Sentences with phrase «emissions trends as»

Moreover, there has been no major improvement in emissions trends as of the latest data.

Not exact matches

If current trends persist, the transportation sector will overtake power sector as the largest source of U.S. emissions.

On Friday November 21st Glass Lewis hosted a Proxy Talk conference call with CERES and Walden Asset Management to discuss the risks from stranded carbon assets, greenhouse gas emissions and hydraulic fracturing as well as trends in -LSB-...]

They credited drops in CO2 emissions from the United States and China as the primary drivers of the trend.

Their findings: natural influences such as changes in the amount of sunlight or volcanic eruptions did not explain the warming trends, but the results matched when increasing levels of greenhouse gas emissions were added to the mix.

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

A recent trend in GCMs is to extend them to become Earth system models, that include such things as submodels for atmospheric chemistry or a carbon cycle model to better predict changes in carbon dioxide concentrations resulting from changes in emissions.

If emission trends continue, the subcontinent will face twice as many droughts in the next decade.

And as the animation shows, it's a long - term trend that is likely to continue until the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are significantly curtailed.

It was feared the V8 petrol engines from both car - makers could have been killed off and replaced by a twin - turbo V6 as part of the general downsizing trend in search of lower emissions, but now thanks to sharing its considerable development costs the well - loved V8 configuration will live on for at least another generation at both Audi and Porsche.

But this is a trend that's likely to continue as the domineering European and Californian emissions regulations tighten towards 2020.

In order for Cook to produce the necessary «correlation» between CO2 emissions and the various warming and cooling trends of the last 100 years or so it is necessary to see CO2 as «the dominant forcing.»

The idea is to define area masks as a function of the emissions data and calculate the average trend — two methods were presented (averaging over the area then calculating the trend, or calculating the trends and averaging them over the area).

Victor @ 28 citing some incredible ass: In order for Cook to produce the necessary «correlation» between CO2 emissions and the various warming and cooling trends of the last 100 years or so it is necessary to see CO2 as «the dominant forcing.»

There's a long history of concerns about the validity of the MSU2 / AMSU5 data (aka: the MT), going back to Spencer and Christy's work published in 1992 in which they introduced the TLT (or LT) as a correction for the MT.. It was their claim at the time that the MT is contaminated by emissions from the stratosphere, which has a well known cooling trend.

A sobering new analysis of HFC emission trends, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, forecasts that by midcentury, emissions of these chemicals could be heating the atmosphere with the same punch as 7 or 8 billion tons a year of carbon dioxide.

But models are not tuned to the trends in surface temperature, and as Gavin noted before (at least for the GISS model), the aerosol amounts are derived from simulations using emissions data and direct effects determined by changes in concentrations.

Researchers at Stanford University who closely track China's power sector, coal use, and carbon dioxide emissions have done an initial rough projection and foresee China possibly emitting somewhere between 1.9 and 2.6 billion tons less carbon dioxide from 2008 to 2010 than it would have under «business as usual» if current bearish trends for the global economy hold up.

In our analysis we found that an urban development strategy focused on access for all, rather than for a minority who use cars, with congestion pricing, realistic parking charges, and speed limits low enough to stop the slaughter of pedestrians and cyclists would as a co-benefit also reduce oil use and CO2 emissions from cars to barely more than twice today's levels in 2020, way below the trends.

I agree that targeting 2C rather than nothing is a start — but is it a start in the right direction or will we be confronted with a whole new set of excuses ranging from «we don't have to do anything because of the «current» trend» or «we'll put up an aerosol emission program as soon as 1.9 C have been reached» or «our scientists say we'll never reach the 2C anyway and we don't care what your scientists say» or other ideas like that?

Nevertheless, if the effects of CO2 emissions can reach the ocean only via the atmosphere as intermediary, we would expect any trends in the atmosphere to be followed by corresponding trends in the ocean, at a distance of: decades.

The Associated Press has put out an interesting interactive mapof climate change data, including the emission trends from countries in the northern hemisphere, graphs of the various indicators of global warming such as glacier melts and global temperatures, and the pledges that different countries have made when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Given the total irrelevance of volcanic aerosols during the period in question, the only very modest effect of fossil fuel emissions and the many inconsistencies governing the data pertaining to solar irradiance, it seems clear that climate science has no meaningful explanation for the considerable warming trend we see in the earlier part of the 20th century — and if that's the case, then there is no reason to assume that the warming we see in the latter part of that century could not also be due to either some as yet unknown natural force, or perhaps simply random drift.

As for pessimism, he's considered global emissions trends, not just USA's.

(And of course there's the question of whether it's an utterly wishful goal given emissions trends and energy options, as Richard Black explores on his BBC blog.)

They say their findings, which focused on the effect titling had on forest clearing and disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon between 2002 and 2005, suggest that the increasing trend towards decentralized forest governance via granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to their lands could play a key role in global efforts to slow both tropical forest destruction, which the researchers note is responsible for about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the transportation sector, and climate change.»

According to us, the trend itself is fully caused by the emissions and the temperature increase 1959 - 2008 results in only a very small increase of CO2, of the same order as the short term influence seen around the trend.

The influence on the trend is near zero, as the variability indeed is around the trend of 55 % of the emissions.

The most statistics can tell us at present is that there does appear to be a genuine warming trend in figure A. Whether this trend is the effect of greenhouse gas emissions or of a natural fluctuation due to some as - yet - undiscovered mechanism can not be determined from an analysis of the global mean temperature alone.

