«It has very serious implications
for changes in greenhouse gases,» Romanovsky said, adding that the releases described should be monitored more closely.
Not exact matches
«Without rapid cuts
in CO2 and other
greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading
for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris climate
change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said
in a statement.
Ontario has successfully issued the largest green bond
in Canadian history, raising $ 1 billion
for infrastructure projects
in communities across the province that will help reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate
change.
As you see, food waste is the largest waste stream going to landfills
in the US, accounting
for 21 percent of the American waste stream and contributing to climate
change as food waste
in landfills decomposes and generates methane, a very powerful
greenhouse gas.
The Climate
Change Act 2008 sets legally binding emission reduction targets
for 2020 (reduction of 34 %
in greenhouse gas emissions) and
for 2050 (reduction of at least 80 percent
in greenhouse gas emissions); the Act also introduces five - yearly carbon budgets to help ensure these targets are met.
A climate -
change report being released on Wednesday by the mainline Democratic conference
in the Senate calls
for a 100 percent reduction
in greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by the middle part of this century.
We'll need to come back to this at the next conference of the climate
change convention, to be held
in Doha this December — a curious choice, given Qatar's position close to the top of the league table
for greenhouse gas emissions per head.
Oral Questions - UK's balance of trade with the EU Oral Questions - Office
for National Statistics review of the methodology of calculating
changes in prices Oral Questions - How the draft Energy Bill will deliver reductions
in greenhouse gas emissions Legislation - Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill
Cuomo can aim
for his aggressive goals to reduce climate -
changing greenhouse gas emissions
in the state, or he can see a network of proposed new natural
gas pipelines built.
«technology - driven, market - based solutions that will decrease emissions, reduce excess
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, increase energy efficiency, mitigate the impact of climate
change where it occurs, and maximize any ancillary benefits climate
change might offer
for the economy.»
Alongside this, a new Climate
Change Bill will be introduced
in the coming year that will set out «even more ambitious» targets
for reducing
greenhouse gas emissions, Ms Sturgeon said.
For example, my industry — the ski business — could eliminate all its
greenhouse gas emissions, but we'd still go out of business
in less than 100 years if the rest of the world doesn't
change.
AAAS Submits Comments and the AAAS Board Statement on Climate
Change in Response to the EPA's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
for Regulating
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Clean Air Act.
It allows
greenhouse gases to increase
for another decade until the commitments each country made (known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs) mature
in 2025 or 2030 and it provides very few specific targets with the exception of a financial target that «strongly urges» wealthy countries to contribute ($ 100 billion / year by 2020) to support developing countries that are suffering the consequences of climate
change but don't have the ability to adapt to it.
Biello: A lot of scientists that I've spoken to think we have no chance of meeting 450 ppm given that we haven't done hardly anything to
change our course and there are other scientists who say that we have already well past kind of the safe point
for concentration of the
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The data is important
for climate
change models, since the emissions released by thawing permafrost could significantly affect levels of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The simulations suggest that,
for greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates,
changes in climate will very likely be larger than the
changes already observed during the 20th century.
Fracturing monopolies, surging demand, falling oil prices and ambitious climate
change mitigation goals are intersecting
in Mexico, creating unprecedented challenges and opportunities
for curbing
greenhouse gases.
«There is a certain ironic satisfaction
in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of climate
change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known with some degree of confidence
for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human - caused increases
in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.
A full 23 percent of China's
greenhouse gas emissions can be linked to Western exports, according to an analysis by researchers at the Tyndall Center
for Climate
Change Research
in England.
The vigorous, vehement and vexed reactions to any piece I have written that mentions climate
change, combined with the power of greed on the one hand and the struggle
for subsistence on the other, have convinced me there is no chance that governments will significantly reduce the output of industrial
greenhouse gases in time to stave off considerable
change to the planet's climate and to human habitats.
The study does a «very nice job» of using different approaches to show that climate
change is a dominant force, says Thomas Lovejoy, president of the H. John Heinz III Center
for Science, Economics, and the Environment
in Washington, D.C. «I think the single most important public policy [issue] here is agreeing on what the limit should be on
greenhouse gas concentration,» he says.
