Sentences with phrase «emissions than decreased»

Eating a plant - based diet was presented in the form of moderate - impact actions such as eating less meat, even though a completely plant - based diet can be 2 to 4.7 times more effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions than decreased meat intake.

Not exact matches

The effect of such displacement would globally result in an increase in greenhouse gas emissions rather than a decrease.

The scrubbers are a commonly used method for decreasing carbon emissions from industries such as coal - fired power plants, which produce more than 14 billion metric tons of carbon each year.

This decrease is about five times larger than the annual emissions reduction target for the first commitment period (2008 - 2012) of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

Identifying more energy - conscious manufacturers, for example, could reduce emissions for retailers more dramatically than simply decreasing electricity use in stores.

Sugar cane provide a better carbon sink than pasture, leading to a net decrease in emissions.

Emissions decreased as the proportion of soybeans in the diet increased, as soybeans require less nitrogen fertilization than corn grain.

The influence of lobby groups on the current public and political discussion does not bode well that we can prevent or substantially decrease their influence in the near future, when they may call to focus on geoengineering instead of emission reduction strategies (rather than focus on both, but in reverse order).

Largely thanks to a decrease in coal consumption in both countries, the analysis suggests that annual emissions from the two countries combined are on track to be about 2 billion to 3 billion tons lower in the year 2030 than previous estimates have indicated.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

More than that, if we are plateauing / decreasing and CH4 emissions, e.g., are increasing, we would see a flat to slightly increasing total ACO2 and ACH4.

Indeed, there have already been pronouncements of failure of the Lima / Paris talks from some green groups, primarily because the talks have not and will not lead to an immediate decrease in emissions and will not prevent atmospheric temperatures from rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), which has become an accepted, but essentially unachievable political goal.

Thus UV decreases far more than emissions in the visible (which are what matters).

In other words — by 2014 we'd used more of the carbon budget than any of the RCPs had anticipated and if we are not confident that the real world is cooler than the models at this level of cumulative emissions, this means that available emissions for 1.5 degrees should decrease proportionately.

The reduction in CO2 - cooling (of a layer between TOA and some other level) assumes the increased downward emission at the base of the layer from the non-CO2 absorber within the layer is greater than the decreased OLR at TOA, which is the absorption of radiation from below the layer minus the emission from the layer reaching TOA (refering to the «baseline effects» that would remain if the preexisting CO2 were removed).

For a small amount of absorption, the emission upward and downward would be about the same, so if the upward (spectral) flux from below the layer were more than 2 * the (average) blackbody value for the layer temperature (s), the OLR at TOA would be reduced more than the net upward flux at the base of the layer, decreasing CO2 TOA forcing more than CO2 forcing at the base, thus increasing the cooling of the base.

There will be — indeed, already have been — pronouncements of failure of the Lima / Paris talks from some green groups, primarily because the talks will not lead to an immediate decrease in emissions and will not prevent atmospheric temperatures from rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), which has become an accepted, but essentially unachievable political goal.

Even if clouds were decreasing there would be the clear sky super greenhouse effect where the rate at which downwelling thermal radiation grows relative to increasing temperatures is actually higher in the tropics than the rate at which surface thermal radiation emissions increase.

Kyoto, Pinutabo, and the collapse of the Soviet Union with its resulting emissions decrease obviously most resemble B, and as Hugh and lucia say, it is perfectly reasonable to take Hansen at his word in choosing B rather than A as most likely.

2: Our Changing Climate, Key Message 5).2 Regional climate models (RCMs) using the same emissions scenario also project increased spring precipitation (9 % in 2041 - 2062 relative to 1979 - 2000) and decreased summer precipitation (by an average of about 8 % in 2041 - 2062 relative to 1979 - 2000) particularly in the southern portions of the Midwest.12 Increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation are projected across the entire region in both GCM and RCM simulations (Figure 18.6), and these increases are generally larger than the projected changes in average precipitation.12, 2

The US has decreased CO2 emissions more than any other country in the world by allowing the market to operate without undue government interference except in some «blue states,» which insist that government knows better.

Examples: Since leaves function more efficiently in diffuse light than in dappled bright - or - dark direct light, clearer skies will reduce carbon uptake: Mercado et al. (2009); a multi-year study of grass found carbon uptake sharply decreased in hotter summers: Arnone et al. (2008); warming kills plankton, resulting in less emission of DMS and thus less cooling clouds: Six et al. (2013); changes in Arctic rivers and coastlines could bring more carbon loss than models anticipated: Abbott et al. (2016).

