Sentences with phrase «gases by effect»

The total amount of greenhouse gases by effect (water vapour plus CO2) has hardly changed, so the warming was not caused by greenhouse gases.

The resulting optical depth curve is a measure of the total greenhouse gases by effect over the last 61 years.

Not exact matches

But when asked by Sen. Bob Corker (R - TN) if human activity has contributed to climate change, Tillerson said that «the increase in the greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are having an effect,» and that «our ability to predict that effect is very limited.»

My sense, however, is that these effects have been trumped by the fallout from the spill on the oil and gas industry as a whole.

The term «gas - lighting effect» has been used to describe behaviours by which a sociopath will attempt to erode her opponent's reality.

Yet even though the Clean Power Plan has never gone into effect and is now being repealed by the EPA, coal is already being surpassed by natural gas — and sooner.

Presented by The Canadian Institute Energy Group, speakers at the recent BC Natural Gas Symposium in Vancouver, British Columbia covered a number of current topics such as the effects of... Read more»

But same - store sales, a key measure of retail performance that strips out the effects of square footage changes, rose only slightly, by 1.1 per cent excluding gas.

Marshalling convincing scientific data, they tell us that the environmental degradation caused by massive pollution of air water and land, threatens the very life of earth — fast depletion of non renewal resources, indeed of species themselves, the thinning of the ozone layer that exposes all living creatures to the danger of radiation, the build up of gases creating the greenhouse effect, increasing erosion by the sea — all these are brought out through their research.

Other soluble dietary fiber benefits of acacia gum include: progressive and complete fermentation by intestinal probiotics; slow fermentation due to it being a large, complex molecule; preferentially fermented by probiotics (Lactobacilli and bifidobacteria); high gastrointestinal tolerance in humans; and no side - effects (bloating, stomach rumbling, gas or cramps) below 50g / day.

The end effect is to get people to use less gas when it's in short supply, by immediately raising the price.

Gennaro and other opponents of fracking in New York have raised the issue's visibility in part by pointing to the disastrous effects the practice has had in a number of Western states that have allowed it, and in Pennsylvania, which shares the same source of gas as New York State, the Marcellus Shale formation, which runs from the Southern Tier to West Virginia, and west to part of Ohio.

The campaign warns voters about the effects of a possible default if the debt ceiling isn't raised by Aug. 2 and spins a near - doomsday scenario of high gas and food prices along with dire consequences for 401 (k) accounts.

The Quinnipiac poll finds that by a narrow four point margin, New Yorkers surveyed believe that the economic benefits of natural gas drilling, including job creation, outweigh the potential harmful environmental effects.

«Consequently, the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) and other related oil and gas unions hereby suspend the industrial action embarked upon by their members, with immediate effeGas Workers (NUPENG), Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) and other related oil and gas unions hereby suspend the industrial action embarked upon by their members, with immediate effegas unions hereby suspend the industrial action embarked upon by their members, with immediate effect.

- The governor said he still expects a report on the effects of natural gas hydrofracking from the Department of Health by year's end.

While recognising that all countries are affected by the effects of climate change under «One Planet» but some are more vulnerable, the summit seeks for tangible collective action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Dr. Nirav Shah, who was appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the state's health commissioner, is expected to be asked by state lawmakers about a study he's conducting on the potential health effects of natural gas drilling.

Observations by Williams and colleagues at Cardiff University and the University of Manchester, using the Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) and the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), have now captured the effects of gravity on ammonia gas moving within the SDC13 system.

But the reactive gases emitted by trees can also increase the amounts of ozone and methane, both greenhouse gases which have warming effects on the climate.

It remains too soon to tell exactly how this climate system will work under changed conditions and other environmental factors — such as whether the cooling effect of the soot generated by industry and burning forests outweighs the warming effect of greenhouse gases — which may play large roles.

Scientists can measure how much energy greenhouse gases now add (roughly three watts per square meter), but what eludes precise definition is how much other factors — the response of clouds to warming, the cooling role of aerosols, the heat and gas absorbed by oceans, human transformation of the landscape, even the natural variability of solar strength — diminish or strengthen that effect.

Jacobson said the sum of warming caused by all anthropogenic greenhouse gases — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons and some others — plus the warming caused by black and brown carbon will yield a planetary warming effect of 2 degrees Celsius over the 20 - year period simulated by the computer.

But new research into the processes of nutrient cycling published today reveals how farmers could mitigate the effects of this harmful gas by boosting copper levels in fields.

«It is widely understood that aerosols have a net cooling effect on climate, counteracting the warming caused by greenhouse gases.

