Sentences with phrase «hothouse emissions»

The document focused on hothouse emissions that have the greatest impact on the climate.

Its main goal is to stabilize hothouse emissions in the air at the level that would pose no danger of anthropogenic impact on the climate.

In 1997 the convention was supplemented with the Kyoto Protocol under which industrialized nations decided to reduce hothouse emissions on their free will by an average of 5.3 % from 2008 to 2012.

But it transpired before long that it will take a lot of time to decrease the anthropogenic pressure by reducing CO2 and other hothouse emissions in order to stabilize the atmospheric level, and that the industrialized countries were not likely to cope with this task on their own.

Not exact matches

Such a 35 percent equivalent emission, happening year on year for centuries, would be more than enough to push Earth into a runaway hothouse scenario without any further human greenhouse gas releases.

Such states may have prevailed in the distant past, but there is nothing about the current Holocene climate to suggest that more than a single equilibrium is within range — we are not close to a new glaciation nor a new «hothouse climate» (although the latter might become possible if continued greenhouse gas emissions were to remain unmitigated for a prolonged interval).

It all adds up to a worrying turn of events for a technology that many saw as an essential tool for bringing down greenhouse gas emissions, and avoiding a hothouse planet.

There are climate doomsday proponents and alleged «experts» who fear that Earth is warming so fast that it will soon reach hothouse Venus - like temperatures, primarily due to humans continuing global emissions of CO2, a trace greenhouse gas.