Sentences with phrase «high greenhouse gas emissions.climatic»

Palm oil is the leading cause of Indonesia's high greenhouse gas emissions.

RCP 2.6 assumes low greenhouse gas emissions; RCP 8.5 assumes high greenhouse gas emissions; RCP 4.5 assumes greenhouse gas emissions in between 2.6 and 8.5.

«Installing infrastructure that «locks in» high greenhouse gas emissions for many years to come will increase the difficulties of reducing emissions in the future and blunt the incentives for technological improvement and innovation,» concludes the report.

It is also very likely that the Arctic Ocean will become nearly ice - free in September before the end of the century for high greenhouse gas emissions such as those corresponding to RCP8.5.

The high greenhouse gas emissions produced are causing the climate to change, and that means communities are increasingly facing extreme weather patterns.

When the peat is dug up or burned to make way for other uses, carbon is released, contributing to high greenhouse gas emissions.

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Unfortunately, what the building global heat and currently very high greenhouse gas heat forcing means is that the Earth System will continue to accumulate warmth for some time.

The overall correlation is a result of the fact that climate policy induces systemic changes in the energy system, away from technologies with high greenhouse gas emission levels, which also have high emissions of air pollutants (e.g. coal use without CCS has high emission levels of CO2, but also of SO2).

RCP8.5 is a scenario of «comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions «brought about by rapid population growth, high energy demand, fossil fuel dominance and an absence of climate change policies.

«(i) in countries that have comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions, or comparatively greater levels of economic development; and

«Record - high greenhouse gas emissions and associated atmospheric concentrations are committing the planet to a much more uncertain and inhospitable future.

Climate change is set to continue due to historically high greenhouse gas emissions by humans, according to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Soil moisture 12 inches below ground projected through 2100 for a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario.

And taking the lead involves allowing for the transfer of technologies to developing countries so that they can leapfrog some of the high carbon, high fossil fuel, high greenhouse gas emission technologies that we've gone through.

But it will also make history as marking a new era of climate change reality with record high greenhouse gas concentrations,» said WMO Secretary - General Petteri Taalas.

This is like running your furnace for a couple hours, and is sure to result in overheating, high AC bills, and high greenhouse gas emissions.

Though scoring highly in forest sustainability and provision of safe drinking water, this is offset by high greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution issues.

The area of near - surface permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere is projected to decline by 20 % relative to today's area by 2040, and could be reduced by as much as two - thirds by 2080 under a scenario of high greenhouse gas emissions.

We analyzed the effect of a medium - high greenhouse gas emissions scenario (Special Report on Emissions Scenarios A2 in IPCC 2000) and included updated projections of sea - level rise based on work by Rahmstorf (Science 315 (5810): 368, 2007).

Such research is needed for understanding future changes in cyclones and avoided impacts if we follow the Paris Agreement on climate change, rather than current, high greenhouse gas emission pathways.»

Warming fairly drastically increased the odds of each of these events in the models, with Tampa's current 10,000 - year storm becoming anywhere from a 2,500 - year to a 700 - year storm by the end of the century (assuming high greenhouse gas emissions).

Under both modest and high greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, temperatures in the Colorado River Basin are projected to rise by 5 degrees Fahrenheit compared with the 20th - century average.

She and her team then projected excess deaths from heat under a low and a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario, incorporating adaptation patterns.

When this model was then applied to the future, they found that in a world of continuing high greenhouse gas emissions, the threshold for widespread drought - induced vascular damage would be crossed and initiate widespread tree deaths on average across climate model projections in the 2050s.

«It will lock in high greenhouse gas emissions, water use and mercury pollution for decades.

«Globally, beef production can be taxing on the environment, leading to high greenhouse gas emissions and land degradation,» said Jason Rowntree, MSU associate professor of animal science, who led the study.

China continues to lead in the ranking of the world's top 40 renewable energy markets, despite its continuing high greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on coal.

I am asking for people to support the idea that companies that have higher greenhouse gases pay higher royalties (taxes), while those that have lower greenhouse gas emissions pay lower royalties.

The cap - and - trade system auctions environmental permits to businesses with the highest greenhouse gas pollution.

It takes decades for even the most immediate result of higher greenhouse gas levels — a rise in surface temperatures — to become apparent.

Algae production consumes more energy, has higher greenhouse gas emissions and uses more water than other biofuel sources, like corn, switch grass and canola, Clarens and his colleagues found by using a statistical model to compare growth data of algae with conventional crops.

Saunders also defended the study's use of medium - to - high emissions estimates from the IPCC, saying he expects the international body to issue even higher greenhouse gas predictions in its next five - year study, in 2012.

The results showed that higher greenhouse gas emissions would lead to more annual fatalities from heat across the city as far out as the 2080s.

Meat and seafood have the highest greenhouse gas emissions per calorie.

(Santa Barbara, Calif.)-- New evidence from climate records of the past provides some of the strongest indications yet of a direct link between tropical warmth and higher greenhouse gas levels, say scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The global average temperature is continuing to rise as a consequence of warming driven by ever higher greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, in response to the profligate global consumption of fossil fuels.

Largely dependent on fossil fuels, Mexico is approximately the 11th highest greenhouse gas emitter in the world.

Yet compared to most countries» fleets, vehicles in the U.S. today still have much lower average MPG, higher per capita petroleum use and higher greenhouse gas production.

One reason for being confident about there being much more uncertaintly than the 97 % concensus suggests is that there is nothing like a concensus, let alone proof, of what caused (and causes) the extreme natural variations in climate throughout geological time.This variation is well documented and almost certainly has a variety of underlying causes which are likely to be very different from C02 or other MM emissions even if higher greenhouse gases levels have often been present.

Coal - powered ethanol refineries can lead to higher greenhouse gas emissions than the fossil fuel ethanol is intended to replace.

In per - capita terms Australia has among the highest greenhouse gas emissions in the world, yet the Australian Turnbull Government is resisting efforts to reduce those emissions and is trying to increase the amount of coal mining, coal burning and coal exporting.

Advanced building codes in developing countries can be implemented quickly, preventing decades of much higher greenhouse gas emissions.

Much of the harm these events cause in Europe comes from physical damage to its industrial life support system, as the global average temperature continues to rise as a consequence of warming driven by ever higher greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, in response to the profligate global consumption of fossil fuels.

The paper shows that the highest greenhouse gas emissions are caused by unconventional gas supplied via LNG infrastructure.

So, for example, if we go through a period of relative higher solar output, and less volcanic activity, relatively less cloudiness, and higher greenhouse gas levels, these would all tend to increase ocean heat content.

They discover that certain types of foods have the highest greenhouse gas emissions associated with their production.

While they are the first - and fourth - highest greenhouse gas emitters, respectively, they've also acknowledged that fossil fuels are not compatible with sustainable development.

It will be the impact of sea level rise, as a consequence of global warming driven by ever higher greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, in response to the profligate global consumption of fossil fuels.

Not to mention the increasing body of research, from both academics and intergovernmental agencies, such as the International Energy Agency, shows that expanding the use of natural gas will do nothing to prevent climate change, and that natural gas obtained by fracking has radically higher greenhouse gas emissions than gas obtained through conventional methods.