Sentences with phrase «counteract global»

As global ecosystems deteriorate and global warming alters water patterns — making economic growth ever more precarious — far - right global elites are counting on new technologies to spur economic growth: geo - engineering (to modify the entire planet to counteract global warming), nanotechnology (to manipulate the world at the molecular level to create novel materials) and synthetic biology (to create entirely new life - forms previously unknown in nature).

Bond, T. C. & Sun, H. Can reducing black carbon emissions counteract global warming?

Foamy Wakes Deflect Climate Change Can the foamy wakes left behind ships counteract global warming?

This method of «cloud brightening» was one of the geo - engineering schemes for intentionally intervening in climate to counteract global warming.

«Volcanic eruptions tend to counteract global warming but as the planet heats up and our atmosphere changes, we've found that fewer eruptions will be able to reflect the sun's radiation,» said Thomas Aubry, a PhD student studying climate and volcanoes.

I am generally skeptical of geo - engineering proposals to counteract global warming.

I can certainly understand why those who do not have as clear an understanding of the climate system as Jim Hansen does would want to be more ambivalent with respect to advocating action to counteract global warming since, this has very significant economic implications.

It is but a small step from explaining to the public how the climate will change as the result of global warming due to increasing atmospheric CO2, to explaining what can and what needs to be done to counteract the global warming.

Volcanoes are powerful sources of sulfate aerosols that counteract global warming by reflecting incoming solar radiation back into space.

Salter believes that a 4 % increase in the reflectivity of 1/3 of such clouds could counteract global warming.

It's worth spending some more time on the National Academy of Sciences reports on geoengineering prospects and concerns — the concerns mainly being about adding sun - blocking particles to the atmosphere to counteract global warming driven by the buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/9569172415150486/ Climate Dynamics Volume 37, Numbers 5 - 6 (2011), 915 - 931, DOI: 10.1007 / s00382 -010-0868-1 Albedo enhancement of marine clouds to counteract global warming: impacts on the hydrological cycle G. Bala, Ken Caldeira, Rama Nemani, Long Cao, George Ban - Weiss and Ho - Jeong Shin

Ideas that we should increase aerosol emissions to counteract global warming have been described as a «Faustian bargain» because that would imply an ever increasing amount of emissions in order to match the accumulated GHG in the atmosphere, with ever increasing monetary and health costs.

This is the menu of potential but largely untested ways to counteract global warming resulting from the buildup of greenhouse gases, should reality start to reflect worst - case projections.

He also studies geoengineering, or the intentional manipulation of the atmosphere to counteract global warming.

This would reduce emission of greenhouse gases and, thus, counteract global warming.

PEOPLE tend to have strong opinions about geoengineering — large - scale manipulation of the environment to counteract global warming.

The potential pathways and the role of organic agriculture in counteracting global climatic change are summarized in Table 6.

While hurricanes are a constant source of worry for residents of the southeastern United States, new research suggests that they have a major upside — counteracting global warming.

Concerns that mitigation may be too slow in coming have led to renewed dialogue within the scientific community regarding potential strategies for counteracting global warming through geoengineering.

During dimming (1950s — 80s) the decline in surface solar radiation (SSR) may have outweighed increasing atmospheric downwelling thermal radiation (LW) from enhanced greenhouse gases and effectively counteracted global warming, causing only little increase in surface thermal emission (LW).

Not exact matches

Organic agriculture counteracts resource depletion (soil, water, energy, nutrients), contributes positively to the problems associated with climate change and desertification and can help to maintain and enhance biodiversity at a global scale.

Global simulations conducted by the team found that microbial responses to enhanced root activity under rising CO2, while depending on plant species, climate and soil mineralogy, led to a loss of global soil carbon stocks that counteracted the additional carbon storage resulting from increased plant growth in many regions of the Global simulations conducted by the team found that microbial responses to enhanced root activity under rising CO2, while depending on plant species, climate and soil mineralogy, led to a loss of global soil carbon stocks that counteracted the additional carbon storage resulting from increased plant growth in many regions of the global soil carbon stocks that counteracted the additional carbon storage resulting from increased plant growth in many regions of the world.

Still, some researchers are talking seriously about global climate modification as a way to counteract climate change.

