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«Economic decline... doesn't lead to as big a decline in emissions as a comparable amount of economic growth leads to growth in emissions,» York told Reuters.

By contrast, its GPI performance declined over the same period as the booming province experienced growing wealth disparity, increased household debt, more greenhouse gas emissions and a spike in problem gambling, among other things.

The good news is if combustion emissions decline in coming decades, as most projections say, fine - particle pollution will go down even if fertilizer use doubles as expected, according to the new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

They found that emissions declined from 2.7 billion tons to an estimated 1.9 billion tons and revealed a strong link to natural gas prices as being a driving market force.

The International Energy Agency first said two years ago that global energy - sector emissions had declined while the world expanded economically, though critics point out that the measurement excludes emissions from other sources, such as agriculture (ClimateWire, March 17).

Simulating natural and humanmade climate drivers, scientists showed that the decline in rainfall is primarily a response to humanmade increases in greenhouse gases as well as a thinning of the ozone caused by humanmade aerosol emissions.

Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) fell 4.9 percent in 2012 as declining deforestation rates and a drought - induced drop in cattle herds outweighed increased emissions from the energy sector, an independent study showed on Thursday.

DENVER — Even as governments worldwide have largely failed to limit emissions of global warming gases, the decline of fossil fuel production may reduce those emissions significantly, experts said yesterday during a panel discussion at the Geological Society of America meeting.

I criticized this statement, noting that the actual emissions from U.S. coal - burning power plants declined only from 16.1 million tons to 12.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of sulfur dioxide and from 6.1 million tons to 5.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of nitrogen oxides (mostly emitted as NO, not NO2, but by convention measured as tons of NO2 - equivalent).

Harmful greenhouse gas emissions should continue to fall in industrialized countries and recent signs of decline in China should continue, but emissions are set to rise in India, southeast Asia and Africa as energy demand growth dwarfs efforts to improve air quality.

Many utilities have in recent years turned away from coal toward cheaper natural gas - as well as solar and wind - contributing to a steep decline in carbon emissions.

Because of this relationship, astronomers know that a dip in a star's X-ray emission would mirror a decline in its magnetic activity, as the two are intrinsically linked.

Mass bleaching and mortality are identified as the current crisis to corals, and based on the current rate of increase in global CO2 emissions (now exceeding 3 % per year), most reefs world - wide are committed to an irreversible decline.

We are the only government in our nation's history to reduce Canada's greenhouse gas emissions — proof that emissions can decline even as economic growth increases.

The US is expected to see slower decline in its carbon emissions, from an annual 1.2 % drop over the past 10 years to a decrease of 0.4 % this year, with a return to growth in coal use, as president Donald Trump promised to rescue the coal industry.

I find the BC declines a bit unexpected (for me at least), as I thought increased Chinese emissions were overwhelming other reductions.

The most recent Annual Energy Outlook (table A-18) sees total annual CO2 emissions from electricity declining another 260 million tonnes as coal keeps sliding off a cliff.

The area of near - surface permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere is projected to decline by 20 % relative to today's area by 2040, and could be reduced by as much as two - thirds by 2080 under a scenario of high greenhouse gas emissions.

Does atmospheric CO2 then start to decline as a result of these absorption processes, or are those sinks just taking up the excess, or will the warm Arctic permafrost emissions rule this out?

In general, so long as there is some solar heating beneath some level, there must be a net LW + convective heat flux upward at that level to balance it in equilibrium; convection tends to require some nonzero temperature decline with height, and a net upward LW flux requires either that the temperature declines with height on the scale of photon paths (from emission to absorption), or else requires at least a partial «veiw» of space, which can be blocked by increasing optical thickness above that level.

Now, as skeptics noted on my previous stories about the UK's decline in emissions, we shouldn't forget that a large amount of the country's heavy industry has now been outsourced to foreign shores.

Mr. Barnes says the only approach that guarantees deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions is to sell a steadily declining number of permits to emit the gas — forcing polluters to pay the full cost of using the shared atmosphere — and returning the revenue to citizens in a streamlined way, as in the Social Security system.

There are various reasons that this may occur, but the asymmetry is probably due to the fact that economic growth produces durable goods, such as cars and energy - intensive homes, and infrastructure, such as manufacturing facilities and transportation networks, that are not removed by economic decline and that continue to contribute to CO2 emissions even after growth is curtailed.

