Sentences with phrase «impact on the global climate»

Recent studies have shown that black carbon has a complex but powerful impact on global climate change — and could offer an important opportunity for slowing it down.

Increasing evidence points to a large human impact on global climate over the past century.

In the aggregate, these clouds could have a big impact on the global climate.

The polar regions are experiencing unprecedented environmental changes that have significant potential impacts on global climate, ecosystems, and society.

Therefore, restoration of dryland conditions could have a major impact on global climate patterns.

«We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man - made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated.»

Thus, a relatively small amount of SF6 can have a significant impact on global climate change.

Organizers say the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, will have no net impact on global climate disruption, thanks to energy efficiency, clean - energy tech, and tree planting to offset carbon dioxide emissions.

The findings link volcanism to the previously observed repeated large emissions of carbon dioxide that had a profound impact on the global climate, causing the mass extinction at the end of the Triassic Period, as well as slowing the recovery of animal life afterwards.

Covering Antarctica is tricky for science journalists: The quantities of ice, and therefore, the potential impact on the global climate system is beyond human comprehension — but often, so are the timescales.

Taken together, these efforts will enable a better understanding of present - day CH4 budgets and the underlying environmental drivers that will help scientists predict future CH4 release and the associated impacts on global climate.

The results from this biofuel program are draining the Federal Treasury to enrich large agribusiness, are creating high food prices and exacerbating hunger pressures, and are probably actually worsening the net impact on the global climate.

It was previously known that, in the long term, the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest has a negative impact on the global climate due to greater carbon dioxide emissions released into the atmosphere.

Other studies have resorted to modeling to understand the effects of contrails, which have shown that they can have an appreciable impact on global climate, despite their transient nature.

These events, known as Dansgaard - Oeschger events, were first identified in data from Greenland ice cores in the early 1990s, and had far - reaching impacts on the global climate.

And that average depth of the oceans is an order of 3 magnitudes greater, about 3600 meters; changes in ocean heat storage and ventilation have humongous impacts on global climate.

The present document in form of a technical note, therefore, conveys an approach to financing chemical plants in a manner consistent with the IDB's commitment to protecting the environment and reducing adverse impacts on the global climate, as established in its Environment and Safeguards Compliance Policy.

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.

* Information on the RFI factor applied for carbon footprint calculation: Plane emissions at high altitude have a more severe impact on global climate than emissions from the combustion of fuel on ground level.

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).

Scientists know that the variability of the northern Pacific has a huge impact on global climate.

The announcement to control emissions of byproduct HFC - 23, however, represents a new commitment by China that could have a substantial impact on the global climate.

Global warming scenarios are based on oil reserves, but those reserves will have less impact on global climate than the extent to which liquefied coal replaces oil and gas, scientists said at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

In the Jyllands - Posten article, Henrik Svensmark (the main scientist behind the hypothesis that the sun has a significant indirect impact on global climate via galactic cosmic rays) was a bit more measured, suggesting,

Of course, such findings don't of themselves say a lot but require comparing firstly with what is expected of the AMOC under AGW (IPCC AR5 put it as 1 - 24 % drop by 2100 under RCP2.6 and 12 - 54 % under RCP8.6, all with the «low confidence» sticker) and secondly what would be the resulting impact on global climate which is a bit of a big ask as it would all be wrapped up with other AGW impacts.

Thus the amount of snow and ice cover in the Arctic during the high - sunlight season is assumed to have a major impact on global climate.

«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.

«We believe the claims by NASA and GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) that man - made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated.»

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.

This long - term perspective illustrates that policy decisions made in the next few years to decades will have profound impacts on global climate, ecosystems and human societies — not just for this century, but for the next ten millennia and beyond.

In a separate study published Wednesday, researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Japan, said aerosols in the Arctic have a «profound» impact on the global climate system.

note 1, and soil carbon sequestration based on conservative estimates in Rattan Lal, «Soil Carbon Sequestration Impacts on Global Climate Change and Food Security,» Science, vol.

«The Obama administration apparently does not understand that regulations such as the Clean Power Plan will have no measurable impact on global climate.

Moreover, the CIFOR - led study of which this model is a part has found that the rush to produce biofuel has resulted in high levels of deforestation in many tropical countries, and therefore can have significant impacts on global climate change and local ecosystem services.

Because small - scale climate features, such as clouds and atmospheric aerosol particles, have a large impact on global climate, it's important to improve the methods used to represent those climate features in the models.

man - made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data.

Weather conditions in Indonesia have a significant impact on global climate.

Simulations by Cristina Archer at the University of Delaware in Newark and Ken Caldeira of Stanford University in California suggest that extracting enough energy from high - level winds to meet all our current energy demands would have no significant impact on global climate.