Not exact matches
China
continues to lead in the ranking
of the world's top 40 renewable energy markets, despite its
continuing high greenhouse
gas emissions and dependence on coal.
CCS really amounts to a combined GHG and natural
gas hedge which, in a world
of really expensive
gas, allows you to maintain lower electricity prices than you perhaps otherwise would be able to as you can
continue to use relatively cheap and plentiful coal while capturing and storing the
emissions.
Faso said» «the U.S. must
continue to work to lower greenhouse
gas emissions while balancing the needs
of our economy.»
These funds will allow LIPA to re-open its solar rebate program and serve as supplemental funds to support LIPA's
continued investment in solar energy thereby helping to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, helping customers to lower their bills, and stimulating the economy through the creation
of new clean energy jobs.»
«If the world does not reduce greenhouse
gas emissions,
continued heating could increase the vulnerability
of plants, wildlife, physical features, and cultural resources in the globally unique US national parks.»
Assuming that greenhouse
gas emissions continue to increase, the widespread adoption
of cool roofs in the Los Angeles metropolitan area would offset some
of the warming expected by midcentury, the team reported in 2016 in Environmental Research Letters.
When we mitigate greenhouse -
gas emissions, we also create huge co-benefits in the nature
of energy security, because if we
continue to increase our consumption
of fossil fuels, we're really going to put pressure on limited resources
of these fossil fuels.
Politics
of deferred gratification Under one
of the additional scenarios, known as RCP 4.5, humans take longer to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions but eventually do so, and under the other, known as RCP 8.5, carbon dioxide concentrations
continue to rise through 2100.
«The
emission can be absorbed by thick clouds
of gas and dust covering the AGN,» Boorman
continues.
If current trends
continue and the world fails to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, then severe bleaching will occur every year on 99 per cent
of the world's reefs within the century, according to the study.
The scientists expect further warming in the Arctic as levels
of greenhouse
gases will
continue to increase and aerosol particle
emissions will likely decrease to combat air pollution in different parts
of the world.
Under the worst - case scenario (RCP 8.5), which assumes that greenhouse
gas emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century, the authors show the potential for extremely large net increases in temperature - related mortality in the warmer regions
of the world.
Udall and Overpeck found all current climate models agree that temperatures in the Colorado River Basin will
continue rising if the
emission of greenhouse
gases is not curbed.
The ability
of the oceans to take up carbon dioxide can not keep up with the rising levels
of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere, which means carbon dioxide and global temperatures will
continue to increase unless humans cut their carbon dioxide
emissions.
This is exactly the kind
of intense wildfire season we can expect as the climate changes thanks to our
continuing emissions of greenhouse
gases.
If these rates
continue,
emissions of methane, a greenhouse
gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide on 100 - year time scales, will increase 4 percent over the next decade.
«There is the potential for the U.S. and other countries to
continue to rely on coal as a source
of energy while at the same time protecting the climate from the massive greenhouse
gas emissions associated with coal,» says Steve Caldwell, coordinator for regional climate change policy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, an Arlington, Va., think tank.
It takes a long time for the ocean to respond to increasing heat, so even if greenhouse
gas emissions dropped to zero tomorrow, the world's seas would
continue to rise for centuries because
of the warming that's already happened.
In a paper published this month in Geophysical Research Letters, Lovejoy concludes that a natural cooling fluctuation during this period largely masked the warming effects
of a
continued increase in human - made
emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse
gases.
A few
of the main points
of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body
of observations gives a collective picture
of a warming world and other changes in the climate system;
emissions of greenhouse
gases and aerosols due to human activities
continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability
of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most
of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.
Since levels
of greenhouse
gases have
continued to rise throughout the period, some skeptics have argued that the recent pattern undercuts the theory that global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by human - made
emissions from the burning
of fossil fuels.
The research suggests that — contrary to some prior findings — CO2 led the prior round
of global warming rather than vice versa, just as it
continues to do today thanks to rising
emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse
gases.
And yet, India and China remain two countries where
emission rates
of greenhouse
gases continue to rise, driven mostly by economic growth, Eltahir says.
«Global deployment
of advanced natural
gas production technology could double or triple the global natural
gas production by 2050, but greenhouse
gas emissions will
continue to grow in the absence
of climate policies that promote lower carbon energy sources.»
A surprising recent rise in atmospheric methane likely stems from wetland
emissions, suggesting that much more
of the potent greenhouse
gas will be pumped into the atmosphere as northern wetlands
continue to thaw and tropical ones to warm, according to a new international study led by a University
of Guelph researcher.
Continuing widespread use
of coal and low - grade diesel fuel, which also produce fine particles
of soot, leaves China's record as the world's largest single source
of man - made greenhouse
gas emissions unchallenged.
Continued emissions of greenhouse
gases will cause further warming and long - lasting changes in all components
of the climate system, increasing the likelihood
of widespread and profound impacts affecting all levels
of society and the natural world, the report finds.