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

Meanwhile, China's emissions of CO2 have peaked, and may be on the decline, as they move to be the international provider of green energy.

The decline in coal - related emissions is due mainly to utilities using less coal for electricity generation as they burned more low - priced natural gas.

Specimens of elkhorn coral living in water with excess carbon dioxide have been studied for fertilization rates, ability of larvae to settle on reef substrate (where they produce new corals), and subsequent growth and survival.3 Three levels of carbon dioxide were tested, corresponding to concentrations today, at mid-century, and at the end of the century on a high - emissions path.3, 5 At the mid-century concentration, the ability of fertilization to occur and for larvae to settle successfully on the reef was significantly reduced: around 52 percent, and the decline intensified to about 73 percent at the late - century concentration.3 The corals» ability to survive over the long run declined as well, by an average of 39 percent and 50 percent respectively.3, 4

Agricultural methane emissions have been growing over the last decade, even as overall U.S. emissions declined.

While these and other studies give grounds to believe that very low emissions pathways are not economically prohibitive, none model a short term (e.g., 2010 - 2020) decline of CO2 emissions that is as rapid as that postulated here or in the Ackerman et al. scenarios, all of which have emissions falling by more than 50 % between now and 2020.

While those emissions have continued to decline in the West, returns, from a brightening standpoint, have diminished, just as coal combustion ramped up in Asia.

Today — rising natural gas use plays a key role in falling emissions of carbon dioxide — even as levels of methane and ozone decline.

The domestic mitigation effort is defined so as to match the rapid decline needed to put the EU on course toward 90 % reductions relative to 1990 levels by 2050, consistent with the emission trajectory for Annex I countries presented in Figure 3 above.

In the present work, a multidisciplinary approach is used to examine how contributions of H2SO4 and MSA to particle formation will change in a large coastal urban area as anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions of SO2 decline.

After Paris, it's widely believed that the petroleum industry is entering an «ex growth» phase, meaning demand for oil will level off and eventually begin to decline as national emissions regulations tighten and clean energy alternatives become more affordable.

• Solar generating capacity continues to be rolled out, as costs decline expanding to supply the seasonal maximum of daily average, with pumped hydro to provide daily balancing until superior technologies come on - line, and open - cycle gas turbines shifting to a purely back - up function, with consequent substantial reductions in overall fossil CO2 emissions.

A study this January showed that global industrial nitrogen oxide emissions declined from 2005 to 2014, even as farm emissions boomed.

The good news: if industrial emissions decline in coming decades, as most projections say, fine - particle pollution will go down even if fertilizer use doubles as expected.

Last year the Energy Information Administration noted that the «decline in coal - related emissions is due mainly to utilities using less coal for electricity generation as they burned more low - priced natural gas.»

Sustained harvesting of any biomass will require large inputs of nitrogen and other fertilizers; nitrogen fertilizer is a major cause of biodiversity decline and increasingly N2O emissions are recognized as a major contributor to climate change.

This will likely be a smaller decrease than in past years, as US emissions have declined by around 1.2 % per year over the past decade.

As emissions are reduced and efficiency improves, major health risks will also decline.

The best estimate of 2017 US emissions is for a decline of about 0.4 %, though they could decrease by as much as 2.7 % or increase by as much as 1.9 %.

In truth, carbon emissions rose 3.2 percent in California between 2011 and 2015, even as they declined 3.7 percent in the average over the remaining 49 states.

It should be mentioned, though, that RCP 2.6 seems extremely optimistic at present, as the decline in emissions initially is very steep, and after 2070 or so, humankind is projected not only to not be emitting any CO2, we are also projected to be actively removing CO2 from the atmosphere!

The ratio of C13 to C12 (two isotopes of carbon) in our atmosphere has been declining, which is usually viewed as a signature of man - made CO2 emissions.

As the emission of ALM peaks and then declines later than that of ASIA, emission trajectories diverge strongly in the second half of the 21st century.

Plotting a more sustainable course for the international shipping sector Greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping need to stabilise as soon as possible — and decline soon after — to achieve a well below 2 degrees climate goal 3 October 2017

As discussed above, global sulfur emissions eventually decline in all SRES scenario families and associated groups.

Methane emissions from 1990 - 2015 associated with the natural gas industry declined by 18.6 percent as U.S. natural gas production increased by more than 50 percent