Sentences with phrase «future impact of greenhouse gases»

«The future impact of greenhouse gases on rainfall in Africa is a critical socioeconomic issue.

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Shelley also believes that climate change denial is a hurting our future and supported Climate and Community Protection Act, a bill that would help put New York on track to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change through a reduction in statewide greenhouse gas emissions and improve the resiliency of the state with respect to the impacts and risks of climate change.

«The bottom line is that while the future is inherently uncertain, we know enough about rising greenhouse gas concentrations and their potential impact on the drying of the Amazon to warrant big reductions in greenhouse gases, to reduce the possibility that we'll have a very serious impact on the world's biggest rainforest,» Lewis said.

The investigation of greenhouse gas emissions is also important to anticipate future changes in time and to assess their impact on climate.

Also, because of the complex, possibly chaotic, nature of the climate system, it may never be possible to accurately predict future climate or to estimate the impact of increased greenhouse gas concentrations.

e360: You've written recently about uncertainty over the future impacts of climate change and how that plays a role in discouraging action in reducing greenhouse gases.

In particular, future greenhouse gas emissions depend on societal choices, policies, and technology advancements not yet made, and climate - change impacts depend on both the amount of climate change that occurs and the effectiveness of development in reducing exposure and vulnerability.

If we as a society are able to significantly reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases (especially carbon dioxide) to the levels identified in Oregon's statewide goals and the global Paris climate agreement, we can reduce the amount and speed of future climate change and its associated impacts.

If we allow levels of greenhouse gases to continue to rise, the disasters of today will be dwarfed by future catastrophic impacts.

This is because over the past three years, hundreds of new scientific field accounts of global warming's impacts, as well as improved peer - reviewed analyses of global warming itself in both the deep past and the very near future, have depicted earth's atmosphere as far more «sensitive» to the invisible CO2, methane and other human - sourced greenhouse gases than had been hoped.

Some of what he says I disagree with (e.g., the potential future impact of increases in greenhouse gases), but in some areas he is very much correct... like the impact of urbanization and poor sensor siting.

Part of this includes exploring the impact of changing levels of greenhouse gases on the climate by creating future climate projections.

As the Director of GISS and Principal Investigator for the GISS ModelE Earth System Model, I am interested in understanding past, present and future climate and the impacts of multiple drivers of climate change, including solar irradiance, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and greenhouse gases.

Until this is achieved, it will be hard to be specific about the societal impacts of future greenhouse gas emissions, an uncertainty that, it can be argued, should make us even more cautious about disturbing the system.

Part of our research does suggest that the accumulative impact of greenhouse gas output on future world temperatures may be lower than the IPCC estimates — which is good news if true — but the point is to tackle the problem in a variety of different ways.»

The overall outcome is a summary of the current state of knowledge concerning the impacts on terrestrial vegetation of future policy decisions that aim to influence anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

«Based on the science going into them, the [next] IPCC reports will have a real impact in offering diplomats a reckoning — and they don't handle reckonings well — with the observation that [greenhouse gas] emissions are all following the worst of the worst - case scenarios for the future.»

Radiative transfer codes that accurately calculate the radiative impact of greenhouse gases and other atmospheric constituents are an essential component of the global climate models used to simulate present and future climate.

Quantitative implications of the secondary role of carbon dioxide climate forcing in the past glacial - interglacial cycles for the likely future climatic impacts of anthropogenic greenhouse - gas forcings (arXiv: 0707.1276, July 2007)-- Soon, Willie

Analyzing them gives us different assumptions of greenhouse gases in the future, and what the likely climate impact is going to be.

However, were future technologies and policies able to achieve a rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions â $» an approach termed â $ œmitigationâ $ â $» this would greatly lessen future global warming and its impacts.

Nothing in recorded history suggests solar energy output will change drastically enough in the foreseeable future to overwhelm the impact humanity's massive input of greenhouse gases is having on our world.

For in order to gauge the possible impacts of anthropogenic greenhouse gases on the present or future climate, we must first know the natural variations on which our own activities are imposed.

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.

Pundits and reporters today are speculating on the election results» impact on proposed environmental regulations, including the future of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) plan to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act.

Minimizing the future impacts of climate change requires reducing the greenhouse gas (GHG) load in the atmosphere.

There are three strands to the science in Stern: the climate sensitivity, future emissions of greenhouse gases and the impacts of any particular level of change (scaled to the global mean temperature anomaly for convenience).