Sentences with phrase «higher emissions from»

here the author stated clearly that even taking into account higher emissions from warmer surfaces, the net will still be a reduction

Borenstein is the latest energy expert to conclude that closing Diablo Canyon would result in higher emissions from electrical generation from natural gas.

Overall, the lower emissions from running EVs compared to conventional vehicles have been found to more than balance out the higher emissions from their production, even with today's US electricity mix.

The report also concluded that taking into account the lower emissions from completed wells and the higher emissions from other equipment, actual methane emissions are most likely 20 % lower than previously estimated.

The GCP's new global carbon budget also incorporates updated land - use emission estimates that significantly revise past land - use change emissions, showing higher emissions prior to 1960, lower emissions between 1960 and 1999, and higher emissions from 1999 through to present.

Authors in a recent study from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have identified higher emissions from continuously flooded rice, compared to rice which has more frequent periods of water drainage, and a wide range of emissions for other crops due to variation in fertilizer application.

«The revision seems to be based on higher emissions from deforestation,» says Vieweg.

Christopher Wilmers of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and colleagues showed last year that vanishing sea otters are linked with higher emissions from North American coastlines (Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, doi.org/khz).

The sunken «living room» is lined with tables fashioned from reclaimed wood from a farm in Arkansas, as well as a 12 - person communal table built from the tractor tread of a decommissioned CAT Excavator, in honor of the State of California's effort to reduce high emissions from old equipment.

The company also has abnormally high emissions from other processes and technologies.

The higher the emission from the acceptor, the more powerful the FRET signal.

An earlier study in Iowa concluded that part of the reason for the high emissions from anhydrous ammonia arose from application as a concentrated band creating alkaline conditions in the soil band.

Other research has shown that several common biofuel feedstocks — including corn and rapeseed which have considerably lower yields than oil palm — also have high emissions from direct and indirect land use.

Allowing these HFC blends in new and retrofit equipment risks locking in high emissions from these chemicals for decades and undermines the market growth of suitable low - GWP alternatives.

Take some countries with high emissions from deforestation.

«We've also seen studies from Texas showing high emissions from oil - and - gas fields,» said Gwen Lachelt, a director of the Durango - based Oil and Gas Accountability Project.

Not exact matches

The main reason the US ranks so poorly on carbon dioxide emissions is because its per - person consumption rate of electricity is so high; all of that energy comes primarily from fossil fuels.

These include poisonous methane emissions from cows that accelerate climate change and higher health care costs associated with unhealthy diets, which are ultimately paid for by society.

OSLO, Oct 7 - Greenhouse gas emissions rise when economies expand but don't fall as quickly when recession strikes, perhaps because people stick with a higher - emitting lifestyle from the boom times, a study showed.

With much of the world's accessible, light crude of this sort now exhausted, more and more of the oil we consume comes from heavy grades (the so - called bitumen derived from oilsands being among the heaviest) that require more refining and therefore entail higher emissions and other undesirable byproducts.

The CPM Group anticipates palladium demand to reach an all - time high this year, up 3 percent from last year, on tightened emissions standards and the purchase of larger cars and trucks in the U.S. on lower fuel costs.

In fact, diesel has both higher carbon emissions and carcinogenic fine particles, the form of invisible pollution from which France is currently suffering a major spike.

As the biggest station operator and supplier of natural gas for transportation in the U.S., the company should benefit from higher oil prices and more focus on reducing emissions likely to drive many truck operators to consider this new engine.

But the carbon tariff would actually offset what amounts to a subsidy for Canadian consumers buying from low - cost but high - emission producers.

If the goods they produced end up being imported from jurisdictions with less stringent environmental standards, then we lose twice — higher global GHG emissions and less economic activity in Canada.

A computational study of x-ray emission from high - Z x-ray sources on the National Ignition Facility laser

New figures from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center have found that carbon emissions likely hit their highest levels ever in 2010 (the numbers are partially preliminary estimates).

