Sentences with phrase «warming potentials in»
A global phase - down could avoid 1.1 — 1.7 billion metric tons CO2 equivalent (CO2 equivalent is a measure used to compare impacts of greenhouse gases based on their global warming potential in relation to CO2) of GHG emissions per year by 2030, with cumulative emission reductions of nearly 100 billion metric tons CO2 equivalent by 2050.
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Global warming potential in 2030 in the high - growth scenario suggests that short - lived forcing of ~ 4.5 gigatons of black carbon from Arctic shipping may increase the global warming potential due to ships» carbon dioxide emissions (~ 42,000 gigagrams) by some 17 - 78 percent.
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Neither the World Economic Forum in its Global Risk Report nor the International Monetary Fund in its World Economic Outlook have recognized the potential that increased warming in the Arctic poses, the authors note.
In a warming climate, scientists see increasing potential for epic deluges like the one that swamped Houston and last year's devastating rains around Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
As climate change and global warming open up the Arctic to greater human and commercial activity, international interest in accessing and exploiting the region's economic potential has risen dramatically over the past decade.
Given Tesla Motors Inc's (NASDAQ: TSLA) potential positive catalysts, including the January 4 launch of Gigafactory, a potential Model 3 launch in the summer of 2017 and depressed sentiment on the name, Pacific Crest's Brad Erickson is «warming to the name.»
«For anyone driven crazy by the faux warm and fuzzy PR of the so - called sharing economy Steven Hill's Raw Deal: How the «Uber Economy» and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.»
Friendship between humans, the potential fecundity in the intimacy between sexual lovers, and the warm relationship of a mother and her child are each fragments of the Divine love.
«It also gives you a window into how much product you had in the warmer, and what the potential lost sales were,» he says.
The LCA examined the effects of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.
When food waste decomposes in a landfill, it generates methane, a potent greenhouse gas with 21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.
Latest Forecast Suggests «Godzilla El Niño» May Be Coming to California: The strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched California...
The weather in Houston calls for a warm February day, though pockets of thunderstorms loping across the state brought the potential of a rainy backdrop for the big game.
As I mentioned previously Wenger's faith in the goalkeeper has provided us with the potential of a unique and rather heart - warming story: an opportunity for a player to fight for redemption despite being written off by almost everyone.
He has worked with hundreds of clients in his private practice in Greenwich Village, NY and around the world, gaining a reputation for drawing out the best potential in people and organizations through his warm, genuine, insightful, solution focused style.
The only major potential drawback of baby wipe warmers is the simple fact that they are a piece of electrical equipment that heats up and is often in close contact to water and wet surfaces.
In Kimberly Johnson's new book entitled The Fourth Trimester: A postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions & Restoring Your Vitality Johnson writes, «there are many potential benefits to vaginal steaming postpartum, including warming the body, healing the placental site, and aiding in clearing out any residue in the uteruIn Kimberly Johnson's new book entitled The Fourth Trimester: A postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions & Restoring Your Vitality Johnson writes, «there are many potential benefits to vaginal steaming postpartum, including warming the body, healing the placental site, and aiding in clearing out any residue in the uteruin clearing out any residue in the uteruin the uterus.
«A modest reduction in flows at Hinckley right now will alleviate any further threat from current low levels and the potential impact of the warm - weather months to come.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged New Yorkers to take precautions against potential flooding in the wake of warmer temperatures and freezing rain expected across the state Thursday and Friday.
Jing Helmersson shows in her doctoral dissertation that if climate change is held within the framework of the Paris agreement on a maximum of two degrees of warming, the Aedes aegypti mosquito will only be provided the potential to spread in southern small regions of Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece.
«Although most of the macrophyte carbon is released back to the atmosphere in the same form that it is assimilated, carbon dioxide, some of it is actually exported to the ocean as dissolved carbon or released to the atmosphere as methane, a gas that has a warming potential 20 times larger than carbon dioxide,» said John Melack, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
«In sperm whales, and likely other whales and dolphins, culture has the potential to affect population biology, and so issues as diverse as genetic evolution and the impacts of global warming on the species.»
That includes the potential for abrupt climate change and the factors amplifying warming in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.
The research adds one important data point to the ongoing question of how much methane, a greenhouse gas with a warming potential 25 times that of carbon dioxide, is emitted in the life cycle of natural gas production, transport and use.
