Sentences with phrase «global warming gasses other»

The «equivalent» part happens because of global warming gasses other than CO2.

Not exact matches

But methane gas, which is produced by, among other things, rotting garbage in the nation's landfills, is 22 times more potent a contributor to global warming.

I am not sure that the evidence for global warming is totally convincing or that its connection to our production of greenhouse gases, deforestation, or other forms of pollution of our world is firmly demonstrable.

... A number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity... Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain.

Global warming, greenhouse gases and carbon footprint have become household terms, and consumer groups, government agencies, and businesses are working on ways to preserve the land, air, water and other natural resources.

A short list of relatively simple actions taken to reduce greenhouse gases other than CO2 could help put the brakes on global warming — if implemented globally

Reducing the emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming makes the most sense in the context of planetary boundaries, and many of the other thresholds collapse into it, Blomqvist and his colleagues note.

In signing the 2015 Paris agreement, the United States, along with 194 other countries, pledged to curb greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming.

An Australian wildfire has killed at least 135 people, and some experts are blaming global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions for this and other recent blazes.

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.

Of course, modern global warming stems from a clear cause — rising levels of CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) from fossil fuel burning, cutting down forests and other human activities.

The research suggests that — contrary to some prior findings — CO2 led the prior round of global warming rather than vice versa, just as it continues to do today thanks to rising emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

The 700 - degree Fahrenheit (370 - degree Celsius) fumes left over contain at least 30,000 parts per million of carbon dioxide (CO2)-- the primary greenhouse gas responsible for global warming — along with other pollutants.

Global warming became big news for the first time during the hot summer of 1988 when now - retired NASA climate scientist James Hansen testified before Congress that the trend was not part of natural climate variation, but rather the result of emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses from human activities.

Critics argue that albedo modification and other «geoengineering» schemes are risky and would discourage nations from trying to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas that comes from the burning of fossil fuels and that is causing global warming by absorbing increasing amounts of energy from sunlight.

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).

«If we can partition how much is from cows, natural gas, and other sources, we can more reliably strategize what to do about global warming.»

«It is true that there are other factors (such as volcanism, the changes in the orbit and the axis of the Earth, the solar cycle), but numerous scientific studies indicate that most of the global warming in recent decades is due to the large concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxide and others) mainly emitted due to human activity.»

By analyzing global water vapor and temperature satellite data for the lower atmosphere, Texas A&M University atmospheric scientist Andrew Dessler and his colleagues found that warming driven by carbon dioxide and other gases allowed the air to hold more moisture, increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

A: Global warming occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) and other air pollutants and greenhouse gases collect in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar radiation that have bounced off the earth's surface.

While a strong El Niño has given global temperatures a boost, the bulk of that heat comes from the manmade global warming driven by increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

In other words, global warming is an indirect consequence of anthropogenic greenhouse gases.

Others argue that global warming brought on by the increased production of greenhouse gasses will lead to larger hurricane zones and more powerful storms.

On the other hand, lead - laden clouds send more heat from the earth back into space, cooling the world slightly and possibly lessening global warming by greenhouse gases.

The crazy thing is that if people followed the whole foods plant - based diet advocated by Dr. G. and others, we would save trillions of dollars, get rid of our worst health problems, and solve the global warming problem (since 50 % of greenhouse gasses due to animal «agriculture»).

That is how we know that it is CO2 and other gasses that are causing global warming.

Firstly, like Cox, no - one here or elsewhere can show that changing levels of carbon dioxide, or any other IR gases, can affect global warming.

One of the interesting results by Tony and others working on the NY and similar national studies was that even the majority of those who expressed apocalyptic connotations with global warming far beyond anything supported by the science were unwilling to pay more at the pump for gas to reduce carbon emissions.

Greenhouse gas emissions are completely overwhelming all other changes in forcing in driving global warming.

1985 Ramanathan and his collaborators announce that global warming may come twice as fast as expected, from a rise of methane and other trace greenhouse gases.

Despite their impact on the global climate, greenhouse gases and other global warming pollution from ships remain unregulated by the U.S. Government.

Please read Derry's piece below, and Ingraffea's, and see if they clarify your thinking on natural gas and other energy options in the context of global warming:

Even so this omits gases other than CO2 which are responsible for about half of human cause global warming.

Charles Krauthammer, the conservative columnist who hates talk of global warming alarm but has long called for a big rise in the gas tax (with compensating shifts in other taxes), might not need to read it.

Even as the United States and other countries explore ways to cut emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming, some warming is already locked in, the latest big studies have firmly concluded.

While pressing for cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions and better efforts to control hunting, both legal and illegal, the participating scientists concluded on an optimistic note, saying they were «optimistic that humans can mitigate the effects of global warming and other threats to polar bears, and ensure that they remain a part of the Arctic ecosystem in perpetuity.»

The findings came from the Climate Accountability Institute, an entity led by Richard Heede, whose company, Climate Mitigation Services, advises companies, municipalities and others on how to cut greenhouse gases, and Naomi Oreskes, the Harvard historian and co-author of «Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.»

Global climate models have successfully predicted the rise in temperature as greenhouse gases increased, the cooling of the stratosphere as the troposphere warmed, polar amplification due the ice - albedo effect and other effects, greater increase in nighttime than in daytime temperatures, and the magnitude and duration of the cooling from the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.

I honestly think she's too young to be listening to me going on and on about such confusing stuff as oil, gas, coal, greenhouse effect, global warming, manmade climate change, population explosion (she knows about it), deforestation, desertification, rapid extinction of other species, pollution, problems, overconsumption, overindustrialization, problems, politics, economics, consumerism, and problems, religion, war, etc., etc., etc..

The full quote was «In a long, and interesting speech, he characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way: «We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions «cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.

Questions about Field's pro-industry stance on global warming come as the DEC faces accusations from environmental activists that the agency gave the natural gas industry exclusive and unfair access to draft drilling regulations up to six weeks before they were released to the public or to any other stakeholders.

Global warming is unequivocal and is due primarily to human - induced emissions of heat - trapping gases and other pollutants.

How does arrogance or any other personal attitudinal trait on anyone's part affect the scientific evidence for global warming due to increasing atmospheric concentrations of IR - excitable gases like CO2?

There are enough health - damaging pollutants in the air today such that, if they (tropospheric ozone, its principal precursor methane, black soot, and some other trace gases that contribute to the global warming) were reduced by feasible amounts, the planet's energy balance could be restored, or nearly so.

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.

It is true that there are other factors (such as volcanism, the changes in the orbit and the axis of the Earth, the solar cycle), but numerous scientific studies indicate that most of the global warming in recent decades it is due to the large concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxide and others) mainly emitted due to human activity.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

What simply amazes me (TonyB seems to agree) is that U.K. and other jurisdictions have enacted laws to mandate greenhouse gas reductions with HUGE impact on the taxpayers» lives without any evidence that they have even thought about the effectiveness of their programs in actually reducing global warming.

That's a cause for concern because, among other reasons, methane traps more heat than carbon dioxide, making it a more potent greenhouse gas and thus of concern for global warming, according to a study detailing the trip's findings and published recently in the journal Atmospheric Environment.

• Greenhouse gases contributed a global mean surface warming likely to be in the range of 0.5 °C to 1.3 °C over the period 1951 to 2010, with the contributions from other anthropogenic forcings, including the cooling effect of aerosols, likely to be in the range of − 0.6 °C to 0.1 °C.