Sentences with phrase «highest total emissions»

However, there's very little overlap between states with the highest per capita emissions and the states with the highest total emissions, shown in the chart below.

The report also shows that Texas has by far the highest total emissions from power plants and refineries, with 294 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent spewed into the atmosphere.

Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and South Asia have the highest total emissions from livestock.

Fargione reported that, overall, biofuels would cause higher total emissions for tens to hundreds of years.

Not exact matches

The Innsbruck data also show that, due to the very high proportion of oxygen - containing compounds, the total global amount of urban emissions is significantly underestimated.

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.

The consequences of the three other scenarios, which range as high as total carbon emissions of 5,120 billion tons, are substantially greater and should be considered «increasingly likely» given contemporary growth in carbon emissions, according to the report.

Production of organic corn resulted in the greatest nitrous oxide emissions and represented about 8 % of total GHG emission; corn also had the highest carbon dioxide emissions per hectare.

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.

The researchers found that the 20 percent of U.S. diets with the highest carbon footprint accounted for 46 percent of total diet - related greenhouse emissions.

Conclusion: Total moisture available for this extreme event was 1 % to 5 % higher as a result of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

«Wherever you have a high dominance of natural gas, that is where you improve on the total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Even so, the IPCC estimates above indicate: 1) Total Net Atmospheric Carbon Emissions to 2100 will amount to ~ 2050 PgC (or more) on current Trends, 2) A BAU projected estimate would push CO2 to ~ 952 ppm by 2100 (or more), and 3) Global average temperature increase / anomaly would be as high as ~ 6.8 C by 2100

Beyond equilibrium climate sensitivity -LSB-...] Newer metrics relating global warming directly to the total emitted CO2 show that in order to keep warming to within 2 °C, future CO2 emissions have to remain strongly limited, irrespective of climate sensitivity being at the high or low end.»

Experts estimate that emissions from the degradation of mangroves can be as high as 10 % of total emissions from deforestation globally, even though mangroves account for only 0.7 % of tropical forest area *.

Overall, the total amount of CH4 emissions that atmospheric scientists see from high latitudes is half of that in bottom - up estimates, and scientists are working to understand this discrepancy [Bruhwiler et al., 2014].

Twinned with the same supercharged 3.0 - litre V6 from the previous car, Porsche claims a total output 410bhp and a somewhat fanciful 91.1 mpg with CO2 emissions of just 71g / km from the high - tech, 2095 kg saloon.

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Total range with a full tank of hydrogen is 366 miles, which Honda says is the highest EPA - rated driving range of a zero - emission vehicle on the U.S. market.

While industrial stacks belch greenhouse gases, and holiday - makers everywhere race crazily around in cars, boats and planes — total mentions of «climate change», «global warming» and «record - high carbon emissions» in press stories relating to major fires now burning in three provinces, Alaska and Siberia...?

Essentially, EPA wants to give credit to existing NGCCs for upping their capacity factors since that helps to displace higher - emitting fossil generators, thereby reducing total emissions from the electric sector.

When spring thaw emissions were combined with growing season emissions, the conventional tillage system actually had higher total nitrous oxide emissions than the zero till system.We suggest that this type of experiment (full year emission measurements) be repeated with deep banding of N fertilizer, which would be expected to further reduce emissions from zero till systems.

State and total populations on land and major cities in which the majority of the population occupies land committed to fall below future high tide lines given emissions through 2100 under RCP 2.6 (blue city markers on both maps) or 8.5 (red city markers) and assuming the baseline Antarctic case (see text).

Coastal state and US total 2010 census populations living on land falling below future committed high tide lines under different emissions scenarios through 2050, making no assumptions about the inevitability of WAIS collapse (baseline case)

This is true because most mainstream scientists have concluded that the world must reduce total global emissions by at the very least 60 to 80 percent below existing levels to stabilize GHG atmospheric concentrations at minimally safe atmospheric GHG concentrations and the United States is a huge emitter both in historical terms and in comparison to current emissions levels of other high emitting nations.

These patterns arise because at high emissions levels the total Antarctic contribution to SLR equals or exceeds the sea - level content of the WAIS in most simulations, so very few simulations must be filtered out from the triggered case, making it nearly identical to the baseline case.

China's nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer application are the highest of any country, accounting for nearly a third of the world's total.

Overall, the total amount of CH4 emissions that atmospheric scientists see from high latitudes is half of that in bottom - up estimates, and scientists are working to understand this discrepancy [Bruhwiler et al., 2014].

