Sentences with phrase «already in the atmosphere»

Whereas the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere will contribute to warming the planet for many decades to come, Ramanathan says, the good news about warming agents such as black carbon is that they don't linger in the atmosphere for more than a few weeks.

Ocean acidification represents one of the most serious long - term threats to coral reef ecosystems and will continue through this century, irrespective of progress in reducing emissions due to the amount of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

An El - Nino does not create heat — it redistributes heat that is already in the atmosphere - ocean system.

2) don't even attempt to address the mathematically indisputable (as far as I can see) fact that grassland sequestration can not come close to offsetting the current levels of carbon emissions, much less reduce the excess carbon already in the atmosphere (at least not while said emissions continue).

We need to be thinking way beyond «green» that does nothing to reduce the expanding overload of carbon dioxide mainly and other GHGs already in the atmosphere.

Finally, we may want to consider acknowledging the fact that the industrialized nations are responsible for most of the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere.

We know that all countries, including ours, will have to adapt to the climate disruptions that are inevitable because of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere.

«A bipartisan solution is needed to reduce carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

Afterall, a * third * of all the extra greenhouse gas already in the atmosphere were produced by the US in the past 100 years or so.

Two other catalysts have been reported in the last year, but the USA is staying mired in a mess with bioethanol and other useless biofuels programs that just recycle carbon dioxide rather ineffectively and do nothing to actually reduce some of the overload of that gas already in the atmosphere.

The amount of CO2 / methane already in the atmosphere presents us with a future of temperature rise that is locked in.

The report stressed that the presence of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere should be addressed.

Even if greenhouse gas emissions were completely stopped today, most of the world's glaciers would still disappear or dwindle to remnants by the end of this century, just from the CO2 that's already in the atmosphere, while the polar ice caps will likely keep shrinking for centuries to come.

We've only had 0.8 C warming since humanity started burning fossil fuels and we're already committed over the next 100 years to another 0.6 C warming with what's already in the atmosphere because of the huge time lags in the climate system.

We must begin the enormous task of safely drawing down the excess greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere.

With 2.2 trillion tons of CO2 already in the atmosphere (causing the severe earth - warming CO2 greenhouse effect), even if we stopped CO2 production completely, it would, still, take about 20 + years to bring atmospheric CO2 concentration into a normal range.

With the amount of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere, future emissions will need to be reduced by half to that of historical emissions to limit global average temperature rise to 2 °C.

One clear benefit of SRM is that it would begin cooling of the Earth immediately, whereas large cuts in greenhouse gas emissions will take many decades before the climate responds, since time is required for CO2 already in the atmosphere to break down.

One of the first populous countries to industrialize, the U.S. was the leading producer of CO2 for all of the 20th century, and thus is responsible for the biggest share (about 28 percent) of cumulative heat - trapping emissions already in the atmosphere.

All that CO2 already in the atmosphere persists, and it continues to lock us into warming that is taking us closer to climate tipping points.

Europe is responsible for a large proportion of the emissions that are already in the atmosphere.

13 IPCC 2001 1850-2000 ~ 0.6 o C Warming; 0.4 o C per century * mostly warming from CO 2 already in atmosphere 2000 - 2030 ~ 0.6 o C Warming; 2.0 o C per century *

CO2 is already in the atmosphere naturally, so why are emissions from human activity significant?

In order to keep temperatures within this range, the IPCCâ $ ™ s Fourth Assessment Report argues that global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must start declining by 2015.2 For industrialized countries, which are responsible for most of the GHGs already in the atmosphere, this implies implementing drastic cuts immediately; the latest IPCC Report suggests that compared to 1990 levels, industrialized countries might have to reduce their emissions by 25 to 40 per cent by 2020 and 80 to 95 per cent by 2050.3 Thus, there is little time left to avoid the worst impacts of climate changeâ $» ambitious action is required now.

Thirdly, the temperature several decades from now is to a large extent already determined by the current energy imbalance due to the extra CO2 already in the atmosphere right now, so short of a complete cessation of emissions today, there is no foreseeable way to avoid the bulk of the warming that is «in the pipeline».

Scientists know the oceans will continue to expand — and rise — because heat - trapping gases already in the atmosphere will continue to raise the temperature of the oceans.

The best response to anthropogenic carbon already in the atmosphere is to take it from the air and sequester it in degraded soils — of which we have globally a significant supply.

To have a reasonable chance of staying below two degrees C in coming decades, cumulative emissions must not exceed 2,900 billion tonnes of CO2, the IPCC says, and 69 percent of that is already in the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

As Tillich has indicated, the ability to confess deeply requires a relationship and an atmosphere in which forgiveness is already present.

Much needed is research beyond that already completed which will develop guidelines for improving the church's many roles in community health — from meeting the existential crises of being human and belonging to social groups and facing anxiety and dread, to providing more efficiently the «learning atmosphere» for a religious style - of - life.

One reason, therefore, for the «absolutely new atmosphere» in the New Testament is to be found in this vivid apprehension of eternal life as a present possession, so real that he who has it has already received Christ's second coming, passed through the judgment, and been raised from the dead.

We put gases in the atmosphere, those gases do exactly what we already know they'll do, and we face the consequences for it.

Especially for big batches of MAP - packed fresh cut products, this is an economic solution because the testing gases can either be added to the protective gas or are already contained in the protective atmosphere.

Ibrahimovic's experience and quality would be vital in that regard, but Ranieri has already insisted that he will not sign big names as he wants to protect the current atmosphere and mentality in the dressing room.

If at all anything, the toxic atmosphere you've imagined will bubble against Le Prof is already nuetralized from bubbling as the Gunners have sworn by the name of Arsenal they'll beat the Reds to the collection of all the 3 points that will be put at stake in the game for collections at Anfield tomorrow by the Premier League management board in conjunction with the FA.

Combined Villa and Wolves have scored 118 league goals already this campaign, and while the outcome is difficult to decide goals should be certain in what should be a pulsating atmosphere.

There's bound to be an electric atmosphere at Anfield where Liverpool have already beaten City 4 - 3 this season in the Premier League.

Some of Maslov's players referred to him as Granddad or Grandpa, and the creation of a family atmosphere can be seen already at Liverpool in Klopp's actions towards his players after a game.

Attendants usually range from 4 to 10 people and are usually already interested in making the switch to cloth, they just need that little bit of encouragement and an atmosphere where they can touch and feel the different styles of diapers without having to commit to anything.

The row over what nationalist have claimed is an attempt to secure unionist votes in a hung Westminster parliament has poisoned an already toxic atmosphere at Stormont.

When the Cornell researchers suggested the presence of azotosomes on Titan, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen had already been detected in abundance in the moon's atmosphere.

Biello: A lot of scientists that I've spoken to think we have no chance of meeting 450 ppm given that we haven't done hardly anything to change our course and there are other scientists who say that we have already well past kind of the safe point for concentration of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

This means that the science of climate change may partially undergo a shift of its own, moving from trying to prove it is a problem (it is now «very likely» that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already caused enough warming to trigger stronger droughts, heat waves, more and bigger forest fires and more extreme storms and flooding) to figuring out ways to fix it.

Scientists Yangyang Xu and Veerabhadran Ramanathan found in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that there already exists a 1 in 20 chance that the 2.2 trillion tons of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere could cause an existential warming threat.

So the only carbon used would be that which already existed above the surface; it could no longer dangerously accumulate in the atmosphere.

The warming ocean and atmosphere that are already melting glaciers and ice sheets produce a catastrophic rise in the ocean.

Jupiter enthusiasts are already uploading images from backyard telescopes to a periodically updated global map that showcases the latest goings - on in Jupiter's atmosphere.

In the current atmosphere of fiscal constraint, the PPHF has become a target for raiding, and already, as part of a payroll - tax - cut extension that was signed into law by Obama on 22 February, Congress has cut the fund by 20 %, or $ 250 million, in 2013, and by a total of $ 6.25 billion to 202In the current atmosphere of fiscal constraint, the PPHF has become a target for raiding, and already, as part of a payroll - tax - cut extension that was signed into law by Obama on 22 February, Congress has cut the fund by 20 %, or $ 250 million, in 2013, and by a total of $ 6.25 billion to 202in 2013, and by a total of $ 6.25 billion to 2025.

«If there were only one - tenth as much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere initially, the climate forcing we are experiencing today would have already happened, in the year 1900.»

Measurements taken of Antarctic sheet ice show that the concentration of naturally occurring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was already 278 ppm in the 1750s before industrialization started in earnest.