Limited growth in a drier climate has restricted the amount of carbon that new trees can lock away from the atmosphere, reducing their ability to counteract the effects of global warming.

As global temperatures rise, forests face a pair of counteracting carbon processes.

Expectations of decreases in large source regions such as China [195] may be counteracted by aerosol increases other places as global population continues to increase.

In the face of potentially catastrophic effects on global food production, some have proposed drastic solutions to counteract climate change such as reflecting sunlight away from the Earth.

, while depending on plant species, climate and soil mineralogy, led to a loss of global soil carbon stocks that counteracted the additional carbon storage resulting from increased plant growth in many regions of the world.

Why not indeed: Tree planting not only counteracts deforestation, but tackles social, political, environmental and economic issues ranging from global warming to food security.

Jean - Hubert Martin's exhibition purported to counteract the colonial ethnocentricity of contemporary art by including an equal number of artworks from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia as from the U.S. and Europe in a corrective survey of global artworks.

The stifling of the warming trend is generally attributed to a counteracting cooling effect caused by global dimming, an inference that has since been supported by data collected by Ramanathan and others from a number of field campaigns.

Since meaningful diminution of global CO2 emission is either technologically impossible or is beyond the amount of sacrifice that the human race is willing to undertake, why does the IPCC absolutely refuse to even consider looking into means to counteract the effect of CO2?

The meeting was attended by scientists, environmental campaigners, engineers and policy experts aiming to clarify how global warming might be counteracted either by sopping up heat - trapping carbon dioxide or reducing incoming sunlight in a variety of ways — a suite of options known as geo - engineering.

Again, no significant trend of the global averaged Gaa [atmospheric greenhouse effect] is found from 2003 to 2014 (Fig. 2) because the enhanced warming effect over the western tropical Pacific is largely counteracted by the weakened warming influence on the central tropical Pacific.

Global average temperature spiked at over 1.5 °C in February, and already another 0.5 °C is locked in once we stop burning fossil fuels unless we take additional actions to counteract that.

I noted (as I have previously in this blog) the large number of states that are either divided on or hostile about claims of human - caused global warming that are nonetheless hotbeds of collective activity focused on counteracting the adverse impacts of climate change, including sea level rise.

Initially, PED showed backbone, standing up to political activists pushing the state to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards view of climate change, which promotes the false claims that the science on climate change is settled, that we know human activities are driving dangerous climate change, that carbon dioxide is a pollutant that's dangerous to human health and the environment, and that we fully understand how to counteract the effects of climate change or control long - term global temperature.

Osgood asked: «Right now, global warming is a given to so many, it raises the question: Could another minimum activity period on the Sun counteract, in any way, the effects of global warming?

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It's hard to deny that there may be some risk, just as its impossible to deny one might get hit by a car tomorrow morning, but this is speculative in the extreme, and ignores a vast number of counteracting «negative» feedbacks from the biosphere, as well as the lack of average global warming of the last 18 years.

«I actually find it very difficult to imagine a scenario where all countries agree on a certain amount of global warming that they want to counteract.

In an article on «the perils of confirmation bias,» published for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (a group firmly opposed to policies that counteract climate change), Ridley suggested that «governments should fund groups that intend to explore alternative hypotheses about the likely future of climate as well as those that explore the dangerous man - made climate change prediction.»

That increased quantities of greenhouse gases will lead to global warming is as solid a scientific prediction as can be found, but other things influence climate too, and some people try to escape confronting the consequences of our pumping more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by supposing that something will come along miraculously to counteract them.

«While other studies have linked global warming to an increase in hurricane intensity, this study is the first to identify changes in wind shear that could counteract these effects.

Geoengineering, the idea of deliberate, large - scale intervention in the Earth's climate system to help counteract the effects of global warming, has been in the news again.

In attempts to counteract the temperature decrease from 1940 to 1970 while CO2 from human sources increased proponents of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) claimed it was due to human addition of sulfate aerosols.

Other hypotheses, predict the opposite — that the atmospheric response will counteract the CO2 increase and result in insignificant changes in global temperature.

While they may arguably need to swim further for food with global warming, their major source of food seem to do better, and the extra food seem to counteract the longer swims.