Sentences with phrase «climate impact of greenhouse gases»

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.

I've posted a lot on contrasting climate manifestos published in the past week by The Wall Street Journal, but it's worth adding the perspective of Richter, a physics Nobelist who's been deeply focused on humanity's energy challenge, including the climate impact of greenhouse gases.

Not exact matches

«Most of the climate resolutions ask companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or to re-port on the risks from climate change on business operations,» Passoff of Proxy Impact said.

Report Modelling the Impact of the Climate Leadership Plan & Federal Carbon Price on British Columbia's Greenhouse Gas Emissions (December 2016)

«Forget that the outsized American consumption of fossil fuels has directly contributed to climate change through greenhouse gas pollution, and impacted the lives of the world's most vulnerable people.

Its authors state the case explicitly — «Agriculture, through meat production, is one of the main contributors to greenhouse gases and thus has a potential impact on climate change» — and anticipate that it will take «a long campaign... and incentives to meat producers and consumers» to change what and how we eat.

The technologies — which can repay the cost of their installation in as little as two years — will be explained by Mr Bambridge, who has decades of experience in assisting organisations manage energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and the impacts of climate change.

Coffee, especially shade coffee, is a global crop that has a relatively lower impact on greenhouse gas emissions and a more positive impact on carbon sequestration than many other crops.There is potential for shade coffee farms to contribute to the mitigation of climate change and generate income for farmers at the same time; I have a previous post that outlines the basics.

Mass Audubon supports legislation that reduces greenhouse gas emissions to lessen the impacts of climate change, and provides support for communities preparing to adapt to inevitable challenges.

The marginal impact that years of climate negotiations have made on the pace and direction of global greenhouse gas emissions finds its roots, at least in part, in the successes of the ozone negotiations.

The CCPA is a landmark piece of legislation that would put New York at the forefront of the fight against climate change by creating individualized plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and direct energy funding to communities like the 20th state senate district that are most impacted by climate change.

State officials say so - called Climate Resilient Farming is a pilot program intended to help mitigate the environmental impact of agriculture, following Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signed pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions about 40 percent by 2030.

Shelley also believes that climate change denial is a hurting our future and supported Climate and Community Protection Act, a bill that would help put New York on track to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change through a reduction in statewide greenhouse gas emissions and improve the resiliency of the state with respect to the impacts and risks of climate climate change denial is a hurting our future and supported Climate and Community Protection Act, a bill that would help put New York on track to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change through a reduction in statewide greenhouse gas emissions and improve the resiliency of the state with respect to the impacts and risks of climate Climate and Community Protection Act, a bill that would help put New York on track to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change through a reduction in statewide greenhouse gas emissions and improve the resiliency of the state with respect to the impacts and risks of climate climate change through a reduction in statewide greenhouse gas emissions and improve the resiliency of the state with respect to the impacts and risks of climate climate change.

«technology - driven, market - based solutions that will decrease emissions, reduce excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, increase energy efficiency, mitigate the impact of climate change where it occurs, and maximize any ancillary benefits climate change might offer for the economy.»

Emissions of methane — which is a potent greenhouse gas - are already subject to control, but I am today commissioning a study of the possible impacts of shale gas development on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develClimate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develclimate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develclimate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develclimate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develclimate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develclimate - resilient development.

That's why we have to look at the balance in terms of what is cheaper: Can we reduce emissions of greenhouse gases today so that we can stabilize the earth's climate, rather than adapt to the impacts of climate change and incur much higher costs over a period of time?

To determine the impact of greenhouse gases, the researchers used tens of thousands of citizen computers, each running a regional climate simulation in a sort of crowd - sourced supercomputer.

The only thing that is clear is that there continues to be great debate and uncertainty among these experts regarding the extent of natural climate variability versus human impacts, and what, if anything, enactment of economy - wide greenhouse gas regulations might do to alter our changing climate.

It is clear that climate change is happening, driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and its impacts will be felt around the world.

But that may be about to change, thanks to a new type of climate study that can connect individual weather events with the impact of human - made greenhouse gas emissions.

The White House today announced a plan to reduce U.S. emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a potent greenhouse gas with 2400 times the climate impact of CO2.

While natural atmospheric variation was largely to blame, climatologists caution that rising greenhouse gas levels could exacerbate the impact of such natural climate anomalies.

Its impact on climate, the authors say, will be equivalent to the effect of the annual greenhouse gas emissions from over half a million cars.

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Under the next White House Administration, Holdren said, science - based challenges that will require sustained, robust investment include efforts to ensure safe and sustainable food, water, and energy for everyone, reduce greenhouse gases, minimize harm from climate change already underway, combat diseases such as Zika, defeat cancer, improve quality - of - life for those who are aging, prevent devastating asteroid impacts, and send humans into space «not just to visit, but to stay.»

