Sentences with phrase «emitted into»

In any event, the Court's reasoning in paragraphs 79 and 80 serves to ensure that it does not create a loophole that can be easily exploited by the Commission, particularly in the context of pesticides and other products that are, by their very function, emitted into the environment.

Therefore, in the past it has been very easy for power generators (and PSBs) to continually ignore the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere.

The directionality is characterized by expressing the amount of radiation emitted into a differential solid angle and includes the factor of the COSINE of the angle between the normal to the plane of the differential area... and... the direction of the differential solid angle.

«People need to be aware that it isn't just CO2 that's the problem,» said Keith Shine of the University of Reading in England, co-author of an article in the March 30 issue of the journal Science discussing the many unknowns about the complex mixture of greenhouse gases emitted into Earth's atmosphere.

Quantifying how much methane is not captured by the gas companies and is instead directly emitted into the atmosphere is difficult but the it is not likely to be zero.

Adding the other 41.54 W / m ^ 2 emitted into the calculation and it would drive the emissivity to an unrealistic 1.09 which is why I assumed he did not include that in the calculation, again giving him the benefit of the doubt.

They can either be directly emitted into the atmosphere (primary aerosols like dust), or they can be formed in the atmosphere by condensation (secondary aerosol like sulfates).

The CO2 absorption / emission is going on everywhere to move heat into the nitrogen / oxygen everywhere too, creating masses of air that rise and are displaced by cooler air, pushing the warmer air still higher up, where eventually heat is emitted into outer space.»

In a 2007 decision on this question, the Supreme Court ruled clearly on the question: «Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and hydrofluorocarbons are without a doubt «physical [and] chemical... substance [s] which [are] emitted into... the ambient air.»

«One of the main causes of these changes is the growing concentration of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere as a result of human activity,» says Assaf Hochman of TAU's School of Geosciences, who led the research.

[Note that a different definition of «carbon neutral» describes carbon off - setting and means that any carbon emitted into the air is offset by tree planting or new conservation measures to lower the amount of emitted carbon dioxide.

As for adding CO2 causing the atmosphere to cool: this is only true if the amount of energy that is absorbed from the surface by this CO2 is less than the amount that is emitted into space, which is not going to be the case.

In 2013, transportation contributed more than half of the carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides, and almost a quarter of the hydrocarbons emitted into our air.

Page 26 (Opinion): The statutory text reads: «The Clean Air Act's sweeping definition of «air pollutant» includes «any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.»

That definition — which includes «any air pollution agent..., including any physical, chemical,... substance... emitted into... the ambient air...,» § 7602 (g)-- embraces all airborne compounds of whatever stripe.

International efforts to address climate change have focused on reducing the amount of warming greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, or mitigation.

It is going to get even more severe with every ton of CO2 emitted into the earth's atmosphere and none of the least developed countries have the adequate and additional financial resources, and technology to adapt to the changing weather patterns nor have their cries been taken seriously.

The «cap» would set the upper limit of greenhouse gases that could be emitted into the atmosphere, and it would be lowered over time.

When emitted into the air at the quantities humans produce — over 35 billion tons annually (over 3x our trash production)-- carbon dioxide traps heat that would otherwise escape from the planet's surface, in turn causing climate change.

The vociferous dispute over nuclear winter (along with dinosaur extinction) made scientists and the public more sensitive to the idea that stuff we emitted into the air could provoke a severe climate change.

Approximately 40 percent of methane is emitted into the atmosphere by natural sources (e.g., wetlands and termites), and about 60 percent comes from human activities like cattle breeding, rice agriculture, fossil fuel exploitation, landfills and biomass burning.

Since greenhouse gases come within the capacious phrase «any physical, chemical,... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air,» they must also be «air pollution agent [s] or combination [s] of such agents,» and therefore meet the definition of «air pollutant [s].»

SCALIA, J. (Dissenting, page 08): «Air pollutant» is defined by the Act as «any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical,... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.»

Emissions from burning these fuels total nearly two - thirds of all the carbon that has been emitted into the atmosphere during the industrial era.

