Sentences with phrase «for slowing global warming»

Another report by the panel later this year will address the most effective measures for slowing global warming.

While the press releases around the paper have emphasized the conclusion that climate engineering offers no easy solution and the analysis favors mitigation (i.e. «Cutting Carbon Emissions Our Best Option for Slowing Global Warming Study Finds «-RRB-, I do not see this paper as the end of the conversation or providing an answer.

«Cutting greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. automobiles will be critical to any strategy for slowing global warming,» said John DeCicco, author of the report and senior fellow at Environmental Defense.

The report, «Assessment on Peatlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change», shows that clearance, drainage and fires in peatlands emit more than 3 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year, but that protection and restoration of peatlands are among the most cost - effective options for slowing global warming.

Some conference speakers decried Trump's move to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, saying the international agreement to reduce carbon emissions offers the clearest road map for slowing the global warming that's causing ice to melt and seas to rise.

Not exact matches

Now, research suggests that for the past decade, such stratospheric aerosols — injected into the atmosphere by either recent volcanic eruptions or human activities such as coal burning — are slowing down global warming.

Resort owners like John Cumming of Park City, Utah, are becoming advocates for reducing energy use, hoping to slow carbon emissions and hopefully global warming.

«Our findings mean that nature is not as efficient in slowing global warming as we previously thought,» said Kees Jan van Groenigen, research fellow at the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at NAU and lead author of the study.

Democrats facing reelection are finding broad, if tepid, electoral support for efforts to slow global warming.

Global warming has neither stopped nor slowed in the past decade, according to a draft analysis of temperature data by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Global warming has neither stopped nor slowed in the past decade, according to a draft analysis of temperature data by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

When it comes to slowing down global warming, the world's oceans — 70 percent of the planet's surface — may be Homo sapiens» best hope for a stable future.

What it means: Unlike the Kyoto Protocol — a 1997 climate pact that sought to force specific pollution reductions on certain countries, but failed to do virtually anything to slow global warming — the hoped - for Paris agreement would see nations taking voluntary steps to stem greenhouse gas pollution.

They then looked at what that meant for the temperature rise over the coming few decades, and found that global warming this century will indeed be slower than thought.

«Although we have found that this process is happening slower than first thought, if global warming exceeds 3 °C, wet regions will likely get more than 10 per cent wetter and dry regions more than 10 per cent drier, which could have disastrous implications for river flows and agriculture.»

Concerns that mitigation may be too slow in coming have led to renewed dialogue within the scientific community regarding potential strategies for counteracting global warming through geoengineering.

Natural global warming is self - rectifying either by slow chemical weathering processes responsible for mineral sequestration of carbon or by gradual return of Earth's orbital parameters to what they were before the onset of global warming, thereby significantly reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

Feed - in tariffs on fossil energy imports to the United States would surely end up reducing demand for fossil fuels as more and more renewable capacity became available — which is exactly what you would want to see happen if you are serious about slowing the rate of global warming.

All of this will play much better than calling for nothing more than emission controls involving many economic restraints as they just slow the expanding of the overload and the worsening of global warming.

If global warming does slow down or partially reverse with a sunspot crash, industrial polluters and reluctant nations could use it as a justification for turning their backs on pollution controls altogether, makingmatters worse in the long run.

As the market for coal goes global (see our piece in Boston Review on this issue, September 2009) the future of global warming will depend on the interests in the countries that are least interested in slowing global warming.

It does show that positive feedbacks are dominant, and for timescales of anthropogenic global warming about 2 to 4.5 degrees Celsius per doubling, and a bit higher if you include century - timescale «slower feedbacks» such as ice sheets.

I understand that the global warming on its own affects the churning up of nutrients, and the mixing of water — even without any changes to the THC at all (although a shut - down of the THC or even a slow - down would be absolutely disastrous for marine life).

The full quote was «In a long, and interesting speech, he characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way: «We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions «cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.

Continued strong demand for all fossil fuels seems a certainty at this time, even taking into account stronger policies to mitigate global warming risks, though sustained high prices may slow growth slightly.

In response to your request, here is another specific suggestion for slowing down global warming.

