Sentences with phrase «global warming built»

The «Civilization» games have had global warming built into them for over ten years.

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Trump's positions are further complicated by a recent Politico reportthat shows his organization cited global warming as justification to build a coastal structure to prevent erosion at a golf course in Ireland.

It will be cheaper, they tell us, to adjust to increased storm damage, build more dikes and seawalls, relocate people and pay the costs of increased air - conditioning than it would be to take steps to slow global warming.

If the rising ocean levels caused by global warming force us to build dikes and relocate people away from delta regions, that, too will add to what we measure as Gross Domestic Product.

You're not likely to convince me on evolution or global warming, but appealing to my love of God's creation and my desire follow His command to care for it, will go a long way to building a bridge strong and wide enough for us both to cross.

To build every venue from scratch may have been ambitious, but to stage a Winter Games in a subtropical city in the age of global warming seems delusional.

They should also fight global warming by capturing greenhouse gases through carbon - sequestering building materials and living roofs and walls.

A «clean coal» power plant is set to be built in Illinois in 2009; if it works, it could help avoid catastrophic global warming

Drafty buildings, inefficient appliances and mountains of waste will all need to be transformed to control global warming

They have built up so much methane that its release could cause massive global warming or the planet's next big extinction.

Researchers from Concordia's Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering (BCEE) in collaboration with Bio-Terre Systems Inc. are taking the fight against global warming to colder climes.

Government officials also argue that even if Singapore stops building oil refineries, it would not make a big difference in combating global warming because the country accounts for only 0.11 percent of global emissions.

That would help to rein in the greenhouse gas emissions from buildings — both from building them and powering them once they are built — that makes up 48 percent of U.S. global warming pollution.

With more than 70 percent of China's energy coming from coal, a power source that contributes heavily to air pollution and global warming, the nation's bad or good energy practices in buildings will be reflected in the color of the sky and the temperature of the Earth.

EUROPE»S plans for tackling global warming by driving down emissions of carbon dioxide may have backfired in Germany, where they have encouraged energy companies to build coal - fired power stations instead of gas - fired stations, which emit less CO2.

Burning fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil to heat and cool our buildings and run our vehicles takes a heavy toll on the environment, contributing significantly to both local problems like elevated particulate levels and global ones like a warming climate.

As part of its strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 °C (3.6 °F), the Obama administration unveiled a plan in September to build wind farms off of nearly every U.S. coastline by 2050 — enough turbines to generate zero - carbon electricity for more than 23 million homes.

Now, imagine that global warming is the burning building, a cherry tree is the pet, and a bear is the fireman.

Some air conditioners still use chemicals that deplete the ozone layer and demand for air - conditioners is expected to rise as a result of global warming, so green buildings could help counter this demand.

«(VII) standards for practices and materials to achieve cool roofs in residential buildings, taking into consideration reduced air conditioning energy use as a function of cool roofs, the potential reduction in global warming from increased solar reflectance from buildings, and cool roofs criteria in State and local building codes and in national and local voluntary programs, without reduction of otherwise applicable ceiling insulation standards; and

For further study of public sector projects (like the human - caused global warming project), I highly recommend reading Nevil Shute's first - hand account in the 1930's of the competition between private enterprise and government to build a rigid airship (blimp).

Montreal, May 31, 2017 - Researchers from Concordia's Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering (BCEE) in collaboration with Bio-Terre Systems Inc. are taking the fight against global warming to colder climes.

The recognition that CO2 levels were building in the atmosphere thanks to human activities underpins the science of global warming.

The built environment, whether concrete structures or paved roads, absorbs heat, increasing the impact of global warming — but alternative materials could be a relatively cheap way to reduce temperature rise.

Whether it's turning off a light when leaving a room or building windmills to replace coal - fired power plants, stopping global warming could be a matter of survival.

Local human - made stresses add to the global warming and acidification effects, all of these driving a contraction of 1 — 2 % per year in the abundance of reef - building corals [39].

