Sentences with phrase «as greenhouse gases build»

Satellite measurements show that this lowest layer of the atmosphere is warming as greenhouse gases build up and trap heat that radiates from the Earth's surface.

Click here, here and here for earlier coverage of the hurdles facing scientists trying to figure out how hurricanes will respond to rising sea temperatures and the other changes that are expected or possible as greenhouse gases build in the atmosphere.

However, the amount of snow and when it falls will likely change as greenhouse gases build up in

However, the amount of snow and when it falls will likely change as greenhouse gases build up in the atmosphere.

Under this scenario, as greenhouse gasses build up, and cause planetary warming, yet more greenhouse gasses are released which causes still more warming.

Not exact matches

Build on its record as the first government to achieve an absolute reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by working with provinces to reduce emissions from the oil and gas sectors while ensuring Canadian companies remain competitive.

As a key player in reducing greenhouse gases, carbon pricing is a crucial step towards building a credible climate action plan for many generations to come.

Building cities in a way that slows vehicle demand while delivering high accessibility could prove to be a low - cost option for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a solution to pressing problems for policymakers like local air pollution and poor public health.

Finding a plug for «leakage» Harstad's theory builds upon the concept of «carbon leakage,» which holds that countries opting out of climate agreements will produce more greenhouse gases as their neighbors take steps to ratchet down greenhouse gas emissions and regulate the sources of such emissions, like coal - burning industrial plants or motor vehicle fleets.

But as long as greenhouse gases continue to build up in the atmosphere unabated, the scales are heavily weighted toward more record heat, ever lower sea ice levels and ever higher seas.

Our descendants will pay a higher price for greenhouse gas build - up as real costs are updated over time

As part of its strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 °C (3.6 °F), the Obama administration unveiled a plan in September to build wind farms off of nearly every U.S. coastline by 2050 — enough turbines to generate zero - carbon electricity for more than 23 million homes.

But with energy use in commercial buildings accounting for nearly 20 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and oil prices rising, the EPA touts the program as a fiscally and environmentally sound corporate strategy.

As heat - trapping greenhouse gases build up in the atmosphere, heat waves come more often, potentially killing vulnerable populations like the poor and the elderly.

While an exceptionally strong El Niño helped to boost temperatures early in the year, most of the excess heat has built up over decades as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere.

The record - setting temperatures of 2016 have seen a small push from an exceptionally strong El Niño, but they are largely the result of the heat that has built up in the atmosphere over decades of unabated greenhouse gas emissions — as the spiral graphic makes clear.

The World Green Build Council believes that schools should be designed and operated for children's health, wellbeing and performance, as well as being energy efficient and with low greenhouse gas emissions.

Much of the rhetoric pressing for a new agreement was framed as «sealing the deal» on a new internationally legally - binding restriction on greenhouse gas emissions building on the model represented by the dead - end 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

I described potential pitfalls, including conflating rising exposure to climate - related hazards as populations in drought and flood zones rise with impacts of climate change from building greenhouse gases.

A task force assembled by the American Psychological Association hopes to spur more research on the role of the human mind in shaping the behaviors resulting in rising greenhouse - gas emissions as well as on traits that can impede an effective response to global warming and similar slow - building environmental risks.

Essentially, China and India, the emerging giants in the global greenhouse, are saying that any extra costs for them to divert from established trajectories for carbon dioxide emissions as they pursue prosperity must be covered by the established industrial powers, which still have many times greater emissions on a per - capita basis and spent a century freely adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in building their wealth.

There's more than enough research, including work in the peer - reviewed literature, to provide «Republic science and Democratic science» even as the case for concern about building greenhouse gases remains robust.

COPENHAGEN — As Mike Hulme of the University of East Anglia has written, global warming has entirely different definitions for many countries and factions tussling over the building blanket of human - generated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

I'd suggest the growing body of research concluding that what was once seen as an inevitable descent into the next ice age has been put off for a very long time by the building blanket of greenhouse gases generated by humanity's burst of fossil fuel combustion.

Who puts up the money to retrofit buildings when, as New York City wrote in its energy plan, «Energy use in buildings accounts for 75 percent of New York City's greenhouse gas emissions, and 80 percent of the buildings that will exist in 2050 are already here today.»

They challenge the longstanding view of Richard Lindzen and others that there are natural regulators built in to the tropical climate system that «let off steam» in a way; but they also challenge those using the specter of tropical warming — including the Amazon rain forest turning into a desert — as another reason to move swiftly to curb greenhouse gases.

