Sentences with phrase «increasing emissions so»

And the reason that the oil and gas sector is increasing emissions so much is because of the expansion of the oil sands.

10 Increased Emissions So the CO2 jihad is responsible for widespread death, and devastation of the natural world.

Not exact matches

So billions of pounds are to be spent increasing emissions and increasing the number of people suffering from noise pollution, only for a few hundred million to be spent making that situation slightly less worse than it might otherwise have been.

The ad accuses Slaughter of a voting for a slew of tax increases, including the so - called «cap and trade» emissions measure and trots out the frequent Republicant talking point that the 2010 federal health care bill cuts $ 716 billion for Medicare, which is actually spread out over 10 years and targets subsidies to insurance companies.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;

We would also look to offer more small scale, accession grants for farmers to invest in animal welfare, reducing carbon emissions, and more efficient IT so they can increase diversity and profitability.»

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.

«So far, we show that consumption volume increase is much faster than the efficiency increase,» he warns, «leading to an increase in the absolute volume of greenhouse gas emissions.»

Published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, the paper concludes that limiting the increase in global average temperatures above pre-industrial levels to 1.5 °C, the goal of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, is not yet geophysically impossible, but likely requires more ambitious emission reductions than those pledged so far.

Because these electromagnetic emissions are on the order of an electron volt, and they probably come from a single molecule, or atom, or electron, we can now say that the energy concentration is now on the order of one electron volt per molecule — an increase of a factor of 1011 or so.

Professor David Schultz, one of the authors of the guest editorial, said: «One of the long - term effects of climate change is often predicted to be an increase in the intensity and frequency of many high - impact weather events, so reducing greenhouse gas emissions is often seen to be the response to the problem.

So it has the benefit of reducing emissions, direct and indirect, and therefore increasing profitability.

It takes a long time for the ocean to respond to increasing heat, so even if greenhouse gas emissions dropped to zero tomorrow, the world's seas would continue to rise for centuries because of the warming that's already happened.

Their main complaints are that the turbines are so inefficient that they actually increase carbon dioxide emissions, and so unreliable that they require constant backup from conventional coal and gas - fired stations.

Basic climate science suggests that, as global greenhouse gas emissions increase, so too will the quantity and severity of natural disasters.

The scientists are confident that the rates have so far increased in proportion to emissions.

Li said the study's findings should further spur countries like China and India to cut aerosol emissions so they reduce pollution and thereby increase their solar electricity generation more rapidly, in addition to the already known health benefits.

Oceans absorb roughly a quarter of the rising CO2 emissions from the atmosphere, so as that concentration increases, the oceans absorb more of the gas.

However, cutting emissions so that global temperatures increase by no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit) could reduce those impacts by half, with about a quarter of the state's natural vegetation affected.

Even so, the IPCC estimates above indicate: 1) Total Net Atmospheric Carbon Emissions to 2100 will amount to ~ 2050 PgC (or more) on current Trends, 2) A BAU projected estimate would push CO2 to ~ 952 ppm by 2100 (or more), and 3) Global average temperature increase / anomaly would be as high as ~ 6.8 C by 2100

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).

By producing more food on less land, it may be possible to reduce these emissions, but this so - called intensification often involves increasing fertilizer use, which can lead to large emissions of nitrogen - containing gases that also contribute to global warming.

As shipping increases, so will emissions from heavy fuel oil — known as bunker fuel — that powers most of the region's ships.

Rising CO2 emissions, and the increasing acidity of seawater over the next century, has the potential to devastate some marine ecosystems, a food resource on which we rely, and so careful monitoring of changes in ocean acidity is crucial.

The 2 °C target was reaffirmed in the 2009 «Copenhagen Accord» emerging from the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention [11], with specific language «We agree that deep cuts in global emissions are required according to science, as documented in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report with a view to reduce global emissions so as to hold the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius...».

Heat trapping greenhouse - gas emissions are the obvious culprit, since they've increased dramatically over that same 50 years, but scientists prefer hard evidence to presumption, so a team from the British Antarctic Survey has been drilling into ancient ice to see how the current warming stacks up against what happened in the ancient past.

The PCV system terminates in the Intake Manifold, so the oil will be added to combustion mix, fouling spark plugs and increasing unburnt carbon emissions.

