Sentences with phrase «different than emissions»

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(European cars had different emissions - reduction hardware than U.S. cars, so the software had different impacts, VW has said.

This engine had a different technology than VW had previously used to reduce emissions, a solution called the lean NOx trap.

The group also used different methods than in the previous study, which Lamb believes results in a more accurate assessment of the actual emissions.

The study also showed significant variations by region, with some areas showing higher than average emissions because of large differences in the age and type of pipe in different parts of the US.

Global methane and ethane emissions from oil production from 1980 to 2012 were far higher than previous estimates show, according to a new study which for the first time takes into account different production management systems and geological conditions around the world.

So, too, is a better understanding of what's in the trash in different regions, since emissions from organic matter like food are very different than those from plastics.

Less than a year after patenting a process that could improve stripping greenhouse gasses from industrial emissions, a University of Alabama engineering professor was recently granted another patent that uses a different solvent to accomplish the same goal.

The assessments shall reflect the relative carbon dioxide emission rates of different fossil fuel - based electricity, and initially shall be not less than the following amounts for coal, natural gas, and oil:

Compared to the past decades, the pattern (more emissions in South Asia) and the relative forcings are completely different, with much less relative influence of aerosols than today (due to faster increasing CO2 levels).

Numbers like this should bring it home to more people just how urgent it is to reduce emissions --(to those over 40 who probably have a different perspective on time than many of those under 30).

Hence, if the engine «believes» the coolant to be a different temperature than it is, it will put in more or less fuel than required, resulting in a faulty air / fuel ratio and potentially more CO emissions.

In the United States there are now more than five different firms producing zero emission transit buses.

The cutting - edge four - cylinder unit with two different output levels featured in the 320i Touring and 328i Touring lays on unbeatable driving pleasure and also comes with lower fuel consumption and emissions than its predecessor.

It was designed specifically for chassis cab and box - delete vehicles (RPO ZW9), which are considered incomplete vehicles and therefore fall under a different Federal emissions standard category than pickups.

-- And it should be clear that it implies actions other than reducing the emissions (that is a different realm).

Moreover, these fires are difficult to detect with current remote sensing methods because the chemistry is significantly different, their thermal signature is much smaller, and the smoke plume is much less buoyant than the emissions from flaming fires.

So it's utterly unremarkable to find 49 people, including astronauts and engineers, who would publicly reject James Hansen's view of the dangers posed by unabated emissions of carbon dioxide, or the Obama administration's approach to the space agency's research programs, news releases and other forms of public output on climate, which is markedly different than that of the last Bush administration.

In 2) i wanted to discuss the different forcing efficacies of solar shortwave compared to anthro fossil carbon combustion upon global average surface temperature, rather than the emission temperature at top of atmosphere

Compared to the past decades, the pattern (more emissions in South Asia) and the relative forcings are completely different, with much less relative influence of aerosols than today (due to faster increasing CO2 levels).

But eliminating a handful of chemicals produced by a handful of companies is a very different challenge than eliminating emissions from almost every activity of modern life — from turning on a lamp to driving a car.

The article also quoted Dr. Patrick Michaels, director of the Cato Institute's Center for the Study of Science, who said: «October 1st marks the 17th year of no global warming significantly different than zero and those 17 years correspond to the largest period of CO2 emissions by far over any other 17 - year period in history.»

The RCP4.5 has a slightly different emissions time path than its predecessor, the CCSP marker scenario.

The half - life for air is probably different than that of water, but the question is «How can anyone dismiss the impact of heat emissions without knowing how rapidly this heat is dissipated, by whatever mechanisms, into outer space?»

Second, it could create a two - tiered domestic system in which California, the nation's largest automotive market, would have different emissions standards than the federal government.

One reason for being confident about there being much more uncertaintly than the 97 % concensus suggests is that there is nothing like a concensus, let alone proof, of what caused (and causes) the extreme natural variations in climate throughout geological time.This variation is well documented and almost certainly has a variety of underlying causes which are likely to be very different from C02 or other MM emissions even if higher greenhouse gases levels have often been present.

Projections of committed global SLR (Left) and municipalities where more than half the population - weighted area would be affected (Right), under different emissions scenarios and assumptions about West Antarctica.

Actually looking at the performance of the RGGI investments and determining the cause of electric sector emission reductions tells a completely different story than that presented by NYSERDA and DEC at the NYS RGGI operating plan stakeholder meeting.