And it is also clear — even to the negotiators who also agreed to be «informed» by the science expected from the International Government Panel on Climate
Change's next assessment report
in 2013 — that neither the «Durban Platform
for Enhanced Action» nor the extended Kyoto Protocol are equal to the task of restraining ever - rising
greenhouse gas emissions.
Almost 200 countries on Saturday kept alive hopes
for a global deal
in 2015 to fight climate
change after overcoming disputes on
greenhouse gas emissions cuts and aid
for poor nations at a meeting widely criticised as lacking urgency.
«Many impacts respond directly to
changes in global temperature, regardless of the sensitivity of the planet to human emissions of CO2 and other
greenhouse gases,» says geoscientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University
in Lubbock, a co-author of the report, excluding effects such as ocean acidification and CO2 as a fertilizer
for plants.
This includes,
for example, how the atmosphere responds to increasing levels of
greenhouse gases, how the
gases cycle through the environment, and
changes in water temperature and sea - levels.
For the RCP8.5 projections, which represents stronger increases in greenhouse gas concentrations than RCP4.5, there was a striking level of consistency in the magnitude of change in AR frequency — all models showed an approximate doubling of the number of future ARs compared to the simulations for 1980 — 20
For the RCP8.5 projections, which represents stronger increases
in greenhouse gas concentrations than RCP4.5, there was a striking level of consistency
in the magnitude of
change in AR frequency — all models showed an approximate doubling of the number of future ARs compared to the simulations
for 1980 — 20
for 1980 — 2005.
These aquatic environments are relevant
in the context of climate
change because they are responsible
for much of global
greenhouse gas emissions.
Atmospheric volumes of
greenhouse gases blamed
for climate
change hit a new record
in 2012, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Wednesday.
Writing
in Current Climate
Change Reports, they conclude that, the most urgent course of action is to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, but concurrently there is also a need to consider novel management techniques and previously over-looked reef areas for protective actions under predicted climate change im
Change Reports, they conclude that, the most urgent course of action is to reduce global
greenhouse gas emissions, but concurrently there is also a need to consider novel management techniques and previously over-looked reef areas
for protective actions under predicted climate
change im
change impacts.
Among the implications of the study are that ocean temperatures
in this area may be more sensitive to
changes in greenhouse gas levels than previously thought and that scientists should be factoring entrainment into their models
for predicting future climate
change.
U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon urged world leaders on Thursday to make «bold pledges»
for cuts
in greenhouse gases by next September to guide a deal to fight climate
change but acknowledged that many nations would be late.
Such rocks may prove good news
for efforts to combat climate
change because basalt reacts with carbon dioxide to form carbonate, locking a
greenhouse gas in a carbonate mineral that often appears as white as snow.
For one thing — as Norris noted — it is difficult to distinguish between
greenhouse gas — driven cloud
changes and volcano - driven
changes in the study's time period.
«This is bad news
for global climate
change, especially
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
In a commentary in the same issue of Nature (vol 360 p 297), Andrew Lacis and Barbara Carlson of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York stress that «the greenhouse effect of trace - gas forcing is the most accurately documented and the best understood» contribution to climatic chang
In a commentary
in the same issue of Nature (vol 360 p 297), Andrew Lacis and Barbara Carlson of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York stress that «the greenhouse effect of trace - gas forcing is the most accurately documented and the best understood» contribution to climatic chang
in the same issue of Nature (vol 360 p 297), Andrew Lacis and Barbara Carlson of the Goddard Institute
for Space Studies
in New York stress that «the greenhouse effect of trace - gas forcing is the most accurately documented and the best understood» contribution to climatic chang
in New York stress that «the
greenhouse effect of trace -
gas forcing is the most accurately documented and the best understood» contribution to climatic
change.
To get a sense
for how this probability, or risk of such a storm, will
change in the future, he performed the same analysis, this time embedding the hurricane model within six global climate models, and running each model from the years 2081 to 2100, under a future scenario
in which the world's climate
changes as a result of unmitigated growth of
greenhouse gas emissions.
For the health care system, the researchers estimated the
change in risk of diabetes, colorectal cancer and coronary heart disease due to the healthier diets and the subsequent effect on both health care costs and
greenhouse gas emissions.
