Sentences with phrase «climate impact of»

With their CO2 and methane emissions, palm oil - based biofuels actually have three times the climate impact of traditional fossil fuels.

I guess all I am saying is that until «climate science» has a good handle on the uncertainties surrounding the climate impact of clouds as well as possibly related other natural variability or forcing, it does not know enough to make any meaningful projections for the future, and should, therefore, refrain from doing so.

The climate impact of energy development projects can be huge.

However, the total climate impact of planes is likely two to three times greater than the impact from the CO2 emissions alone.

Prior studies have provided compelling demonstrations of the importance of linkages between climate change and air quality valuation (e.g. (Caplan and Silva 2005; Nemet et al. 2010; Tollefsen et al. 2009)-RRB- and of the incorporation of economics into emission metrics (e.g. (Johansson 2012; Tanaka et al. 2013)-RRB-, but typically have not fully represented the climate impact of short - lived emissions, especially aerosols and methane (e.g. (International Monetary Fund 2013; Muller et al. 2011; NRC 2010)-RRB-.

It also turns many eco-myths on their head, like the climate impact of food miles or the superiority of all hybrid cars.

Asset managers operating in Sweden will have to disclose the climate impact of their investments under new proposals, which come as the fund industry faces mounting pressure to divest from fossil fuels.

Sounds like Christy is a «luke warmer», who has concluded from the data that the actual climate impact of CO2 in the real world is small.

This information is synthesized to provide a continuous analysis of the flow from the emitted material to the atmosphere up to the point of the climate impact of the produced organic aerosol.

My concern here is the climate impact of the purported comets.

As we move forward, we should be able to assess the net climate impact of any particular policy given the changes in emissions that will result.

Tonyb [confesses unfamiliarity with Hansen's ground - breaking article «Climate impact of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide «(1981)-RSB-

Thus, the only options for reducing the climate impact of coal relate to specific reductions in coal burning or investment in carbon capture and sequestration.

... humankind has the capacity to overpower the climate impact of Earth's orbit, taking the reins of the climate system that has operated on Earth for millions of years.

The Oroeco blog offers a lot of helpful information about the climate impact of different everyday behaviors so that users can make for informed decisions.

For example, reducing overall national emissions could make the climate impact of an additional child up to 17 times lower than current projections, the study found.

By utilizing Mint.com's software, the Oroeco app can easily analyze the climate impact of your behaviors and provide you with monthly reports on your carbon footprint.

And it seems to me even more controversial because, according to Unger's own results, the climate impact of tree VOCs is not significantly different from zero.

Using methane's 20 - year GWP — a measure of the short - term climate impact of different GHGs — increases the share of oil and gas methane to over 8 % of global GHG (with emissions of 5,650 Mt CO2e), the equivalent of about 40 % of total CO2 emissions from global coal combustion in 2012.

«From Small to Insignificant: Climate Impact of the Kyoto Protocol with and without US,» Policy Note 2001:1, CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, June.

The Effort Sharing Regulation is Europe's largest policy tool to reduce the climate impact of...

Does not fully characterize the climate impact of nonradiative forcing, the indirect aerosol effect (other than the first), and the semidirect aerosol effect

Hansen, J., Lacis, A., Ruedy, R. & Sato, M. Potential climate impact of Mount Pinatubo eruption.

Both types of sampling also provide constraint on sources and sinks of CO2, which play a significant part of the potential climate impact of the Arctic.

Yet, based on our understanding of the climate impact of greenhouse gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and other trace gases, we should have observed even more warming than this.

Carbon offsets from NativeEnergy enable Aveda to balance the climate impact of its aerosol hairsprays and other business activities.

While the climate impact of the tar sands and Northwest coal exports are both undeniably grim, it is the more visceral concerns about groundwater pollution that have energized both liberal environmentalists and conservative representatives (eg Nebraska's governor) to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline.

The idea behind the calculator is to explore the climate impact of plausible choices about how the world develops.

As an example, supermarkets use HFCs to cool and freeze food; average annual leakage of HFCs from supermarkets equal the climate impact of the emissions of more than 300 cars.

«UK Climate Agency Confirms: Huge Cumulative CO2 Growth Has Little Impact On Long - Term Climate Change, Warming Main Per NOAA, Climate Impact of Cumulative CO2 Emissions Since 1880 Approaching Nil»

«Per NOAA, Climate Impact of Cumulative CO2 Emissions Since 1880 Approaching Nil Main Climate FactCheck: Is Current Global Ocean Warming Unprecedented?

The authors say a better understanding of the climate impact of fire will enable scientists develop models to more accurately forecast future future change — important given the rising economic toll from uncontrolled burning.

These data were used to reconstruct the long - term atmospheric radiative forcing, i.e., climate impact of the peatland since initiation.

The climate denial issue came up again in Andrew Bolt's interview with Kevin Rudd, and I've been reminded of his repeated claim that I got estimates of the climate impact of the government's emission target wrong.

Methane leaks increase the climate impact of shale gas, but whether the leaks are sufficient to significantly alter the climate forcing by total natural gas development is uncertain [164].

In this way, writes geophysicist David Archer in The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of the Earth's Climate, «humankind has the capacity to overpower the climate impact of Earth's orbit, taking the reins of the climate system that has operated on Earth for millions of years.»

See David W. Lea, Dorothy K. Pak, and Howard J. Spero, «Climate impact of Late Quaternary equatorial Pacific sea surface,» Science 289:1719 (8 September 2000) at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/289/5485/1719.

This guide explores issues relating to 100 % fruit juices including the welfare of fruit growers, the use of agrochemicals in the fruit growing industry, and the climate impact of packaging and shipping.

The company is also working on the climate impact of its contracted factories, supporting and encouraging them to use clean - energy solutions.

It is the first comprehensive regional assessment of the climate impact of black carbon on California.

$ 400 / ton carbon tax needed to curb aviation emissions $ 400 / ton carbon tax needed to curb aviation emissions mongabay.com September 4, 2007 European Union proposals to reduce the climate impact of aviation...

This decision reacts to evidence showing the climate impact of some biofuels could be worse than fossil fuels.

Johnson is now looking at the lifecycle climate impact of other sources of biodiesel, like soybeans and oil palm.

On Climate Action: The APS reiterates its 2007 call to support actions that will reduce the emissions, and ultimately the concentration, of greenhouse gases as well as increase the resilience of society to a changing climate, and to support research on technologies that could reduce the climate impact of human activities.

The Bank's work on inclusive green growth has found that with more efficient and smarter use of energy and natural resources, opportunities exist to reduce drastically the climate impact of development without slowing poverty alleviation or economic growth.

Researchers in Canada have used a comprehensive Earth system model to evaluate the climate impact of varying levels of afforestation, in different parts of the world.

If we want to reduce the climate impact of electric power generation in the United States, there are less costly and risky ways to do it than expanding nuclear power.

We analyzed how much carbon tar sands oil produces and assessed the climate impact of the Keystone XL pipeline, concluding that building it would unleash a massive expansion of tar sands development and cause a dramatic increase in carbon pollution.

Peatlands store 100 years of CO2 emissions May 8, 2007 The UN Convention on Climate Change is putting global climate at risk by ignoring carbon dioxide emissions from the destruction of carbon - rich peatlands in Indonesia, charged Wetlands International, a Dutch environmental group that has highlighted the climate impact of land - use change in southeast Asia.

More recently, researchers have begun to address the potential for minimizing the total climate impact of aircraft operations, including ozone impacts, contrails and nitrogen oxides emissions.