Sentences with phrase «about increased emissions»

Today environmental groups expressed concerns about increased emissions from cars that the Indian middle class can now afford — ignoring the fact that these vehicles would hardly qualify as cars by our own standards.

But community activists are worried about increased emissions and health threats.

Not exact matches

A $ 30 per tonne carbon price, as is currently in place in B.C., applied on emissions, would increase processing costs by about 12 cents per gigajoule.

Since 2008, a renaissance in electric vehicle manufacturing has occurred due to advances in batteries and energy management, concerns about increasing oil prices, and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

As international awareness about the environmental costs of producing and eating meat increases — The United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the meat industry generates nearly one - fifth of the man - made greenhouse gas emissions that are accelerating climate change worldwide — the work of RiceBran Technologies is supporting environmental sustainability and combating waste while globally providing a nutritious source of protein, carbohydrates, healthy oil and dietary fiber as food ingredients.

New crib mattresses release about four times as many VOCs as old crib mattresses, the team found, and body heat increases emissions.

Case 4: Global warming is NOT due to increased CO2 emissions, and we do nothing about our emissions.

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

The administration has said hydropower could provide about 1,000 MW of replacement energy and transmission upgrades and energy efficiency, along with other renewable resources, will ensure the plant is replaced without increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

The findings are the first to note increased greenhouse gas emissions due to antibiotic use in cattle; a recent study suggests that methane emissions from cud - chewing livestock worldwide, including cows, account for about 4 % of the greenhouse gas emissions related to human activity.

To be more specific, the models project that over the next 20 years, for a range of plausible emissions, the global temperature will increase at an average rate of about 0.2 degree C per decade, close to the observed rate over the past 30 years.

«If you went back to 1850 and repeated history» — meaning the same volcanic eruptions, the same solar variability, the same greenhouse gas emissions — «the overall temperature increase would be about the same, but you would end up with somewhat different temperature records due to the inherent randomness in the climate.»

Increasing dependence on brown coal has raised doubts about whether Berlin will hit its medium - term CO2 emission goals.

According to government projections, the price cut will increase demand for electricity and push up emissions of CO2 by about half a million tonnes a year.

The study shows that by century's end, absent serious reductions in global emissions, the most extreme, once - in -25-years heat waves would increase from wet - bulb temperatures of about 31 C to 34.2 C. «It brings us close to the threshold» of survivability, he says, and «anything in the 30s is very severe.»

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

At least two studies published since 2010 — one report from the United Nations Environment Programme in 2011 and a follow - up published in Science last year — suggested that significantly reducing the emissions of soot and methane could trim human - caused warming by at least 0.5 °C (0.9 ° F) by 2050, compared with an increase of about 1 °C if those emissions continued unabated.

The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1.0 degree Celsius) since the late - 19th century, a change largely driven by increased carbon dioxide and other human - made emissions into the atmosphere.

«To mitigate the effects of climate change, we can talk about two types of options: to attack it at its origin, by eliminating or reducing the human factors that contribute to it (such as, reducing emissions, controlling pollution, etc.) or developing strategies that allow for its effects to be reduced, such as, in the case that concerns us, increasing green areas in cities, using, for example, the tops of buildings as green roofs,» states the University of Seville researcher, Luis Pérez Urrestarazu.

From his measurements, he calculates that the emissions have already increased to 620 metric tons in 2008, which is about 16 percent of the 4,000 metric tons that Prather estimates will be produced and used this year.

However, cutting emissions so that global temperatures increase by no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit) could reduce those impacts by half, with about a quarter of the state's natural vegetation affected.

Despite an expected increase in coal consumption in the United States this year, domestic emissions are expected to have declined by about a half a percent this year.

The reason for the increase, the report suggests, falls largely on China, whose 2017 emissions are projected to grow by about 3.5 percent, thanks to increases in the consumption of coal, oil and natural gas.

Either way, the effect is to increase the bandgap from about 1 electronvolt for crystalline silicon to between 2 and 3 electronvolts for porous silicon, enough to shift the emission from the infrared into the visible range.

India is also projected to see an increase in emissions by about 2 percent.

The What We Know report further states that «according to the IPCC, given the current pathway for carbon emissions the high end of the «likely» range for the expected increase in global temperature is about 8 ˚ F by the end of the century.

Beginning about 1850, industrial emissions resulted in a sevenfold increase in ice - core BC concentrations, with most change occurring in winter.

Since then, there have been many theories about the structure and emission mechanism of Sgr A *, but, in the past few years, astronomers have found increasing evidence that it is a supermassive black hole.

