Sentences with phrase «less greenhouse gases in»

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(Hanna Tuomisto, who in 2011 conducted a study at Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, found that growing meats in - vitro would use 35 % to 60 % less energy, emit 80 % to 95 % less greenhouse gas and use around 98 % less land than conventionally produced animal meat.)

Even since 1990, when many developed nations started trying to curb their greenhouse gases under a U.N. treaty, emissions had also fallen less in recession than they rose when the economy grew, he said.

Natural gas is primarily composed of methane, a greenhouse gas that is more potent than carbon dioxide, but remains in the atmosphere for less time.

He stood up, in front of a group of business leaders no less, and stated that Canada's current greenhouse gas emissions policies would not be sufficient -LSB-...]

New Democrats have repeatedly pointed out that it is ludicrous to force the public sector, which is responsible for less than one per cent of greenhouse gases emitted in the province, to subsidize big polluters who pay no penalty for the majority of their greenhouse gas emissions.

By investing in solar energy, for example, Walmart has contributed to less greenhouse gas emissions, and helped create thousands of jobs for American solar companies.

«In general there is a clear and strong trend with reduced greenhouse gas emissions in diets that contain less meat,» said lead researcher Peter Scarborough, who added that the study was the first to «confirm and quantify the difference» between diet - related carbon footprintIn general there is a clear and strong trend with reduced greenhouse gas emissions in diets that contain less meat,» said lead researcher Peter Scarborough, who added that the study was the first to «confirm and quantify the difference» between diet - related carbon footprintin diets that contain less meat,» said lead researcher Peter Scarborough, who added that the study was the first to «confirm and quantify the difference» between diet - related carbon footprints.

For example, my industry — the ski business — could eliminate all its greenhouse gas emissions, but we'd still go out of business in less than 100 years if the rest of the world doesn't change.

Some climate organizations have been critical of companies that invest heavily in RECs, charging that the financial instruments are less effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions than other measures.

Infrastructure investments in new train tracks or fast - lane bicycle paths, for example, might not only reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, but also decrease costs in other areas, because less roads and parking lots have to be built.

Such so - called in situ production requires less water but far more energy to get the bitumen flowing, resulting in greenhouse gas emissions some 2.5 times higher than those from mining.

This is because firstly, the micro-organisms that break down dead trees produce copious amounts of CO2, and secondly, there is less vegetation remaining that can remove the greenhouse gas from the air by capturing the carbon in leaves, trunks and roots as part of its growth cycle.

Second, a cooler house requires less air conditioning — and hence results in fewer greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

It says nations will have to impose drastic curbs on their still rising greenhouse gas emissions to keep a promise made by almost 200 countries in 2010 to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.

Melting bitumen in place is less unsightly than mining tar sands, but increasing efficiency, lowering costs and — perhaps most importantly — minimizing greenhouse gas emissions remain challenges

«We expected an answer close to that, more or less, but Ralph Keeling was the first to provide the measurements,» says Pieter Tans, who heads NOAA's carbon - cycle and greenhouse - gas group in Boulder, Colorado.

Although natural gas generates less greenhouse gas than coal when burned, when its total life - cycle emissions associated with extraction and distribution are factored in, it does not seem much cleaner than coal

Currently, the amount of infrared heat radiated back to space is slightly less than what we absorb from the sun due to the increase in greenhouse gases.

To make matters worse, German and Japanese researchers recently increased CO2 levels in seawater and found that the greenhouse gas can damage some marine organisms directly: Squid slowly asphyxiated as the excess CO2 crowded out oxygen in their blood, and fish embryos and larvae were abnormally small and less likely to survive.

The low - carbon fuel standard orders providers to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuels by 10 percent by 2020 through efforts such as blending in biofuels that result in less greenhouse gases emitted when burned.

«We see no evidence of Kyoto actually leading to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, much less of stimulating the fundamental technological change that will be required to achieve the 60 - 80 % reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that scientists tell us the world will need to achieve in order to prevent what the Framework Convention calls «dangerous interference with the atmosphere».»

Adds Peter Milne, a program director in NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, «We can easily measure the greenhouse gas budget from a single smokestack, but somewhat less well for a stand of trees.

«Luckily, the opposite is also true: if we emit less greenhouse gas and the temperature drops, we gain a bonus in the form of less methane production.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

Keeping in mind the enormous stake that panel members ExxonMobil and Shell have in the oil, natural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during the panel.

