Sentences with phrase «increased emissions associated»

It has also led them to explore for and develop more carbon intensive unconventional fossil resources such as tight oil, with associated increases in emissions from flaring; thermal enhanced oil recovery, with increased emissions associated with producing steam, and oil sands, with increased emissions associated with extraction, upgrading and refining (Brandt et al. 2010).

In its report, EPA seemingly compliments the State Department for confirming that Canadian tar sands oil is carbon intensive when compared to other heavy crudes, due to increased emissions associated with extracting and refining it.

Not exact matches

Probably the most discussed aspect of the NGP Report (see this excellent discussion on CBC's The 180 beginning at around the seven minute mark) is the JRP's treatment (or lack thereof) of «upstream» greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), and specifically the apparent asymmetry between the JRP's decision to consider the need to open markets for projected increases in oil production — the vast majority of which would uncontrovertibly be from the oil sands — but not the GHGs associated with this projected growth.

«Until ongoing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of oil sands are more successful and widespread, the Final SEIS makes clear that, compared to reference crudes, development of oil sands crude represents a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions,» the EPA states in a letter made public Tuesday.

Life cycle analyses of diapers done by Franklin Associates in the U.S. and the UK's Environment Agency found that using cloth diapers instead of disposables would decrease landfill waste but increase water use and greenhouse gas emissions.

Though the forest idea introduces elements now associated with «greening the city», and largely determined by ecological imperatives — to counter CO2 emissions, to lower ambient temperatures, to increase surface water retention and avoid flooding — there are equally important social and economic imperatives in the forest strategy too.

They exhibit so many complex phenomena that there is a wide range of research problems associated with them, including increased global awareness of the environment and the worldwide introduction of stringent combustion emissions regulations.

Also, a study of hospital admissions in Wisconsin found that high air pollution emissions were associated with a 40 percent increase in the rate of bowel disease hospitalizations in 2002.

Rather, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture would drop by 28 percent without farmed animals because of increases associated with producing additional food crops and the use of more synthetic fertilizer to replace manure.

China continues to see its emissions rise due largely to heavy coal use, which will increase the risks associated with climate change.

Faster sea floor spreading, presumably associated with more volcanic activity at subduction zones, and / or other increases in volcanic activity or geologic outgassing, or faster oxidation of exposed fossil organic C (as in shales)-- greater geologic CO2 emissions (I think another way of looking at the inorganic part is that any given region of sea floor has less time to accumulate carbonate minerals from chemical weathering, so that C reservoir could shrink while others, including the atmosphere, can grow).

Observations of solar flare onsets show a rapid increase of hard and soft X-rays, ultra-violet emission with large Doppler blue - shifts associated with plasma upflows, and Hα emission with red - shifts up to 1 — 4 Å [1, 2, 3].

«Our paper shows that, since the 1930s, increasing population densities and cropland area have led to a decrease in area burned by wildfires and an associated decrease in wildfires CO2 emissions.»

«We show that the decrease in wildfires CO2 emissions associated with increasing population densities has led to an enhanced carbon uptake by land.»

Another potential feedback might occur if reduced timber yields force loggers to compensate by enlarging the amount of area harvested, resulting in higher CO2 emissions through deforestation and associated fires, as well as increased rates of habitat fragmentation / degradation and species extinctions

The team from NYU Langone Medical Center, in New York City, found that exposure to tiny particles in fossil fuel emissions are associated with an increased risk of heart disease.

The rapid growth in aviation, as flights became more affordable, has also led to a dramatic increase in greenhouse gas emissions associated with travel.

At root I'm not qualified to argue with actual economists, but I'll hazard a guess that, just as with CFCs, tetraethyl lead and a host of other examples, the increased costs associated w / controlling carbon emissions will quickly be lost in the general noise level of economic statistics.

``... the company [Exxon Mobil], the world's largest oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington - based policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

Future projections show that, for most scenarios assuming no additional GHG emission reduction policies, atmospheric concentrations of GHGs are expected to continue climbing for most if not all of the remainder of this century, with associated increases in average temperature.

Note also that there appears — already started — to be a likely increase in drought frequency with atmospheric warming and associated acceleration of the hydrologic cycle, assuming continued greenhouse gas emissions.

The workshop will focus on how these projects are helping to further the goals of each program as well as broader energy policy goals such as increasing the amount of renewable resources in California's energy mix, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions associated with the energy sector, and accelerating energy technology innovation within the state.

Although U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with electricity generation have fallen from the 2005 level, they are projected to increase in the coming decades, based on analysis in EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015) that reflects current laws and regulations, and therefore does not include proposed rules such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.

The irony is that we normally associate high GHG emissions with development and increasing GDP, but the activities that drive deforestation generally have low economic returns.

... they caution that society should fully quantify direct and indirect GHG emissions associated with energy alternatives and associated consequences prior to making policy commitments that have long - term effects on global forests; for they ominously warn «there is a substantial risk of sacrificing forest integrity and sustainability for maintaining or even increasing energy production with no guarantee to mitigate climate change.»»