«The CO2 numbers [in the oil sands] sound frightening when only the production and refining are taken into account... Yet once the oil is burned, a variety of sources say the total lifecycle impact of oil sands relative to the average crude used in the U.S. is much smaller, including the Council on Foreign Relations (17 percent higher emissions) and Cambridge Energy Research Associates (5 - 15 percent).»

(Sec. 265) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a research program to: (1) identify the factors affecting consumer actions to conserve energy and make improvements in energy efficiency; and (2) make grants to institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use, the potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits, the ability to reduce GHG emissions through changes in energy consumption habits, increasing public awareness of federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs, and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

«When open burning emissions, which emit high levels of organic matter, are included in the total, the best estimate of net industrial - era climate forcing by all short - lived species from black - carbon - rich sources becomes slightly negative -LRB--0.06 W / m2 with 90 % uncertainty bounds of -1.45 to +1.29 W / m2).

While not all states are pursuing climate policies, Carbon Brief analysis showed that those concerned about the potential high cost of climate change represent 40 % of total US emissions.

Through the program the Secretary will make grants to public and private institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use; potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits; the ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through changes in energy consumption habits; increase public awareness of Federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs; and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

Allan Siddons is completely wrong in his approach: the sink rate doesn't depend on the emissions in one year of about 4 ppmv, but of the total increase over the years, which nowadays is over 30 % (100 ppmv) higher than expected from the current temperature.

Total energy - related CO2 emissions for developed countries (Annex I) were only 1.1 % higher than their 1990 level in 2000 and if other greenhouse gases and sinks are counted, these countries could have collectively achieved their goal of returning emissions to 1990 levels.

For this reason, a joint research project between Widener University Commonwealth Law School and the University of Auckland recommended in Paris that national climate commitments be stated in tons of emissions over a specific period rather than percent reductions by a given date because waiting to the end of specific period to achieve percent reductions will cause the total tons of ghg emitted to be higher than if reductions are made earlier.

If you are benchmarking the two policies for a comparable carbon price, total emissions would be higher under my system, and so the total value of emissions rights which are nominally granted to firms would be higher, likely by a factor of 1.5 - 2 based on work I just read by Rivers and Jaccard, although I don't have specific modeling numbers.

The yellow emission pathway has a higher cumulative total than the green one, when integrated to the time when temperatures peak.

Each higher and cooler layer in turn emits thermal radiation corresponding to its temperature; and much of that also escapes directly to space around the absorption bands of the higher atmosphere layers; and so on; so that the total LWIR emission from the earth should then be a composite of roughly BB spectra but with source temepratures ranging ove the entire surface Temeprature range, as well as the range of atmospheric emitting Temperatures.

Total anthropogenic GHG emissions were the highest in human history from 2000 to 2010 and reached 49 (± 4.5) GtCO2eq / yr in 2010.»

Despite this higher cumulative total, the green curve has a higher peak warming than the yellow curve because its emissions are put into the atmosphere over a shorter time period.

Under these facts, it is simply inconceivable that those emitting high levels of greenhouse gases compared to others are not exceeding their fair share of safe global emissions given the enormity of reductions that are needed globally to return total global emissions to levels that are not already causing harm.

My conclusion, based on the total information available, is that continued high emissions would result in multi-meter sea level rise this century and lock in continued ice sheet disintegration such that building cities or rebuilding cities on coast lines would become foolish.

Although some developing nations can make a presentable argument that they could increase greenhouse gas emissions without exceeding their fair share of global emissions, the developed nations, including the United States can not make this argument because it is known that existing total global emissions levels need to be significantly reduced and the developed nations are very high emitting nations compared to most nations in the world.

Renewable energy can be used to replace some higher - carbon sources of energy in the power grid and achieve a reduction in total greenhouse gas emissions from power generation, even if not used to provide baseload power.

This is the optimal point to stop, and the emission reduction will have been worth it: The total gain in environmental benefits will be higher than the total loss in conventional economic output.

According to a new study, high levels of greenhouse gas emissions could cause oceans to rise by close to two meters in total (over six feet) by the end of the century, and more than 13 meters (42 feet) from Antarctica alone by 2500.

Though these gases represent just 2 percent of the current total of all GHG emissions, their warming impact is high and their use is rapidly increasing.

«Arrival of high speed streams at Earth is found to be preceded by a decrease in total solar irradiance and an increase in sunspot number and Mg II emissions.»