While increased engine efficiency will be the main contributor, transmission systems account for 7 — 12 % of powertrain losses when converting fuel energy into motive power, so they also have an important role to play in helping to reduce emissions.

Doing so has a similar effect on CO2 emissions, which increase from 144 to 159g / km, a change that won't affect private customers too severely, but increases the BiK band from 27 % to 30 %, penalising company - car drivers.

As far as engines are concerned, we believe that the range of engines currently on offer will remain the way they are, barring an odd tweak or so to reduce emissions and increase fuel efficiency.

Methane is a short - lived gas in the atmosphere, so to make it rise, the emission flux has to continually increase.

So if, hypothetically, human activities had instead cut CO2 emissions and increased CO2 SOC / Vegetation by a combined amount of 2.2 GtC / year evenly across every month of 2017 then the Annual Mean Growth Rate for 2017 would have been about -0.27 PPM / Yr.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

But bc of our tug of war (increase temp) emission to space is going up, so Earth is still gaining maybe 0.5 W / m2.

And if that increases emissions, I say, «So what?»

Since emission in the stratosphere (and above) goes up with increasing CO2, there is a clear flux divergence in the CO2 band (more out, less in) and so there is cooling.

Now, I can easily understand that no one was systematically looking at methane in the arctic and the uncertainties were known to be large, so the fact these estimates have grown could easily be due to better estimates not increased emissions.

The new results show that each of the major tropical forest regions experienced different combinations of heat and drought during the recent El Niño, so their carbon cycles responded in different ways, but the net result was increased emissions in all cases.

Right now the CO2 per unit GDP is so much higher in China than the US that they can grow their economy significantly without increasing emissions, just by approaching US (let alone European) CURRENT levels of efficiency.

A bigger problem, it seems to me, is that the national leadership in this country is so pathetic, and in hock so far to lobbyists and major industries, that we will be lucky not to continue to increase our CO2 emissions, let alone reduce them.

• New coal - fired power plants would only be permitted when they replace existing coal - fired capacity (so they would not increase the total capacity) unless they were completely clean, i.e., unless they had a way of removing carbon dioxide from emissions.

-- # 400m ($ 530m) for electric vehicle charging infrastructure — # 100m ($ 132m) for a plug - in car grant — # 40m ($ 53m) for charging research & development — Clarifications to the law so drivers will not face taxes if charging at work — 1/3 off rail fares for 4.5 million people aged between 26 - 30 — 1 % increase in company car tax for diesel vehicles — An increase in taxes on new cars that do not meet the latest EU6 emissions band

And just as increased algal productivity at sea increases the emission of sulfur gases to the atmosphere, ultimately leading to more and brighter clouds over the world's oceans, so too do CO2 - induced increases in terrestrial plant productivity lead to enhanced emissions of various sulfur gases over land, where they likewise ultimately cool the planet.

A similar issue arises when we attempt to evaluate the so - called «hiatus» of the 21st century, where we clearly see a major slowdown in temperature increase compared with the previous 20 years, during a period when CO2 emissions were soaring.

So this not only increases sequestration, it reduces emissions too.

That is why the annual CO2 increase in the atmosphere also varies greatly each year, and this short - term variation is not mainly caused by variations in our emissions (so a record CO2 increase in the atmosphere in an El Niño year does not mean that human emissions have surged in that year).

In general, so long as there is some solar heating beneath some level, there must be a net LW + convective heat flux upward at that level to balance it in equilibrium; convection tends to require some nonzero temperature decline with height, and a net upward LW flux requires either that the temperature declines with height on the scale of photon paths (from emission to absorption), or else requires at least a partial «veiw» of space, which can be blocked by increasing optical thickness above that level.

For a small amount of absorption, the emission upward and downward would be about the same, so if the upward (spectral) flux from below the layer were more than 2 * the (average) blackbody value for the layer temperature (s), the OLR at TOA would be reduced more than the net upward flux at the base of the layer, decreasing CO2 TOA forcing more than CO2 forcing at the base, thus increasing the cooling of the base.

I note your point that most of the natural methane release comes from the tropics, so a 100 x increase in Arctic emissions would lead to only a x10 increase in natural methane releases overall.

So it extremely behooves us to reduce our GHG emissions very drastically very quickly... just in case the solar output starts increasing, adding heat on top of our anthropogenic global warming.