Sentences with phrase «known as greenhouse gases»

Causes of radiative forcing include changes in insolation and the concentrations of radiatively active gases, commonly known as greenhouse gases and aerosols.

The greenhouse glass blocks all LW and supposedly represents three atmospheric gases, water vapour, carbon dioxide and methane, known as greenhouse gases (GHG).

These gases, also known as greenhouse gases, are affecting life as we know it by creating climate change.

Of these gases, known as greenhouse gases, water vapour has the largest effect.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is known as a greenhouse gas and plays an essential role in climate change; it is no wonder scientists have been looking for solutions to prevent its release in the environment.

CO2 is known as a greenhouse gas.

Both wetland drying and the increased frequency of warm dry summers and associated thunderstorms have led to more large fires in the last ten years than in any decade since record - keeping began in the 1940s.9 In Alaskan tundra, which was too cold and wet to support extensive fires for approximately the last 5,000 years, 105 a single large fire in 2007 released as much carbon to the atmosphere as had been absorbed by the entire circumpolar Arctic tundra during the previous quarter - century.106 Even if climate warming were curtailed by reducing heat - trapping gas (also known as greenhouse gas) emissions (as in the B1 scenario), the annual area burned in Alaska is projected to double by mid-century and to triple by the end of the century, 107 thus fostering increased emissions of heat - trapping gases, higher temperatures, and increased fires.

Not exact matches

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

We also know CO2 causes climate change - but vented gas (methane - the prime component of your home heating gas) is many times stronger as a greenhouse gas.

... A number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity... Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain.

Fraley and Van Eenennaam said that genetically modified food has reduced the number of chemicals being put into the soil as well as greenhouse gas emissions because tilling the soil is no longer necessary.

With growing concerns around the known and unknown consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change on natural systems, food producers are experiencing greater consumer demand for environmental and social credentials as well as various decarbonisation initiatives from governments.

O'Connell's job was to feed a known signal into a device designed to measure greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to see if it behaved as expected.

It allows greenhouse gases to increase for another decade until the commitments each country made (known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs) mature in 2025 or 2030 and it provides very few specific targets with the exception of a financial target that «strongly urges» wealthy countries to contribute ($ 100 billion / year by 2020) to support developing countries that are suffering the consequences of climate change but don't have the ability to adapt to it.

Tebaldi and co-author Pierre Friedlingstein, of the University of Exeter, analyzed when scientists would be able to detect the difference between a scenario known as RCP 2.6, where greenhouse gas emissions are curbed quickly, versus two other scenarios outlined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports.

Politics of deferred gratification Under one of the additional scenarios, known as RCP 4.5, humans take longer to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but eventually do so, and under the other, known as RCP 8.5, carbon dioxide concentrations continue to rise through 2100.

Such shifts are just some of the changes already happening as a result of increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, otherwise known as climate change.

As the earth continues to warm due to the buildup of greenhouse gases, heat waves are expected to become more severe, particularly for cities, where concrete and a dearth of trees create what's known as the urban heat island effecAs the earth continues to warm due to the buildup of greenhouse gases, heat waves are expected to become more severe, particularly for cities, where concrete and a dearth of trees create what's known as the urban heat island effecas the urban heat island effect.

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

Researchers project that as many as 1,779 annual heat - related deaths could be avoided if the climate adheres to the more moderate of two greenhouse gas trajectories — known as representative concentration pathways 4.5 and 8.5.

There have been other large - scale injections of CO2 in the United States in oil fields, where the greenhouse gas is used to push out more crude in a process known as enhanced oil recovery.

Another issue might be trade, as China is no doubt alarmed that the House included trade penalties in its bill for countries who do not pass greenhouse gas limits.

The waters probed during this study, known as the California Current, are a hot spot of ocean acidification because of coastal upwelling, which brings naturally acidic waters to the surface, where they are made even more acidic by greenhouse gas pollution.

One possible measure against steadily increasing greenhouse gases is known as CCS (carbon capture and storage): Here, the carbon dioxide is captured, preferably directly at the power plant, and subsequently stored deep in the ground or beneath the seabed.

When the answer to that question is no, then the greenhouse gases are implicated as the culprit in changing how precipitation is falling worldwide.

Our understanding of how certain atmospheric gases trap heat dates back almost 200 years to 1824 when Joseph Fourier described what we know as the greenhouse effect.

As a result, the concentration of this greenhouse gas is reduced and other sources of organic carbon that are usually applied as biotechnological substrates, such as agricultural products, are no longer requireAs a result, the concentration of this greenhouse gas is reduced and other sources of organic carbon that are usually applied as biotechnological substrates, such as agricultural products, are no longer requireas biotechnological substrates, such as agricultural products, are no longer requireas agricultural products, are no longer required.

