Sentences with phrase «dramatically increase emissions»

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By dramatically improving the speed and efficiency of conversion over conventional approaches, these enzymes could stimulate efforts to grow crops for fuel, with implications for biodiversity in the form of increased land use for this purpose, potential shifts away from fossil fuel use and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

However, new modeling by researchers at Caltech and Harvard University suggests that methane emissions might not have increased dramatically in 2007 after all.

The catalytic converters that spare us some of the engine's noxious emissions were newfangled then, and we warned that their high working temperatures could dramatically increase the risk of fire.

By comparison, scenarios for fossil fuel emissions for the 21st century range from about 600 billion tons (if we can keep total global emissions at current levels) to over 2500 billion tons if the world increases its reliance on combustion of coal as economic growth and population increase dramatically.

Why it matters: In the last half of the 20th century, sulfur emissions from fossil fuel burning in China increased by a factor of nine, dramatically reducing visibility.

Heat trapping greenhouse - gas emissions are the obvious culprit, since they've increased dramatically over that same 50 years, but scientists prefer hard evidence to presumption, so a team from the British Antarctic Survey has been drilling into ancient ice to see how the current warming stacks up against what happened in the ancient past.

A misfire is when the combustion cycle of your engine is interrupted, causing a sudden and severe loss of power while dramatically reducing fuel economy and increasing emissions.

This engine has a high - pressure direct injection system (over 2,200 psi), which dramatically increases power and torque, while reducing fuel consumption and emissions.

All their cars will offer a biofuel capability before too long which has the advantage of increasing power and reducing — quite dramatically — well - to - wheel CO2 emissions.

The Santa Fe's Lambda II 3.3 - liter GDI also has a high - pressure direct injection system (over 2,200 psi), which dramatically increases power and torque, while reducing fuel consumption and emissions.

A lot of hay has been made recently about how sad it is that 30 years after cars like the Excel, we've only achieved moderate increases in fuel economy, but emissions have decreased dramatically.

These drought conditions, see the IRI forecast, are likely to promote continued, possibly even increasing forest fires in many of the world's most important remaining tropical rainforests, including Borneo and the Amazon, causing not only biodiversity loss, but also deterioration of air quality and dramatically increased CO2 emissions.

To get policy in line with science and 2C promises countries need to dramatically increase 2030 emissions targets.

Relatively rapid degradation of ice - rich permafrost is adversely affecting human infrastructure, altering Arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact Arctic hydrological process and increase greenhouse gas emissions.

CO2 emissions have increased dramatically over the last century..

Degradation of near - surface permafrost (perennially frozen ground) caused by modern climate change is adversely affecting human infrastructure, altering Arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact Arctic hydrological processes and increase greenhouse gas emissions.

Climeon was chosen as a Climate Solver due to its Heat Power technology that can dramatically reduce the CO2 emissions and increase the energy efficiency around the globe.

As more passenger vehicles hit the roads, this pollution will increase dramatically unless strict emissions - reduction and fuel economy policies are in place.

Already the world's third - largest emitter of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, India is attempting to do something no nation has ever done: build a modern industrialized economy, and bring light and power to its entire population, without dramatically increasing carbon emissions.

If, for instance, the United States and India are required to reduce ghg emissions by the same percentage amount, for instance 90 %, then the US per capita emissions of approximately 20 tons CO2 per capita would allow US citizens to emit CO2 at the rate of 2 tons per capita while the current India per capita emissions of approximately 1.8 tons per capita would mean that the Indian citizens could emit only at the rate 0.18 tons per capita even though India needs to dramatically increase its energy use to assure that hundreds of millions of people economically rise out of grinding poverty and India has comparatively done little to cause the existing problem.

Without a clear understanding of how adaptation and loses and damages costs increase dramatically as delays continue in making adequate dramatic ghg emissions reductions, citizens can not evaluate the need of their nations to act rapidly to reduce ghg emissions.

