Sentences with phrase «less than greenhouse gas»

Solar forcing is the only known natural forcing acting to warm the climate over this period but it has increased much less than greenhouse gas forcing, and the observed pattern of long term tropospheric warming and stratospheric cooling is not consistent with the expected response to solar irradiance variations.

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

It's a staggering amount of carbon, but so far less than the greenhouse gases emitted by countries like the United States or China.

Not exact matches

(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.

PCE's default option, ECOplus, is 50 % renewable and 75 % greenhouse gas emissions free, at a generation rate that is priced 5 % less than PG&E.

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.

He claimed their lab - created burger uses about 74 percent less water, generates about 87 percent fewer greenhouse gases and requires around 95 percent less land than conventional ground beef from cows.

Researchers concluded that the Impossible Burger utilizes 87 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions, 74 percent less water, and 95 percent less land than conventional beef.

«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

Moreover, PET plastic bottles use less energy, generate less solid waste and create fewer greenhouse gas emissions than glass bottles or aluminum cans.

It uses about 75 % less water, generates about 87 % fewer greenhouse gases, and requires around 95 % less land than conventional ground beef from cows.

According to the company, making the plant - based burger uses 99 percent less land, 85 percent less water, and emits 89 percent less greenhouse gas than traditional beef production.

Hilary Benn has pointed out that modern incinerators actually emit less toxic gas than a barbeque, and could help to reduce waste and therefore greenhouse gases.

«While I accept shale gas has a lesser carbon output than heavy coal, it's still a very large contributor to greenhouse gases,» he said.

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.

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.

Natural gas, which is mainly methane, may generate less carbon dioxide than oil and coal when burned, but as recent research has found, there's more to greenhouse gas emissions than just combustion.

Because a soy field contains far less carbon than a rainforest, the greenhouse gas benefit of the original ethanol is wiped out.

On a life - cycle basis, FCVs running on hydrogen derived from steam - reforming natural gas — currently the most affordable way of making hydrogen — produce less than half the greenhouse gas emissions of a gasoline - powered car.

«At Northwest, our greenhouse gas emissions have gone down 25 percent since 2000 and about 5 percent less than 1990,» says Ken Hylander, Northwest's senior vice president of safety and engineering.

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.

At a cost of less than 3 cents per kilowatt - hour, tornado energy is cheaper than burning coal (which rings up at 4 or 5 cents per kwh) and produces no additional greenhouse gases.

The report notes that three business sectors — energy firms, utilities and materials companies — account for 87 percent of scope 1 and 2 emissions, greenhouse gases that are directly emitted by a firm's activities, even though they account for less than 25 percent of all companies on the index.

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

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.

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

The «well - to - wire» research showed new natural - gas power plants are responsible for less than half as much greenhouse gas per kilowatt hour of electricity generated as existing coal power plants.

Analysis of the first seven years of data from a NASA cloud - monitoring mission suggests clouds are doing less to slow the warming of the planet than previously thought, and that temperatures may rise faster than expected as greenhouse gas pollution worsens — perhaps 25 percent faster.

A key finding of the UC Berkeley study is that suburbs account for half of all household greenhouse gas emissions, even though they account for less than half the population.

That the Netherlands is responsible for less than 0.5 % of global greenhouse gas emissions isn't a valid argument either, it said.

But today their influence is far less than that of manufactured greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and the CFCs, according to two new studies of the link between solar activity and climate.

Less than a year after patenting a process that could improve stripping greenhouse gasses from industrial emissions, a University of Alabama engineering professor was recently granted another patent that uses a different solvent to accomplish the same goal.

Though burning natural gas produces much less greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal, a new study indicates switching over coal - fired power plants to natural gas would have a negligible effect on the changing climate.

The key conclusions were that: It is «unequivocal» that global warming is occurring; the probability that this is caused by natural climatic processes is less than 5 %; and the probability that this is caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases is over 90 %.

A vegan driving a Hummer creates less greenhouse gases than a carnivore riding a bicycle.

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.

«(i) increase the percentage of emissions that can be offset through the use of international offset credits to reflect the amount that 1.0 billion exceeds the number of domestic offset credits the Administrator determines is available, at prices generally equal to or less than emission allowance prices, for that year, up to a maximum of 0.5 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions; and

The United States, with less than 5 % of the world's population, is responsible for nearly 25 % of the world's greenhouse gases.

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 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 general consensus among scientists is that the young Earth's atmosphere contained much larger quantities of greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide and / or ammonia) than are present today, which trapped enough heat to compensate for the lesser amount of solar energy reaching the planet.

We should continue to support the very best parts of it: the ones that encourage the production of more advanced and more sustainable biofuels, for instance, or the requirement that a renewable fuel must emit less greenhouse gas than the petroleum - based fuel it would replace.

This process is toxin - free, and they estimate it produces 10 times less greenhouse gas emissions than typical petroleum - based dyes.

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.

A study of greenhouse gas - emissions by the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California at Irvine shows fuel - cell vehicles running on hydrogen derived from natural gas ultimately create far less GHG emissions than BEVs running off the U.S. grid, which is powered mostly by coal and natural gas.