David Maleki, a climate
change analyst with the Inter-American Development Bank's Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative, helps cities
in Latin America and the Caribbean use the protocol to figure out which sectors are responsible
for most of their
greenhouse gas emissions.
Land - use
change and agriculture are by far the largest sources of
greenhouse gas emissions
in Brazil, as forests and savannas are cut down
for cattle pastures and cropland.
Our homes and offices account
for more than one third of all
greenhouse gases emitted by human activity — the bulk of it
for heating
in winter and air - conditioning
in summer, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC).
From the International Energy Agency to the United Nations — sanctioned Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), such carbon capture and storage (CCS), particularly
for coal - fired power plants, has been identified as a technology critical to enabling deep, rapid cuts
in greenhouse gas emissions.
OSLO, Nov 10 (Reuters)-
Greenhouse gas emissions per capita are falling
in 11 of the Group of 20 major economies, a turning point
for tackling climate
change, a study showed on Tuesday.
The National Research Council
in Washington, D.C., estimates that dairy cows account
for as much as 20 percent of human - induced emissions of methane, a potent climate
change — causing
greenhouse gas.
A new study, published today
in Nature Climate
Change, suggests that — if current trends continue — food production alone will reach, if not exceed, the global targets
for total
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
in 2050.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is known as a
greenhouse gas and plays an essential role
in climate
change; it is no wonder scientists have been looking
for solutions to prevent its release
in the environment.
«(2) the carbon dioxide equivalent value
for purposes of this Act
for any
greenhouse gas not listed
in the table under paragraph (1) shall be the 100 - year Global Warming Potentials provided
in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change Fourth Assessment Report.
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Change Observing Mission) Geber (c. 720 — 815) gegenschein Geiger, Hans Wilhelm (1882 — 1945) Geiger - Müller counter Giessler tube gel gelatin Gelfond's theorem Gell - Mann, Murray (1929 ---RRB- GEM «gemination,» of martian canals Geminga Gemini (constellation) Gemini Observatory Gemini Project Gemini - Titan II gemstone gene gene expression gene mapping gene pool gene therapy gene transfer General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) general precession general theory of relativity generation ship generator Genesis (inflatable orbiting module) Genesis (sample return probe) genetic code genetic counseling genetic disorder genetic drift genetic engineering genetic marker genetic material genetic pool genetic recombination genetics GENETICS AND HEREDITY Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search Program genome genome, interstellar transmission of genotype gentian violet genus geoboard geode geodesic geodesy geodesy satellites geodetic precession Geographos (minor planet 1620) geography GEOGRAPHY Geo - IK geologic time geology GEOLOGY AND PLANETARY SCIENCE geomagnetic field geomagnetic storm geometric mean geometric sequence geometry GEOMETRY geometry puzzles geophysics GEOS (Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite) Geosat geostationary orbit geosynchronous orbit geosynchronous / geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) geosyncline Geotail (satellite) geotropism germ germ cells Germain, Sophie (1776 — 1831) German Rocket Society germanium germination Gesner, Konrad von (1516 — 1565) gestation Get Off the Earth puzzle Gettier problem geyser g - force GFO (Geosat Follow - On) GFZ - 1 (GeoForschungsZentrum) ghost crater Ghost Head Nebula (NGC 2080) ghost image Ghost of Jupiter (NGC 3242) Giacconi, Riccardo (1931 ---RRB- Giacobini - Zinner, Comet (Comet 21P /) Giaever, Ivar (1929 ---RRB- giant branch Giant Magellan Telescope giant molecular cloud giant planet giant star Giant's Causeway Giauque, William Francis (1895 — 1982) gibberellins Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1839 — 1903) Gibbs free energy Gibson, Edward G. (1936 ---RRB- Gilbert, William (1544 — 1603) gilbert (unit) Gilbreath's conjecture gilding gill gill (unit) Gilruth, Robert R. (1913 — 2000) gilsonite gimbal Ginga ginkgo Giotto (ESA Halley probe) GIRD (Gruppa Isutcheniya Reaktivnovo Dvisheniya) girder glacial drift glacial groove glacier gland Glaser, Donald Arthur (1926 — 2013) Glashow, Sheldon (1932 ---RRB- glass GLAST (Gamma - ray Large Area Space Telescope) Glauber, Johann Rudolf (1607 — 1670) glaucoma glauconite Glenn, John Herschel, Jr. (1921 ---RRB- Glenn Research Center Glennan, T (homas) Keith (1905 — 1995) glenoid cavity glia glial cell glider Gliese 229B Gliese 581 Gliese 67 (HD 10307, HIP 7918) Gliese 710 (HD 168442, HIP 89825) Gliese 86 Gliese 876 Gliese Catalogue glioma glissette glitch Global Astrometric Interferometer
