Sentences with phrase «additional greenhouse gases»

We can reduce our environmental impact since food waste puts unnecessary pressure on land and natural resources and results in additional greenhouse gas emissions.

Adding billions of tonnes of additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year is loading the climate dice.

That extra driving could require enough extra fuel and generate enough additional greenhouse gas emissions to offset the respective savings provided by the hybrid vehicle in the first place.

...... when you add additional greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

However, if (again, as nearly every single climate change scientist believes is the case) current and future increases in temperature are the result of human activity then the first course of action is to change these activities to minimize and / or eliminate releasing additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

The biologists predict that a temperature rise of 1 degree Celsius leads to 6 - 20 percent higher emission of methane bubbles, which in turn leads to additional greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and to an additional temperature increase.

However, while displacing all fossil fuel power plants with solar and wind farms is necessary in curbing the flow of additional greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, it does nothing to capture the prevailing stock of greenhouse gases that has already accumulated.

But Waxman says that the analysis failed to include the effects of additional greenhouse gas pollution.

Lindzens» idea requires reduced cirrus formation in the tropics, which in turn requires a reduction in water vapor in the upper troposphere as heat is added, the idea being that some sort of balance point is quickly reached where more forcing from additional greenhouse gases will cease to have much of an effect.

It is simply that after accounting as best one can for the influence of the sun you still can't match the observed climate over the past ~ 30 - 50 years without including the effects of additional greenhouse gas forcing.

For about the first decade after human influences disappeared, the temperature rose very quickly (as aerosols were eliminated from the atmosphere) but then dropped back down (as additional greenhouse gases were eliminated).

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's new synthesis report adds urgency to the need to cut additional greenhouse gas pollution

In fact, in its own legal brief, Ecology was transparent about its authority to do more if it wanted: «Ecology does not argue that it lacks the authority to adopt additional greenhouse gas emission standard [s] if it chooses to do so.

OE: In the course of the 21st century it is not the fossil fuels that will become rare, it is the ability of the atmosphere to absorb additional greenhouse gases.

The progression of experiments including additional forcings has continued and new experiments with additional greenhouse gases (such as ozone, CFCs, etc., as well as CO2) will be assessed in this chapter.

Even so, other experts say a full life - cycle assessment would be required to ensure that solving the plastic problem in this way wouldn't lead to other problems, like additional greenhouse gas emissions.

It's not new information that the melted ice will change sea levels, ocean circulation patterns and water supplies, as well as release additional greenhouse gasses thanks to melted permafrost.

Everyone benefits: GM maximizes the value of that leftover material; Blue Star Steel saves money buying scrap steel, and the environment is spared additional greenhouse gas emissions from a foundry.

The refinery was slated to emit more mercury, selenium and sulfur flare gas than before, in addition to as much as 900,000 tons of additional greenhouse gases per year.

Partly that reflects the fact that costs begin rapidly to escalate beyond that amount of warming; partly it reflects the possibility (discussed in considerable detail by Mr. Lynas) that that may be enough warming to trigger climate feedbacks that would make yet more warming inevitable even without additional greenhouse gas emissions.

That extra driving could require enough extra fuel and generate enough additional greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to offset the savings in both that were provided by the hybrid vehicle in the first place.

I have read further and found that the term tipping point in the realm of climate science can refer to many things such as ancient ice melting to the point of releasing additional greenhouse gases.

Understanding the significance of this last fact relies on the appreciation that displacing all fossil fuel power plants with solar and wind farms, while necessary in curbing the flow of additional greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, does nothing to capture the prevailing stock of greenhouse gases accumulated from 150 years of industrialization and that will remain in the atmosphere for upwards of a hundred or more years to come.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimated that Keystone XL tar sands oil would result in additional greenhouse gas emissions of 27 million metric tons annually compared with conventional oil.

In terms of additional greenhouse gas emissions, producing fuel from oil shale produces eight times the emissions of making fuel from conventional sources of petroleum.

At a cost of less than 3 cents per kilowatt - hour, tornado energy is cheaper than burning coal (which rings up at 4 or 5 cents per kwh) and produces no additional greenhouse gases.

As for the non-CO2 forcings, it is noteworthy that greenhouse gases controlled by the Montreal Protocol are now decreasing, and recent agreement has been achieved to use the Montreal Protocol to phase out production of some additional greenhouse gases even though those gases do not affect the ozone layer.

«Basic atmospheric models clearly predict that additional greenhouse gasses will raise the temperature of Earth.

The hypothesis in this paper is that the ice albedo response and possibly the additional greenhouse gas feedback could respond much more quickly if the energy imbalance is larger, as it is right now with our forcing of additional CO2 into the atmosphere.

As a result, without any additional greenhouse gases, the Arctic soon will be ice - free in the summer.

Models have also been applied to the question of how the climate system will react to additional greenhouse gases.

This misalignment creates cost inefficiencies and additional greenhouse gas emissions.

However, as co-advisor Mark Fulton says, «KXL will improve revenues in the short - term which means that it will help catalyse new investment, more oil - sands production and additional greenhouse gas emissions».

BH: Some of them are talking about climate sensitivity at 1.2 C, at 1.5 C. I think this is completely implausible because the basic energetics of the climate system responding to the additional greenhouse gas emissions almost from simple physics, has to be at least 1.2 C and possibly more before you begin to take into account any of the feedbacks in the system from water vapour in clouds and so on.

As for the non-CO2 forcings, it is noteworthy that greenhouse gases controlled by the Montreal Protocol are now decreasing, and recent agreement has been achieved to use the Montreal Protocol to phase out production of some additional greenhouse gases even though those gases do not affect the ozone layer.