Professor David Schultz, one of the authors of the guest editorial, said: «One of the long - term effects of climate change is often predicted to be an increase in the intensity and frequency of many high - impact weather events, so reducing greenhouse gas emissions is often seen to be the response to the problem.

Writing in the journal Weather, Climate and Society, the University of Manchester researchers argue that cutting greenhouse gas emissions, while crucial to reducing humanity's longer - term impact on the planet, will not eliminate violent storms, tornadoes or flooding and the damage they cause.

But along with the notorious polar vortex, the year also brought new evidence that human activities are altering the climate in ever more obvious ways — and that the risks of severe impacts rise with every ton of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.

Although the process is energy - and water - intensive, there is hope it could play a role in reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and minimizing the impact of climate change on the rest of the world.

The study supports calls for improved monitoring of wetlands and human changes to those ecosystems — a timely topic as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepares to examine land use impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, says Prof. Merritt Turetsky, Department of Integrative Biology.

Writing in Current Climate Change Reports, they conclude that, the most urgent course of action is to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, but concurrently there is also a need to consider novel management techniques and previously over-looked reef areas for protective actions under predicted climate change iClimate Change Reports, they conclude that, the most urgent course of action is to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, but concurrently there is also a need to consider novel management techniques and previously over-looked reef areas for protective actions under predicted climate change iclimate change impacts.

Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long - lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of widespread and profound impacts affecting all levels of society and the natural world, the report finds.

The Commission produced a Plan of Action that included a comprehensive climate change impact assessment, a greenhouse gas reduction strategy, and actions for reducing Maryland's vulnerability to climate change.

Written by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, the report concludes that the world is on a path to a 4 °C warmer world by end of this century and that current pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will not reduce warming by very much.

«Given the scale of greenhouse gas reductions needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, are we prepared to eat beef analogs that look and taste like beef, but have a much lower climate impact?»

The investigation of greenhouse gas emissions is also important to anticipate future changes in time and to assess their impact on climate.

To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic climate change.

7It is particularly ironic that Lomborg would offer such a ridiculously precise estimate of the cost of the impacts of climate change from carbon dioxide emissions, inasmuch as the entire thrust of his books chapter on «global warming» is that practically nothing about the effects of greenhouse gases is known with certainty.

The environmental group cites the recommendations of a 2013 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report as a reason for EPA to dramatically shorten the time frame over which it calculates greenhouse gas impact — from 100 years down to 20.

Its revision by the Trump administration is part of a broader shift within the federal government to downplay the impacts of climate change and will have important implications for how U.S. EPA regulates greenhouse gases.

It conducts interdisciplinary, peer - reviewed studies related to air pollution and greenhouse gases in China, from root causes in the energy demands to power its economy, to the chemistry and transport of pollutants in the atmosphere, to their impacts on public health, to policies to protect air quality and limit climate change.

«The best way to reduce the impact of climate change is to adapt to the effects of a changing climate... and to transition to non-carbon-based sources of energy to stop putting greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.»

I'm not saying that greenhouse gases isn't a player, but I'd like the IPCC and the climate community to work towards understanding the other potential causes of warming, before jumping to conclusions on the impact of greenhouse gases.

Arguably the most significant climate - related impact of increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, is that they trap more heat in the ocean.

• Editor and Lead Author, «The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability», IPCC Special Report on the Regional Impacts of Climate Change (1998) • Lead Author of IPCC Technical Paper No. 3, «Stabilization of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases: Physical, Biological and Socio - Economic Implications,» (1997) • Editor, Working Group II Contribution to the Second Assessment Report Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations, and Mitigation (Scientific and Technical Analyses), (1996).

• Lead Author, «Technological and Economic Potential of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, «Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation Scenarios and Implications,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Member, IPCC Task Group on Scenarios and Data for Impacts and Climate Analysis (1998 - present).

James J. Dooley • Expert Reviewer, «Carbon Dioxide Transport, Injection and Geological Storage,» IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (2006) • Lead Author, «Economics of Carbon Capture and Disposal,» IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Cross-Cutting Chairman for «Market Deployment,» IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Lead Author, «Technical Summary,» IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Expert Reviewer, Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.

Even if we consider the impact of environmental degradation on humanity, deforestation has a more significant and immediate impact on local weather, water availability, water quality, and soil erosion than does global climate change from greenhouse gases.

Thus it can mask the full impact that greenhouse gas emissions have on climate change by temporarily negating some of the warming.