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for Space Studies Goddard Space Flight Center Gödel, Kurt (1906 — 1978) Gödel universe Godwin, Francis (1562 — 1633) GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) goethite goiter gold Gold, Thomas (1920 — 2004) Goldbach conjecture golden ratio (phi) Goldin, Daniel Saul (1940 ---RRB- gold - leaf electroscope Goldstone Tracking Facility Golgi, Camillo (1844 — 1926) Golgi apparatus Golomb, Solomon W. (1932 — 2016) golygon GOMS (Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite) gonad gonadotrophin - releasing hormone gonadotrophins Gondwanaland Gonets goniatite goniometer gonorrhea Goodricke, John (1764 — 1786) googol Gordian Knot Gordon, Richard Francis, Jr. (1929 — 2017) Gore, John Ellard (1845 — 1910) gorge gorilla Gorizont Gott loop Goudsmit, Samuel Abraham (1902 — 1978) Gould, Benjamin Apthorp (1824 — 1896) Gould, Stephen Jay (1941 — 2002) Gould Belt gout governor GPS (Global Positioning System) Graaf, Regnier de (1641 — 1673) Graafian follicle GRAB graben GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) graceful graph gradient Graham, Ronald (1935 ---RRB- Graham, Thomas (1805 — 1869) Graham's law of diffusion Graham's number GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) grain (cereal) grain (unit) gram gram - atom Gramme, Zénobe Théophile (1826 — 1901) gramophone Gram's stain Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) Granat Grand Tour grand unified theory (GUT) Grandfather Paradox Granit, Ragnar Arthur (1900 — 1991) granite granulation granule granulocyte graph graph theory graphene graphite GRAPHS AND GRAPH THEORY graptolite grass grassland gravel graveyard orbit gravimeter gravimetric analysis Gravitational Biology Facility gravitational collapse gravitational constant (G) gravitational instability gravitational lens gravitational life gravitational lock gravitational microlensing GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS gravitational slingshot effect gravitational waves graviton gravity gravity gradient gravity gradient stabilization Gravity Probe A Gravity Probe B gravity - assist gray (Gy) gray goo gray matter grazing - incidence telescope Great Annihilator Great Attractor great circle Great Comets Great Hercules Cluster (M13, NGC 6205) Great Monad Great Observatories Great Red Spot Great Rift (
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The understanding of the physics of
greenhouse gases and the accumulation of evidence
for GHG - driven climate
change is now overwhelming — and much of that information has not yet made it into formal attribution studies — thus scientists on the whole are more sure of the attribution than is reflected
in those papers.
«
In the face of natural variability and complexity, the consequences of change in any single factor, for example greenhouse gas emissions, can not readily be isolated, and prediction becomes difficult... Scientific uncertainties continue to limit our ability to make objective, quantitative determinations regarding the human role in recent climate change, or the degree and consequence of future change.&raqu
In the face of natural variability and complexity, the consequences of
change in any single factor, for example greenhouse gas emissions, can not readily be isolated, and prediction becomes difficult... Scientific uncertainties continue to limit our ability to make objective, quantitative determinations regarding the human role in recent climate change, or the degree and consequence of future change.&raqu
in any single factor,
for example
greenhouse gas emissions, can not readily be isolated, and prediction becomes difficult... Scientific uncertainties continue to limit our ability to make objective, quantitative determinations regarding the human role
in recent climate change, or the degree and consequence of future change.&raqu
in recent climate
change, or the degree and consequence of future
change.»