Sentences with phrase «by greenhouse gas emissions»

The researchers said this worldwide increase was consistent with rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.

The cities are seeking compensation from the companies for cost related to sea level rise and other climate damages caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.

More than 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed into the oceans that cover two - thirds of the planet's surface.

Which recent climate changes have been forced by greenhouse gas emissions, and which have been natural fluctuations of the climate system?

Warming fueled by greenhouse gas emissions continues to rewrite the record books: Over the past several weeks, heat records continued to fall at global, national, and local scales.

The researchers were able to rank those diets by their greenhouse gas emissions.

These standards are widely used by greenhouse gas emissions experts across the world.

That convention defines climate change as change produced not by all greenhouse gas emissions, but by human greenhouse gas emissions.

This is the mechanism by which the environment stores up part of the energy of generated by greenhouse gas emissions, only releasing it to the atmosphere later on.

Not to «anthropogenic climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions» — which is only one factor among many, known and unknown, in anthropogenic climate change.

The world's oceans are playing a game of hot potato with the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions.

In the last four years, as a result of global warming driven by greenhouse gas emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels, Greenland has shed an estimated trillion tons of ice, and sea levels are creeping up at three millimetres a year.

The forecast from researchers at the Met Office's Hadley Centre in Exeter reveals that natural shifts in climate will cancel out warming produced by greenhouse gas emissions and other human activity until 2009, but from then on, temperatures will rise steadily.

Now Jianli Chen of the University of Texas at Austin and colleagues have shown that melting caused by our greenhouse gas emissions makes its own contribution to the shift.

Since the end of last El Niño warming event of 1997 to 1998, the tropical Pacific Ocean has been in a relatively cool phase — strong enough to offset the warming created by greenhouse gas emissions.

An Australian wildfire has killed at least 135 people, and some experts are blaming global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions for this and other recent blazes.

Sadly, reefs are so threatened by our greenhouse gas emissions, pollution and overfishing that scientists agree that they may cease to function by the end of this century.»

If party A (greenhouse gas emitters) is harming party B (those harmed by greenhouse gas emissions), the contention that protecting the property rights of B will cost A more than it will benefit B should not encourage principled libertarians at the Cato Institute to green - light rights violations.

By 2100, the future of at least part of these 1,700 locations will be «locked in» by greenhouse gas emissions built up in the atmosphere, the analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday found.

In November, delegates to the UN Climate Change Convention annual negotiations will gather in Paris to try to conclude an ambitious and effective agreement on preventing the global average temperature rise caused by greenhouse gas emissions exceeding 2 ˚C above its pre-industrial level.

However, because of issues related to data quality, the low frequency of extreme event impacts, limited length of the time series, and various societal factors present in the disaster loss record, it is still not possible to determine the portion of the increase in damages that might be attributed to climate change brought about by greenhouse gas emissions (S1).

Which points out the anemic effect that U.S. greenhouse gas reductions will have on the climate of the U.S. and just how easily the whims of foreign nations, not to mention Mother Nature, can completely offset any climate changes induced by our greenhouse gas emissions reductions.»

The world's climate scientists have begun to turn their attention to generating workable geoengineering projects that can either bypass governmental red tape or reverse the change [to the world's climate caused by greenhouse gas emissions] so quickly and with such great efficacy that it might not matter if the world never manages to get its act together.

Meanwhile, scientific bodies charged with understanding how the world actually works — instead of how they would imagine and proclaim it to — continue to issue official statements endorsing the consensus view that humans are strongly warming the planet in recent decades, primarily by greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere.

Richard Muller says his new study shows global warming is almost entirely caused by greenhouse gas emissions by humans.

The expectation has been that parties to the protocol would eventually agree on a second commitment period after 2012 which would set more ambitious targets for reducing emissions consistent with the goals outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and other scientific bodies, for achieving some measure of climate safety such as stabilizing temperature increase caused by greenhouse gas emissions at 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) over pre-industrial levels.

Such restoration alone would go some way to meeting targets imposed by the government to reduce the threat of catastrophic global climate change driven by greenhouse gas emissions that result from changes of land use and the combustion of fossil fuels.

For decades, the earth's oceans have soaked up more than nine - tenths of the atmosphere's excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions.

As a stunning early spring blooms across the United States, just weeks after scientists declared 2016 the hottest year on record, it's easy to forget that all the extra warmth in the air accounts for only a fraction of the heat produced by greenhouse gas emissions.

The scientists, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), report in the journal Climatic Change that this increase is to be expected with rising global temperatures, caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.

The violence of typhoons that devastate Asian coastal regions is being magnified by rising sea surface temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions

Making roads more reflective and thereby sending more sunlight back to space helps cool the planet, offsetting some of the atmospheric warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

Policy makers have generally agreed that the average global temperature rise caused by greenhouse gas emissions should not exceed 2 °C above the average global temperature of pre-industrial times.

While weather patterns played a clear role in boosting temperatures in many parts of the country, the overall rise in average temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions has made record heat more and more likely and record cold increasingly rare.

When I look at a snowless street in January I may see a natural weather variation, or I may see a human artifact caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

We are all stakeholders in the fight against climate change, and deserve to be compensated for the negative impacts caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

Some have used the fossil fuel resource depletion argument to diminish the importance of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

He discusses the cause of the underlying increase in rainfall citing papers that suggest the rainfall was due to a warmer climate in the Sahara or a warmer North Atlantic, a process «partially caused by greenhouse gas emissions.»

Because temperature rises caused by greenhouse gas emissions are expected to trigger dangerous feedback loops, which will release ever increasing amounts of greenhouse gases.

Quoting (or parroting) the IPCC, EPA argues that it is «extremely unlikely» (less than a 5 % probability) that the warmth of recent decades can be explained without «external forcing» by greenhouse gas emissions.

This might seem contrary to warming trends forecast by climate scientists, but a new analysis released this week in Science points out that climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions may actually have contributed to the well - below average temperatures seen in parts of the U.S.. However, it also predicts that such cold events will become less likely in the future as temperatures start ramping up with the expected start of El Niño later this year.

This might seem contrary to warming trends forecast by climate scientists, but a new analysis released today in Science points out that climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions may actually have contributed to the well - below average temperatures seen in parts of the U.S.

Fresh water that now is flowing to the sea in the Delaware estuary is threatened by future sea - level rise resulting from rising temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions, a new study finds.

The violence of typhoons that devastate Asian coastal regions is being magnified by rising sea surface temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions