Sentences with phrase «impact on global»

During this two - week transition period, any water vapor excess (or deficit) relative to the equilibrium distribution did of course produce a radiative greenhouse heating (or cooling) effect, but this «virtual forcing» was very transient in nature, without any lasting impact on the global temperature.

I would probably generally state it as «human CO2 activity has a measurable warming impact on global average temperature that can be readily discerned from the background of natural climate change and other human effects that may cause cooling, and this warming impact will be, in general, neutral in impact for humanity and the biosphere».

If anyone claims to be part of the 97 percent, it means they disagree with the contrarian argument that humans are having a minimal impact on global warming.

Motor vehicles are the largest net contributor to global warming and cars actually have a larger per mile impact on global warming than planes!

Since 2013, Mr. Sinclair has been Media Director of The Dark Snow Project, an ongoing science communication effort that focuses on clarifying and communicating the emerging story of melting ice in Greenland and its impact on global weather and sea level rise.

Analyses of these measures by the American Council for Capital Formation, which studies economic and environmental policy, show that they will raise electricity rates as well as gas prices - costing jobs and hurting the economy - even as the EPA admits that these choices will have an insignificant impact on global climate change (a point former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson confessed during a Senate hearing in 2009).

Clearly that's not a sensible policy; if one has to waste taxpayer money in advertising, it makes sense to at least invest it in advertising that is likely to have the greatest impact on global warming.

Australian and overseas investments in Australian coal resources rest on a speculative bubble that ignore their impact on global carbon budgets and their exposure to rapid devaluation, a joint report released today by The Climate Institute and the Carbon Tracker Initiative finds.

To assess the impact on global average temperature increase, IEA used MAGICC with an emissions pathway in between the representative concentration pathways (RCP) 4.5 and 6 from the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report.

A recent study from the Swedish Ministry of Sustainable Development argues that males have a disproportionately larger impact on global warming («women cause considerably fewer carbon dioxide emissions than men and thus considerably less climate change»).

China's anticipated entry into the global renewable energy market is expected to have a profound impact on the global industry,» said Li Junfeng, Secretary General of the Chinese Renewable Energy Industry Association, in a release from environmental group, Greenpeace.

... the IPCC schedule is having a detrimental impact on the global base research agenda with the research activities being steered by the IPCC timing.

But he pointed out that even if the researchers» predictions are right and the planet warms just 4.1 degrees, this would nonetheless have a big impact on the global climate.

The most prominent signature in the global mean sea level interannual variability is caused by El Niño — Southern Oscillation, through its impact on the global water cycle.

The money spent on the Flannery ads would have been far better spent on ads dispelling some of the misinformation concerning the safety of nuclear energy, which if adopted in place of fossil - fuel power generation will make a much bigger impact on global warming.

Most global warming skeptics believe that humans have some measurable impact on global temperatures and the climate, but that natural climate forces, over longer periods, will overwhelm the human influence... in addition, skeptics believe that the human influence will not result in the hysterical catastrophic climate disasters presented by doomsday pundits...

Saying all that CO2 had zero impact on global warming is not correct.

These three pillars are the measurable success metrics for green schools, and they make a real impact on both global sustainability and individual student and teacher health.

If Houlton's finding about these vast, previously unknown nitrogen stores holds true, then it would have an enormous impact on global warming predictions.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), created to find and disseminate research finding a human impact on global climate, is not a credible source.

See: Beenstock, M., Reingewertz, Y., and Paldor, N.: Polynomial cointegration tests of anthropogenic impact on global warming, Earth Syst.

I can only speculate but I wouldn't imagine global warming wouldhave had much of an impact on global shark populations to date.Water takes a lot of energy to heat up and changes to globaloceanic temperatures are less noticable than atmospherictemperatures.

He says that even if methane hydrates were resting beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet, and they became destabilized and started bubbling methane up through the seawater to the surface, it would take hundreds of years for these methane reserves to have a detectable impact on global climate.

