Sentences with phrase «greenhouse gas content»

It is also predicted by climate models in response to the rising greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere.

Assessing the ability of climate models to reproduce this change is an important part of determining the fidelity with which the models can be expected to forecast the way climate will change in response to future increases in greenhouse gas content.

Simplified model of major processes that interact to determine the average temperature and greenhouse gas content of the troposphere.

«Now we have greater confidence that volcanism and its effect on the greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere drove climate change in deep time,» says Kump.

Over multi-millennial time scales, orbital forcing also exerts a major influence on key climate systems such as the Earth's major monsoons, global ocean circulation and the greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere.

Summer happens and summer is warmer than winter; and we have increased the total radiative forcing of the atmosphere by increasing the greenhouse gas content.

In neighboring Canada, British Columbia has had an economy - wide carbon fee levied on the greenhouse gas content of nearly all fuels purchased within the province since 2008.

In 2008, British Columbia passed the Carbon Tax Act to levy a fee on the greenhouse gas content of nearly all fuels purchased within the province.

California also wants to reduce the greenhouse gas content of fuels by 10 percent by 2020.