Dr Meleady, a lecturer in psychology, added: «If similar interventions were to be implemented in comparable situations in other cities and countries, the potential contribution to reducing air pollution, improving short and long term health, and reducing effects of global warming could be substantial.»
Excessive swings in the world's climate patterns include the potential of increasing global warming and sea level rise.
The researchers detected a «significant regional flux» of methane, a greenhouse gas with about 30 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 100 - year period, coming from an area of gas wells in southwestern Pennsylvania.
[So] there is potential that these tremendous stores of carbon in these soils can be a positive feedback for more warming.»
«Moreover, the latest developments in climate science lend greater urgency to the case for action: Effects on natural systems are already being observed and recent findings concerning the potential scope and magnitude of damages from future warming are increasingly worrisome,» the report says.
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.
Scientists have been interested in the effects of pollution on Arctic clouds because of their potential warming effect.
The DOE panel found too little analysis and data on the potential global warming impact of a long - term gas boom in the United States, and it called on industry and government to work together on a comprehensive study.
350 ppm, while merely a number, represents humanity's potential capacity to solve the most pressing problem it has faced; it also represents a target for international negotiators to aim for in forging an effective global warming treaty.
Inertia toward continued emissions creates potential 21st - century global warming that is comparable in magnitude to that of the largest global changes in the past 65 million years but is orders of magnitude more rapid.
Coral reefs can't find a strong purchase in the eastern tropical Pacific thanks to more acidic waters — a potential precursor of what the ocean will be like under global warming
«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global warming this year.
Meanwhile, six AC manufacturers in India have already begun «leapfrogging» to hydrocarbon - based coolants such as R - 290 — refrigerant - grade propane — that have lower warming potential, says Anjali Jaiswal, the San Francisco, California - based director of the India Initiative at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
In a statement published after the experiment was completed, the Alfred Wegener Institute, where Smetacek works, said the results «dampened hopes on the potential of the Southern Ocean to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide and thus mitigate global warming.»
Warmer, wetter conditions in the Arctic are accelerating the loss of carbon stored in tundra and permafrost soils, creating a potential positive feedback that further boosts global temperatures, a Dartmouth College study finds.
«With land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative.
Climate Interactive, meanwhile, wants to enable people to follow INDCs — and their potential impact on warming — in near real - time.
«A bioreactor containing anaerobic methane and ammonium oxidizing microorganisms can be used to simultaneously convert ammonium, methane and oxidized nitrogen in wastewater into harmless nitrogen gas and carbon dioxide, which has much lower global warming potential.»
In addition to highlighting the victories and losses in conservation since 2006, when the last edition came out, the book includes 33 essays from experts, ranging from NASA climatologist James Hansen's thoughts on global warming to futurist Stephen Aldrich's musings on the potential for artificial life - formIn addition to highlighting the victories and losses in conservation since 2006, when the last edition came out, the book includes 33 essays from experts, ranging from NASA climatologist James Hansen's thoughts on global warming to futurist Stephen Aldrich's musings on the potential for artificial life - formin conservation since 2006, when the last edition came out, the book includes 33 essays from experts, ranging from NASA climatologist James Hansen's thoughts on global warming to futurist Stephen Aldrich's musings on the potential for artificial life - forms.
Fortunately, a fair amount of this warming potential has been off - set by cooling from pollution in the air.
«We're now facing the potential for a warming of 2ºC or more in less than two centuries,» said Dr Dunkley Jones, «this is more than an order of magnitude faster than warming at the start of the PETM.
To make matters worse, some of those excess nitrate molecules in the soil undergo another chemical change: Microbes help turn nitrate into gaseous nitrous oxide, which has roughly 300 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.
«A warm western Europe requires a cold North Atlantic Ocean, and the warming that the North Atlantic is now experiencing has the potential to result in a cooling over western Europe,» says professor G.W.K. Moore of UTM's Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences.
The best suited locations are warm and humid regions, particularly in India, Brazil, South East Asia, and China, where almost three quarters of the global potential could be realized.
The warming, melting and potential contributions to sea level rise from glaciers in Greenland and West Antarctica in the face of climate change has long since been a serious concern.
We are not opposed to research into assisted migration as a potential, last - ditch response to climate change, particularly if the rate of warming is such that a rapid decline in coral cover occurs.