Sentences with phrase «emissions cease»

Recent model results, by contrast, suggest that significant impacts will persist for hundreds of thousands of years after emissions cease;» Matthews and Caldeira (2008): «We show first that a single pulse of carbon released into the atmosphere increases globally averaged surface temperature by an amount that remains approximately constant for several centuries, even in the absence of additional emissions.»

approached perhaps 500 years or more after emissions cease.

``... atmosphere - ocean equilibrium, reached many centuries after emissions cease....

With SGE, the abatement rate can be a bit lower, and the date by which all emissions cease is delayed by several decades.

One can not use a single half life or decay time to describe the decrease in CO2 mixing ratio if emissions cease because their are multiple processes at work.

CO2 can not be stabilized even with an enormous spike in biomass, unless emissions cease.

She continues by emphasizing the too - little appreciated fact that — in the words of climate scientist Susan Solomon — «atmospheric temperatures... are not expected to decrease significantly even if the carbon emissions cease» and that warming is essentially irreversible over a «time scale exceeding the end of the millennium in year 3000.»

As I understand it, the earth has an energy imbalance, which will not go away the moment GHG emissions cease.

While much of the attention at Paris is focused on reducing emissions in a bid to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, many climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Will methane emissions cease when the lakes are formed?

Reality is that the rate of global annual emissions of CO2 can not be stabilized until the growth in the rate of global annual emissions ceases; and, the growth is occurring almost exclusively in Asia.

In the opposite transition to rapid warming in 1975, once again I am struck by the fact that while aerosol emissions ceased to rise, they did not disappear entirely from the atmosphere, but began a gradual decline from a high peak.

In any case, the actual data is below Scenario C, which assumed that emissions ceased in 2000.

This was his «best case» scenario, whereby CO2 emissions ceased in 2000.

By the AGW proponents» own models, if all CO2 emissions ceased immediately, it would take centuries for the concentration to drop to a lower level.

KevinM — In regards to what would happen if emissions ceased, you might want to look at the http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/06/climate-change-commitment-ii/ post.

If anthropogenic CO2 emissions ceased, atmospheric CO2 would start to fall as the oceans continued to absorb at a rate proportion to the difference between the current concentration and the equilibrium concentration.

Not exact matches

And the prognosis is grim: Without dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, all these reefs «will cease to host functioning coral reef ecosystems by the end of the century,» predicts the report from UNESCO's World Heritage Center in Paris.

The longer it takes to finalise the eligibility criteria under CORSIA, the smaller this potential supply may be; the most vulnerable of these projects are likely to cease emission reduction activities soon or may have already done so.

The report also suggested that to have a reasonable chance of meeting the 2 °C target, CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels, especially coal, should fall dramatically by the 2050s and virtually cease by the end of the century.

We humans could be pulling the trigger on that right now, and who knows when we might reach a point at which even if we cease & desist from our human emissions, the positive feedback chain of «warming causing emissions causing more warming» takes on a life of its own.

Ram ceased production of its EcoDiesel V - 6 in 2016 under a cloud (heh) of suspicion about its emissions software.

Toyota has now ceased production of its VVTL - i engines for most markets, because the engine does not meet Euro IV specifications for emissions.

The Land Rover Defender will cease production in late 2015, as the iconic SUV will no longer be able to comply with the new European Union 6 (EU6) emission and safety norms.

The analysis predicts that all 29 coral - containing World Heritage sites might cease to exist as functioning coral reef ecosystems by the end of this century if CO2 emissions are not drastically reduced.

Yes, Scenario C imagines that we start to constrain our emissions but CO2 levels in the atmosphere continue to increase by 1.5 ppm per year until year 2000 and it is only after year 2000 that CO2 levels in the atmosphere cease to increase (remaining at 368ppm).