COP21 offers opportunities for all stakeholders to prioritise what they are going to do to slow the rate of global warming — for all our sakes.

My work has long taken the view that policies to slow global warming would have net economic benefits, in the trillion of dollars of present value -LSB-...] I have advocated a carbon tax for many years as the best way to attack the issue.

The mitigation of Short - lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) has received much attention in the past few years for its potential to lessen health - related impacts of air pollution, prevent major crop losses, and in some cases also slow down global warming.

If blister rust can be regarded as a steadily, if slow - moving, disaster for whitebark pine, the relatively dramatic and sudden attack of mountain pine beetles can be regarded as a biological firestorm, fueled by global warming, experts at a recent workshop sponsored by the Natural Resources Defense Council said.

Critics have noticed for several years that the theory of manmade global warming is dying a slow death, but the institutional delay that is attendant in any government program has immunized the rush to alternative energy from some measure of public backlash and the realities of governmental budgets in an era of declining economies and deficit spending.

of Short - lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) has received much attention in the past few years for its potential to lessen health - related impacts of air pollution, prevent major crop losses, and in some cases also slow down global warming.

Our «end of business as usual» proposal is a multiple win: for car buyers, communities whose plants will stay open, automakers, energy security, and efforts to slow global warming.

Natural global warming is self - rectifying either by slow chemical weathering processes responsible for mineral sequestration of carbon or by gradual return of Earth's orbital parameters to what they were before the onset of global warming, thereby significantly reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

DK12 used ocean heat content (OHC) data for the upper 700 meters of oceans to draw three main conclusions: 1) that the rate of OHC increase has slowed in recent years (the very short timeframe of 2002 to 2008), 2) that this is evidence for periods of «climate shifts», and 3) that the recent OHC data indicate that the net climate feedback is negative, which would mean that climate sensitivity (the total amount of global warming in response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 levels, including feedbacks) is low.

Parker, C. L., 2011: Slowing global warming: Benefits for patients and the planet.

So there is nothing remarkable either about the rate of global warming (except that it is slowing when the climate extremists had predicted it should be accelerating) or about the absolute global temperature (except that it is remarkable only for being unremarkable).

Energy giant AGL announced it will close down its coal - fired power stations in 2050 (still too slow but a strong first step from the sector), Shell is stopping drilling for oil in the Artic, and Australia's major banks are also making overarching commitments to limit global warming to 2 ℃.

Scientists now know why global warming has slowed down and it's not good news for us.

The current global warming signal is therefore the slowest and among the smallest in comparison with all HRWEs in the Vostok record, although the current warming signal could in the coming decades yet reach the level of past HRWEs for some parameters.

I'm not for a moment suggesting this makes global warming go away, only it might slow the rate of change down - a bit - in the short term (perhaps the average transit time of deep currents).

The previously unexplained differences between model - based forecasts of rapid global warming and meteorological data showing a slower rate of warming have been the source of often contentious debate and controversy for more than two decades.

«Global warming is too slow for humans to feel directly, and if your local weather man tells you that temperatures are the same or cooler than they were a hundred years ago it is easy to believe him.»

The Climate Solutions Caucus, a bipartisan group of House legislators, recognizes the existence of global warming and «explores policy options» to research it, slow it, and prepare for it.

The speakers faulted partisan politics in Washington for slowing efforts to fight global warming and for allowing the fossil fuel industry almost free rein to deceive the public about the harm of global warming.

36 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Solutions Global Warming Prevention Cleanup Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Remove CO2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Shift from coal to natural gas Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Improve energy efficiency Sequester CO2 deep underground Shift to renewable energy resources Sequester CO2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Figure 20.14 Solutions: methods for slowing atmospheric warming during this cWarming Prevention Cleanup Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Remove CO2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Shift from coal to natural gas Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Improve energy efficiency Sequester CO2 deep underground Shift to renewable energy resources Sequester CO2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Figure 20.14 Solutions: methods for slowing atmospheric warming during this cwarming during this century.

One key element of this latter program will be to try to forge a new coalition between industry and environmental groups for the use of cleanly - produced natural gas as a bridging fuel to slow global warming over the next few decades — with a particular focus on China.

To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).

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