But while this is a good sign, we must ensure that this is a true peak rather than a pause, and start working to decrease those emissions.

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.

Alarmists demand that the US and other Western countries unilaterally decrease their carbon dioxide emissions, while allowing unlimited increase to China and all other countries, which already emit more than 70 % of carbon dioxide and almost 100 % of other infrared - absorbing gases and soot.How could this happen?

logically, australia is NOT decreasing (but is actually hugely increasing) its CO2 emissions precisely because it is sending far more CO2 emissions to china with our coal exports than what we claim we will reduce (but probably won't) at home.

But without these decreases, emissions up to 2100 could be several times greater than the scenarios currently predict.

But as EIA reports, more than 60 percent of the decrease in energy - related carbon emissions since 2005 has come from fuel switching to natural gas:

We choose the parameters so that the majority of emission pathways have a maximum rate of emissions decline of less than 4 per cent per year, but we also consider a smaller number of pathways that decrease by up to 10 per cent per year.

GHG emissions would increase unless policies decreased the carbon - intensity of economic activity by more than the increase in activity.

But in 2012, according to analysts at Rhodium Group, California's carbon emissions actually increased more than 10 percent, bucking the national trend of decreases.

Because global emissions continue to rise rather than decrease after 20 years since climate change negotiations began, the international community has lost several decades in finding a way to prevent dangerous climate change.

If the emissions are more than absorptions, the CO2 content in atmosphere is increasing, but if they are less, the CO2 content in atmosphere is decreasing.

Actually my guess would be that by 2075 new technologies like inertial confinement fusion will have decreased CO2 emissions to the point where nature is drawing down more than we emit, so that CO2 will decrease for a while, starting well before 2100.

Similarly, EPA's report shows methane emissions from all petroleum systems decreased more than 28 percent since 1990.

A new study quantifying emissions from a fleet of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines and port fuel injection (PFI) engines finds that the measured decrease in CO2 emissions from GDIs is much greater than the potential climate forcing associated with higher black carbon emissions from GDI engines.

The response of biogenic secondary organic carbon aerosol production to a temperature change, however, could be considerably lower than the response of biogenic VOC emissions since aerosol yields can decrease with increasing temperature.

fracking is good because it allows us to produce natural gas cheaper than coal, and that allows a rapid decrease in greenhouse gas emissions from electricity.

The AEO 2017 Reference case features marginally lower emissions than AEO 2016 (a cumulative decrease of 1 percent between 2017 and 2030), and features 2050 emissions over four times higher than is recommended by climate scientists (see Figure 5).

Simply decreasing the amount of food we throw away might reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions more over the next decade or two than many of the expensive or controversial energy supply policies that have been proposed.

This week, it unveiled its new climate plan, which promises the country's emissions will be 37 percent lower in 2025 than they were in 2005, with a further decrease of 6 percent by 2030.

Back in 2009, Jacob reported on a study that claimed Kindles are greener than real books due to decreased carbon emissions over their lifetime.

This temperature decrease is much smaller than the warming expected from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the century.

Here's the really important part, though: Not only did that time reduction equal more than four days per year for U.S. drivers, the resulting decrease in distances driven and increase in fuel efficiency would lead to a decrease of.79 metric tons — that's over 1700 pounds — in CO2 emissions per driver, or 21 percent less than a driver without a navigation system.

Annual soil carbon - dioxide emissions for 2006 were more than 3.9 kg of carbon per m2 but decreased to 1.7 kg for the second post-hurricane year.

The majority of current emissions (and nearly all of future emissions growth) comes from countries who have no intention of regulating emissions such that global emissions will start decreasing with a few years, rather than increasing.

On the bright side, Hansen and Sato showed that if CH4 emissions decreased substantially, rather than continued to increase, it would allow the critical threshold of CO2 to be higher.

The emissions intensity of Australia's electricity sector had already decreased before the Tarong and Yallourn announcements: emissions from electricity generation were 2.4 Mt lower (and emissions intensity 7.6 % lower) in the third quarter of 2012 than in the same period of 2011.

These autonomous vehicles can limit human error, increase fuel efficiency and decrease emissions, simply by being better drivers than their human counterparts.