Carbon Footprint — A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases that are emitted into the atmosphere each year by a person, family, building, organization or company.

Carbon dioxide equivalent: The amount of carbon dioxide by weight emitted into the atmosphere that would produce the same estimated radiative forcing as a given weight of another radiatively active gas.

Just how warm the world will be in 2100 depends more on how much carbon is emitted into the atmosphere, and what might be done about it, than on what the precise climate sensitivity ends up being.

Once CO2 has been emitted into the atmosphere, the carbon cycle will redistribute it between the atmosphere, oceans, and terrestrial biosphere, but it will not disappear from those systems for thousands of years.

After a pulse of CO2 is emitted into the atmosphere, 40 % will remain in the atmosphere for 100 years and 20 % will reside for 1000 years, while the final 10 % will take 10,000 years to turn over.

However, a vicious cycle exists with water vapor, in which as more CO2 is emitted into the atmosphere and the Earth's temperature rises, more water evaporates into the Earth's atmosphere, which increases the temperature of the planet.

Ozone is an odorless gas that is not directly emitted into the air but is created by chemical reactions between nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC)-- which occur naturally but are also produced from the burning of fossil fuels and are released in the process of drilling for oil and natural gas.

(WG1 FAQ6.2) Carbon dioxide (CO2), after it is emitted into the atmosphere, is firstly rapidly distributed between atmosphere, the upper ocean and vegetation.

FAQ 6.2, Figure 2 illustrates the decay of a large excess amount of CO2 (5000 PgC, or about 10 times the cumulative CO2 emitted so far since the beginning of the industrial Era) emitted into the atmosphere, and how it is redistributed among land and the ocean over time.

«It sequesters carbon in the soil, meaning less is emitted into the atmosphere, and fewer passes in the field means less carbon emissions associated with fossil fuel.

But under even greater heat and pressure, the CO2 is released from the rock, and makes it way back to the surface where it is emitted into the atmosphere through volcanic action.

The «5 %» is the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere that is anthropogenic in origin, which is an entirely different measure.

On April 14, there was 0.004 megatons of sulphur dioxide, as compared to 20 megatons for Mount Pinatubo in 1991, and it was emitted into the troposphere, where its lifetime is only a week or so, as opposed to 1 - 2 years for the stratosphere for Pinatubo.

Another possible explanation is that the large quantity of soot emitted into the atmosphere by cars and factory smokestacks in Asia has had a cooling effect on the atmosphere.

There was a NASA - funded study about the same time that came out that said in the previous 300 years, you would have had to double the amount of carbon emitted into the atmosphere to equal the impact on climate change you had from land - use changes: from deforestation, development, farming practices.

This leaves less energy available to be emitted into space from the surface through the atmospheric «window,» and therefore produces a cooler surface.

The Earth's forests perform a well - known service to the planet, absorbing a great deal of the carbon dioxide pollution emitted into the atmosphere from human activities.

As we (and a number of other mainstream news outlets) reported, Robert Kaufmann and colleagues analysed the impact of growing coal use, particularly in China, and the cooling effect of the sulphate aerosol particles emitted into the atmosphere.

Anthropogenic aerosols are emitted into the troposphere and fall out with in hours to days — so they are effective only in that range.

A substantial fraction of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted into the atmosphere by human activity remains there, in effect, for centuries to millennia.

The less we drive, the less carbon dioxide is emitted into the air.

And if these near infrared wavelengths is being re-emitted then there is roughly a 50 % chance of reaching the surface and 1/2 chance being emitted into space.

The atmosphere's opacity increases so that the altitude from which the Earth's radiation is effectively emitted into space becomes higher.

The McKinney Landfill project, based at a closed landfill in McKinney, Texas, works to capture gases that would otherwise be emitted into the atmosphere from anaerobic decomposition within the landfill.

The proposed rule will increase the cost of electricity in the United States by a much greater percentage than it will have an impact on the amount of CO2 that is emitted into the atmosphere.

The EPA, not the Congress, is the agency of the US Government designated by the Clean Air Act to make an official determination as to whether or not a substance being emitted into the atmosphere from human activities represents a danger to public health and the environment.