If Americans in the highest - impact group shifted their diets to align with the U.S. average — by consuming fewer overall calories and relying less on meat — the one - day greenhouse - gas emissions reduction would be equivalent to eliminating 661 million passenger - vehicle miles, according to the researchers.

More greenhouse gas in the atmosphere means less heat escaping and a warming planet.

Moreover, if the new rice supplies less carbon and other nutrients to the soil, farmers might eventually want to use more nitrogen - based fertilizers, resulting in the release of nitrous oxide, another strong greenhouse gas.

And although Alberta currently boasts a carbon price of $ 15 per metric ton, it is not enough — at less than a dollar per barrel — to keep greenhouse gas pollution from the tar sands in check.

Although we understand, more or less, the role of methane in climate dynamics [very potent greenhouse gas], it is mysteriously not rising in the atmosphere since 1990.

Lindzen was allowed to print his «Iris Theory» (stating that global warming might end because of a natural increase in cooling - type clouds and less water vapor - a heat - trapping greenhouse gas) in Geophysical Research Letters (Jun. 26, 2001 - a legitimate peer - reviewed journal).

Increasing amonts of the lesser known greenhouse gas nitrous oxide in the atmosphere, could become a problem.

Whether being lesser than CO2 in number of molecules in the atmosphere, methane is a potent greenhouse gas absorbing more infra - red radiation per molecule than CO2.

This is much less than the current «best estimate» of about 3 deg.C, and would imply that there is * not * any unfelt warming «still in the pipeline» from greenhouse gases we've already emitted.

The ocean becomes less effective at absorbing carbon dioxide with a weakened AMOC and this can lead to higher quantities of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere worsening global warming.

The model found that long - term, less easily reversed behavioral changes, such as insulating homes or purchasing hybrid cars, had by far the most impact in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and thus reducing climate change, versus more short - term adjustments, such as adjusting thermostats or driving fewer miles.

The positive energy imbalance in 2005 — 2010 confirms that the effect of solar variability on climate is much less than the effect of human - made greenhouse gases.

The models all concurred that as levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rise, low pressure systems, or cyclones as they're called, become stronger but form less often.

Although sustainability guidelines are unlikely to be included in the final version of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the Advisory Committee included the following statement in their initial report: «Consistent evidence indicates that, in general, a dietary pattern that is higher in plant - based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, and lower in animal - based foods is more health promoting and is associated with lesser environmental impact (greenhouse gas emissions and energy, land, and water use) than is the current average U.S. diet.

That means, in turn, less land required to grow the feed for animals, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and less water pollution.

Today, LATAM Airlines Group's fleet averages seven years old, one of the most modern in the industry, resulting in greater fuel use efficiencies and less greenhouse gas emissions.

However, the net effect in terms of forcing is only about 0.27 W / m ^ 2 — much less than greenhouse gas forcing.

But a specially type of infrared photography has created a breakthrough in efforts to cut pollution from the expanding oil and gas industry, resulting in reduced greenhouse gas emissions, less local air pollution and less wasted natural gas.

Greenhouse gases absorb intense emission from the surface and re-emit less intense energy at colder temperatures, resulting in an efficient heat trapping mechanism.

President Bush, in a Rose Garden speech on climate change, challenged the world's biggest (and most polluting) countries to immediately end trade barriers on energy - related technology, beef up a fund to help bring less - polluting energy options to poor countries, and commit to curbing their greenhouse - gas emissions.

From the abstract: «Despite ongoing increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, the Earth's global average surface air temperature has remained more or less steady since 2001.»

The result being that as the «greenhouse gas layer reflection increases, so less energy (in the appropriate frequency band, or bands) will reach the Earth, compensating for the increased «greenhouse effect» Please explain......

Much less challenging, and high profile, is the need, in a world heading toward nine billion people, to figure out how to make everything that's been learned about drought, floods, and other climate - related risks useful to the majority of the human population — people in Niger and Bangladesh who face such risks every day right now, with or without whatever climate destabilization is coming from the ongoing buildup of greenhouse gases.

For example, If we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, scientific evidence suggests we should invest in alternative energies that release less greenhouse gases.

The Council states that eating less meat from ruminant animals (such as cattle and lamb) could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food in Denmark by 20 to 35 percent.