Sentences with phrase «caused by greenhouse gas»

Efficient energy use has been a rising trend in the United States due to increasing energy costs and the environmental problems caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

It not only verifies that the snowpack has declined already in many areas of the West over the past three decades but also concludes that this decline was caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

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

I think he also makes the point that as measure and model the change in climate caused by greenhouse gas, natural variation is occurring.

Prior to 1980 distinctions between temperature rises caused by greenhouse gas and the solar effect were difficult (though not impossible) to distinguish.

This type of warming is still a much smaller effect than the global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

Add the fact that this warming was predominantly caused by greenhouse gas emissions (more on this later) which continue to accelerate with no end in sight, and it becomes more alarming yet.

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.

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.

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

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.

While this does not prove that global warming is caused by greenhouse gas emissions, it does set the bar for alternative explanations.

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

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.

The objective is quantify the range of possible outcomes (and likelihoods) of such variations which come on top of the long - term changes caused by greenhouse gas forcings.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Those winds coincided with a period, from 1910 to 1940, when global temperatures rose faster than could have been caused by greenhouse gas pollution alone, given the still - nascent state of mass industrialization.

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.

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.

Compiled by scientists at 13 federal agencies, it contains the results of thousands of studies showing that climate change caused by greenhouse gases is affecting weather in every part of the United States, causing average temperatures to rise dramatically since the 1980s.

Climate change is caused by greenhouse gases and that is why we need to do something about them.

In 1988, Thatcher, as prime minister, became one of the first world leaders to warn of warming caused by greenhouse gases.

«It is widely understood that aerosols have a net cooling effect on climate, counteracting the warming caused by greenhouse gases.

Its contribution to heating forcing (caused by greenhouse gases, ground - level ozone and «black carbon» [4]-RRB- is 12 % on average.

The results of this work open up the possibility of reducing methane emissions and of contributing to a reduction in global temperatures which is caused by greenhouse gases.

«Australia drying caused by greenhouse gases, study shows.»

Climate change is caused by greenhouse gases.

«It is nearly certain that global warming is caused by greenhouse gases,» she says, and «the best way to convince people of this is to also explain what we do not yet know and why it is so difficult to get those answers.»

The deal poses a fundamental challenge to climate science, because it is difficult to work out whether trends and events are caused by greenhouse gases or would have happened anyway.

The study should prompt a search for pH perception in other fish, according to the researchers, though they worry that looming ocean acidification caused by greenhouse gases might ultimately stifle fish with this ability, given that the catfish's acid meter worked best in average seawater — pH 8.1.

«The warming caused by greenhouse gases and the warming associated with this natural cycle will compound one another.»

While the overall rise in average temperature of the Atlantic is caused by greenhouse gases, this study examines the fluctuations occurring within this human - related trend.

Because we understand the energy balance of our Earth, we also know that global warming is caused by greenhouse gases — which have caused the largest imbalance in the radiative energy budget over the last century.

Climate change is the warming of the world caused by greenhouse gases that trap some of the heat emanating from the world which would have otherwise escaped into space.

This could happen because SRM masks the warming caused by greenhouse gases rather than reducing the concentration of gases in the atmosphere.

Todays pet hypothesis is GW caused by greenhouse gasses I'm wondering what scientist would have found 40 years ago at the hight of the global cooling hypothesis linking both cooling events perhaps due too a large aerosol release.

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This doesn't make much sense to me unless the argument is the variations in the Pacific SSTs are in some way caused by greenhouse gases and are an amplification mechanism.

The latest report confirms that there is unequivocal evidence for a warming world, largely caused by greenhouse gases emitted by human activities.

During a 10 - year investigation detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research, Stanford University scientist Mark Jacobson isolated the widespread warming effects from all sources of soot â $» the visible residue of burned wood, crops, oil, biomass and other fuels â $» from the climate impacts caused by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.

yes, and I see that only 30 % believes that climate change is caused by greenhouse gasses, while 76 % think it is due to natural processes.

It's very plausible that the global warming we are seeing is not mainly caused by greenhouse gases.

Whether talking about this thermal IR from the sun OR the back radiation said to be caused by greenhouse gases.

If the maximum cooling ability of aerosols is only 1.0 Wm2, as Stevens suggests, the particles would offset only a third of warming caused by greenhouse gases.

In the process, they somewhat mask the warming caused by greenhouse gases.