Sentences with phrase «amount of this warming potential»

Fortunately, a fair amount of this warming potential has been off - set by cooling from pollution in the air.

Not exact matches

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.»

That year the U.S. released 7.40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e), a measure of the global warming potential of any greenhouse gas in terms of the amount of warming generated by CO2.

CO2 equivalents were calculated by adding the multiplications of the produced amounts of CH4 and N2O with their global warming potential; 25 for CH4, and 298 for N2O [1].

Indeed, snowfall is often predicted to increase in many regions in response to anthropogenic climate change, since warmer air, all other things being equal, holds more moisture, and therefore, the potential for greater amounts of precipitation whatever form that precipitation takes.

[* GtCO2e is billions of tons of carbon dioxide or the equivalent amount of other greenhouse gases when measured in terms of their potential to warm things up.]

«But it has dampened hopes on the potential of the Southern Ocean to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and thus mitigate global warming.»

Water levels are influenced by the amount of evaporation from decreased ice cover and warmer air temperatures, by evapotranspiration from warmer air temperatures, and by potential increases in inflow from more precipitation.

Because of its long life span and high global warming potential (GWP), even a relatively small amount of SF6 can impact the climate.

(07/21/2008) Shell Oil is funding a project that seeks to test the potential of adding lime to seawater as a cost - effective way to fight global warming by sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide in the world's oceans, reports Chemistry & Industry magazine.

In very short form (recognizing that I will write somewhat loosely for purposes of brevity in this setting), Weitzman's central claim is that the probability distribution of potential losses from global warming is «fat - tailed», or includes high enough odds of very large amounts of warming (200C or more) to justify taking expensive action now to avoid these low probability / high severity risks.

«One major concern about wildfires becoming more frequent in permafrost areas is the potential to put the vast amounts of carbon stored there at increased risk of being emitted and further amplify warming,» said Todd Sanford, a climate scientist at Climate Central and lead author of the group's newly released report on Alaskan wildfires, by e-mail.

On the one hand, science has to deal with potential feedback trends unleased by global warming — such the run - away melting of the arctic permafrost releasing massive amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane — that are essentially «unknowable», Pindyck wrote.

To make comparisons easier, we convert the global warming potential of all emissions to units of carbon dioxide equivalent, or CO2e — the amount of carbon dioxide required to produce an equivalent amount of warming.

The increased amount of water vapor not only contributes to extra warming, but may feed heavy precipitation events and act as fuel for potential hurricanes, if other conditions are right.

The numbers for each of the main gases (CO2, methane, nitrous oxide and high - global warming potential gases) are converted to the equivalent amount of CO2 that would produce warming - so allowing them to be compared and added together.