7It is particularly ironic that Lomborg would offer such a ridiculously precise estimate of the cost of the impacts of climate change from carbon dioxide emissions, inasmuch as the entire thrust of his books chapter on «global warming» is that practically nothing about the effects of greenhouse gases is known with certainty.

The second step involved calculating Earth's energy balance for this time period, using estimates of greenhouse gas concentrations extracted from air bubbles in ice cores, and incorporating astronomical factors, known as Milankovitch Cycles, that effect the planetary heat budget.

To heat that boiler, the damp, crumbly brown coal known as lignite — which is even more polluting than the harder black anthracite variety — burns in the presence of pure oxygen, a process known as oxyfuel, releasing as waste both water vapor and that more notorious greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).

When he challenged the Obama rule in court as Oklahoma's attorney general, Pruitt was one of the leading voices for the legal argument that EPA can't regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants because it already has a standard for mercury and air toxics emission from generators — known as the 112 exclusion, referring to a section of the Clean Air Act.

The prospect of political resistance to greenhouse gas tracking prompted an elite government advisory panel known as «JASON» to recommend developing a new CO2 - monitoring satellite to determine whether countries comply with international climate pacts.

«We already know about as much as we are going to about climate system's response to greenhouse gases,» Roe says.

Haverty: Well it's a hot topic today, how there's so much pollution, and greenhouse gases are basically destroying our Earth and our environment as we know it.

-- Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, the Secretary shall establish an independent advisory committee, to be known as the «USDA Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee», to provide scientific and technical advice on establishing, implementing, and ensuring the overall environmental integrity of an offset program for domestic agricultural and forestry practices that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or sequester greenhoGreenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee», to provide scientific and technical advice on establishing, implementing, and ensuring the overall environmental integrity of an offset program for domestic agricultural and forestry practices that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or sequester greenhouse gasGas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee», to provide scientific and technical advice on establishing, implementing, and ensuring the overall environmental integrity of an offset program for domestic agricultural and forestry practices that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or sequester greenhogreenhouse gas emissions, or sequester greenhouse gasgas emissions, or sequester greenhousegreenhouse gases.

RICHLAND, Wash. — As the Arctic warms, tons of carbon locked away in Arctic tundra will be transformed into the powerful greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane, but scientists know little about how that transition takes place.

In addition, they produce as a byproduct the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (known to dental patients everywhere as laughing gas).

As the planet warms from increasing greenhouse gases, more energy is going into the oceans, which is an important component in the strength of hurricanes (also known as tropical cyclonesAs the planet warms from increasing greenhouse gases, more energy is going into the oceans, which is an important component in the strength of hurricanes (also known as tropical cyclonesas tropical cyclones).

Project - based carbon market mechanisms — such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)-- no longer provide sufficient incentives for the initiation of greenhouse gas mitigation activities in developing countries.

Project - based carbon market mechanisms - such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)- no longer provide sufficient incentives for the initiation of greenhouse gas mitigation activities in developing countries.

Known as a «co-benefit,» using state of the art models for human and natural systems, along with climate projections from the international community, the team was able for the first time to put a value on the global air pollution benefits of cutting greenhouse gas emissions over the 21st century.

For example, we know that as the planet warms, permafrost might melt and emit greenhouse gases of their own — warming the planet still further.

In Earth's past the trigger for these greenhouse gas emissions was often unusually massive volcanic eruptions known as «Large Igneous Provinces,» with knock - on effects that included huge releases of CO2 and methane from organic - rich sediments.

Chlorofluorocarbons, banned by an international agreement known as the Montreal Protocol because they eat up atmospheric ozone, are also greenhouse gases.

The forecast takes into account known contributing factors, such as solar effects, El Nino, greenhouse gases concentrations and other multi-decadal influences.

I know that you serve (d) as a federal expert reviewer of the EPA's «Technical Support Document for Endangerment Analysis for Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act,» but it was my impression (actually, it is a fact) that the Public Comment period is still wide open on the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking of Regulating Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act.

We know that greenhouse gases are heavily implicated as a cause of climate change.

If we knew ocean heat uptake as well as we know atmospheric temperature change, then we could pin down fairly well the radiative imbalance at the top of the atmosphere, which would give us a fair indication of how much warming is «in the pipeline» given current greenhouse gas concentrations.

«A rapid cutback in greenhouse gas emissions could speed up global warming... because current global warming is offset by global dimming — the 2 - 3ºC of cooling cause by industrial pollution, known to scientists as aerosol particles, in the atmosphere.»

Pieter Tans of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stressed the persistent uncertainty in the range of warming expected from a buildup of greenhouse gases as cutting against the idea of specific thresholds: «Our biggest science problem is that we do not know how strong the climate feedbacks are, or even whether we know all of the ones that are important on decadal and longer time scales,» he said in an e-mail.