Sentences with phrase «how changes in emissions»

Our current research focuses on how changes in emissions of these compounds or their precursors influence climate, how changes in climate influence both emissions and atmospheric lifetimes of these compounds, and how changes in their abundance in the atmosphere influences society by affecting human health and ecosystem productivity.

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The addition of new signers to the White House initiative show how corporate America is increasingly interested in reducing emissions and fighting climate change.

How else could he argue, as he did recently in a Maclean's opinion piece, that blocking the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — and along with it, increased GHG emissions from Alberta's oil sands — would jeopardize Canada's climate change plan and make it impossible to meet our emissions reduction target under the UN Paris Agreement?

... modalities, rules and guidelines as to how, and which, additional human - induced activities related to changes in greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks in the agricultural soils and the land - use change and forestry... shall be added or subtracted.

Oral Questions - UK's balance of trade with the EU Oral Questions - Office for National Statistics review of the methodology of calculating changes in prices Oral Questions - How the draft Energy Bill will deliver reductions in greenhouse gas emissions Legislation - Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

While many Americans favor policies that would help the country lower emissions, questions on how much they would personally be willing to pay to confront climate change (in the form of a monthly fee on their electric bill) reveal great disparity.

Jessica Wentz, associate director and a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, wrote in a blog post that the phrasing shift is more technically precise and likely addresses concerns about how far an agency needs to go in calculating emissions.

«It's one of the clearest examples of how humans are actually changing the intensity of storm processes on Earth through the emission of particulates from combustion,» said Joel Thornton, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle and lead author of the new study in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

How critical is this transformation of the grid to getting the amount of renewables we need to be on track to make significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, the kind of cuts that we need to forestall or minimize global climate change?

The third is how much cash the rich world will put into a fund to help developing countries adapt to climate change and invest in cutting their own emissions.

National representatives discussed such impacts, stressing the urgency for action to slow them in their remarks to attendees during one of four concurrent sessions on curbing greenhouse emissions, adapting to climate change, technological solutions, and how to pay for such changes.

But while wildfires are estimated to contribute about 18 percent of the total PM2.5 emissions in the U.S., many questions remain on how these emissions will affect human populations, including how overall air quality will be affected, how these levels will change under climate change, and which regions are to most likely to be impacted.

Conference chair Katherine Richardson, a biological oceanographer at the University of Copenhagen, told the opening plenary session that the conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the climate science is [that is, how bad the impact of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms of new ways of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around the world.

«In our study, income appears to explain much of the variation in the regional factors, so essentially if we know how income changes over time, we can hypothesize about how emissions would follow.&raquIn our study, income appears to explain much of the variation in the regional factors, so essentially if we know how income changes over time, we can hypothesize about how emissions would follow.&raquin the regional factors, so essentially if we know how income changes over time, we can hypothesize about how emissions would follow.»

Climate change complicates transport Human - driven emissions of another kind — carbon — are expected to further complicate how mercury makes its way around the planet, especially in the Arctic.

«This study is the best estimate we have to date of how effectively behavioural change could cut US greenhouse gas emissions,» says Ruth Rettie, who leads Project Charm, a group based at Kingston University in London that investigates ways in which people's behaviour could be influenced.

But it makes equally clear that climate - related changes are already being observed globally and that new problems and challenges will develop no matter how radically emissions are reduced in the future.

Titled «Modeling Sustainability: Population, Inequality, Consumption, and Bidirectional Coupling of the Earth and Human Systems,» the paper describes how the rapid growth in resource use, land - use change, emissions, and pollution has made humanity the dominant driver of change in most of the Earth's natural systems, and how these changes, in turn, have critical feedback effects on humans with costly and serious consequences, including on human health and well - being, economic growth and development, and even human migration and societal conflict.

Along with data from the few studies like Yokelson's, Wiedinmyer used guidelines for calculating trash burning emissions produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to determine how much waste was being generated and burned, what exactly was in that waste, and what types of chemicals were likely generated.

To get a sense for how this probability, or risk of such a storm, will change in the future, he performed the same analysis, this time embedding the hurricane model within six global climate models, and running each model from the years 2081 to 2100, under a future scenario in which the world's climate changes as a result of unmitigated growth of greenhouse gas emissions.

How low they go depends on changes in our fossil fuel emissions,» said Dr Graven.

Decisions made today are made in the context of confident projections of future warming with continued emissions, but clearly there is more to do to better characterize the human and economic consequences of delaying action on climate change and how to frame these issues in the context of other concerns.

Scientists have already begun to document how rising CO2 emissions are driving changes in the world's oceans.

In an interview with «Fox News Sunday» host Chris Wallace, Trump said he's «very open - minded» on whether climate change is underway but has serious concerns about how President Obama's efforts to cut carbon emissions have undercut America's global competitiveness.

