Sentences with phrase «affected by greenhouse gases»

Minimum night - time temperatures, on the other hand, are more affected by greenhouse gases and therefore should not be affected by aerosols.

The slowdown in the upward march of global average temperatures has been greeted by climate skeptics as evidence that the climate is less affected by greenhouse gases than thought.

[Response: Well, something like a circulation changed forced by the NAO pattern (which may in turn be affected by greenhouse gases) might cause an increase in European air temperatures, which in turn would allow low level moisture to increase if there is enough moisture supply, which would then constitute an amplification of a signal driven remotely.

Aim of the study The objective of this study was to estimate how global food supply might be affected by greenhouse gas induced climate change up to the year 2060.

Not exact matches

By supporting Meat Free Monday, Baker says edie is sending a signal that it understands one of the most significant issues affecting the planet today, in terms of harmful greenhouse gases, land use and water wastage.

While recognising that all countries are affected by the effects of climate change under «One Planet» but some are more vulnerable, the summit seeks for tangible collective action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Compiled by scientists at 13 federal agencies, it contains the results of thousands of studies showing that climate change caused by greenhouse gases is affecting weather in every part of the United States, causing average temperatures to rise dramatically since the 1980s.

Released yesterday by the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the finalized guidance recommends that agencies both calculate direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions of a project and assess how climate change might affect a project (Greenwire, Aug. 2).

The data is important for climate change models, since the emissions released by thawing permafrost could significantly affect levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

«As powerful as the cycle is, it is also surprisingly susceptible to environmental changes — and humankind is imposing massive perturbations on Amazonia by both cutting down the trees and heating up the air with greenhouse gases, which reduces large - scale moisture transport and precipitation, and end up affecting even the untouched patches of the forests.»

Of course, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is also affected by another potent greenhouse gas — methane — which has unexpectedly failed to increase in recent years.

The water loss could affect the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by the region's ecosystems.

Their work aimed to address a longstanding disagreement over how climate change caused by the emission of greenhouse gasses will affect forest ecosystems.

While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long - term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases,» said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt.

The delayed action is a property of the climate system, which also affects greenhouse gases, and is caused by the oceans which act as a flywheel due to their great heat capacity and thermal inertia.

If one accepts Ruddiman's hypothesis, one implicitly agrees that: i) CO2 and CH4 can be affected by human activity, ii) greenhouse gases have a significant forcing role, and iii) climate sensitivity is in the ballpark of mainstream estimates.

Nonetheless, our sea - level rise projections for the first half of this century are not strongly affected by the way Antarctica is modeled, nor are they strongly tied to global greenhouse gas emissions trends.

Greenhouse gas levels may also have been affected by other factors which have been proposed as causes of ice ages, such as the movement of continents and vulcanism.

Note that while results from fingerprint detection approaches will be affected by uncertainty in separation between greenhouse gas and aerosol forcing, the resulting uncertainty in estimates of the near - surface temperature response to greenhouse gas forcing is relatively small (Sections 9.2.3 and 9.4.1.4).

In addition, both internal variability and aerosol forcing are likely to affect tropical storms in large part though changes in ocean temperature gradients (thereby changing ITCZ position and vertical shear), while greenhouse gases likely exert their influence by more uniformly changing ocean and tropospheric temperatures, so the physics of the problem may suggest this decomposition as more natural as well.

They'll do this by collecting data about local trees and analyzing and interpreting data about deforestation and reforestation, which will serve as the example in this lesson of one set of activities that can affect levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

He made his points after joining a panel organized by Unicef to explore the need for any new international climate agreement to consider how decisions on flows of greenhouse gases or money affect people, particularly the poorest communities and least enabled sectors of society (women and children).

Such close linkages between CO2 concentration and climate variability are consistent with modelling results suggesting with high confidence that glacial — interglacial variations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases [CH4, N2O] explain a considerable fraction of glacial — interglacial climate variability in regions not directly affected by the northern hemisphere continental ice sheets (Timmermann et al., 2009; Shakun et al., 2012).

Along with the threatened listing for polar bears, the Bush administration was able to issue a related special rule exempting greenhouse - gas emissions from being affected by the species law.

Greenhouse gases produced mainly by the burning of fossil fuels are altering the atmosphere in ways that affect earth's climate, and it is likely that they have «contributed substantially to the observed warming over the last 50 years,» an international panel of climate scientists has concluded.

