Sentences with phrase «from human emissions of greenhouse gases»

Discussions of future impacts from changes in precipitation resulting from human emissions of greenhouse gases are everywhere in the report and they are usually bad — increased droughts, floods, and longer dry spells, for example.

Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases.

Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases.

Not exact matches

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

As well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resources.

The findings are the first to note increased greenhouse gas emissions due to antibiotic use in cattle; a recent study suggests that methane emissions from cud - chewing livestock worldwide, including cows, account for about 4 % of the greenhouse gas emissions related to human activity.

On the current trajectory, greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trains, ships and airplanes may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate change.

That has squeezed out the Quino checkerspot butterfly's habitat, and with the climate changes coming as a result of human greenhouse gas emissions, its listing as an endangered species by the U.S. government may not be enough to save the pretty little butterfly from extinction.

Since levels of greenhouse gases have continued to rise throughout the period, some skeptics have argued that the recent pattern undercuts the theory that global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by human - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

Global warming became big news for the first time during the hot summer of 1988 when now - retired NASA climate scientist James Hansen testified before Congress that the trend was not part of natural climate variation, but rather the result of emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses from human activities.

It was clear that climate change is an energy problem — burning fossil fuels to generate energy accounts for 74 per cent of human - made greenhouse gas emissions — but I could see that it was very difficult to change the energy industry from the outside and very little was happening on the inside.

Although carbon dioxide accounts for the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, methane emissions are also an important factor driving climate change.

The past century has seen a 0.8 °C increase in average global temperature, and according to the IPCC, the overwhelming source of this increase has been emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants from human activities.

Known as a «co-benefit,» using state of the art models for human and natural systems, along with climate projections from the international community, the team was able for the first time to put a value on the global air pollution benefits of cutting greenhouse gas emissions over the 21st century.

It should be pointed out here, that the amount of change in downward heat radiation from changes in cloud cover in the experiment, are far greater than the gradual change in warming provided by human greenhouse gas emissions, but the relationship was nevertheless established.

At a time when greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are at historically high levels and glaciers are melting, Purple poses the question of human responsibility.

Mr. McCain has been an interesting voice on global warming, given that he broke with President Bush and most of his party years ago, acknowledging that the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activities was risky and mandatory steps were needed to curb emissions.

After 20 years of unfulfilled aspirational pledges (the original Framework Convention on Climate Change), seemingly dead - end detours (the Kyoto Protocol) and relentlessly rising greenhouse - gas emissions, the world may be better off shifting from climate - centric diplomacy to a slate of efforts aimed at advancing the human condition in ways that limit climate - related risks.

Quick progress in curbing emissions of carbon dioxide, the main human - generated greenhouse gas, could be achieved by using capital from rich countries to help prevent the destruction of tropical forests (and resulting greenhouse - gas emissions), Mr. Gore said.

Emissions of the main human - generated greenhouse gas are surely tracking the reversal in electricity output, given that the vast majority of the country's electricity comes from burning coal.

But a story I've just written describes how scientists probing lakes, ice and old trees from Alaska to Siberia have found out just how big a poke humans appear to be giving that system through emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases (and probably heat - trapping soot, too).

That the threat posed by the buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities is sufficient to justify a concerted, sustained effort to curb, and eventually deeply cut, such emissions.

What makes the climate predicament even tougher is the uneven nature of human development, and the reality that nearly all of the growth in emissions of greenhouse gases is coming from a near - inevitable burst of fossil fuel combustion in fast - growing developing countries.

«The primary cause of both trends is emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from industry, transport and other human activities.

Come the cold season, whenever there is some type of strong storm system near the U.S. Eastern Seaboard — be it a Nor» easter, a blizzard, or ex-hurricane Sandy — you don't have to look very hard to find someone who will tell you that this weather is «consistent with» expectations of climate change resulting from human greenhouse gas emissions.

In the entirely subjective opinion of a particular group of IPCC authors, it's «extremely likely» (95 % certain) that «more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» was caused by human - generated greenhouse gas emissions (see the bottom of p. 13 here).

