Sentences with phrase «least afforestation»
Most of the scientists you mentioned (Hansen, Caldeira, Sachs) have their names on papers supporting at least afforestation, but often more.
http://www.realclimate.org/ Not exact matches
I've been assuming we will have to virtually stop CO2 emissions at some stage, but doubt even that is possible to the nth degree given the need to grow food, build houses etc., at least not without sequestration, afforestation or other offsets of some kind.
We estimate that removing 1 Pg C y − 1 via tropical afforestation would require at least 7 × 106 ha y − 1 of land, 0.09 Tg y − 1 of nitrogen, and 0.2 Tg y − 1 of phosphorous, and would increase evapotranspiration from those lands by almost 50 %.
Moreover, CDR techniques can affect temperatures via SRM mechanisms too: afforestation — at least in higher latitudes — reduces albedo, producing offsetting warming, while OIF releases dimethyl sulphides which could have a significant impact on temperatures by reflecting incoming sunlight (analogous to, if more short - lived, than the effect of sulphates in the stratosphere).
In the meantime, while scientific research continues, you do not (or at least have not here) supported my idea that we'd be better off investing in flood control, reforestation and afforestation, and irrigation.
Afforestation Project in the South of Quebec: This project was created in 2014 to plant on 15 abandoned lands and sequesters a portion of Southern Quebec's atmospheric carbon for at least 50 years.
This project was given CEO approval in December 2008, and is estimated to be completed by February 2013 with the 5.5 million USD funding coming from the Global Environment Fund (GEF) and the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF)(Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation).