lead, cadmium and mercury was determined in various sorts of Polish vegetables grown on soil or in hothouses in the years 1986-1988 using for the determination of Pb and Cd the extraction flame ASA method after dry mineralization at about 400 degrees C and for Hg the flameless ASA method after wet mineralization.
(7) Further investigations should be conducted to determine the vitamin requirements of hothouse workers.
(8) For socially privileged children are forced into a deal not of their choosing, where a normal family-based childhood is traded for the hothousing of entitlement.
(9) Sanchez’s players, by contrast, are hothouse flowers: the carefully groomed sons of the small Qatari middle class, who lack for nothing when it comes to coaching, facilities and preparation.
(10) Yes, he has a 40-year civil service career, but at arm's length from the political and policy hothouse of a Whitehall department.
(11) But just as I blamed the oven, the government looks to schools for failing to hothouse youngsters who are raised in poverty.
(12) But the real spiritual argument happens in how her weirdly cut and twisting narratives unfold: a death foretold long before a person's story has even started, as in The Driver's Seat (1970) or The Hothouse by the East River (1973); the interest in how superstition and other forms of false consciousness precipitate evil actions, as in The Bachelors (1960) or The Girls of Slender Means (1963); the way an innocuous-looking catchphrase, like Miss Jean Brodie's famous "crème de la crème", attains a mysteriously sacramental force by dint of a rhythmic repetition, half-gossipy, half-incantatory in intent.
(13) Every year, the elite Ecole nationale d'administration, the hothouse for France's political and administrative class, turns out a new "promotion" of graduate high-flyers.
(14) But this year they destroyed an entire hothouse of tomatoes.
(15) Mathematical analyses classified these changes as a professional pathology of hothouse workers.
(16) Data are analyzed on the frequency of gynecological diseases during the first three years of work in hothouses.
(17) As you meet in your own political hothouse of Brighton for the party's annual conference , what's going wrong?
(18) Despite its splendid isolation, however, this rural region in south-central France – a five-hour drive from the capital – has produced three popes (Clement VI in 1342, Innocent VI in 1352 and Gregory XI in 1370) and will, if François Hollande , is elected, have been the hothouse for two French presidents.
(19) Scientists estimate that if these limestone layers were cooked, they would release levels of the carbon dioxide that would match those on Venus and which would turn our world into a hothouse.
(20) A follow-up (1985, 1990, 1991) study revealed in female workers of hydroponic hothouses an increase of the incidence of nervous system diseases depending on the length of work (vegeto-vascular dystonia, angiodystonic syndromes, vegeto-sensory polyneuropathy).