Sentences with phrase «increasing greenhouse gas emissions»

Pumping sulphate particles into the atmosphere was identified as the most cost - effective method, but one which would do nothing to curb ocean acidification or other side effects of increasing greenhouse gas emissions — the report acknowledges that this could have other unintended side effects as well.

These trends include — in addition to falling water tables — eroding soils and rising temperatures from increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

A new NASA study suggests that projections of Earth's future warming should be more in line with previous estimates that indicated a higher sensitivity to increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

As global temperatures increase with increasing greenhouse gas emissions, scientists predict the American Southwest will see a corresponding rise in temperatures, by 4 - 10 °F, in the coming decades.

The IPCC in its Summary for Policymakers (IPCC 2001), Tyson and Gatebe (2001), Schulze, Meigh and Horan (2001) and New (2002) predicted that global warming resulting from increasing greenhouse gas emissions, will have serious, adverse effects on water supplies, and that floods and droughts will increase in magnitude and frequency.

Temperatures around the world are rising due to the ever - increasing greenhouse gas emissions most of which come from burning fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — for energy, but which are also released by deforestation and industrialized agriculture.

The fact that the oceans — and not the land — were so warm last year should deeply worry us... There's evidence the Earth's oceans are undergoing never - before - seen change... When you couple 2014's record - setting oceans with our ever - increasing greenhouse gas emissions, it portends an ominous surge of heat globally — on both land and in the oceans — for years to come.

Global research going back to 1824 in fields ranging through physics, oceanography, biology and geology have confirmed human activity — mainly burning fossil fuels, raising livestock and destroying carbon sinks like forests and wetlands — is increasing greenhouse gas emissions and causing global temperatures to rise rapidly, putting humanity at risk.

If you're a fan of living on a planet with a stable climate, this is the ultimate good news: The period of rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emissions may be over.

Humans are developing technologies and means to improve lives while reducing environmental impacts even as humanity is increasing greenhouse gas emissions and worsening climate catastrophe risks and impacts.

The startling magnitude of the challenge to the world from climate change becomes apparent upon reflection that the world is currently increasing greenhouse gas emissions during the last decade of an average annual increase of 2.7 %.

Here, Michael and the people who agree with him don't believe PG&E's statement that they can replace this without increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

While fossil fuels will remain an important source of energy, renewable energies will also gain importance, as a result of concerns over high fossil fuel prices, increasing greenhouse gas emissions and energy import dependence.

While fossil fuels will account for most of the increased energy supply, renewable sources of energy will also gain importance, as a result of concerns over high fossil fuel prices, increasing greenhouse gas emissions and energy import dependence.

The basic physics of how the climate system works and the impact of increasing greenhouse gas emissions on the mean climate are generally well understood and well covered in the literature.

Alberta is providing two - for - one carbon offset credits for the project that they argue could have a perverse market impact of increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

In fact, there is no better way to obtain a good picture of how human health and welfare may trend in the future under increases in greenhouse gas emissions than to assess how we have fared in the past during a period of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and ambient levels.

Rising temperatures could be due to the natural variability of the climate and global warming from increasing greenhouse gas emissions, Dave Britton, Met Office forecaster, told Reuters.

Instead, Dominion's latest integrated resource plan reveals plans for more fossil fuel generation and increasing greenhouse gas emissions over the next fifteen years.

For more than two decades, climate scientists have been warning that increasing greenhouse gas emissions will change climate inexorably.

In fact, Alter says, heavy agriculture likely counteracted rising temperatures regionally that might have otherwise resulted from increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

But with increasing greenhouse gas emissions, the occurrence of stagnation will either increase or decrease in different places.»

A new projection by the University of Minnesota and the University of California Santa Barbara shows global food demand could rise by 100 - 110 percent between 2005 and 2050, which would pose a grave threat to remaining tropical rainforests and would lead to again further increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

The region has warmed substantially — nearly 2 °F since 1900 — and Oregon's climate is projected to warm on average 3 — 7 °F by the 2050s and 5 — 11 °F by the 2080s under continued increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

And most scientists argue the world will continue warming because of increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

This comment explains that EPA, and by extension NHTSA, fail to justify increasing the greenhouse gas emissions standards for light - duty vehicles.

Robbie Blake, biofuels campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said: «EU biofuels policy is a disaster — contributing to forest destruction, damaging communities around the world and destabilising food markets — while potentially increasing greenhouse gas emissions, rather than reducing them.

How do his views comport with the problem, especially the urgency to stop increasing greenhouse gas emissions by no later than 2015 — 2020 and begin a steep annual decline afterward?

Drought is more difficult to predict under a future with increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

They found that selective logging and surface wildfires can result in an annual loss of 54 billion tonnes of carbon from the Brazilian Amazon, increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

Scientists find a link between increasing greenhouse gas emissions and deadly hot spells but drought and downpours proved more complicated

The administration has said hydropower could provide about 1,000 MW of replacement energy and transmission upgrades and energy efficiency, along with other renewable resources, will ensure the plant is replaced without increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

Labor unions have pushed for approval of the pipeline, saying it would create thousands of construction jobs, while environmentalists opposed it because it would increase greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil sands.

The government's argument is also a double - edged sword: If infrastructure prevents resources from being stranded, it must also be the case that this infrastructure increases greenhouse gas emissions over and above what they would otherwise be by enabling development.

This implies that risks are not too big or overarching (like resource scarcity, rising levels of atmospheric CO2, or global warming) but are more focused e.g. extreme weather, increased greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture or from energy use, or a lack of fresh water.

The project would not increase greenhouse gas emissions, State reasoned, because the oil would be produced for somebody to use in any case.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has concluded the Keystone XL pipeline will significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions because it will lead to the expansion of Alberta's carbon intensive oilsands.

The disadvantages are increased greenhouse gas emissions per kilogramme of meat and milk.

The findings are the first to note increased greenhouse gas emissions due to antibiotic use in cattle; a recent study suggests that methane emissions from cud - chewing livestock worldwide, including cows, account for about 4 % of the greenhouse gas emissions related to human activity.

From increased greenhouse gas emissions to water contamination, hydraulic fracturing to free natural gas poses a range of environmental challenges

«If economics is the sole focus, then less expensive technologies that require significant amounts of energy for their manufacture, maintenance and replacement might win out — even if they ultimately increase greenhouse gas emissions and negate the long - term benefits of implementing wind and solar power.»

«We are not saying that it is impossible to separate economic growth from ecological issues; however, our study of global development shows a clear connection between economic development and increased greenhouse gas emissions that can not be ignored,» says Max Koch.

Must greater prosperity necessarily lead to a greater carbon footprint and increased greenhouse gas emissions?

Although such synfuels may actually increase greenhouse gas emissions, depending on how they are produced, they will deliver some independence from the tyranny of petroleum.

Previous research has shown the tropical Pacific has warmed over the past century due to increased greenhouse gas emissions.

The most important link to keep in mind, she says, is that rising incomes are expected to increase greenhouse gas emissions because people will have greater purchasing power.

But land, water and fertilisers are already in short supply in many areas, and expansion of agricultural land will put further pressure on biodiversity, increase greenhouse gas emissions, and perhaps bring us closer to ecological tipping points that could strain the global life - support systems upon which agriculture itself depends.

This new information can be incorporated into current climate models to predict future changes in the magnitude and pattern of the Walker Circulation due to increased greenhouse gas emissions.

A new analysis using changes in cloud cover over the tropical Indo - Pacific Ocean showed that a weakening of a major atmospheric circulation system over the last century is due, in part, to increased greenhouse gas emissions.

Application is an environmental issue in industrialized countries like the United States because of high energy input, increased greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and other adverse effects on ecosystems and human health.