Sentences with phrase «caused by greenhouse gas emissions»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Globally, it's thought that 6 % of all greenhouse gas emissions are caused by livestock.

Those changes have been driven by human - caused greenhouse gas emissions, which are warming the world and causing Earth's climate to change faster than reefs can keep up.

Climate scientists have long warned that rising emissions of greenhouse gases by humanity may cause weather extremes, and not just heat waves.

The infant formula industry is a part of the problems caused by large - scale dairy farming: deforestation, environmental degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions.

The reason is that if climate change would not be human - caused, then humans would not be able to prevent it by scaling down their greenhouse gas emissions.

The benefits, according to Wellinghoff, range from «green» jobs to cutting by 80 percent emissions of the greenhouse gases causing climate change by 2050.

Since levels of greenhouse gases have continued to rise throughout the period, some skeptics have argued that the recent pattern undercuts the theory that global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by human - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

The scientists looked at the so - called biogenic fluxes or flow of the three greenhouse gases on land that were caused by human activities over the last three decades and subtracted out emissions that existed «naturally» during pre-industrial times.

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.

Simulating natural and humanmade climate drivers, scientists showed that the decline in rainfall is primarily a response to humanmade increases in greenhouse gases as well as a thinning of the ozone caused by humanmade aerosol emissions.

Scientists can confidently say that Earth is warming due to greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans, but data on climate trends over the Antarctic and the surrounding Southern Ocean only go back to 1979 when regular satellite observations began.

Their work aimed to address a longstanding disagreement over how climate change caused by the emission of greenhouse gasses will affect forest ecosystems.

Cleaner coal - burning technologies would reduce emissions not only of greenhouse gases but also of soot and other by - products that cause local and regional pollution — and they could prove to be easier or less expensive to implement.

In addition to only using clean energy it reduces the environmental impact caused by the emission of greenhouse gases that traditional systems cause.

Participants agreed on a statement pointing out the disruption caused by fossil fuel use and calling for cooperative, collective action to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Professor Sybren said: «It can be excluded, however, that this hiatus period was solely caused by changes in atmospheric forcing, either due to volcanic eruptions, more aerosols emissions in Asia, or reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

This suggests that the research community has a sound understanding of what the climate will be like as we move toward a Pliocene - like warmer future caused by human greenhouse gas emissions.»

The key conclusions were that: It is «unequivocal» that global warming is occurring; the probability that this is caused by natural climatic processes is less than 5 %; and the probability that this is caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases is over 90 %.

The first report concludes that global warming is happening, and is very likely caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

Because we are not predisposed to believe climate change is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, we are able to look at evidence the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ignores.

By the way, in my opinion, the elevated greenhouse gas levels already in the air, combined with the future emissions from machines already built, plus increased natural emissions from carbon sinks becoming carbon emitters (i.e. permafrost melting) will cause the rate of warming to top 0.4 C / decade by mid-centurBy the way, in my opinion, the elevated greenhouse gas levels already in the air, combined with the future emissions from machines already built, plus increased natural emissions from carbon sinks becoming carbon emitters (i.e. permafrost melting) will cause the rate of warming to top 0.4 C / decade by mid-centurby mid-century.

Wicker also cited a publication by the Global Warming Petition Project, a document signed by nearly 32,000 American scientists that disputes the international scientific consensus that man - made greenhouse gas emissions are causing the Earth's atmosphere to warm, leading to potentially catastrophic changes in the climate.

The effects of global warming are the ecological and social changes caused (directly or indirectly) by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

Those times were caused by large and rapid greenhouse gas emissions, just like humans are causing today.

The WorldWatch Institute estimates that a staggering 51 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are caused by animal agriculture, and the United Nations has also urged everyone to eat less meat to combat global warming.

Mitigation: An intervention to reduce the causes of climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions or enhancing sinks for capturing greenhouse gas emissions.

In an innovative move, TAM Airlines, part of LATAM Airlines Group, has announced it has offset a total of 100,000 tons of greenhouse gases, equating to five times the emissions caused by the addition of 750 domestic flights to TAM's network for the World Cup.

The now conventional view on global warming, as stated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is that most of the warming recorded in the past 50 years has been caused by emissions of manmade greenhouse gases.

«A rapid cutback in greenhouse gas emissions could speed up global warming... because current global warming is offset by global dimming — the 2 - 3ºC of cooling cause by industrial pollution, known to scientists as aerosol particles, in the atmosphere.»

But President Bush's announcement Wednesday of a plan to halt growth in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, while not embracing all the enviro groups want, legitimizes their argument that global warming is caused by humans and an imminent threat to mankind.