Sentences with phrase «peak emission occurs»

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Even under a more moderate scenario where greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2040, 100 - year extreme sea levels could increase by 57 centimeters, or nearly 2 feet, on average, by the end of the century, with these events occurring every few years, according to study's authors.

The engine produces 74kW and 133Nm, which is reduced from the output of 79kW and 135Nm for the same powerplant in the previous model, but the new engine is now compliant with the Euro 5 emissions standard, and both peak power and torque occur slightly lower in the rev range for the new model.

Despite positive progress in Chinese climate policy, the reality is that, to be consistent with two degrees, a peak and decline in Chinese emissions will have to occur sooner and faster.

(Which might occur after peak anthropogenic CO2 emissions.)

I would suggest that it is not unreasonable to ask for peak CO2 emissions to occur this decade.

Also note the fact that the temperatures of today and the CO2 emissions of today are relative to previous peaks that occurred in the past.

The fact that the peak emissions for the wavelengths of CO2 occur in the range of 13.5 to 17 μm is meaningless.

We have plotted most likely peak temperatures as a function of four different cumulative emission metrics: year 1750 — 2500 (figure 3a), year 1750 to the time at which peak warming occurs (figure 3b), year 1750 — 2100 (figure 3c) and year 1750 — 2200 (figure 3d).

This occurs because the cumulative totals include contributions for portions of the emissions floor that are emitted after the time of peak warming, which can have no effect on peak warming, as illustrated by the green curves in figure 1.

The correlation is almost as strong if cumulative emissions out to 2500 are considered (shown in black squares in figure 3a) because the vast majority of the emissions in these zero emissions floor pathways have occurred by the time of peak warming.

Based on the metrics presented in figure 2, we conclude that, for cases with no emissions floor, the strongest correlation across all pathways occurs between peak warming and the cumulative emissions from pre-industrial times to the time of that peak warming, as shown in figure 2a.

Major peaks have occurred in 1988 (the ozone - layer protecting Montreal Protocol came to the fore), in 1992 (the year of the Earth Summit in Rio), in 1997 (due to the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions), and in 2000 (when US president George Bush officially rejected the Kyoto Protocol).

As the climate of the Pacific Northwest warms, more winter precipitation is falling as rain, compared with historical averages.2 With declining snowpack in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, peak stream flows are occurring earlier, and summer flows are declining.2 These changes are expected to continue as heat - trapping emissions grow, putting more stress on already endangered salmon that return to the Columbia and other rivers in the region to spawn.2

The later the peak occurs, the more difficult it will be for China to comply with the emissions budget.