He says political and social pressure can build as a result, but must still be coupled with concrete policies and investments given the scope of the challenge in cutting greenhouse gas emissions in an energy - hungry world:

Most experts deeply probing the Arctic ice, ocean and atmosphere say that the particularly striking ice changes of late probably can be traced to a significant dose of natural variability as well as a contribution from heat trapped by the atmosphere's building greenhouse - gas blanket.

Drawing on experience building a customer base for various products over many years, Clark sees efforts to curb emissions of greenhouse gases as a solution that — because of the long - term and cumulative nature of warming risks — is offered well ahead of public recognition of the problem (truly disruptive changes to conditions and resources humans depend on).

Campaigners for legislation requiring deep cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases say this is just a first draft of an eventual strong bill that will be forced as public fervor over climate builds.

By basing the levy on emissions rather than carbon all greenhouse gases stand on a common level, sequestration is strongly encouraged as well as such simple things as capturing methane from oil wells and garbage dumps (that gets built into the cost of disposal).

«Our goal,» say Kramer and Gremban, «is to persuade Toyota and other automakers to build PHEVs for a market we expect to expand as the Kyoto Protocols and parallel state and international greenhouse gas initiatives are phased in.»

While these projects reduce emissions as they operate over time, greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are a long - term problem, and helping to build clean infrastructure is an essential part of the solution.»

A low - cost emissions - free source of electricity generation, wind energy will be essential if the province is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent in 2050 as clean electricity will be needed to substitute for fossil fuels in transportation, industries and buildings.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's new plan to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from city buildings by 2050 relies on Passive House as a guiding standard for new construction and existing building renovation.

The campus greenhouse gas reduction plan outlined in the report centers on four key approaches: reducing the overall energy use on campus, reducing the use of fossil fuels in campus buildings and vehicles, increasing the use of renewable energy sources to meet campus needs, and minimizing the release of «fugitive» gases from campus operations such as specialty research gases in laboratory buildings.

Or it might be something driven by a long - term change, such as the build - up of greenhouse gases (or, conceivably, layers of sooty smog).

«We are not in anyway saying that greenhouse gases can be dismissed as a risk, or that climate change associated with the build - up of greenhouse gases can be dismissed on a scientific basis as being a non-event.»

«We recognise the significance of climate change to global society and the importance of addressing the built environment as part of efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

With this $ 100 billion initiative, Citi will build on its leadership in renewable energy and energy efficiency financing to engage with clients to identify opportunities to finance greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions and resource efficiency in other sectors, such as sustainable transportation... http://www.citigroup.com/citi/news/2015/150218a.htm

In particular it emphasizes the necessity of building a strong network of technology centres as this is critical to enable developing countries to leapfrog to low greenhouse gas emission development paths.

The reduction of heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emissions is stimulated by lowering existing subsidies that have the effect of raising emissions (such as subsidies to fossil fuel use) or by providing subsidies for practices that reduce emissions or enhance sinks (e.g. for insulation of buildings or for planting trees).

As a result of the build - up of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere — due to our burning of fossil fuels, cutting down trees and other activities — global average temperature is now changing at a faster rate than at least over the past 1,000 years.

Many scientists suspect that the «missing heat» from a build - up greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is going into the deep oceans as part of natural variations in the climate.

What I» ve said is that we would put a cap - and - trade system in place that is more — that is as aggressive if not more aggressive than anybody else» s out there, so if somebody wants to build a coal - powered plant, they can, it» s just that it will bankrupt them because they» re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that» s being emitted.

Seoul is building more Photovoltaic facilities, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as dependence on fossil fuels and oil.

The ocean's acidity has increased about 30 per cent since the start of the industrial revolution, as seas absorb about one - third of the build - up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

As the name suggests, climate sensitivity is a measure of how sensitive the climate is to this build - up in heat - how much the planet will warm in response to an increase in the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

We've heard that a director at the Department of Agriculture advised her team that carbon - sequestration and greenhouse - gas reduction should instead be described as «building soil organic matter» and «increasing nutrient use efficiency.»

As Howard Lee wrote in the Guardian in August, «Geologically fast build - up of greenhouse gas linked to warming, rising sea - levels, widespread oxygen - starved ocean dead zones and ocean acidification are fairly consistent across the mass extinction events, and those same symptoms are happening today as a result of human - driven climate change.&raquAs Howard Lee wrote in the Guardian in August, «Geologically fast build - up of greenhouse gas linked to warming, rising sea - levels, widespread oxygen - starved ocean dead zones and ocean acidification are fairly consistent across the mass extinction events, and those same symptoms are happening today as a result of human - driven climate change.&raquas a result of human - driven climate change.»