Sentences with phrase «global greenhouse gas reference»

«It was only a matter of time that we would average 400 parts per million globally,» said Pieter Tans, lead scientist of NOAA's Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network.

The Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network measures the atmospheric distribution and trends of the three main long - term drivers of climate change, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), as well as carbon monoxide (CO) which is an important indicator of air pollution.

«Carbon dioxide levels are increasing faster than they have in hundreds of thousands of years,» said Pieter Tans, leader of NOAA's Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network.

Not exact matches

For example, Holmstead referenced a section in the draft that estimates that about 1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from the U.S. transportation sector.

Dropped from the report were references to a 2001 National Research Council report's conclusions that greenhouse gases were the only likely explanation for the global warming.

«We know that our planetâ $ ™ s future depends on a global commitment to permanently reduce greenhouse gas pollution, â $ President Obama said yesterday at the U.N. Summit on Climate Change in New York, one of several references to â $ œgreenhouse gas pollutionâ $ and â $ œcarbon pollutionâ $ sprinkled throughout his speech.

In my earlier posting, I tried to make the distinction that global climate change (all that is changing in the climate system) can be separated into: (1) the global warming component that is driven primarily by the increase in greenhouse gases, and (2) the natural (externally unforced) variability of the climate system consisting of temperature fluctuations about an equilibrium reference point, which therefore do not contribute to the long - term trend.

The Climate Equity Reference Calculator is a general online equity reference tool and database that systematically applies a generalized and transparent equity reference framework with the goal of quantitatively examining the problem of national fair shares in a global effort to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas eReference Calculator is a general online equity reference tool and database that systematically applies a generalized and transparent equity reference framework with the goal of quantitatively examining the problem of national fair shares in a global effort to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas ereference tool and database that systematically applies a generalized and transparent equity reference framework with the goal of quantitatively examining the problem of national fair shares in a global effort to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas ereference framework with the goal of quantitatively examining the problem of national fair shares in a global effort to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Cato Institute scholars Patrick Michaels and Chip Knappenberger have produced a layman - friendly yet thoroughly referenced draft report summarizing «the important science that is missing from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States,» a U.S. Government document underpinning the EPA's December 2009 endangerment rule, the foundation of all of the agency's greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations.

The Climate Equity Reference Calculator is a interactive online equity reference tool that systematically applies CERP's Effort - sharing Approach, with the goal of allowing users to quantitatively examine the problem of national fair shares in a global effort to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas eReference Calculator is a interactive online equity reference tool that systematically applies CERP's Effort - sharing Approach, with the goal of allowing users to quantitatively examine the problem of national fair shares in a global effort to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas ereference tool that systematically applies CERP's Effort - sharing Approach, with the goal of allowing users to quantitatively examine the problem of national fair shares in a global effort to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The SRES scenarios were constructed to explore future developments in the global environment with special reference to greenhouse gases and aerosol precursor emissions.

«In this report, we systematically apply a generalized and transparent equity reference framework... with the goal of quantitatively examining the problem of national fair shares in a global effort to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.