The concept that economic growth doesn't have to be accompanied by rising carbon emissions — dubbed «decoupling» by the New York Times — has additional detail in a new Brookings Institution report that finds more than 30 states have seen those historical partners delinked and headed in different directions.

Present CO2 emissions per person in China are now equal to those of Italy and higher than France, although the sectoral shares of households, transport, power generation, manufacturing industry and the service sector are quite different.

Then — and critically — rather than imposing a one - size - fits - all approach to reducing emissions on 50 very different states, EPA empowered each to design its own plan, taking into consideration local needs, resources, and challenges.

Using IPCC's theory, and IPCC's data, and IPCC's authors best papers, you come to a very different conclusion than IPCC's, and most probably you have a non-problem with CO2 emissions.

Human emissions are quite different in composition as some also contain brown / black soot which may absorb more sunlight and thus may have more a warming than a cooling effect (especially over India).

Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report that analyzes the effects of different carbon dioxide reduction strategies and technologies on the emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide, which cause acid rain, particulate matter, ground level ozone, mercury contamination, and other environmental problems.

One thing that is different about the climate change issue is that most of the uncertainty is in when rather than if CO2 emissions will cause serious environmental and economic damage.

Other organizations who have made calculations of the US fair share of the remaining carbon budget using different equity factors have concluded that the US fair share of safe global emissions is even smaller than that depicted in the above chart.

A rate of emissions, such as gigatons per year is different than your» rate of change of CO2 concentration»... Pure apples and oranges.

It's worth noting that the two charts above are on different scales: US carbon emissions in 2014 were around 13 times higher than those from the UK and seven times Germany's.

Battered and abused by the regulatory behemoth, the automakers fear that the state of California --- which has a special waiver to impose more aggressive tailpipe emissions regulations, though no power over CAFE standards — will create a regulatory situation in which different rules apply in California than in other states.

In a nutshell, hitting Paris targets will mean both that developed nations start rapidly reducing toward net - zero emissions by mid-century and that developing nations find a different path to prosperity than the one traveled by the countries around them holding all the wealth and still, on a per - capita basis, emitting the most carbon.

Representative Concentration Pathways, are referred to as pathways in order to emphasize that they are not definitive scenarios, but rather internally consistent sets of time - dependent forcing projections that could potentially be realized with more than one underlying socioeconomic scenario... They are representative in that they are one of several different scenarios, sampling the full range of published scenarios (including mitigation scenarios) at the time they were defined, that have similar RF and emissions characteristics.

«Our findings are very different than those of other agencies,» explained University of Maryland Professor Kuishuang Feng, co-author of the study, «Drivers of the US CO2 emissions 1997 — 2013.»

«INCAS will serve as a singular national platform, meaning that resources can be devoted to the one centralized system that produces GHG estimates for all of Indonesia's emissions reporting needs, rather than needing to develop and operate several different individual systems,» says Tom Harvey, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR's) manager of the INCAS program.

And, heavy trucks have different mileage and emission standards than gasoline powered vehicles.

A world with a relatively low climate sensitivity — say in the range of 2 C — but with high emissions and with atmospheric concentrations three to four times those of pre-industrial levels is still probably a far different planet than the one we humans have become accustomed to.

First, the graph you cite shows that the sea level change before human emissions of CO2 became material are no different than the change after they became material.

Loarie et al. (2009) calculated velocities of climate change in terms of relative changes in temperature gradients using three different emissions scenarios (A2, AB, and B1) and concluded that between 2050 to 2100, organisms now living in areas that cover about 29 percent of the planet's land will have to disperse faster than observed post-glacial velocities.

As is customary for the NRC, the report doesn't recommend particular emissions reduction targets, «noting that choosing among different targets is a policy choice rather than strictly a scientific one because of questions of values regarding how much risk or damage to people or to nature might be considered too much.»

We propose here a new paradigm of anthropogenic impacts on seawater pH. This new paradigm provides a canonical approach towards integrating the multiple components of anthropogenic forcing that lead to changes in coastal pH. We believe that this paradigm, whilst accommodating that of OA by anthropogenic CO2, avoids the limitations the current OA paradigm faces to account for the dynamics of coastal ecosystems, where some ecosystems are not showing any acidification or basification trend whilst others show a much steeper acidification than expected for reasons entirely different from anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

If you're wondering about global trade physically slowing down, due to efforts to reduce fuel consumption and emissions from container ships, the point - to - point speed today is not that much different than the fastest clipper ships — assuming constant wind of course.

Yes, yes, his position is far better than George Bush's, but it's not radically different than any the majority of other leaders in the developed world, with no strong pledge on emission reductions.