Sentences with phrase «done by greenhouse gases»

To achieve that, we merely need to make energy prices reflect the potential harm done by greenhouse gases.

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$ AGN is committed to doing our part to reduce climate change: decrease energy consumption, greenhouse gas, water use & waste by ~ 20 % in 2020

An agreement by the International Maritime Organization to cut the shipping industry's greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent — from 2008 levels — by 2050 will not be easy, but it can be done, Norway's Minister of Climate and Environment said.

The first is climate change, exacerbated by the greenhouse gases we encourage by burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests, and farming the way we do (particularly for meat production).

An agreement to cut the shipping industry's greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent — from 2008 levels — by 2050 will not be easy, but it can be done, a Norwegian minister said.

``... a number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming... is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases released mainly as a result of human activity... these gases do not allow the warmth of the sun's rays reflected by the earth to be dispersed in space.

Life cycle analyses of diapers done by Franklin Associates in the U.S. and the UK's Environment Agency found that using cloth diapers instead of disposables would decrease landfill waste but increase water use and greenhouse gas emissions.

Nuclear power is included in Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard by the Public Service Commission because nuclear does not produce greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate change is caused by greenhouse gases and that is why we need to do something about them.

It allows greenhouse gases to increase for another decade until the commitments each country made (known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs) mature in 2025 or 2030 and it provides very few specific targets with the exception of a financial target that «strongly urges» wealthy countries to contribute ($ 100 billion / year by 2020) to support developing countries that are suffering the consequences of climate change but don't have the ability to adapt to it.

«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 development.

Walter sees the benefits of using methane as an energy source as twofold: «Not only does it prevent a potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere by converting it to weaker greenhouse gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — but using it on - site would also reduce the demand for other fossil - fuel sources.»

«We did a careful analysis of the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from changes in energy use by households.

Not only did they banish smog and smoke, they also inadvertently cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 96,000 metric tons during the games.

Although there was disagreement on exactly what should be done, there appeared to be a consensus that action should be taken to avert a 2 - degree Celsius (3.6 - degree Fahrenheit) rise in average global temperatures and to cut emissions of greenhouse gases in half by 2050.

Much of the damage will have been done by the year 2010, it says, and the rest by 2070, when the predicted effects of global warming from emissions of greenhouse gases will have done their worst.

At the same time, the arrangement is designed to benefit the American companies, which can do their bit to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, as required by the Climate Change Convention, at one - third of the cost of making the same cuts in the US.

Via e-mails, a side discussion developed on the issue of whether the U.S. government should do more to regulate non-CO2 greenhouse gases, begun by Michael MacCracken of the Climate Institute in Washington, D.C.:

Nuclear power and most renewable forms of energy do produce greenhouse gases, and this is recognised in Britain by the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation.

And ozone, which forms a beneficial shield against ultraviolet radiation when high in the stratosphere, is an efficient greenhouse gas when it appears at airliner altitudes — as it increasingly does, since it too is a by - product of fossil fuel burning.

«There is still time to avoid most of this warming and get to a stable climate by the end of this century, but in order to do that, we have to aggressively reduce our fossil fuel use and emissions of greenhouse gas pollutants.»

«It is nearly certain that global warming is caused by greenhouse gases,» she says, and «the best way to convince people of this is to also explain what we do not yet know and why it is so difficult to get those answers.»

It will spur clean energy investments and more energy - efficient technologies by doing so, and right now, carbon dioxide — the main man - made greenhouse gas warming the atmosphere — is the only type of greenhouse gas capped in the Chinese program.

HFC - 23, an industrial greenhouse gas thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide, is produced as a by - product in the manufacture of refrigerant, and a number of major offset projects capture and destroy HFC - 23, doing a huge service to the climate.

Even if the average U.K. citizen were to fall in line with dietary guidelines set forth by the World Health Organization (which most do not), the study estimates there would be a 17 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

On the other hand, statistical analysis of the past century's hurricanes and computer modeling of a warmer climate, nudged along by greenhouse gases, does indicate that rising ocean temperatures could fuel hurricanes that are more intense.