Tropical cyclone activity and intensity increasing Record droughts, floods, heat waves, cold spells, high tides occurring Unequivocal warming of the climate system observed with very high confidence that human activities are to blame Temperature rising even more dramatically in Arctic, threatening ice loss and extinction of species Halving human CO2 emissions immediately might save the planet from catastrophe.

An early 2008 study led by Tim Searchinger of Princeton University that was published in Science used a global agricultural model to show that when including the land clearing in the tropics, expanding U.S. biofuel production increased annual greenhouse gas emissions dramatically instead of reducing them, as more narrowly based studies claimed.

Air conditioner and refrigerator use is rising dramatically in India and is likely to grow up to 20 percent per year because of rising energy demands which will inevitably increase HFC emissions.

No doubt the IPCC will assiduously avoid addressing such issues in AR5, and will distract the global media with measures of dramatically increasing CO2 emissions and climate model predictions of it's impact, (delayed by up to 15 years apparently!).

The authors assert that the human - caused post-1940s cooling trend and increase in precipitation dramatically conflict with climate model expectations which project a human - caused warming trend and decreasing rainfall with the advent of increasing GHG emissions.

PA, how are you going to get billions of people out of poverty in this century, if they are going to rely primarily on fossil fuels for economic growth, and not dramatically increase CO2 emissions?

«Over the last century, as anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have increased... every relevant indicator of public health and welfare has improved dramatically around the world rather than deteriorated.»

These estimates were based on relatively modest rates of increase in methane emission from 2000 to 2006 but things dramatically changed after this period as methane emission increased by 10-fold over the next decade.

As Jan Minx, from the Department Economics of Climate Change of the Technical University Berlin and co-author of the PNAS article explains: «Most of the change in in global emission patterns is mirrored in China and Russia: While Chinese emissions increased dramatically in the last two decades, significantly also fueling increasing consumption in OECD countries, emissions from Russia and Ukraine fell significantly after 1990».

Environment groups said the Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, needed to explain how he would curb rising greenhouse gas emissions at a time when Queensland and NSW were dramatically boosting coal exports and several states were approving big road and power projects that would increase climate change pollution.

The Conservatory is recognized as one of the world's greenest buildings.The Pittsburgh 2030 District is, according to the city's website, «a collaborative, nationally recognized, but local community of high performance buildings in Downtown and Oakland that aim to dramatically reduce energy and water consumption, transportation emissions, and improve indoor air quality while increasing competitiveness in the business environment and owner's returns on investment.»

At the same time, global energy - related CO ₂ emissions increased for the first time in three years, as improvements in global energy efficiency slowed down dramatically to 1.7 %.

In one scenario, fossil fuel emissions begin to curb dramatically by the middle of this century and the global temperature increases 1.8 degrees Celsius.

The Mauna Loa CO2 growth rate has been basically constant since at least 1993, while our emission rate has increased dramatically.

Choosing a project in a more carbon intensive grid rather than your potentially less intense local grid can therefore dramatically increase the actual greenhouse gas emissions avoided by your renewable energy choice.

Or another way to characterize it, there seems to be an ever increasing amount of human emission which get absorbed as these human emission * dramatically increase * within the 50 or so years.

For the moment there is an upward trend in sink capacity, as sinks continue to absorb about half of our emissions, even as our emissions have dramatically increased.

The climate crisis is now, therefore greenhouse gas emissions must be dramatically reduced to mitigate the increasing scale of future storms; Our power grid is fragile, but dramatically reduced power consumption can provide the basis for a more diverse and robust grid; and The sheltering capacity of our buildings is generally poor, meaning that without power in extreme temperatures occupants suffer.

As with the problems with habitat disruption and potential greenhouse gas emissions, the amount of the disruption to communities around the project goes up dramatically as the size of the project increases.

But such arguments presume both significant increases in baseline emissions and a need dramatically to reduce such emissions.

Two new reports, yet to be published but reported on by the BBC, show that contrary to previously published figures carbon emissions in the UK have not only not fallen since the early 1990s, they have actually increased dramatically.

And there are several possibilities, some of which could reduce emissions while others could increase emissions dramatically (see figure).