Sentences with phrase «buildup of greenhouse gases»

Along with cutting fossil fuel use to zero, removing carbon dioxide from the air is increasingly seen as one way to stop the long - term buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

But the summary also acknowledges that studies assessing the extent of warming from a given buildup of greenhouse gases now give lower odds to the highest projections.

Here are some fresh thoughts on the enduring and important questions surrounding «climate sensitivity» — how much warming will result from a substantial buildup of greenhouse gases.

It's possible the solution to our world's buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has been sitting on our grocery shelves all along.

You can see how this process works in the reactions to two recent research findings focused on resolving how hot the world could get from a given buildup of greenhouse gases.

A much - cited study (paper here) concluded last month that the extent of warming in Australia in recent decades was so great compared to climate variations in the last millennium that it had to be mainly the result of warming from the human - driven buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

In a Rose Garden speech planned for Wednesday, President Bush is set to lay out for the first time a specific long - term goal for limiting the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases linked to global warming and some means the United States will use to reach it.

For the first time, nearly all of the caveats were gone, and there was a firm statement that «most» (meaning more than half) of the warming trend since 1950 was probably due to the human - caused buildup of greenhouse gases.

The only change I'd suggest is to drop the words «by industry,» given that everyone in societies thriving on fossil fuels has harvested the present benefits while largely discounting, so far, the need to invest against long - term risks from the resulting buildup of greenhouse gases.

Global warming from an unabated buildup of greenhouse gases could drive conditions in the drier direction.

«But I also have no doubt that the RISKS of long - lasting and very disruptive shifts from a big buildup of greenhouse gases [are] sufficiently clear to justify an aggressive energy quest that works for the long haul.»

Unfortunately for policymakers and the public, while the basic science pointing to a rising human influence on climate is clear, many of the most important questions will remain surrounded by deep complexity and uncertainty for a long time to come: the pace at which seas will rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), the impact on hurricanes, the particular effects in particular places (what global warming means for Addis Ababa or Atlanta).

Science News - January 23, 2002 Antarctica is getting colder... For years, many climatologists have been predicting that world temperatures will rise because of atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases released by human activities.

Planet Under Pressure, a four - day conference exploring how science can identify and limit risks in the face of increasing human impacts on the Earth, has ended * with a call for «urgent action» against the the unrelenting buildup of greenhouse gases.

With or without a push from the global buildup of greenhouse gases, the world's prosperous (in this case) and poor (in many others) are increasingly getting in the way of natural hazards, with predictable outcomes.

The planet's existing energy choices and habits will lead to an enormous buildup of greenhouse gases, particularly as large developing countries industrialize.

I have no doubt that Ignatius Rigor, Marika Holland, Mark Serreze and the many other ice analysts are right when they see a sustained buildup of greenhouse gases resulting in a largely open - water Arctic Ocean in late summer later in this century.

A central point of debate in climate negotiations has been the extent to which established industrialized powers are obliged to act given their outsize contribution to the atmosphere's buildup of greenhouse gases so far.

Jason Head, the University of Toronto, Mississauga, a paleontologist who led the study of the snake and its climate, warned that while the ancient tropics appeared to be a steamy thriving place, the pace of change projected now from the rapid buildup of greenhouse gases is likely to be disruptive.

I was on the road yesterday and had no time to collate earth scientists» reactions to the Nature paper positing that the world, after 450,000 years of climatic turmoil (the ice ages and warm spells) is poised to enter a quasi-permanent big chill (unless we avert it, after dealing with near - term warming, with a subsequent buildup of greenhouse gases).

The thesis: Progress will inevitably come by raising and spreading awareness of a moral failure, whether related to racial inequality or the risks to future generations posed by the human - generated buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The unerring buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is bound to come with regrets.

But for the first time, a thorough analysis has concluded with nary a caveat that a rise in heavy precipitation episodes — rain and snow — across most of North America in the second half of the 20th century can not be explained without a significant push from the human - driven buildup of greenhouse gases.

But it's also important to note that some environmental perils, particularly drifting plastic pollution the consequences of an unabated buildup of greenhouse gases, can't be addressed with new lines on a chart.

Emanuel noted that the uncertainty still means the outcome from a big buildup of greenhouse gases could range from «the benign to the catastrophic.»

But, given the persistent lack of clarity on how much the world will warm from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases and the divergent views around the world on what an ideal climate is in any case, is this threshold meaningful or useful?

As I wrote when I last cited this, «The only change I'd suggest is to drop the words «by industry,» given that everyone in societies thriving on fossil fuels has harvested the present benefits while largely discounting, so far, the need to invest against long - term risks from the resulting buildup of greenhouse gases.

But that would betray an ethical gap that extends far beyond the Beltway, to all of us — the tendency not to act in the common interest (limiting the global buildup of greenhouse gases that is raising the odds of disruptive climate shifts), but instead mainly when a threat is right in our faces.

While President Obama and more than 100 other heads of state are expected to participate in the United Nations Climate Summit today, President Xi Jinping of China, the country making by far the biggest contribution to the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases, will not appear.

Malpede's play is laced with darkness and humor, even in the double meaning of the word «whether» in the title — which I found nicely reflects the deep uncertainty that still surrounds the worst - case outcomes from the continuing buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

However, a buildup of greenhouse gases can change Earth's climate.

As the earth continues to warm due to the buildup of greenhouse gases, heat waves are expected to become more severe, particularly for cities, where concrete and a dearth of trees create what's known as the urban heat island effect.

While a strong El Niño provided a boost to global temperatures last year, the main driver of the planet's temperature surge, as well as other climate trends, is the warming caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

One science objective, agency officials say, could be to study Venus's carbon dioxide — rich atmosphere to glean insights into the buildup of the greenhouse gas in our planet's atmosphere.

The past 11 months have been the hottest such months in 135 years of recordkeeping, a streak that has itself set a record and puts in clear terms just how much the planet has warmed due to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

At the same time, the buildup of greenhouse gases, coming mainly from developed countries in the northern hemisphere, has a very different effect on the Indian summer monsoons: it acts to make them stronger.

These are a significant contributor to industrial carbon dioxide emissions, which add to the buildup of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere.

Can people help fight the buildup of greenhouse gases by munching on insects?

Temperature observations are sparse around the hostile continent, but scientists recently modeled the ocean current knock - on effects of these wind changes, which have been caused by ozone thinning and by the buildup of greenhouse gases.

But now it appears the energy balance has become slightly lopsided due to a buildup of greenhouse gases, warming our planet overall by about 0.8 degrees in the past 50 years.

The overall warming of the atmosphere that has resulted from the buildup of greenhouse gases has generally tipped the odds in favor of more extreme warm temperatures and fewer cold ones.

As the planet warms from the buildup of greenhouse gases, there may be a change in the atmospheric circulations near the equatorial Pacific Ocean.