In addition, eliminating synthetic pesticides and fertilizers in regenerative organic agricultural systems directly reduce GHG emissions that normally come from creating these synthetics and from higher methane and nitrous oxide emissions due to management.

According to a recent study from Denkstatt, an Austrian environmental sustainability solutions think tank, «Even if improved packaging solutions contribute to increased CO2 emissions, the CO2 savings from reduced food waste are in most cases much higher.»

They're dairy free (because methane emissions from cows is a serious problem) and use a mixture of Einka flour (which is high in protein and vitamins and grown and milled right here in the Methow Valley) and buckwheat flour for a hearty, rich flavor.

We focus on ruminant livestock since it has the highest emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport emissions reductions are swamped by changes in global emissions due to differences in GHG emissions intensities of production.

I was under the impression, when recalling seminars from over a year ago, that cement production was higher on the list of CO2 emission causes than it really is (apparently).

As the price of food goes higher and higher and we worry more and more about where our food comes from, organic vs. conventional (pesticide - laden), genetically - modified organisms, carbon emissions and climate change, it makes sense to me to try to grow some of our own food.

Even in a mid-sized room, the emissions from one diaper were high enough to produce asthma - like symptoms.

Babies can be exposed to high levels of chemical emission from mattresses as they sleep, a new study has found.

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

We reported Monday that the risk to public health from air pollution released from chemical and industrial plants, most of them in or around Niagara Falls, is higher in Niagara County than in nine out of every 10 counties across the United States where emissions are reported to the federal government.

The announcement does not mean that the state has completely divested from companies that produce high carbon emissions.

Commercial firms have developed high - resolution sensors that can be placed aboard 10 - centimetre - sided CubeSats to measure emissions from individual wells or other facilities.

More accurate distances between the most common type of «planetary nebulae» and the Earth can be estimated simply with three sets of data: firstly, the size of the object on the sky taken from the latest high resolution surveys; secondly, an accurate measurement of how bright the object is in the red hydrogen - alpha emission line; and thirdly, an estimate of the dimming toward the nebula caused by so called interstellar - reddening.

Over the course of the experiment, emissions of planet - warming methane from the dung of antibiotic - dosed cows were, on average, 80 % higher than those from the manure of untreated cattle, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

In a recent experiment performed at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN, an international collaboration with scientists from eleven countries, led by scientists of the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC (Spain) and the RIKEN Nishina Center (Japan), made a very surprising observation: High - energy gamma rays — which are mediated by the electromagnetic force — are emitted in the decay of a certain excited nucleus — tin 133, in competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear force.

Despite a series of high - profile cancellations, projects to capture and store the carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and other sources are under construction

The best estimates of the increase in global temperatures range from 1.8 to 4.0 degrees C for the various emission scenarios, with higher emissions leading to higher temperatures.

Headed toward an 8 F rise in warming Other such low - probability but high - risk scenarios mentioned in the report include ecosystem collapses, destabilization of methane stored in the seafloor and rapid greenhouse gas emissions from thawing Arctic permafrost.

From climate campaigners to high - level diplomats, those who are committed to fighting global warming say making a strong agreement in Paris next year that radically reduces levels of greenhouse gas emissions is critical.

X-rays are absorbed by the atmosphere so I use data from X-ray satellites located above our atmosphere — such as NuSTAR, Suzaku and Swift — to detect high energy X-ray emission throughout the Universe.»

A recent report found that high - speed rail in the Midwest would reduce air travel by 1.3 million trips and car travel by 5.1 million trips per year by 2020, saving 188,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions (equivalent to taking 34,000 cars off the road while still getting everyone to and from work).

In the new study, McGuire and his colleagues used simulations to study changes in permafrost and carbon storage in the northern permafrost region from 2010 to 2299 using two climate change scenarios: One with low carbon dioxide emissions and one with high carbon dioxide emissions.

Revised manure management CH4 emissions estimates for 2011 in the US from this study were 71.8 % higher than IPPC - based estimates.