When this model was then applied to the future, they found that in a world
of continuing high greenhouse
gas emissions, the threshold for widespread drought - induced vascular damage would be crossed and initiate widespread tree deaths on average across climate model projections in the 2050s.
The progressively earlier occurrence
of these high CO2 levels — not seen in somewhere between 800,000 and 15 million years — points to the inexorable buildup
of heat - trapping
gas in the atmosphere as human
emissions continue unabated.
With the human population
continuing to rise by 75 million or more per year and with torrid economic growth in much
of the developing world, the burdens
of deforestation, pollution, greenhouse
gas emissions, species extinction, ocean acidification and other massive threats intensify.
Yet despite all the complexities, a firm and ever - growing body
of evidence points to a clear picture: the world is warming, this warming is due to human activity increasing levels
of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere, and if
emissions continue unabated the warming will too, with increasingly serious consequences.
They looked at each
of those conditions through, first, a business - as - usual lens that assumes a lack
of international climate - policy action with
continued high rates
of greenhouse
gas emissions and, second, an optimistic scenario
of reduced
emissions with climate change policy interventions.
Given those findings and the rest
of the improved understanding
of the climate system, the IPCC projects that if carbon dioxide
gas emissions — the primary cause
of warming —
continue to grow at the recent rate, the world would warm 2oC above 19th - century levels by the middle
of this century.
By the end
of this century, the annual probability
of Hurricane Harvey's record rainfall returning to Texas will rise to 18 percent, if the growth
of greenhouse
gas emissions to the atmosphere
continues unmitigated.
Their intent, apparently, was to disparage the views
of scientists who disagree with their contention that
continued business - as - usual increases in carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions produced from the burning
of coal,
gas, and oil will lead to a host
of cataclysmic climate - related problems.
In the time since the 2007 version
of this report, the human effect on the climate has grown more than 40 percent stronger, thanks to
continued emissions of greenhouse
gases and more precision in measurements, with carbon dioxide leading the charge.
Harmful greenhouse
gas emissions should
continue to fall in industrialized countries and recent signs
of decline in China should
continue, but
emissions are set to rise in India, southeast Asia and Africa as energy demand growth dwarfs efforts to improve air quality.
«There is the potential for the U.S. and other countries to
continue to rely on coal as a source
of energy while at the same time protecting the climate from the massive greenhouse
gas emissions associated with coal,» says Steve Caldwell, coordinator for regional climate change policy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, a Washington, D.C. think tank.
The papal visit will also coincide with the start
of the Republican party's nomination race for presidential candidates, posing a serious challenge to conservatives who
continue to deny the warnings
of climate science or oppose efforts to limit greenhouse
gas emissions.
Stable atmospheric concentrations
of greenhouse
gases would lead to
continued warming, but if carbon dioxide
emissions could be eliminated entirely, temperatures would quickly stabilize or even decrease over time.
The letter notes that «Stable atmospheric concentrations
of greenhouse
gases would lead to
continued warming, but if carbon dioxide
emissions could be eliminated entirely, temperatures would quickly stabilize or even decrease over time.
Objectors often claim unfair benefits are given to the worst polluters, and that trading schemes obfuscate from the real problem — the excess
of greenhouse
gas emissions that
continue to perpetuate global warming.
Because economic growth
continues to boost the demand for energy — more coal for powering new factories, more oil for fueling new cars, more natural
gas for heating new homes — carbon
emissions will keep climbing despite the introduction
of more energy - efficient vehicles, buildings and appliances.
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continue to actively promote, within the International Civil Aviation Organization, the development
of a global framework for the regulation
of greenhouse
gas emissions from civil aircraft that recognizes the uniquely international nature
of the industry and treats commercial aviation industries in all countries fairly; and
Meanwhile, global
emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse
gases continue to increase, promising far worse to come.
If greenhouse
gas emissions continue on their current trend, the rate
of warming will reach 0.7 °F per decade and stay that high until at least 2100.
«In the face
of natural variability and complexity, the consequences
of change in any single factor, for example greenhouse
gas emissions, can not readily be isolated, and prediction becomes difficult... Scientific uncertainties
continue to limit our ability to make objective, quantitative determinations regarding the human role in recent climate change, or the degree and consequence
of future change.»
From his own research in chemical oceanography, along with data from a number
of recent studies, Weber points out that some negative consequences
of greenhouse
gas emissions and warming «are manifesting faster than previously predicted,» including ocean acidification and oxygen loss, which are expected to affect «a large fraction
of marine species if current trends
continue unchecked.»
Lamar thinks «the debate should
continue» — as though the few imposters and sell - outs who doubt climate science are equal to the vast amounts
of international science that calls for action to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions.
If we choose not to reduce
emissions of heat - trapping
gases and instead
continue to rely upon fossil fuels, the average American could expect to see about 17 dangerously humid days in a typical summer in 2050 and about 35 in 2090.