It said «Scenario A assumes continued exponential trace gas growth, scenario B assumes a reduced linear linear (sic) growth of trace gases, and scenario C assumes a rapid curtailment of trace gas emissions such that the net climate forcing ceases to increase after the year 2000»

But so does the equilibrium climate sensitivity, only after the forcing ceases, e.g., we quite raising CO2 concentrations with our emissions.

This would be helpful in calculating the atmospheric concentration at which CO2 would cease to increase if emissions were naturally (or forcibly) capped at X % higher levels than today.

Specifically and categorically, we must cease making large, long - term capital investments in new fossil fuel infrastructure that «locks in» dangerous emission levels for many decades.

Mr. President, it is time to stop waffling and draw the line in the sand against fossil foolishness and «cease making large, long - term capital investments in new fossil fuel infrastructure that «locks in» dangerous emission levels for many decades.»

With population growth slowing CO2 emissions will surely cease to be exponential, even if no special measures are taken to reduce them.

(And even if the US acted immediately to cease [impossible] emitting greenhouse gases, emissions from developing countries are expected to double by 2035, and triple by 2060.)

But more likely the fact that anti-GHG emissions policies led to huge increase in electricity prices, belief that rain would cease led to costly but unused desal plants, etc, we are bearing high costs for no benefit.

I no doubt that enough feedbacks have kicked in that we could cease all human carbon emissions today, and over the next 50 years we would still see the Earth warm to more than 2C as it comes to thermodynamic equilibrium with the forcing from 400 ppmv CO2 and all feedbacks.

The analysis predicts that all 29 coral - containing World Heritage sites would cease to exist as functioning coral reef ecosystems by the end of this century under a business - as - usual emissions scenario.

To prevent catastrophic global warming human greenhouse gas emission must cease, but this will also end the aerosol cooling effect and the full heating effect of our «Faustian bargain» will be revealed.

This paper examines the implications for U.S. fossil fuel production and global CO2 emissions of ceasing to issue new federal leases for fossil fuel extraction and not renewing existing leases for resources that are not yet producing.

Therefore all dreams of mankind going quickly to low - carbon should cease as our efforts should properly be directed at mitigating whatever harmful effects will come from the increased carbon dioxide emissions, as soon as we agree what those consequences will be and to what degree, if there will be any.

Rapid growth in global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and industry ceased in the past two years, despite continued economic growth.

«Until you can demonstrate a plausible and worthwhile net benefit, you should cease your support for emissions reductions.»

Lawmakers on April 12 could pass the package of bills, which includes S - 2313, a bill directing the Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to establish zero emission certificates (ZECs) for a nuclear plant that can demonstrate it will cease operations unless it experiences a material financial change.

Yet, as we have demonstrated in ClimateEthics before, no nation may deny its duty to reduce its emissions to its fair share of safe global emissions on the basis that others who are contributing to the harm have failed to cease harmful behavior.

Reporter, Paul Merrion appeared to find some comfort that while CCX will cease all trading of new emission allowances at the end of the year, «it will continue trading carbon offsets generated by projects that consume greenhouse gases, such as planting trees.»

Because of the slow nature of the carbon cycle and ocean thermal inertia, even if we were to immediately cease all anthropogenic carbon emissions right this very second, worldwide, we'd still see more warming for decades.

Recently, Toyota has set a goal to cease production of traditional internal combustion engines by 2040 and reduce its vehicles» carbon emissions by 90 percent by 2050.

If, at such a time, it became clear that a higher concentration would cause catastrophic damage, then to avoid those impacts all emissions would have to cease immediately.

The White House Council on Environmental Quality censored, and then ceased publication of, a USDA brochure recommending steps that farmers could take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The soonest any country can formally withdraw is four years after the Paris Agreement went into effect, or 2020 — but Trump made it clear at the G20 summit in July that the US would «immediately cease» any effort to honor the emissions reduction plan (known as a nationally determined contribution or NDC) that the Obama Administration committed to in ratifying the accord.

While at the moment carbon emission is a free gift there's no reason we should keep giving it and plenty of reasons to cease.