Sentences with phrase «effect of greenhouse gas emissions»

To include the effect of greenhouse gas emissions, they assume either A1B or A2 scenarios (IPCC TAR).

Air - it is estimated that air travel accounts for up to 5 % of the warming effect of greenhouse gas emissions.

The effect of greenhouse gas emissions on the climate of Africa was detailed in the journal Science.

The most statistics can tell us at present is that there does appear to be a genuine warming trend in figure A. Whether this trend is the effect of greenhouse gas emissions or of a natural fluctuation due to some as - yet - undiscovered mechanism can not be determined from an analysis of the global mean temperature alone.

It's immediately clear that climate models are unable to resolve any thermal effect of greenhouse gas emissions or tell us anything about future air temperatures.

Climate models indicate that one of the main effects of greenhouse gas emissions will be global warming.

And also «(2) With the aid of such new knowledge, try to distinguish the effects of greenhouse gas emissions from natural variability»

As an addendum, the acidification of oceans is very relevant, but scientifically, the effects of greenhouse gas emissions should always have included two - thirds of our planet surface.

The specific pattern of changes, revealed in objects ranging from ship logs to ice caps to tree rings, closely matched the predicted effects of greenhouse gas emissions.

Not exact matches

Generally speaking, the U.S. and international press seemed to think the report, which finds the pipeline would have minimal effects on greenhouse gas emissions, bodes well for TransCanada's long - delayed project to connect the oilsands to Gulf of Mexico refineries.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia will require industrial facilities generating 50,000 tonnes or more of greenhouse gas emissions per year to report emissions under its proposed cap and trade regime, although key details such as the actual caps and their effect on consumers are yet to be released.

The effect of such displacement would globally result in an increase in greenhouse gas emissions rather than a decrease.

The effect of implementing the Kyoto Protocol, he says, would be to transfer vast sums of money from some countries to others without reducing the emission of greenhouse gases.

The LCA examined the effects of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.

The world's food security would be ensured even with over 9 billion people in 2050, agricultural land area would not increase, greenhouse gas emissions would be lowered and the negative effects of today's intensive food systems, such as nitrogen surplus and high pesticide exposure, would be greatly reduced.

«More than 1,400 researchers and stakeholders worldwide use the DNDC Model on over 40 agricultural crops to assess the effects of various management practices on greenhouse gas emissions,» said Allison Jordan, CSWA executive director.

The livestock industry notes that if some or most of the methane could be incorporated into the animal's nutrition processes, rather than being emitted, this would increase productive weight gain at the same time as cutting greenhouse gas emissions, for a double bonus effect.

These resources provide an overview of the greenhouse gas effect, lists the 6 main gases that make up GHG emissions, defines terminology and provides an outlook on world energy supplies.

Methane gas is second behind carbon dioxide in contributing to the greenhouse effect and global warming; cow flatulence and excretion account for 20 percent, or 100 million tons, of the total annual global methane emissions.

While recognising that all countries are affected by the effects of climate change under «One Planet» but some are more vulnerable, the summit seeks for tangible collective action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;

Because methane emissions from a cow's manure are typically lower than those released from its belching, future studies should look at the effect of antibiotics on that source of the greenhouse gas, too, the researchers suggest.

To take effect, the deal requires 55 countries totaling 55 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions to join, and the two largest emitters will ensure that nearly 40 percent of the world's emissions are covered.

These marginal improvements could have major effects: The U.N. Environment Programme estimated that 19 percent of the world's electricity goes toward lighting, accounting for up to 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

But he warns that such benefits may not last if greenhouse gas emissions eventually overpower the mitigating effect of agriculture.

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.

They are running two sets of climate models, one with and one without the effects of humanity's greenhouse gas emissions, to see whether drought in east Africa becomes more likely in a warming world.

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.

Had these concentrations been even slightly lower, the effects of the emission of harmful greenhouse gases would have been felt much earlier, at a time when humankind was not yet ready or knowledgeable enough to face up to mitigation efforts.

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.

Indeed, the reduction in the emission of precursors to polluting particles (sulphur dioxide) would diminish the concealing effects of Chinese aerosols, and would speed up warming, unless this effect were to be compensated elsewhere, for instance by significantly reducing long - life greenhouse gas emissions and «black carbon.»

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (and the California Air Resources Board) have noted that turning corn into ethanol can actually be a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and other unintended environmental effects, largely by driving the expansion of agriculture and its attendant pollution — as evidenced by previous studies published in Science.

In a paper published this month in Geophysical Research Letters, Lovejoy concludes that a natural cooling fluctuation during this period largely masked the warming effects of a continued increase in human - made emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

In his new paper, Lovejoy applies the same approach to the 15 - year period after 1998, during which globally averaged temperatures remained high by historical standards, but were somewhat below most predictions generated by the complex computer models used by scientists to estimate the effects of greenhouse - gas emissions.

«Many impacts respond directly to changes in global temperature, regardless of the sensitivity of the planet to human emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases,» says geoscientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, a co-author of the report, excluding effects such as ocean acidification and CO2 as a fertilizer for plants.

Rather than using complex computer models to estimate the effects of greenhouse - gas emissions, Lovejoy examines historical data to assess the competing hypothesis: that warming over the past century is due to natural long - term variations in temperature.

The balance between methane - producing and - consuming processes has a major effect on the worldwide emission of this strong greenhouse gas into our atmosphere.

The European Union needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to a British government paper, likely to fuel debate on whether deeper cuts are affordable.

For one, his published study does not take into account what is called the «substitution effect», which makes another weighty argument for cascading use: «The use of wood products helps to avoid greenhouse gas emissions that result during the production of non-wood products such as steel or concrete — and that applies equally for each additional cascading stage,» Professor Richter explained.

For the health care system, the researchers estimated the change in risk of diabetes, colorectal cancer and coronary heart disease due to the healthier diets and the subsequent effect on both health care costs and greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

In the time since the 2007 version of this report, the human effect on the climate has grown more than 40 percent stronger, thanks to continued emissions of greenhouse gases and more precision in measurements, with carbon dioxide leading the charge.

«It will be much more interesting to see what the agency says when it actually develops a proposed rule to regulate greenhouse gas emissions — and therefore has to estimate the effects of that proposal.»

Application is an environmental issue in industrialized countries like the United States because of high energy input, increased greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and other adverse effects on ecosystems and human health.

«Moreover, if the effects of the 2008 - 2009 financial meltdown and recession are taken into account, the data show that the ETS has had little if any independent effect on European [greenhouse gas] emissions.»

The unstoppable retreat is the likely start of a long - feared domino effect that could cause the entire ice sheet to melt, whether or not greenhouse gas emissions decline.

Frustrated by the ongoing diplomatic stalemate, a number of urban leaders have decided to take matters into their own hands, adopting solutions that already exist or inventing new ones for limiting greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for the effects of ongoing global warming.

The recommendations shall address indirect effects, both domestic and international, related to the production and importation of non-renewable transportation fuels that have significant greenhouse gas emissions.

PNNL's model scenario limits the heat - trapping effect of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to levels only 65 percent of what they would reach if no future emissions controls are implemented.

Results: The least costly way to manage the heat - trapping effect of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is to pursue every available option to reduce emissions, according to a study by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, published in the journal Climatic Change.