Sentences with phrase «effects of carbon dioxide emissions»

Carbon offsetting — IOP records details of overseas business flights taken by its staff and makes a financial donation, based on those figures, to a company that takes steps to limit the potentially harmful effects of carbon dioxide emissions on the environment.

The public does not understand scientific evidence about the effects of carbon dioxide emissions.

But the impact these gases have on the climate has until now not been as widely studied as the effects of carbon dioxide emissions.

IPCC scientists have suspected for a decade that aerosols of smoke and other particles from burning rainforest, crop waste and fossil fuels are blocking sunlight and counteracting the warming effect of carbon dioxide emissions.

But even when carbon dioxide does make its way out of the atmosphere, Earth's natural systems can release other carbon dioxide molecules that were previously stored in the oceans / land back into the atmosphere, making the full effect of carbon dioxide emissions on surface temperatures much longer than this 5 - 200 year average.

Although such arguments continue to rage, there is no doubt that there is a significant body of scientific opinion (as well as published peer - reviewed literature [5]-RRB- that is sceptical of the alarmist claims by green activists about the effect of carbon dioxide emissions on the climate.

A far more balanced analysis of the effect of carbon dioxide emissions on climate was given to the House of Commons» committee on climate change by Professor Richard Lindzen [2], Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on 22nd February 2012.

Uncertainty about the future climatic effect of carbon dioxide emissions consists of two parts: the future carbon dioxide concentration given current levels of emissions, and the amount of warming that can be expected from a given carbon dioxide concentration.

Not exact matches

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.

In most cases, the surcharges were initially met with hostility, but the positive effects have been hard to deny: Immediately following the initiation of zone charging, London saw congestion reduced by a quarter, average speeds increase by 30 percent, and carbon dioxide emissions decrease by 20 percent, per the Fix NYC report.

Mr Miliband said: «Any increase in carbon dioxide emissions is worrying, even though these figures do not include the effect of emissions trading.

On 28 May, a Japanese governmental advisory body laid out options for the mix of energy sources in 2030, along with projected effects on the economy and carbon dioxide emissions.

«Those will have profound effects on carbon dioxide emissions,» Stavins said, «because they'll reduce investment in new coal and slow the use of existing coal.»

In a 1968 report prepared for API in New York City, SRI scientists Elmer Robinson and R.C. Robbins acknowledged some uncertainty concerning the relation between carbon emissions and rising temperatures, yet said carbon dioxide was the most likely cause of the «greenhouse effect.»

Tangible effects nearby also appear: clinking our peat soil by water extraction is also a form of land degradation, leading to more carbon dioxide emissions, and therefore triggering climate change.

«These effects include wasted resources, foregone revenue and outsized emissions of carbon dioxide as well as local pollutants such as sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides.

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.»

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.

While examining ways that carbon dioxide could escape underground storage, Kang wondered about the effect of old wells on methane 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.

The «Keeling curve» isn't going to turn down any time soon, despite Perry Bebbington's wish to see effects of slowing carbon dioxide emissions (Letters, 8 October).

A group of prominent Republicans released a «conservative» plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions today, arguing that replacing Obama - era policies with a carbon - tax - and - dividend system would be a politically feasible way to fight off the worst effects of climate change.

«Ultimately, the world must reduce carbon dioxide emissions or else the climate effects will overwhelm the ability of many species to adapt,» co-author Eugenia Bragina said.

If the human population continues to grow, more pressure will be put on carbon dioxide emissions — leaving future generations vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

As future climate changes become more severe, people might become interested in ways of offsetting the effects of human - induced climate, which could be cheaper than measures to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

The oceans have absorbed approximately one third of human - produced CO2 emissions, dampening the effects of carbon dioxide - driven greenhouse warming.