But Mr. Kempthorne stressed that the decision was made under some duress, that oil and gas operations were not harmful to the bears and that the Endangered Species Act listing would not affect policy on greenhouse gases (even though the model shows that a continuing decline in the bears» sea - ice habitat were all driven by rising greenhouse gases).

Researchers are confident that they understand the cycle of Ice Ages, and they also have a clear idea that the biosphere plays a hand in keeping the planet at liveable temperatures, but they also know that the high altitudes are more than usually affected by climate change driven by ever - higher ratios of greenhouse gases released by the combustion of fossil fuels by seven billion humans.

The unjust truth is that, as Mr. Hollande put, «the poorest countries with the lowest greenhouse gas emissions are the most vulnerable and are even further affected [by climate change].»

From The Guardian: «The connection to the chemical firm Solvay suggests opposition to action on global warming, once spearheaded by big oil, is spreading to other industries that will also be affected by proposals to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases.»

By destroying ozone (itself a greenhouse gas) in the stratosphere, CFCs also affect the climate indirectly in ways that are still not fully understood.

It would have to be something that affected the net heat balance of the earth by affecting incoming radiation (solar inputs, aerosols, clouds), the reflectivity of the earth (ice caps, land use changes) or the ability of the surface to cool (greenhouse gases).

I have been collected my kind of evidence (global weather news) for a few decades, particularly since about 2004, and was irritated at the assertion that forest health has not been affected by heat - trapping greenhouse gas accumulation and it's manifold consequences.

Increasing amounts of sea ice and clouds could reflect more sunlight back into space, but Wally Broecker suggests that a major greenhouse gas is disturbed by the far - north failure of the salt conveyor, and that this affects the amount of heat retained.

It affects the climate and future geology by its use of fuels that produce greenhouse gases.

Degradation of near - surface permafrost (perennially frozen ground) caused by modern climate change is adversely affecting human infrastructure, altering Arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact Arctic hydrological processes and increase greenhouse gas emissions.

One of the problems with the EPA's Endangerment TSD is the nearly complete disregard of observed trends in a wide array of measures which by and large show that despite decades of increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions the U.S. population does not seem to have been adversely affected by any vulnerabilities, risks, and impacts that may have arisen (to the extent that any at all have actually occurred as the result of any human - induced climate changes).

As the «science of doom» article explains why this is so and tells us, «this value is not affected by «greenhouse» gases».

While CO2 is indeed a greenhouse gas, increasing concentrations of which may be expected to have (other things being equal) a warming effect, scientists disagree about how large that effect may be (this is particularly affected by ignorance of the effect of clouds).

We now know that for a decade the Howard Government's policies have been not so much influenced but actually written by a tiny cabal of powerful fossil fuel lobbyists representing the very corporations whose commercial interests would be affected by any move to reduce Australia's burgeoning greenhouse gas emissions.

If interception by solar wind of extrasolarsystem alien space invading cosmic rays affects climate on earth, where we have thick layers of ionosphere, stratosphere & troposphere, can climatic cycles here be compared & contrasted with those on Mars, the density of whose atmosphere resembles our stratosphere & of course whose composition is largely of «greenhouse gases»?

Directly there's it being a strong greenhouse gas and impacting ocean pH. Beyond that other things get affected indirectly too (eg sea level rise from the warming caused by the strong greenhouse effect, carbonate issues with rising ocean pH).

The observed current U.S. cooling trend is not a prediction, but it does indicate that the continental landmass is affected by powerful, non-CO2 greenhouse gas factors that may continue for the near future.

Friends of the Earth is highly concerned that the countries and people who have contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions will be the worst affected by the climate crisis.

Urban areas are both greatly affected by the impacts of climate change and major contributors to the emission of greenhouse gases.

«While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long - term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases,» he added.

Her research found that global warming will affect 86 percent of the world's oceans by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions aren't dramatically cut soon.

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.

«Evidence was presented by Dr. Ross McKitrick and others indicated the popular surface temperature data sets were affected by warming not likely to be caused by greenhouse gases.»

The El Ninos have become increasingly severe and frequent through the 1980s and 1990, leading to suggestions that they are being affected by global warming, caused by an increase in heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the upper atmosphere.

A simple, coherent and apparently accurate analogy suggesting that humans can not significantly affect Earth's climate by changing the amount of CO2 or other greenhouse gases in the air.