Sentences with phrase «emitting greenhouse»

The RPS are state impositions on utility companies, requiring them to generate a proportion of their electricity from sources that do not burn fossil fuels and thus stoke global warming by emitting the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.

«Human actions not only are emitting greenhouse gases based on our own activities, but also are causing plants and animals and microbes to be net emitters of greenhouse gases as well,» said Anna Michalak, a co-author of the study with the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, Calif..

We need to stop emitting greenhouse gases, and also start pulling them out of the atmosphere.

There is a big difference betwee owning slaves and emitting greenhouse gases.

Geothermal energy plants have the potential to generate enough electricity to meet the nation's power needs many times over without emitting greenhouse gases.

Wind turbines generate electricity without polluting the air, emitting greenhouse gases, or producing waste of any kind.

The higher global warming potential of lower - emitting greenhouse gases significantly increases their contributions to the greenhouse effect.For example, over a 100 - year time horizon, nitrous oxide is 310 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.

Corporations need not only to stop emitting greenhouse gases («GHGs») to prevent climate change, but they also need remove and sequester «legacy» emissions from the atmosphere.

There are no waste products, only water is consumed, producing hydrogen without emitting any greenhouse gases.

The problem of climate change involves a fundamental failure of markets: those who damage others by emitting greenhouse gases generally do not pay... Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen.

But importantly, if we continue emitting greenhouse gases as fast as we are, we'll see serious warming this century wherever climate sensitivity sits within the range scientists have identified.

«This year's bleaching event is 175 times more likely today than in a world where humans weren't emitting greenhouse gases.

In short, it's a crystal ball created by our friends at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to show what the future may be like for the United States, depending on whether we act on climate or continue emitting greenhouse gases.

«There is a huge inertia in the climate system, so even if we stop the warming of our planet now — if we stop emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere today — the global sea level will continue to rise for the next few hundred years,» Dr. Jevrejeva explained.

This figure indicates 3 things: (1) the time lag between emitting greenhouse gases and when we see the principle effect is about 30 years, due mostly to the time required to heat the oceans, (2) the rate of temperature increase predicted by a climate sensitivity of 3 °C tracks well with the observed rate of temperature increase, and (3) we have already locked in more than 1.5 °C warming.

Those nations, sub-national governments, organizations, businesses, and individuals that are emitting greenhouse gases above their fair share of safe global emissions have obligations, duties, and responsibilities for the costs of adaptation or damages to those who are harmed or will be harmed by climate change.

«Already at this period humans were emitting greenhouse gases, especially methane, so we need to reconsider what are natural conditions.»

So even if we were to stop emitting greenhouse gases right now, it's going to continue warming for at least the next two decades.

Even if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, fire conditions will become even more persistent in areas already at risk, and will spread to new regions as warming drives vegetation patterns and land - use changes.

In terms of your request for something substantial, I responded to your original claim that «the theory relies on computer models» with a link to a RealClimate post that shows this claim is not correct — rather than computer models, the foundations of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change are built upon our understanding of how the atmosphere works and how we are changing it by emitting greenhouse gases.

David Ciplet, also of Brown University, adds: «Only two of the ten donors we assessed are delivering their fair share of climate finance, based on their ability to pay and how much they have contributed to climate change through emitting greenhouse gases in recent decades.»

Humans will have to not only stop emitting greenhouse gases by 2085, but also develop technology that will result in negative emissions — the removal of 15 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year by the end of the century — in order to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 °C (3.6 °F), according to a new study.

But Earth's climate had roughly stabilized over the last 10,000 years, until humans began burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases.

-- Except as provided in subsection (c), effective January 1, 2012, each covered entity is prohibited from emitting greenhouse gases and having attributable greenhouse gas emissions, in combination, in excess of its allowable emissions level.

(And even if the US acted immediately to cease [impossible] emitting greenhouse gases, emissions from developing countries are expected to double by 2035, and triple by 2060.)

Isn't carbon offsetting is just a «get out of jail free» card for businesses to carry on emitting greenhouse gases, rather than address their carbon footprint?

But since we depend on these models to predict the possible consequences of emitting greenhouse gases, we would clearly like to know how reliable they are overall.

Even with today's power plants emitting greenhouse gases, the overall levels would be reduced because the entire process of moving a car one mile is more efficient using electricity than producing gasoline and burning it in a car's engine.

Once we effectively stop emitting greenhouse gases we should be able to sequester carbon dioxide from the air fast enough to bring it down to an acceptable level at modest cost within a few centuries.

The fact is, the developing nations are not going to accept remaining in poverty just to avoid emitting greenhouse gases, and we have to accept it.

However, it looks as though there may have been irreparable damage done to the planet and that greenhouse gases will stay anomalously high for decades, even centuries, after we stop emitting greenhouse gases.

No longer does Al Gore have to fly around the world in private jets emitting greenhouse gases to save the world from — greenhouse gases.

China are ignoring coal emitting greenhouse gas, not only build coal power plants but also useing coal in transportation area, coal to liquid.

Dr. Roz Pidcock, PhD in physical oceanography from the University of Southampton (http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/10/an-in-depth-look-at-the-oceans-climate-change-and-the-hiatus/): «Over the last 15 years or so, surface temperatures have risen much slower than in previous decades, even though we're emitting greenhouse gases faster than we were before.»

Scientists are currently interested in why temperatures at the surface of the ocean have been rising slower than in previous decades, even though we're emitting greenhouse gases faster than ever.

When gas prices increase by 10 %, the number of people opting to travel by bus or rail also jumps by 4 % and 8 % respectively, which means fewer vehicles emitting greenhouse gases.

As an all - electric car, the Nissan Leaf has virtually no dependence on petroleum whatsoever, producing no tailpipe pollution or emitting greenhouse gases into the air during operation.

Experts report that synthetic polymers in polyester are capable of emitting greenhouse gases in more than 300 times the amount generated by carbon dioxide.

It will take decades or even centuries after humans stop burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases for the ocean to reach equilibrium.

Nutrient runoff may well be creating dead zones in coastal waters, but we can't just stop fertilizing our fields; global warming is a serious threat to coral reefs, but we can't just stop emitting greenhouse gases, and at this point it would probably be too late.

«We would dearly love to have found that we can go on emitting greenhouse gases and magically either clean them up after the fact or magically reflect sunlight to cool the Earth,» McNutt says of her committee's analyses.

Whilst Japan, Russia and Canada all advocate a new wider agreement, poorer nations point to the fact richer nations have been emitting greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution and want Kyoto extended before they sign up.

Coral reefs are dying: We've already lost half the world's coral because of human activity like dredging the sea floor, pollution, and emitting greenhouse gases that warm ocean waters and make them more acidic.

«Beyond a few decades, Greenland melting will almost certainly increase and raise sea level as long as we continue to emit greenhouse gases.»

However, unlike the combustion of hydrocarbon fuels — which emit greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide) into the atmosphere and pollute the environment — the product of hydrogen combustion is clean water.

Current climate change models indicate temperatures will increase as long as humans continue to emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but the projections of future precipitation are far less certain.

This problem can become even bigger for biofuels like corn ethanol that emit greenhouse gases at every step, from laughing gas emanating from corn fields after fertilization to the CO2 from the fermentation of kernels into ethanol.

TVA is also one of the nation's largest producers of hydropower, which like nuclear generation emits no greenhouse gases but has other environmental downsides.

Ironically, the activities that create these cooling aerosols are often the same ones that emit the greenhouse gases that threaten to warm us up.

I really believe that we're going to have to use a kind of a coal [technology] that does not emit the greenhouse gases that present - day coal - fired utility plants do.»