«The most cost - effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is by doing some of these retrofits,» LAO's Roberts says.

So the report notes that the current «pause» in new global average temperature records since 1998 — a year that saw the second strongest El Nino on record and shattered warming records — does not reflect the long - term trend and may be explained by the oceans absorbing the majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as well as the cooling contributions of volcanic eruptions.

But these days, with many scientists are focused on tracking greenhouse gases produced by human activities at national, regional and local scales, the current monitoring network doesn't measure up.

The leaders of the world's Group of Eight richest nations this week pledged to work toward halving global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 but did not announce exactly how they plan to achieve this.

However, the catastrophically bad news is that if we don't slash greenhouse gas emissions, local sea level will rise by a huge 13 metres or more.

«(B) If as a result of such a study, the Administrator determines that the use of such products by noncovered sources results in substantial emissions of greenhouse gases and that such emissions have not been adequately addressed under other requirements of this Act, the Administrator may, after notice and comment rulemaking, promulgate a regulation reducing compensatory allowances commensurately if doing so will not result in shifting such emissions to noncovered sources.

However, the cooling achieved by ocean whitening is modest and appears unable to do very much to maintain permafrost and prevent the release of the greenhouse gas methane.

But our main point does not depend on that and is robust: with any model and any reasonable data - derived forcing, the observed 20th Century warming trend can only be explained by anthropogenic greenhouse gases, while other factors can explain the shorter - term variations around this trend.

They did find that cold spells aren't as cold as they would be in a climate unaltered by greenhouse gases.

The best mind the denialists have is Lindzen, and he has tried in the scientific literature to show that greenhouse gas concentrations should have little effect, but his ideas don't appear to have convinced anyone or to be borne out by observation.

... The Earth's atmospheric methane concentration has increased by about 150 % since 1750, and it accounts for 20 % of the total radiative forcing from all of the long - lived and globally mixed greenhouse gases (these gases don't include water vapor which is by far the largest component of the greenhouse effect).

But as far as I can tell, most sceptics don't flat out deny greenhouse gas warming, but they incorporate their «extra» forcing by assuming a lower climate sensitivity.

So although greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, don't directly warm the oceans by channeling heat down into the oceans, they still do indeed heat the oceans, and are likely to do so for a very long time.

More research is needed to draw a definitive conclusion, but their study does strongly indicate that rising greenhouse gas emissions could make Mount Everest's glaciers all but disappear by 2100.

If I'm understanding this correctly, then, much of what's doing the re-radiating is ordinary oxygen and nitrogen that have had the energy from excited CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) transferred to them by collisions.

«If nothing is done to decrease greenhouse gas emissions a rare event like this could be expected to happen every other year by the second half of this century.»

The real question is which factor is doing the heavy lifting — and a new report in Nature released Wednesday says that on the Antarctic Peninsula, at least, human - generated greenhouse gases have almost certainly been by far the most important driver of warming over the past half - century.

The global economy grew by a healthy 3.3 % while emissions of the most common greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, didn't.

If demand for meat continues to increase at its current rate, by 2050 we'll be eating two thirds more meat than we do today — which would also mean emitting two thirds more greenhouse gases from meat production.

They'll do this by collecting data about local trees and analyzing and interpreting data about deforestation and reforestation, which will serve as the example in this lesson of one set of activities that can affect levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

At Mercy Travel we are committed to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by showing preference, when possible, to those we do business with, such as hotels, vendors, tour and travel service providers who are actively working to reduce their carbon footprint.

ABM: The whole point about the greenhouse gases in a planetary atmosphere is that they absorb the infrared radiation emitted by the surface, and so Kirchhoff's law does not apply.

63 percent of respondents said the United States should move forward to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what other countries do... In the same poll, the public supported — by a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent — requiring electric utilities to produce at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if that would cost the average household an extra $ 100 per year.»

Specifically, do you believe current global warming is caused by GCR's and thereby greenhouse gases are unimportant?