Sentences with phrase «environmental effects of carbon dioxide»

Shaw heard these conclusions in October 1977 at a meeting in Atlanta organized by scientists and officials from the Carter administration who had formed a «study group on global environmental effects of carbon dioxide,» he told Exxon colleagues in a memo two weeks later.

[1] The environmental effects of carbon dioxide are of significant interest.

Not exact matches

Bond, who led the most comprehensive study to date of black carbon's environmental effects, has found that the pollutant is second only to carbon dioxide in terms of its warming impact.

Pound for pound, the effect of methane on climate change is more than 20 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100 - year period, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

1 - A review of the research literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th and early 21st centuries have produced no deleterious effects upon Earth's weather and climate.

(Sec. 340) Requires the EPA Administrator to report to Congress on an analysis of the effects of different carbon dioxide reduction strategies and technologies on the emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide, which cause acid rain, particulate matter, ground level ozone, mercury contamination, and other environmental problems.

Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report that analyzes the effects of different carbon dioxide reduction strategies and technologies on the emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide, which cause acid rain, particulate matter, ground level ozone, mercury contamination, and other environmental problems.

A review of research literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th and 21st centuries have produced no deleterious effects on Earth's weather or climate.

Welcomes the agreement achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant to decisions 1 / CMP.1, 1 / CMP.5 and 1 / CMP.6 in the areas of land use, land - use change and forestry (decision - / CMP.7), emissions trading and the project - based mechanisms (decision - / CMP.7), greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and other methodological issues (decision - / CMP.7) and the consideration of information on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (decision - / CMP.7);

Among other findings, the research did show that no harmful environmental effects were noted in creating an artificially generated iron induced plankton bloom, and that very large quantities of carbon dioxide are indeed sequestered from the atmosphere.

The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine has promoted a paper on global warming entitled «Environmental effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide», which has had a number of incarnations since 1999.

Time scales of around a decade for effects of carbon dioxide suggest environmental changes taken today could be felt within the lifetime of most people.

The timescale of the effect of carbon dioxide was profiled in the journal Environmental Research Letters.