Sorry, made a mistake, the emissions / increase / temperature curve I have plotted is based on the HadSST temperature data, not from UAH, as these start only after 1979... That doesn't change much in the relationship temperature - CO2, only the HadSST trend is somewhat higher in the overlapping period.

They concluded that in a climate being warmed by man - made carbon emissions, «it is possible, and indeed likely, to have a period as long as a decade or two of «cooling» or no warming superimposed on a longer - term warming trend.

The only trend I see in those 161 years is one that correlates beautifully with all estimates of increasing atmospheric CO2 since 1850 assuming that 45 % of emissions (as per CDIAC datasets) is retained in the atmosphere and, with a delay of around 15 years (possibly due to the ocean heatsink, aka Hansen's «pipeline»), heats the surface by 2.8 - 2.9 C for each doubling of atmospheric CO2.

bob said «it is a bit harder to predict future trends in climate since you also have to predict future trends in emission as well as future trends in the natural drivers.»

As far as I am aware that is related to striving for dynamic balance between CO2 emissions to atmosphere and absorptions of CO2 from atmosphere to other parts of environment; and in addition CO2 content trends in atmosphere seem to follow trends of climate temperature and not vice versa; https://judithcurry.com/2017/03/11/scott-pruitts-statement-on-climate-change/#comment-8418As far as I am aware that is related to striving for dynamic balance between CO2 emissions to atmosphere and absorptions of CO2 from atmosphere to other parts of environment; and in addition CO2 content trends in atmosphere seem to follow trends of climate temperature and not vice versa; https://judithcurry.com/2017/03/11/scott-pruitts-statement-on-climate-change/#comment-8418as I am aware that is related to striving for dynamic balance between CO2 emissions to atmosphere and absorptions of CO2 from atmosphere to other parts of environment; and in addition CO2 content trends in atmosphere seem to follow trends of climate temperature and not vice versa; https://judithcurry.com/2017/03/11/scott-pruitts-statement-on-climate-change/#comment-841843

The current models actually do a decent job modeling climate but it is a bit harder to predict future trends in climate since you also have to predict future trends in emission as well as future trends in the natural drivers.

This is so because the world will need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions from current levels by 80 % or greater by the middle of this century to prevent catastrophic climate change as greenhouse gas emissions increase world wide increase at 2 % per year under current trends.

As reported by Chris Mooney at Mother Jones at the time (now a journalist at the Washington Post), the draft report warned unequivocally that unchecked greenhouse gas emissions would cause the global warming trend to «accelerate significantly,» bringing more heat waves and weather extremes, severe storms, rising seas, devastating floods, prolonged droughts, and more.

These flexibility needs are rapidly expanding as a result of numerous industry trends: (a) recognition by policymakers that renewable energy resources are needed to meet long - term emissions reductions goals; (b) customers» increasing desire to voluntarily procure renewable energy or generate electricity on - site; and (c) substantial technological improvements that have driven down the cost of renewable resources to the point where, even before accounting for tax incentives, they are the lowest - cost option for new generating plants in some regions of the country.

Working Group III assessed options for limiting heat - trapping emissions, evaluated methods for removing them from the atmosphere, and examined other means of slowing the warming trend, as well as related economic issues.

By modeling the observed changes in drought recovery times with «business as usual» circumstances for future conditions, meaning assuming greenhouse gas emission trends continued as they have, the researchers were able to predict the future recovery times of droughts.

One of the problems with the EPA's Endangerment TSD is the nearly complete disregard of observed trends in a wide array of measures which by and large show that despite decades of increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions the U.S. population does not seem to have been adversely affected by any vulnerabilities, risks, and impacts that may have arisen (to the extent that any at all have actually occurred as the result of any human - induced climate changes).

«Industrial CO2 emissions as a proxy for anthropogenic influence on lower tropospheric temperature trends» A. T. J. de Laat and A. N. Maurellis National Institute for Space Research (SRON), Utrecht, Netherlands

«Kopacz et al. used a global chemical transport model to identify the location from which the BC arriving at a variety of locations in the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau originates, after which they calculated its direct and snow - albedo radiative forcings... they say that observations of black carbon (BC) content in snow «show a rapidly increasing trend,»... «emissions from northern India and central China contribute the majority of BC to the Himalayas,» and that «the Tibetan Plateau receives most BC from western and central China, as well as from India, Nepal, the Middle East, Pakistan and other countries.»»

If current trends continue and India follows the traditional path in which emissions increase as living standards rise, it will be disastrous not only for Indians but for the entire planet.

We can determine the relative significance of these three trends by decomposing emissions growth as follows:

Even if the trend is moving in a generally helpful direction and even as renewable energy platforms popping up across China may enable the country to further cut its harmful greenhouse gas emissions.

The hypothesis that the overwhelming current climate forcing factor is human GHG emissions has already been falsified, if not by the temperature trend 1945 — 1975 (such as it is), then by that of the past 18 years.

The page includes links to the EPA's inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, which contains emissions data from individual industrial facilities as well as the multiagency Climate Change Indicators report, which describes trends related to the causes and effects of climate change.

Advocates of the position that humans exert a profound and dangerous influence on the Earth's temperatures and glacier melt point to the rapid increase in human CO2 emissions (purple trend line) as the condemnable culprit.

Indeed, a portion of that small linear trend difference might be due to human CO2 emissions; or, then again, it might be due to the vast urbanization effect over the last 60 + years; or due to the large deforestation that's taken place; or, maybe it's entirely due to the serial fabrication of global warming by the world's climate agencies; or it's even possible that the post-1950 warming was entirely a natural phenomenon - the same as the prior 64 - year period experience.