Sentences with phrase «higher than emissions»

Emissions from tropical forest degradation are higher than emissions from outright deforestation in many countries, found a study published in Carbon Balance and Management.

«Hence, a reduced optical depth explains why atmospheres are not easily «saturated «and why planets such as Venus have surface temperatures that are substantially higher than the emission temperature.

Re 166 Chris Dudley, quoting main post «Hence, a reduced optical depth explains why atmospheres are not easily «saturated «and why planets such as Venus have surface temperatures that are substantially higher than the emission temperature.

Not exact matches

The findings «don't necessarily suggest future emissions will generally be higher or lower than current projections, but they suggest that this will depend more sensitively on how exactly economies grow (or shrink),» he said.

Comparing the capital and operating costs of various forms of energy — even factoring in US$ 50 a tonne for carbon emissions (a higher rate than is currently levied by any North American state or province)-- natural gas comes out as a clear winner.

According to Ottawa's latest estimate, emissions will be 20 percent higher than what we promised in Copenhagen.

The Fuel Quality Directive has attracted a great deal of attention here in Canada because it would assign a higher emissions rating to Alberta oilsands than to other sources of crude oil, and I have -LSB-...]

Next week, the EU is expected to vote on the Fuel Quality Directive which would assign a higher emissions rating to Alberta oilsands than to other sources of crude oil, including some which may or may not actually have higher emissions than oilsands oil.

Overly optimistic projections of future oil supply, which are much higher than the latest NEB projections and don't consider the Alberta government's cap on oil sands emissions imposed by its Climate Leadership Plan.

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).

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 risk — determined by the volume and toxicity of pollutants and how many people are exposed to them — is higher in Niagara County than in nine out of every 10 counties across the United States where plant emissions are reported to the federal government, Investigative Post determined.

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.

Greenhouse gases rose slightly each year between 2013 and 2015, when they reached 98.3 million tons, 11 percent higher than 1990 levels, said Bill Drumheller, who tracks the state's emissions at the Washington Department of Ecology.

That's why we have to look at the balance in terms of what is cheaper: Can we reduce emissions of greenhouse gases today so that we can stabilize the earth's climate, rather than adapt to the impacts of climate change and incur much higher costs over a period of time?

«At the highest temperatures, the electron temperature is much higher than that of acoustic vibrational modes of the graphene lattice, so that less energy is needed to attain temperatures needed for visible light emission,» Myung - Ho Bae, a senior researcher at KRISS and co-lead author, observes.

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

In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2006.

Peak - time emissions from diesel trains at London's Paddington Station exceed the European recommendations for outdoor air quality, and are higher than nearby roadsides on the majority of days.

Such so - called in situ production requires less water but far more energy to get the bitumen flowing, resulting in greenhouse gas emissions some 2.5 times higher than those from mining.

The study also showed significant variations by region, with some areas showing higher than average emissions because of large differences in the age and type of pipe in different parts of the US.

In the «Continued Effort» scenario, China's carbon emissions would not level off until around 2040, ten years later than in the «Accelerated Effort» scenario, and at a level 20 percent higher.

In reality, as well as contributing to global emissions thanks to its exports, Norway's own greenhouse gas emissions are higher than they were in 1990.

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.

Removing fossil subsidies would only slightly slow the growth of CO2 emissions, with the result that by 2030 they would only be 1 - 5 % lower than if subsidies had been maintained, regardless of whether oil prices are low or high.

Black - carbon emissions from newer stoves, designed to be safer, were higher than those from traditional fire hearths, a new study finds

Soot emissions, a major cause of Arctic melting, were historically higher than previously thought.

In fact, each of those three high - emitting sectors» scope 1 and 2 emissions are more than double the combined scope 1 and 2 emissions of all other sectors covered by the index, according to CDP.

The model's results are consistent with Close's initial theory, but predict a higher frequency for the emission than researchers have detected experimentally.

Australia relies heavily on coal for its own electricity as well, emitting more CO2 per person than any other developed country, and its agricultural emissions are among the highest per capita in the world, mainly because of the large numbers of sheep and cattle.

Built to eventually map emissions planetwide every 24 hours and to show pollutants in higher resolution than ever before, Tropomi's sharper images drew raves from its sponsors.

The analysis by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced by the new plants is used to generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized coal - fired power.

Since the emissions today are three times higher than they were in the 1960s, this increased uptake by land and ocean is not only surprising; it's good news.

His team's work suggests that emissions from pneumatic controllers and other equipment at production wells is between 57 - 67 % higher than the current EPA estimate.

Environmental controls designed to prevent leaks of methane from newly drilled natural gas wells are effective, a study has found — but emissions from existing wells in production are much higher than previously believed.

At Xcel Energy, the utility firm with the highest total wind capacity in the United States, the number of forecasting errors has dropped since 2009, saving customers some US$ 60 million and reducing annual CO2 emissions from fossil - reserve power generation by more than a quarter of a million tonnes per year, says Drake Bartlett, a renewable - energy analyst with the firm who is based in Denver, Colorado.

Any pledges to lower emissions by a uniform percentage among industrial countries will be much harder for the U.S. to achieve, simply because it is gaining people so fast through immigration and a birthrate that is higher than average for a developed nation.

As a result, they produce 30 percent of the country's pollution and average emissions were five times higher than other regions.

Global methane and ethane emissions from oil production from 1980 to 2012 were far higher than previous estimates show, according to a new study which for the first time takes into account different production management systems and geological conditions around the world.

Energy - related carbon dioxide emissions from developing countries will be 127 percent higher than in the world's most developed economies by 2040, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S.

But even when the findings were adjusted for caloric intake, the highest - impact quintile was still responsible for five times more emissions than the lowest - impact group.

«China now emits more than the US and EU combined and has CO2 emissions per person 45 % higher than the global average, exceeding even the EU average,» said Robbie Andrew, a co-author of the studies based at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research — Oslo (CICERO) in Norway.

While fracking has become a focal point in conversations about methane emissions, it certainly appears from this and other studies that in the U.S., fossil fuel extraction activities across the board likely emit higher than inventory estimates.»

Fast radio bursts are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant but so far unknown sources, and FRB 121102 is the only one known to repeat: more than 200 high - energy bursts have been observed coming from this source, which is located in a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years from Earth.

The regulations that set fuel - economy and greenhouse - gas emission goals for cars and trucks have lower costs and higher benefits than previous analyses report, a new Carnegie Mellon University study shows.

Electricity production from biomass, coal, gas and hydropower for instance induces much higher indirect greenhouse gas emissions than nuclear electricity, or wind and solar - based power supply.»

A new study to be published by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research finds that a 70 percent cut in emissions should stabilize temperatures at a mark not too much higher than today.

It is also higher than calculations by the EPA, which revised its methodology last year and roughly doubled the official US inventory of emissions from the natural - gas industry over the past decade.

«Sparing tracts of land as natural habitat is much better for the vast majority of species than a halfway house of lower - yielding but «wildlife - friendly» farming, and we have recently shown that in the UK land spared through high - yield farming could even sequester enough greenhouse gases to mitigate the UK's agricultural emissions *,» said Balmford.