Rest assured, though, Bozo will rise again — despite a near - continuous barrage of blows supporting the idea that the climate's sensitivity to human greenhouse gas emissions is far too low to justify any of the expensive and futile actions emanating from Washington and Brussels.

Human activity — particularly the production of greenhouse gasses from fossil fuel emissions — is reshaping our planet, effecting rapid environmental change at a rate never seen before.

I intend both to «follow the money» (flowing primarily from special interests opposed to regulation or taxation of greenhouse gas emissions) and to «follow the science» (by exposing the most egregious flaws in the «evidence» against the attribution of contemporary climate change primarily to human causes).

Greenhouse gases can be attributed to about 0.9 °C of this warming, but it has been partially offset by about 0.3 °C cooling from human aerosol emissions.

In the 1980's, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activity became a worldwide concern and are a possible cause of climatic changes.

In the causal chain that stretches from human activities, to greenhouse - gas emissions, to greenhouse - gas concentrations, to temperature rise, to climate damages, there are all kinds of scientific uncertainties.

Technology will advance far enough during that time to make the issue of runaway warming or climate change tipping points from human greenhouse gas emissions moot historical footnotes.

On the other hand, 42 papers or about 62 % of scientific papers of this same period predicted the earth would warm from human greenhouse gas emissions.

of today's yearly emissions from human activities, making the reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere a much more difficult task.

To hold the temperature increase to about 1.5 degrees, the globe would need to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050, and then have negative emissions, meaning «the sum of all human activities is a net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere,» the study says.

One passage written by Heartland reads, «Scientists who study the issue say it is impossible to tell if the recent small warming trend is natural, a continuation of the planet's recovery from the more recent «Little Ice Age,» or unnatural, the result of human greenhouse gas emissions.»

[18] The report determines that manmade greenhouse gas emissions will accelerate sea - level rise, increase the intensity and frequency of extreme weather, and warm the planet at an unsustainable rate, adversely affecting everything from human and ecosystem health to transportation, forestry, and agriculture.

Despite decades of research and thousands of peer - reviewed publications to the contrary, AFP rigidly adheres to the denialist arguments that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities pose no significant danger to Americans — or the rest of the planet.

But the IPCC concerns itself with consideration of anthropogenic (i.e. man - made) global warming (AGW) as a result of emissions of greenhouse gases (notably carbon dioxide, CO2) from human activities.

Apart from widespread damage to infrastructure (roads, houses) in northern territories, resulting annual carbon emissions could eventually amount to 15 - 35 percent of today's yearly emissions from human activities, making the reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere a much more difficult task.

Maybe you don't know much about the sum of radiative forcings, or findings from paleoclimate, that allow climatologists to calculate that human emissions of greenhouse gases are responsible for 100 + % of recent warming, but that doesn't mean nobody does.

Ruminants, which ferment plants in a specialized stomach before digestion, are estimated to be the largest single human - related source of methane, with greenhouse - gas emissions from sheep and cattle 19 to 48 times higher than beans or grains per pound of food produced, according to the report.

«Meat production represents 18 percent of global human - induced GHG emissions... While the world is looking for sharp reductions in greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, growing global meat production is going to severely compromise future efforts... a study from the University of Chicago showed that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by 20 percent it would be as if they switched from a standard sedan to the ultra-efficient Prius.»

The main goal of WRI is to protect the global climatic system from further harm caused from greenhouse gas emissions, and assist in human adaptation to climate change that seems to be unavoidable.

Scientists in the US say parts of Australia are being slowly parched because of greenhouse gas emissions — which means that the long - term decline in rainfall over south and south - west Australia results from fossil fuel burning and depletion of the ozone layer by human activity.

Monsieur Joggles, methane emission from the arctic can not be stopped, but they can be reduced by stopping, or failing that greatly limiting, human emissions of greenhouse gases.

In a keynote address to the conference, Mr Jarraud reiterated the urgency of action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, and sounded a warning note about using geoengineering to try to limit climate change.

These global climate models typically receive inputs from neoclassical economic and human demographic models for calculations of future greenhouse gas emissions.

Moreover, 14.5 % of all human - caused greenhouse gas emissions come from livestock supply chains.