Between the 80's and the 90's, man - made emissions of carbon from fosil fuels increased from about 5 billion tons per year to about 6.5 billion tons per year, which means a 30 % increase in how much CO2 we put into the atmosphere yearly.

As it turned out, the world's temperature has risen about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F) and mainstream scientists continue to predict, with increasing urgency, that if emissions are not curtailed, carbon pollution would lock in warming of as much as 3 to 6 °C (or 5 to 11 °F) over the next several decades.

By comparison, scenarios for fossil fuel emissions for the 21st century range from about 600 billion tons (if we can keep total global emissions at current levels) to over 2500 billion tons if the world increases its reliance on combustion of coal as economic growth and population increase dramatically.

And finally, what about Mark's questions (# 3) and other factors not discussed here — do all these effects re Arctic ice lead scientists to believe there is a greater and / or earlier chance (assuming we continue increasing our GHG emissions — business as usual) of melting hydrates and permafrost releasing vast stores of methane into the atmosphere than scientists believed before the study, or is the assessment of this about the same, or scientists are not sure if this study indicates a greater / lesser / same chance of this?

«If we assume an optimistic scenario for greenhouse gas emissions — the RCP 2.6 scenario, [see Fact Box] which would result in a warming of about two degrees Celsius — then we can expect an increase in sea level similar to what we see in this video,» says climate modeller Martin Stendel from the Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen.

Marine scientists who met in Monaco in October 2008 released a strong statement on January 30, 2009 about ocean acidification accelerating due to increasing carbon emissions caused by human - induced climate change.

It is shown that if global methane emissions were to increase by factors of 2.5 and 5.2 above current emissions, the indirect contributions to RF would be about 250 % and 400 %, respectively, of the RF that can be attributed to directly emitted methane alone.

The most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates for greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and natural gas sector, released last week, show that as the number of such facilities have increased in the U.S. between 2011 and 2014, total greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas operations have risen by about 6.2 percent.

A lot of hay has been made recently about how sad it is that 30 years after cars like the Excel, we've only achieved moderate increases in fuel economy, but emissions have decreased dramatically.

We are talking about an increase in power of about 15 - 20 percent, while the CO2 emissions and the fuel consumption are also said to be reduced.

So if, hypothetically, human activities had instead cut CO2 emissions and increased CO2 SOC / Vegetation by a combined amount of 2.2 GtC / year evenly across every month of 2017 then the Annual Mean Growth Rate for 2017 would have been about -0.27 PPM / Yr.

Between the 80's and the 90's, man - made emissions of carbon from fosil fuels increased from about 5 billion tons per year to about 6.5 billion tons per year, which means a 30 % increase in how much CO2 we put into the atmosphere yearly.

Thus about 43 % of the annual FF + cement emissions of roughly 10Gt (C) increase atmospheric CO2 by about 2ppm, to which should be added an increase due to emissions from Land Use Change.

For all that I admire about realclimate, it remains quire sedate, and respectable; even when the ice is melting much faster than the models predicted; even when global CO2 emissions are increasing faster than the models assumed.

There are some painful, and even dire, concerns expressed about the potential that Greenland ice sheets could be «entirely lost» if emissions continue at a business - as - usual pace; about the rate of sea - level rise increasing «faster and faster with time»; and about the planet's ice sheets likely becoming «more active» over coming decades than they have been over recent decades.

Emissions due to these fires showed up in the observations as increases in both CO2 and CO, and were estimated at about 0.8 GtC / yr.

If nations continue to increase their emissions of greenhouse gases in a «business - as - usual» scenario, the U.S. ratio of daily record high to record low temperatures would increase to about 20 to 1 by midcentury and 50 to 1 by 2100.

Because that's about how much time we have to stop the increase in greenhouse gas emissions and begin steep reductions that will bring emissions to near zero within another ten years at most, if we are to have any hope of avoiding the most catastrophic consequences of global warming.

Dan Rather said, «increased CO2 emissions anywhere represents a threat to human civilization everywhere» and furthers the false notion that the earth is about mankind.

The comments about rich versus poor give me an opportunity to replay a letter I wrote to a newspaper yesterday — a scientist from a corporation with a very strong climate policy mentioned that affluence increases per capita emissions.

A new report though shows that the shipping industry not only need not worry about emission reduction programs increasing their costs; in fact, deploying methods to cut emissions could actually save the industry money: That's the word coming via WWF of the International Maritime Organisation.

Yet, as Ashley Ballantyne's work shows, current vegetation levels are still soaking up about have the carbon emissions, even as emission rates have increased.