Sentences with phrase «global buildup of greenhouse gases»

But that would betray an ethical gap that extends far beyond the Beltway, to all of us — the tendency not to act in the common interest (limiting the global buildup of greenhouse gases that is raising the odds of disruptive climate shifts), but instead mainly when a threat is right in our faces.

Not exact matches

While a strong El Niño provided a boost to global temperatures last year, the main driver of the planet's temperature surge, as well as other climate trends, is the warming caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Unfortunately for policymakers and the public, while the basic science pointing to a rising human influence on climate is clear, many of the most important questions will remain surrounded by deep complexity and uncertainty for a long time to come: the pace at which seas will rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), the impact on hurricanes, the particular effects in particular places (what global warming means for Addis Ababa or Atlanta).

First, they have not come up with any plausible alternative culprit for the disruption of global climate that is being observed, for example, a culprit other than the greenhouse - gas buildups in the atmosphere that have been measured and tied beyond doubt to human activities.

This is the menu of potential but largely untested ways to counteract global warming resulting from the buildup of greenhouse gases, should reality start to reflect worst - case projections.

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.

Global warming from an unabated buildup of greenhouse gases could drive conditions in the drier direction.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said that if the buildup of greenhouse gases and its consequences pushed global temperatures 9 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today — well below the upper temperature range that scientists project could occur from global warming — Earth's population would be devastated.

One was a paper published in Science a week ago, by Andreas Schmittner of Oregon State University and colleagues, that generated cheers from doubters of global warming because the authors concluded the climate was less responsive to a big buildup of greenhouse gases than some previous work had concluded.

This all jibes with earlier posts here on what is perhaps the most unnerving, and under - appreciated, body of science related to problems like the greenhouse - gas buildup — the sociological work showing how poorly people deal with looming risks (from global heating to Social Security insolvency) and exploring ways to improve the situation.

A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluding that the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases could leave a profound millenniums - long imprint on climate and sea levels, focuses on a characteristic of global warming that the public, and many policymakers, have not absorbed — at least according to John Sterman at M.I.T.

Between the poles of real - time catastrophe and nonevent lies the prevailing scientific view: Without big changes in emissions rates, global warming from the buildup of greenhouse gases is likely to lead to substantial, and largely irreversible, transformations of climate, ecosystems and coastlines later this century.

The most indirect impact of all is coming through the global buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which are altering the climate and ocean chemistry with long - lasting repercussions.

In a Rose Garden speech planned for Wednesday, President Bush is set to lay out for the first time a specific long - term goal for limiting the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases linked to global warming and some means the United States will use to reach it.

Global warming from the ongoing buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases is almost certainly contributing to the ice retreats, a host of Arctic experts now agree, although they hold a range of views on how much of the recent big ice retreats is due to human activities.

Live Updates below «Worse than we thought» has been one of the most durable phrases lately among those pushing for urgent action to stem the buildup of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

Global warming from the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases almost certainly contributes to the Arctic ice retreats, according to a host of Arctic specialists.

There has been an intense rush to use Hurricane Sandy as a teachable moment to focus the public (and politicians) on the risks of an unabated buildup of greenhouse gases and resulting global warming.

Updates below, 12:42 p.m. After years of «you first» rhetoric on addressing the unrelenting buildup of climate - warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, China and the United States, the world's biggest emitters, agreed in Beijing on Wednesday to intensify domestic steps and international partnerships to rein in their contributions to global warming.

Updates below Experts convened by the National Academy of Sciences have weighed in with valuable reports on the two main «geoengineering» strategies for countering global warming driving by the buildup of greenhouse gases:

The team ran a suite of 400 computer simulations incorporating both what is known about how the climate could react to a greenhouse - gas buildup and a wide range of variations in the global economy and other human factors that might affect the outcome.

It's worth spending some more time on the National Academy of Sciences reports on geoengineering prospects and concerns — the concerns mainly being about adding sun - blocking particles to the atmosphere to counteract global warming driven by the buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

The release describes new research finding that global warming from the buildup of greenhouse gases will be on the low end of the persistently wide spread of projections by other research groups.

Global warming from the human - driven buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases is seen by virtually all Arctic scientists as playing a growing role in driving the shift in summers toward a largely open sea at the top of the world, with plenty of variations along the way.

Overall, the panel's reports have never focused much on research examining how humans respond (or fail to respond) to certain kinds of risk, particularly «super wicked» problems such global warming, which is imbued with persistent uncertainty on key points (the pace of sea - level rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases), dispersed and delayed risks, and a variegated menu of possible responses.

The Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at M.I.T. has published work, described earlier this year, that greatly elevates the odds of calamitous global warming should no significant action be taken to stem the buildup of greenhouse Global Change at M.I.T. has published work, described earlier this year, that greatly elevates the odds of calamitous global warming should no significant action be taken to stem the buildup of greenhouse global warming should no significant action be taken to stem the buildup of greenhouse gases.

Whether we look at the steady increase in global temperature; the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to the highest level in a half - million years; the march of warmest - ever years (9 of the10 hottest on record have occurred since 2000); the dramatic shrinking of mountain glaciers and Arctic sea ice; the accelerating rise in sea level; or the acidification of our oceans; the tale told by the evidence is consistent and it is compelling.

While the buildup of greenhouse gases leads to global warming at Earth's surface, it also cools the stratosphere, which increases the amount of ozone depletion in the polar regions.

This availability of natural gas supplies does reduce the buildup of greenhouse gasses, but the effects are not very significant in terms of the overall threat of global warming.

The system is far from being a practical method of extracting CO2 from the air to combat the buildup of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and global warming because the conversion rates are too low.

«The global climate has now been so extensively impacted by the human - caused buildup of greenhouse gases, that weather practically everywhere is being influenced by climate change,» White House science czar Dr. John Holdren told reporters Thursday night.