We also do not understand how monsoon rainfall will respond to changes in emissions of pollutants or to climate change.

Climate change scenarios are based on projections of future greenhouse gas (particularly carbon dioxide) emissions and resulting atmospheric concentrations given various plausible but imagined combinations of how governments, societies, economies, and technologies will change in the future.

That allows scientists to learn how they adapt to climate change and what greater role those lands can play in reducing atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions, especially protecting forests.

They address the need to improve climate awareness and understanding of how climate protection and development can support each other, as well as reducing carbon emissions in a credible way», stated Suzane Kahn, the president of the Scientific Committee of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change.

To investigate how different climate trajectories might influence climate change vulnerability, we assessed species using high (A2), moderate (A1B) and low (B2) IPCC SRES emissions scenarios for 2050 and 2090 [20](Figure 4; Supporting Methods in Supporting Information S1).

The new study, published in Nature Communications, estimates how annual wildfire emissions have been influenced by changes in land use and local population increases.

After I wrote about how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change created and then dropped the «burning embers» diagram showing how environmental risk rises with emissions and time, some readers said it was horribly ineffective in any case.

As NOAA's Mauna Loa measurement of atmospheric methane concentrations are only currently increasing at a rate of approximately 0.25 % per year (or 12.5 % change in 50 - years); how could anyone be concerned that the change in atmospheric methane burden in 50 - years could be 300 % (as per Isaken et al (2011) case 4XCH4; which would require an additional 0.80 GtCH4 / yr of methane emissions on top of the current rate of methane emissions of 0.54 GtCH4 / yr)?

Since a big recession might hit coal - burning utilities» customers more than other utility customers (to name one example) or hit coal - using industries like cement and steel more than others, one has to look carefully not only at CO2 emissions changes but at underlying economic activity or personal activity changes and how those are tied to emissions in a disaggregated way.

«The first was how big the change in emissions rates is between the 1990s and after 2000.»

Some developing countries are apparent still pushing for changes in wording related to actions they may take to stem emissions, and also how such actions would be linked to programs providing financial aid or better energy technologies.

This is a big departure from the work of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change over the last 20 years, in which scientists have periodically laid out «what if» scenarios for emissions, warming, impacts and responses, but avoided defining how much warming is too much.

Not only do we know how much CO2 we emitted (more than is now left in the atmosphere — which means that the natural reservoirs have taken up part of our CO2 emissions, rather than having released CO2 in response to a climate change).

in the meantime, in the absence of reliable climate models or any certainty of «how much climate may change,» how many trillions should we spend and how far backward must modern industrial civilization be propelled by imposing draconian co2 emissions cuts?

I was wondering for some time now, how much the findings of the work of scientists, be it the IPCC, be it the PIK in Potsdam or what have you, can be taken for granted in order for policy makers to make valuable decisions (e.g. cutting carbon emissions by half by 2050) and if the uncertainties in the models might outweigh certain decisions to reduce carbon emissions so that in the end it might happen that these uncertainties make these decisions obsolete, because they do not suffice to avoid «dangerous climate change»?

[UPDATE, 5/26: The meeting has ended with what appears to be some agreement on ways for rich countries to help poorer ones limit vulnerability from climate change, but with no shift in views on who needs to cut emissions how much and how fast.

The second study meanwhile looked at how aerosol emissions impact the Earth's temperature through a phenomenon the researchers call «transient climate sensitivity,» or how much of the Earth's temperature will change when the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaches twice its level during the pre-industrial times.

Speaking on the sidelines of a smart grid conference in Washington, Dr. Chu said he didn't think average folks had the know - how or will to to change their behavior enough to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions.

In a collection of four strategy documents which together proclaim themselves «the most systematic response to climate change of any major developed country», the UK government plots out exactly how it plans to meet its legally binding targets for cutting carbon dioxide emissions.

Perhaps Flannery will explain how the carbon tax, which has a goal to reduce Australia's carbon emissions by about 4 per cent of China and India's increases in emissions over the same period, will help solve climate change.

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over how to tackle climate change is the role of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) in market - based mitigation strategies.

To change how we power our homes and offices, we will invest more in zero - emission coal - fired plants, revolutionary solar and wind technologies, and clean, safe nuclear energy.

What will prove to be more pressing at the Cancun climate change talks, therefore, will not be agreeing on an end goal, but on coming to a consensus on how to move forward at all, with ensuring nations make some sort of deal on cutting emissions from airplanes and shipping among the top priorities in the days ahead.

The SkyShares model enables users to relate a target limit for temperature change to a global emissions ceiling; to allocate this emissions budget across countries using different policy rules; and then uses estimated marginal abatement costs to calculate the costs faced by each country of decarbonising to meet its emissions budget, with the costs for each country depending in part on whether and how much carbon trading is allowed.

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