Each ton of methane has an impact on global warming about 200 times that of a ton of CO2 while it remains in the atmosphere, but methane remains for a relatively short time (12.4 years on average), whereas CO2 remains about ten times longer.

This idea has been evolving over more than a decade — quantification of the impact on global energy dynamic depends on good information on top of atmosphere reflected shortwave.

«Because Americans are high resource consumers in a country with a large, rapidly growing population base, the U.S. has a much bigger «per - person» impact on global climate change than any other nation.»

Their idealized increase of high cloud amount has the strongest impact on global precipitation (see their table 4 below).

«Ecological treaties should seek to curb emissions of sulpher dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals and other highly - toxic pollutants instead of targeting carbon dioxide, which is a non-toxic gas whose impact on global warming has not been proved,» says Dr. Golubchikov.

The Kyoto Protocol, therefore, would have practically no impact on global temperatures.

Once this work has been completed, we will (hopefully) have empirical evidence to tell us whether or not the demonstrated cosmic ray cloud nucleation mechanism really has an impact on our global temperature.

Researchers argue that tropical reservoirs in Brazil are a «methane factory, continuously removing carbon from the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and returning it as methane, with a much greater impact on global warming.»

Observational records show that anthropogenic - influenced climate change has already had a profound impact on global and U.S. warm season climate over the past 30 years, and there is increasing contrast between geographic regions that are climatologically wet and dry - the hypothesis that the «wet gets wetter, dry gets drier» is seen in a new paper by Chang et al..

Thus, according to EPA's own models, imposing a carbon tax in the US will have next to zero impact on the global climate.

We have to keep trying to find better ways of assessing CO2 impact on global.

«The human impact on global climate is small, and any warming that may occur as a result of human carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions is likely to have little effect on global temperatures, the cryosphere (ice - covered areas), hydrosphere (oceans, lakes, and rivers), or weather.

«There is an incoherence at best between oil companies on the one hand positioning themselves as being on the side of the world's developing countries and while on the other actively pursuing strategies which will entail catastrophic climate change which we already know is having a significant impact on the global south,» she said.

By any reasonable standard, an infrastructure project that has no perceptible or verifiable impact on global - mean surface temperature can not «significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.»

Ice911 focuses on active interventions to make the largest possible impact on global temperatures.

In terms of impact on global climate, the EU's climate program has been all pain (for taxpayers and consumers) and no gain — except for the corporations that have cashed in on the «green» programs and / or shifted their production to less regulated developing countries.

The researchers suggest that current United Nations accounting methods, which chart annual carbon dioxide discharge, should also tally the projected lifetime emissions of power plants to provide a more accurate picture of their impact on global warming.

This reveals an ignorance of the literature, otherwise you'd know that the extent of aerosol cooling is estimated from the measured aerosol optical depth due to volcanic eruptions and their consequent impact on global temperature, and estimates of aerosol emissions during the 20th century.

The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change released a study presenting the human impact on global warming as greatly exaggerated.

And we share best practices with decision - makers to increase our impact on a global scale.

(There are many sub-arguments, like is there any point the EU spending $ 100's of billions mitigating when it has zero impact on global ppm unless the Chinese and Indians stop doing what they're doing right now — but that's for another day, maybe.)

And it's producible today at the quantities needed to make a significant impact on global temperatures.

The nations that have pledged to voluntary reductions (EU, Australia, New Zealand) would have no discernable impact even if they shut down completely and there have been no actionable proposals by anyone, which if implemented now would cause a discernable impact on global warming by 2100.

Regardless of one's opinions on the degree to which climate change is occurring, there is compelling evidence that policies like those resulting from the Paris agreement will have little impact on global temperatures.

The effect of the strong 2015 - 16 El Nino on global temperature has declined, with the impact on global temperature lagging the El Nino by a few months, as usual.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo is assumed to have no impact on global temperature due to the thermal mass involved and distance from the ocean.

Regardless of one's opinions on the impact of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions on global temperatures the economic sacrifices will generate a negligible impact on global temperatures.