Sentences with phrase «emissions in the atmosphere»

«Increased Sunday ridership has also reduced traffic on our roadways and harmful auto emissions in our atmosphere.»

Without greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, a true ice age might have been expected as a 21,000 - year wobble in Earth's tilt relative to the sun that shifts the intensity of sunlight.

Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of «common but differentiated responsibilities.»

Trees absorb carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere and release clean oxygen.

Let's step back though and think about absorption and emission in the atmosphere.

Just as slavery was an issue that was morally invisible to people 200 years ago, today that invisibility can be found in the form of a cell phone that may have rare earth metals from war - torn Eastern Congo; in the denial of equal rights to lesbians and gays; and in my own Honda CR - V's fuel that contributes to an unstable amount of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.

To minimize the risk of dangerous global warming, some scientists suggest keeping concentrations of heattrapping emissions in the atmosphere below 450 parts per million (CO2 equivalent).

Taking up more of that carbon dioxide from the emissions in the atmosphere, the oceans have become more acidic with carbonic acid (by about 30 %).

The brochure emphasizes that manmade carbon dioxide emissions account for 3 % of total carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere, and -LSB-...]

«A new report by the Climate Council of Australia says it would have been «virtually impossible» for 2013 to be the hottest year in the country's record without man - made emissions in the atmosphere.

According to Benny Peiser, director of the GWPF, «We are certainly not taking a critical stance on the basic science of the greenhouse effect or the fact that CO2 emissions in the atmosphere are having an effect on the climate.»

The UN explained this, saying «Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of «common but differentiated responsibilities.

He notes that the carbon stored in the Amazon's trees equals roughly 15 years of human - induced carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

It concluded that due to the amount of human carbon emissions in the atmosphere, the planet has reached 3 to 7 degrees Celsius of global warming.

Current air monitoring efforts in the region are more targeted toward measuring compliance with provincial regulations; however, significant questions remain regarding the emissions from point and non-point sources, the chemical transformation of these emissions in the atmosphere, their long - range transport and their effects on the ecosystem and human health.

He and 21 young people between the ages of 8 and 19 are currently suing the federal government for promoting «the use of fossil fuels, thus increasing the concentration of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere to unsafe levels and creating the dangerous climate change and ocean acidification that we face today.»

It also ignores a further positive feedback whose occurrence is widely predicted, namely the Ocean Heating & Acidification causing the decline of the oceans» carbon sink, thus leaving more of annual anthro - CO2 emissions in the atmosphere, thus adding to ocean heating.

«This technology can effectively help lower CO2 emissions in the atmosphere but that will always cost more than letting business as usual go on.

But in the real world there is reflection and absorption and emission in the atmosphere and at surfaces.

He was referring to a target to stabilize the concentration of the most dangerous greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere at 450 ppm of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Reforestation adds to the planet's net carbon storage and helps moderate global warming by slowing the growth of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

The control knob for climate change is the amount of dimming sulfur dioxide aerosol emissions in the atmosphere — the fewer there are, the warmer it gets — and we are reducing them as fast as we can, thanks to the EPA.

Less energy emitted directly into space from the surface and more emission in the atmosphere in all directions as seen by specialist instrumentation.

This is true, but as far as we are concerned, we know that Kyoto protocol is the only legally - binding agreement under the Convention that has established a timeframe for the developed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.

For example, a carbon offset reforestation project adds to the planet's net carbon storage and helps moderate global warming by slowing the growth of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

Richards said that the fossil fuel industry is also to be held responsible because it is the source of roughly 70 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.

However, a separate report by climate scientists at Stanford University says the existence of the high pressure ridge, which is preventing rains falling over California, is made much more likely by ever greater accumulations of climate - changing greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.

This visual resource describes when managed sustainably, soils can play an important role in climate change mitigation by storing carbon and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.

Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of «common but differentiated responsibilities.»

S. Ichtiaque Rasool and Stephen Schneider of NASA, for example, modelled the effects of pollution in the form of aerosols and sulphur emissions in the atmosphere and discovered that a significant increase of such pollution could - possibly - lead to a cooling episode.

These rising temperatures — caused primarily by an increase of heat - trapping emissions in the atmosphere created when we burn coal, oil, and gas to generate electricity, drive our cars, and fuel our businesses — are what we refer to as global warming.

The real accumulation in % of the emissions in the atmosphere can be calculated, as there is a decrease in d13C in the atmosphere (ice cores - firn - Mauna Loa).

«We may be beyond redemption, we may be at the point of no return where the emissions in the atmosphere will carry on to contribute to climate change to produce a sea - level change that in time our small low - lying islands will be submerged,» he said.

I have to clarify myself on the aspect of oxygen and nitrogen absorption / emission in our atmosphere.

Perhaps that has been done for HITRAN's calculations of the absorption and emission spectra of different materials in the laboratory, but I think it can not have been done for its calculations of CO2's absorptions and emissions in the atmosphere because (fortunately for all life on the planet) the atmosphere can not be placed in a laboratory.

The annual emissions add to the cumulative emissions in the atmosphere, i.e. the raised Atmospheric Concentration.

Heede found that just 90 entities were collectively responsible for almost 2/3 of global greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, and he calculated the share of individual companies (Chevron's products and its direct operations have resulted in approximately 3.34 % of the human caused greenhouse gases in the atmosphere today).

Not exact matches

The really compelling argument for disallowing the coal supply chain through Fraser Surrey Docks is that it effectively undoes that achievement in emissions reduction if the same hydrocarbons end up being burned and vented into the atmosphere in China, where if anything environmental protections are more lax.

With CCS, instead of releasing carbon dioxide from oil and gas operations into the atmosphere, where the emissions contribute to global warming, that CO2 is converted into liquid and pumped underground to be sequestered indefinitely in porous rock formations.

CO2 emissions either accumulate in the atmosphere, or are absorbed by the oceans or land vegetation.

Together, this basket of emissions trap heat in the atmosphere, which in turn creates the temperature increases we have seen.

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Their message did not single out individual countries, but the administration of President Donald Trump has announced it is withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate accord, which seeks to curb emissions of heat - trapping gasses in the atmosphere.

Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons is that the methane biogas produced within them is not only prevented from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to generate energy — rather than waste water being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.

Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons with efficient green energy storage is that the methane biogas produced is not only prevented from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to generate energy — rather than waste water plants being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.

We provided technical assistance to a group of coffee farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico, who launched an agroforestry project to remove 130,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions (the annual emissions of 27,000 cars) from the atmosphere over 30 years through reforestation of degraded land.

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Carbon dioxide is retained for a long time in the atmosphere, so even if emissions were cut drastically today, it will be decades before the effects will be felt.

«technology - driven, market - based solutions that will decrease emissions, reduce excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, increase energy efficiency, mitigate the impact of climate change where it occurs, and maximize any ancillary benefits climate change might offer for the economy.»

During the UN summit, which he is attending as the UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, President Kufuor will participate in the «Climate Dialogue,» which is part of deliberations towards next December's Climate Change summit in Paris, France, where governments around the world are expected to make legally binding declarations towards reduction of gaseous emissions into the atmosphere to limit world temperatures to below two degrees by 2030 of pre-industrial levels.