While I appreciate that Peter Aldhous's article was primarily concerned with the immediate health questions raised by the process of fracking, or cracking rock to extract natural gas from shale beds (28 January, p 8), its effects on climate change can not be ignored since that, too, is likely to be bad for our health.

Solar radiation management attempts to offset effects of greenhouse gases by causing Earth to absorb less solar radiation.

Despite its smaller ash cloud, El Chichn emitted more than 40 times the volume of sulfur - rich gases produced by Mt. St. Helens, which revealed that the formation of atmospheric sulfur aerosols has a more substantial effect on global temperatures than simply the volume of ash produced during an eruption.

By looking at the composition of crystals trapped at different times during the evolution of the magma body — and with the apatite crystals in effect acting as «time capsules» — the team was able to show that the magma that eventually erupted had spent most of its lifetime in a bubble - free state, becoming gas - saturated only very shortly before eruption.

Much of the damage will have been done by the year 2010, it says, and the rest by 2070, when the predicted effects of global warming from emissions of greenhouse gases will have done their worst.

The lighter, innermost ring may have been consumed by the sun, leaving behind the ring of metallic material, which had more time to cool into larger bodies that resisted the slowing effect of the gas and dust.

Scientists are keeping a close watch on variables that might affect life in the open ocean, including depleted oxygen levels caused by a feeding frenzy from oil - and gas - eating microbes, and the unknown effects of dispersants, which break the oil into droplets but may keep it suspended in the water.

Indeed, the reduction in the emission of precursors to polluting particles (sulphur dioxide) would diminish the concealing effects of Chinese aerosols, and would speed up warming, unless this effect were to be compensated elsewhere, for instance by significantly reducing long - life greenhouse gas emissions and «black carbon.»

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (and the California Air Resources Board) have noted that turning corn into ethanol can actually be a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and other unintended environmental effects, largely by driving the expansion of agriculture and its attendant pollution — as evidenced by previous studies published in Science.

In his new paper, Lovejoy applies the same approach to the 15 - year period after 1998, during which globally averaged temperatures remained high by historical standards, but were somewhat below most predictions generated by the complex computer models used by scientists to estimate the effects of greenhouse - gas emissions.

The biggest was certainly the decision by the Russian government to endorse the Kyoto Protocol, thus allowing the treaty to take effect and leaving the United States and Australia alone among industrial nations in their refusal to accept limits on greenhouse - gas emissions.

The effect of these small orbital changes was amplified by positive feedbacks, such as changes in greenhouse gas levels.

This effect — caused by neighboring stars that were present when Uranus and Neptune were forming but have since moved away — may explain why these planets don't have gas envelopes like Jupiter and Saturn do.

THE mysterious illness known as Gulf War syndrome may have been caused by the combined effect of a pill given to protect against nerve gas and an insect repellent, according to preliminary results from American research.

The study applied «medium to high» future emissions estimates of heat - trapping gases, as assumed by the California state government, to models designed to assess what effect climate change would have on national parks like Yosemite, Death Valley, Redwood, Joshua Tree and Sequoia.

Perhaps what's different about them, McDonald says, is that the cooling of gas flowing into the center is slowed down by the heating effect of a black hole spewing out material from the center of the cluster.

The European Union needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to a British government paper, likely to fuel debate on whether deeper cuts are affordable.

Back then, all stars needed to form was a primordial soup of mostly hydrogen and some helium atoms, perturbed by the effects of gravity on minuscule differences in the density of the gases, and the mysterious substance known as dark matter.

Kalnay and Cai developed a more precise measurement by comparing one set of long - term temperature data recorded from satellite and weather balloons, which detect the effects of warming from greenhouse gases, with another set recorded at ground level by 1,982 weather stations across the continent.

Scientists knew about the warming effects of greenhouse gases, but proponents of global cooling argued that greenhouse warming would be more than offset by Earth's orbital changes.

Restrictions set for SO2 emissions by the European Community and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution will begin to take effect early in the next century, and may limit coal to conventional stations fitted with flue - gas desulphurisation (FGD) equipment, which removes SO2 from exhaust gases, or to any purpose - built clean coal stations that will have been built.

The stars are much less affected by the drag from the gas [3] and, because of the huge gaps between them, do not have a slowing effect on each other — though if two stars did collide the frictional forces would be huge.

David Campbell, Boiling Springs, N.C. Stormier weather I was confused by the conclusion that «simulations suggest that the climate effects of greenhouse gases will again reduce tropical storm frequency later this century» in «Cleaner air may bring on storms &

BURNING UP The heat radiated by burning fossil fuels such as natural gas, shown, is overshadowed within months by the greenhouse gas effect of the released carbon dioxide, new research shows.

Every molecule of methane in the air has 25 times the effect on temperature rise compared to a molecule of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by burning coal, oil or gas.