It turns out, our roads are built to withstand certain temperatures, and many of them will have trouble standing up to global warming.

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Built surfaces increase energy demand and heat - island effects, adversely impact air quality, and produce greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.

Geospatial Analysis of Remote Sensing Data to Assess Built Environment Impacts on Heat Island Effect, Air Quality, and Global Warming (2009)

But emissions have two parts: One is the pollutants that are harmful to people, animals, oceans, etcetera; the other is CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions that are generally considered to be the cause of global warming, which is generally considered to be fact, and that CO2 is produced in direct proportion to how much fossil fuel is burned in cars, as well as buildings, locomotives, planes, and ships.

What kinds of international agreements could effectively limit risks related to human - driven global warming, either by blunting human contributions to climate change or building resilience to hazards related to changing conditions?

That's one of the unbending realities about global warming, which remains a building background influence on many risks communities already face routinely.

A slowly dropping rate of increase would still be disastrous, but encouraging because it would suggest that we have done something real and significant to start moving the needle int the right direction, but sooner or later, the needle has to start moving down or our global warming troubles will continue to build and the only change we are creating is the rate at which are troubles will build.

It's one thing to cave to a wave of naysaying climate rhetoric and build a new American energy conversation on points of agreement rather than clear ideological flash points like global warming.

The surface temperature increase that partially gave rise to concerns about global warming coincided with a move to tethered electronic measuring devices (um, I think that means thermometers) that forced the movement of many stations closer to buildings and developed areas, causing warming that may not have been corrected for.

The students subsequent understanding of global warming and climate change would be built on that.

A task force assembled by the American Psychological Association hopes to spur more research on the role of the human mind in shaping the behaviors resulting in rising greenhouse - gas emissions as well as on traits that can impede an effective response to global warming and similar slow - building environmental risks.

The aim is to get people doing the small things — planting trees, installing solar water heaters, fixing drafty buildings, calling elected officials — that can provide the foundation for a long - term shift in habits and plans related to limiting human - driven global warming.

But there's also the broadest, and most important, question: In the wake of this unfolding calamity, what is the best approach to building an energy policy for the long haul that fosters economic progress (as distinct from simple economic growth) while limiting environmental risks ranging from tainted beaches and fisheries to global warming?

The goal, in essence, was to solicit fresh messages on global warming that might punch through the «something, someday, somewhere» aura that sociologists say makes this a particularly tough issue to build a movement around.

I often hear nuclear advocates proclaiming that «nuclear is THE solution to global warming» and that «no one can be serious about dealing with global warming if they don't support expanded use of nuclear power» but I have never heard any nuclear advocate lay out a plan showing how many nuclear power plants would have to be built in what period of time to have a significant impact on GHG emissions.

America was built around a healthy skepticism of government, so why is government funded global warming research considered exempt by the American press?

Global Warming vs Climate Change,» an interesting new study of Americans» perceptions of the two dominant shorthand phrases used to describe the building human influence on the climate system.

1:06 p.m. Updated Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford University climate scientist who for decades built the case that global warming, while laden with complexity, justified an aggressive response, has died.

Global average surface temperatures are not expected to change significantly although temperatures at higher latitudes may be expected to decrease to a modest extent because of a reduction in the efficiency of meridional heat transport (offsetting the additional warming anticipated for this environment caused by the build - up of greenhouse gases).

Such a situation would make the Arctic ice coverage more variable and remain on net much thinner, but there'd be a stop - limit heat - exchange function built into the system that'd govern to what extent the Arctic can warm and whether an increasingly ice - free boreal environment would offset global warming elsewhere by some margin.

The take - home messages are that global warming legislation needs to cap CO2 emissions from power plants and include strong efficiency standards for building shells and the appliances and heating and cooling equipment inside them.

In March 2001, a White House team used a single economic analysis by the Energy Department to build a case that Mr. Bush quickly used to back out of his campaign pledge to restrict power plant discharges of carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping gas linked to global warming.