Smoke exposure increases respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and medication dispensations for asthma, bronchitis, chest pain, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (commonly known by its acronym, COPD), respiratory infections, and medical visits for lung illnesses.38, 43,160 It has been associated with hundreds of thousands of deaths annually, in an assessment of the global health risks from landscape fire smoke.38, 43,44,141,45 Future climate change is projected to increase wildfire risks and associated emissions, with harmful impacts on health.18, 161,162,10,163,164,36

Researchers have discovered that carbon dioxide emissions associated with UK consumption increased by 115 million tonnes (18 per cent), between 1992 and 2004.

When we associate years with warming, sea level, and city commitments, we are referencing the 21st century years when the commitments are established through cumulative emissions, not the years farther in the future when the commitments are realized through sustained temperature increases and SLR.

Three years ago Smith wrote in the Washington Post, «Contrary to the claims of those who want to strictly regulate carbon dioxide emissions and increase the cost of energy for all Americans, there is a great amount of uncertainty associated with climate science.»

It addressed, through presentations, subsequent question and answer sessions and a general discussion, the following issues: clarification of the nature and level of the targets communicated by developed country Parties; assumptions and conditions associated with the targets; commonalities and differences of approach in measuring the progress towards the targets; comparability of emission reduction efforts by developed country Parties, and options and ways to increase the level of ambition of the pledges; relevant policies and measures to support the targets, and experience with low - emission development strategies; and possible ways forward.

The economic benefit of better air quality, from improved human health and increased yields from agriculture and forestry, can offset costs associated with emissions reductions.

We have launched the Unconventional Gas Technical Engagement Program to share best practices on issues such as water management, methane emissions, air quality, permitting, contracting, and pricing to help increase global gas supplies and facilitate development of the associated infrastructure that brings them to market.

The rationale advanced for focusing on negative emissions approaches are usually the threat posed by burgeoning emissions, which could result in exceeding of critical climatic thresholds in a few decades, as well as system inertia, which could lock in temperature increases associated with radiative forcing for many centuries.

As for emissions, levels of carbon dioxide associated with electricity generation are near 30 - year lows, primarily because of increased use of cleaner - burning natural gas.

(Here's how the EPA explains it: «The SC - CO2 is an estimate of the economic damages associated with a small increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, conventionally one metric ton, in a given year.

With effective implementation, building energy codes can support energy cost savings and complementary benefits associated with electricity reliability, air quality improvement, greenhouse gas emission reduction, increased comfort, and economic and social development.

Methane emissions from 1990 - 2015 associated with the natural gas industry declined by 18.6 percent as U.S. natural gas production increased by more than 50 percent

Thanks to increased use of natural gas, U.S. energy related emissions of CO2 from power generation are at their lowest point in nearly 30 years.13 The environmental benefits associated with natural gas go well beyond CO2 reductions.

Finally, it should be noted that socioeconomic hypotheses associated with the lower emission trajectories (such as the one commented upon by Tim Worstall) imply a greatly increased use of nuclear and fossil fuels, especially cooal and natural gas, and the share of renewable sources reaching much less than the «80 %» claimed by the recent «renewable energy» IPCC report.

Piers Forster, director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate at the University of Leeds, said the study «confirms that we will see significantly more warming and impacts this century if we don't increase our ambition to reduce CO2 emissions; but the possibility of 6 degrees or more warming with associated devastating impacts can perhaps begin to be ruled out».

The projects which are associated with reductions in emissions could be swamped by increases in emissions elsewhere.

Known as flaring, this process substantially increases the global warming emissions associated with shale oil (flaring is so extensive in some areas that North Dakota's flaring sites can be seen from space).

If you just talked about setting emissions caps without associated policies, everybody would clamor for getting increased efficiency of markets and trading included.

Consequently, for large hard emissions floors, atmospheric levels of CO2 continue to rise throughout our 750 - year simulation, and are still increasing at the end of the experiment, along with associated levels of mean global warming.

The maximum rate of increase of CO2 concentrations beyond 2200 associated with the emission pathways in figure 1 is 28 ppm by volume per century (ppmv per century).

Furthermore, it appears that reservoir nutrient loading and associated eutrophication leads to increased radiative forcing by reservoirs because of increased CH4 emissions.

In addition to increasing the risk of avoidable excess summer deaths, failing to ensure that building design addresses overheating risk invariably will also risk people retrofitting air conditioning systems in many cases, which will expose them to avoidable energy costs, and cause the buildings» energy demand and associated emissions to rise.

Focusing on the carbon emissions associated with tropical deforestation, it showed that converting rainforests or grasslands to corn, soybean, or palm oil biofuel production led to a carbon emissions increase — a «biofuel carbon debt» — that was at least 37 times greater than the annual reduction in greenhouse gases resulting from the shift from fossil fuels to biofuels.

Increase the use of clean fuels, such as biofuels and electricity, to reduce oil use and the carbon emissions associated with transportation fuels.

Even an immediate program to eliminate carbon emissions, adopted worldwide, may not be enough to prevent the kinds of environmental catastrophes associated with rapidly increased global temperatures.