Sentences with phrase «emissions of the gases causing»

Many in the developing world see the whole idea of geoengineering as a ruse by industrialised nations to excuse them from making serious cuts in emissions of the gases causing climate change.

Not exact matches

Globally, it's thought that 6 % of all greenhouse gas emissions are caused by livestock.

But many experts think that since these initiatives don't fight greenhouse gas emissions or climate change — the root cause of what's killing coral reefs — they won't be enough to save the fragile environment.

In the 13 years since he left office, President Clinton has been a relentless and forceful advocate for a number of causes: the fight against HIV / AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, and the need to stem greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate scientists have long warned that rising emissions of greenhouse gases by humanity may cause weather extremes, and not just heat waves.

Given that agriculture, along with the deforestation associated with it, drives 24 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, we are dependent upon farmers to do the heavy lifting when it comes to fighting climate change.

And food waste causes 8 % of human - produced greenhouse gas emissions.

Granted, there are more benefits to reducing particulate and greenhouse gas emissions than just climate change, i.e. PM 2.5 which can be stuck in the human lung and cause cancer / respiratory issues, SO2 which contributes to acid rain (we've already eliminated the majority of this problem), as well as soot (nobody wants the surrounding area covered in ash).

The infant formula industry is a part of the problems caused by large - scale dairy farming: deforestation, environmental degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions.

The main cause of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), which trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet.

A Canadian environmental group sent a letter warning of drought resulting from the future release of sun - blocking particles and claiming that the test would cause a distraction from international efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Coal may get cleaner as pollution controls minimize the emissions that cause acid rain and smog as well as cut the greenhouse gases changing the climate, but there are still plenty of leftovers from coal burning: toxic ash, mercury and other issues.

Now Jianli Chen of the University of Texas at Austin and colleagues have shown that melting caused by our greenhouse gas emissions makes its own contribution to the shift.

The benefits, according to Wellinghoff, range from «green» jobs to cutting by 80 percent emissions of the greenhouse gases causing climate change by 2050.

Gigantic volcanic eruptions and the greenhouse gas emissions they caused wiped out around 90 percent of all animal species according to estimates.

Savings and moral approaches fizzle According to some researchers, the things people do every day — driving, showering, mowing the lawn — cause 33 to 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.

Reducing the emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming makes the most sense in the context of planetary boundaries, and many of the other thresholds collapse into it, Blomqvist and his colleagues note.

Writing in the journal Weather, Climate and Society, the University of Manchester researchers argue that cutting greenhouse gas emissions, while crucial to reducing humanity's longer - term impact on the planet, will not eliminate violent storms, tornadoes or flooding and the damage they cause.

They have caused most of the buildup of gases to date, and they have the largest per capita emissions, the greatest wealth and the most technology.

Last week, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted a low - carbon fuel standard that requires greater use of fuels that cause lower greenhouse gas emissions, compared with gasoline.

Since levels of greenhouse gases have continued to rise throughout the period, some skeptics have argued that the recent pattern undercuts the theory that global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by human - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

Currently, agriculture accounts for 10 - 12 percent of the total human - caused greenhouse gas emissions globally.

The scientists looked at the so - called biogenic fluxes or flow of the three greenhouse gases on land that were caused by human activities over the last three decades and subtracted out emissions that existed «naturally» during pre-industrial times.

The results of this work open up the possibility of reducing methane emissions and of contributing to a reduction in global temperatures which is caused by greenhouse gases.

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.

Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long - lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of widespread and profound impacts affecting all levels of society and the natural world, the report finds.

Critics argue that albedo modification and other «geoengineering» schemes are risky and would discourage nations from trying to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas that comes from the burning of fossil fuels and that is causing global warming by absorbing increasing amounts of energy from sunlight.

Their work aimed to address a longstanding disagreement over how climate change caused by the emission of greenhouse gasses will affect forest ecosystems.

But based on that data, they estimate that emissions from abandoned wells represents as much as 10 percent of methane from human activities in Pennsylvania — about the same amount as caused by current oil and gas production.

Agricultural expansion is a leading cause of wild species loss and greenhouse gas emissions.

Cleaner coal - burning technologies would reduce emissions not only of greenhouse gases but also of soot and other by - products that cause local and regional pollution — and they could prove to be easier or less expensive to implement.

The aim will be to target new cuts in emissions of the gases that cause acid rain, to give maximum benefit to the environment.

In addition to only using clean energy it reduces the environmental impact caused by the emission of greenhouse gases that traditional systems cause.

Geographer Carol Harden, the editor of the journal, Physical Geography, was aware that Soon was a vociferous critic of the idea that humans were causing global warming and of proposals for the U.S. government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Given those findings and the rest of the improved understanding of the climate system, the IPCC projects that if carbon dioxide gas emissions — the primary cause of warming — continue to grow at the recent rate, the world would warm 2oC above 19th - century levels by the middle of this century.

Part of the reason is EPA is only considering the domestic cost of methane emissions in its calculations, a fact that critics say severely underestimates the global environmental harm caused by the gas.

This suggests that the research community has a sound understanding of what the climate will be like as we move toward a Pliocene - like warmer future caused by human greenhouse gas emissions.»

Making roads more reflective and thereby sending more sunlight back to space helps cool the planet, offsetting some of the atmospheric warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

The Edison Electric Institute, which represents electric companies in all 50 states, declined to comment directly on the EPI's findings, but said the industry had already reduced emissions of the gases blamed for causing climate change.

The National Research Council in Washington, D.C., estimates that dairy cows account for as much as 20 percent of human - induced emissions of methane, a potent climate change — causing greenhouse gas.

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.

The key conclusions were that: It is «unequivocal» that global warming is occurring; the probability that this is caused by natural climatic processes is less than 5 %; and the probability that this is caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases is over 90 %.

The first report concludes that global warming is happening, and is very likely caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

For climate scientists who are skeptical that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions will cause a dangerous amount of warming, such as Richard Lindzen and Roy Spencer, their skepticism hinges mainly on this cloud cover uncertainty.

By the way, in my opinion, the elevated greenhouse gas levels already in the air, combined with the future emissions from machines already built, plus increased natural emissions from carbon sinks becoming carbon emitters (i.e. permafrost melting) will cause the rate of warming to top 0.4 C / decade by mid-century.

In fact we expect human greenhouse gas emissions to cause more warming than we've thus far seen, due to the thermal inertia of the oceans (the time it takes to heat them).

Though the figures vary, World Bank scientists have attributed up to 51 percent of human - caused greenhouse gas emissions to the livestock industry.

(above) Percent increase in number of days per month exceeding the threshold cold temperatures necessary to cause approximately 50 % mortality in mountain pine beetle populations as projected under two greenhouse gas emission scenarios (i.e., representative concentration pathways; see Climate chapter) at mid century and end - of - century.

The violence of typhoons that devastate Asian coastal regions is being magnified by rising sea surface temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions

They showed that reducing greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels also reduces the pollution that causes millions of premature deaths in societies around the world.