Sentences with phrase «global warming contribution»

Global Warming Contribution per billion people — USA 0.51 C — China 0.05 C Science Paper Ref (reposted again) http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/1/014010/article

More frequent La Ninas and the negative phase of the PDO are the reason for the increased transfer of Global Warming contribution into the deeper oceans in the last 15 years... This means previously the oceans were not the receptor of as much GW heat content?

In most cases, the net global warming contribution is less than for the fossil fuel combustion, though still significant.

Holland and Bruyère (2013) developed an Anthropogenic Climate Change Index (ACCI) to investigate the potential global warming contribution to current tropical cyclone activity.

To put it another way, the global warming contribution to the magnitude of the heat wave was 29 % (1.75 °C / 6 °C = 0.29) while the natural variability contribution to the magnitude of the heat wave was 71 % (4.25 °C / 6 °C = 0.71).

Global warming contributions from wheat, sheep meat and wool production in Victoria, Australia — a life cycle assessment

Not exact matches

It outlines new reporting requirements for French asset managers on their contribution to national and international efforts to limit global warming.

Paulson concludes with a two - part contribution on global warming, noting that even though «we can see the crash coming... we're sitting on our hands instead of altering course.»

These were cheaper because of agribusiness methods of production that do not count the cost of lost soil, contribution to global warming, the exhaustion of aquifers, or the pollution of waterways.

Alternately, in anticipation of the shortage of petroleum and to avoid excessive contributions to global warming, nations may turn increasingly to atomic power.

New York City announced it filed a multibillion dollar lawsuit against five top oil companies, citing their «contributions to global warming,» as it said it would divest fossil fuel investments from its $ 189 billion public pension funds over the next five years.

In the Paris Agreement, each country determines, plans and regularly reports its own contribution it should make in order to mitigate global warming.

The investment in truly clean and green energy production such as wind, solar, and biofuels, and offering incentives to encourage Smart Energy use by consumers would drastically reduce our contributions to global warming and reduce our dependency on nuclear power.

'' [E] missions of black carbon are the second strongest contribution to current global warming, after carbon dioxide emissions,» wrote Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a prominent climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Greg Carmichael, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Iowa, in the April 2008 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience.

Dr Meleady, a lecturer in psychology, added: «If similar interventions were to be implemented in comparable situations in other cities and countries, the potential contribution to reducing air pollution, improving short and long term health, and reducing effects of global warming could be substantial.»

Although Lomborg has said he accepts that the climate is changing, he has downplayed global warming's contribution in two popular books.»

The study, published online today in Environmental Science & Technology, provides the most comprehensive set yet of direct measurements of emissions from the distribution system and, with a series of partner studies, is helping to determine the natural gas industry's contribution to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and to global warming.

If a battery's energetic cost is too high, its overall contribution to global warming could negate the environmental benefits of the wind or solar farm it was supposed to support.»

The first time I bothered to consider my own family's contribution to global warming was late one night last winter, when my teenage son had taken the car on a long and unnecessary errand.

Seven years ago Michael Mann introduced a graph that became an iconic symbol of humanity's contribution to global warming.

In the smoking and airplane examples, the son and Jim foolishly focus on the father's and Gore's hypocrisy rather than on the perils of smoking or the human contribution to global warming.

China's stated aim of improving air quality over the coming years would change this radiative forcing, leading to a rather counter-intuitive consequence; the increase in China's contribution to global warming.

As countries prepare to finalize a climate agreement in Paris this coming December, global leaders like the United States and the European Union are releasing intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs), country specific action plans that outline how they intend to reduce global warming emissions.

Its mixing ratio in the atmosphere is lower than that of CO2 (about 4 parts per trillion ppt in 1990 versus 365 ppm of carbon dioxide), its contribution to global warming is accordingly low.

Human contribution may speed the condition of global warming but it WILL happen regardless.

Why is it only «arguably fairer» to take population size into account when determining a country's contribution to global warming...

In addition to its direct contribution to global warming, ozone may worsen climate change by preventing plant growth that would otherwise capture carbon dioxide

Attribution research is relatively new, and scientists are still learning how to untangle the contribution of long - term global warming in a given weather event.

The team's research shows that in addition to contributions from natural forcings and global warming, temperature differences between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans play a role in causing drought and increasing wildfire risks.

Kyoto regulates all sources of carbon dioxide as well as other greenhouse gases, but reliable long - term data by country are available only for carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels (which accounts for about two - thirds of the human contribution to global warming).

This new research shows that in addition to a discernible contribution from natural forcings and human - induced global warming, the large - scale difference between Atlantic and Pacific ocean temperatures plays a fundamental role in causing droughts, and enhancing wildfire risks.

Despite the continuing evidence of the growing contribution of vehicle pollution to global warming, acid rain and ground level concentrations of ozone, there is scant sign of concerted thinking on what should be done.

Their findings indicated that, overall, the contribution of changing solar activity, either directly or through cosmic rays, was even less and can not have contributed more than 10 percent to global warming in the 20th century.

«We conclude that the level of contribution of changing solar activity is less than 10 percent of the measured global warming observed in the 20th century.

Belches, burps and flatulence from these sheep over the next three years could help to quantify the contribution of British agriculture to global warming.

So the report notes that the current «pause» in new global average temperature records since 1998 — a year that saw the second strongest El Nino on record and shattered warming records — does not reflect the long - term trend and may be explained by the oceans absorbing the majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as well as the cooling contributions of volcanic eruptions.

So it's a serious entrant, and from my potentially biased point of view in the nuclear fission category, I don't know many other entrants that you look and say, «Okay, if you go from paper to real then this is a meaningful contribution to cheap energy / global warming as an incredible problem.»

Those studies find a relatively small solar contribution to global warming, particularly in recent decades (Figure 8).

Since 1950, the volcanic forcing has been negative due to a few significant eruptions, and has offset the modestly positive solar forcing, such that the net natural external forcing contribution to global warming over the past 50 years is approximately zero (more specifically, the authors estimate the natural forcing contribution since 1950 at -10 to +13 %, with a most likely value of 1 %).

With the contribution of such record warmth at year's end and with 10 months of the year record warm for their respective months, including the last 8 (January was second warmest for January and April was third warmest), the average global temperature across land and ocean surface areas for 2015 was 0.90 °C (1.62 °F) above the 20th century average of 13.9 °C (57.0 °F), beating the previous record warmth of 2014 by 0.16 °C (0.29 °F).

In one sentence: Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and colleagues found that if followed by measures of equal or greater ambition, individual country pledges to reduce their emissions called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions have the potential to reduce the probability of the highest levels of warming and increase the probability of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

The IPCC was recognized for its contributions over the last two decades to create an «an ever - broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming.

Phenomenological solar contribution to the 1900 — 2000 global surface warming.

Reductions in emissions from deforestation, in particular in the Amazon, have made a major contribution to global efforts to control global warming; since 2005 the Amazon has seen its deforestation rate drop 77 % below the historic average.

Solar cycle length as a proxy for solar activity tells us the sun has had very little contribution to global warming since 1975.

Estimated solar contribution to the global surface warming using the ACRIM TSI satellite composite.

Petrenko's most recent research focuses on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas second only to carbon dioxide in its contribution to human - driven global warming.

My own calculation is in my e-book: Global Warming: The Human Contribution.

Given these existing pressures and upheavals, it is a reasonable question to ask whether global warming will make any further meaningful contribution to this mess.

NativeEnergy, which works with individuals and organizations to help them compensate for their contributions to global warming, calculated the «carbon footprint» from producing the film, including all travel, office, and accommodations related emissions.