Or at least it won't for many centuries, as the long - lived nature of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means that its effects will be felt for many human generations, absent efforts to curb emissions or use

[OOOPS; this nonlinear effect puts their «alternative concept» into the realm of Trump administration «alternative facts» — BD] Although the deep ocean could dissolve 70 to 80 % of the expected anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions and the sediments could neutralize another 15 % it takes some 400 years for the deep ocean to exchange with the surface and thousands more for changes in sedimentary calcium carbonate to equilibrate with the atmosphere.

Data from satellite observations «suggest that greenhouse models ignore negative feedback produced by clouds and by water vapor, that diminish the warming effects» of human carbon dioxide emissions.

Unfortunately, RECs are almost entirely non-additional (e.g. the wind turbines producing them in Iowa would have been built independent of the REC income stream), so buying RECs has no real effect on carbon dioxide emissions.

Rate of percentage annual growth for carbon dioxide has certainly increased since the beginning of the 21st century, but this should result in a significant change in the rate of warming any more quickly than the differences between emission scenarios would, and there (according to the models) the differences aren't significant for the first thirty - some years but progressively become more pronounced from then on — given the cummulative effects of accumulated carbon dioxide.

The climate system is already committed to a certain amount of warming from carbon dioxide emissions of the past, but the worst effects of global warming can still be avoided.

Some wonder if this could be the start of an extended period of solar indolence that would more than offset the warming effect of human - made carbon dioxide emissions.

[Some wonder if this could be the start of an extended period of solar indolence that would more than offset the warming effect of human - made carbon dioxide emissions]

[UPDATE 5:30 p.m. Voices added below] Most concerns about growing emissions of carbon dioxide have focused on the gas's heat - trapping effect on climate.

Until now, power plants have been allowed to dump unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into the atmosphere — no rules were in effect that limited their emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global warming.

What's more, the net effect to society could be large: If 60 million families take advantage of the program to lower their energy consumption by just 10 %, the total reduction of 132 million tons of carbon dioxide would be the equivalent of the emissions of Oregon, South Dakota, Vermont, Maine, Idaho, Delaware, Washington, D.C., and Maine combined.

In addition to stopping the seas from rising we shall undertake to protect protect our children and future generations of unaborted from the effects of climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping pollutants and by taking sensible steps to prepare for changes in climate that are no longer avoidable.

Humans» use of fossil fuels, and the resulting carbon dioxide air emissions, has no material effect on climate.

These facts help explain why, in spite of the Earth's air temperature increasing to a level that the IPCC claims is unprecedented in the the past millennium or more, a recent study by Randall et al. (2013) found that the 14 % extra carbon dioxide fertilization caused by human emissions between 1982 and 2010 caused an average worldwide increase in vegetation foliage by 11 % after adjusting the data for precipitation effects.

It then goes on to speak of how the horrible effects of air pollution can be averted by enacting measures to lower carbon dioxide emissions, which, again, is demonstrably false.

The enhanced Greenhouse Effect we are now measuring is a human fingerprint because the source of it is the continued emission of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, produced by industrial activity.

The science indicates that human influence has contributed to climate change as we've increased our carbon dioxide emissions and greenhouse gases, further accelerating the greenhouse effect and average temperature of the Earth.

While the greenhouse effect is undeniably real, and while most scientists agree that there has been a rise in global temperatures caused in some part by human emissions of carbon dioxide, no one knows how much more warming will occur this century or whether it will be dangerous.

«The human impact on global climate is small, and any warming that may occur as a result of human carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions is likely to have little effect on global temperatures, the cryosphere (ice - covered areas), hydrosphere (oceans, lakes, and rivers), or weather.

(Sec. 340) Requires the EPA Administrator to report to Congress on an analysis of 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.

As he watches these difficulties, Ralph Keeling contemplates the unbending math of carbon dioxide emissions first documented by his father more than a half - century ago and wonders about the future effects of that increase.

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.

-- Dot Earth Blog — October 3, 2008 — Expert: Some wonder if this could be the start of an extended period of solar indolence that would more than offset the warming effect of human - made carbon dioxide emissions.