Sentences with phrase «lifetime emissions of greenhouse gases»

Not exact matches

«Our research shows that we could see the benefits of concerted action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within our lifetime.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (2005) has the CO2 lifetime listed as 5 - 200 years, for example [1].

«The importance of the speed and magnitude of recent population growth in boosting future greenhouse gas emissions is well recognized among scientists... Each birth results not only in the emissions attributable to that person in his or her lifetime, but also the emissions of all his or her descendants.

On the other hand, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, while essential in the long term, would have no immediate effect on the Arctic climate because of their long lifetime.»

«Even with mitigation efforts,» the Summit report says, «climate change will continue to unfold for decades due to the long atmospheric lifetime of past greenhouse - gas emissions and the gradual release of excess heat that has built up in the oceans.

«With this picture in mind, even if emissions were stopped overnight globally, the atmospheric concentrations would continue for decades because of the long lifetime of these greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,» he said.

As the solar industry has expanded, the researchers found, greenhouse gas emissions have dropped enormously: As a function of the total energy a solar cell produces over its lifetime, carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide equivalents have dropped by between 86 and 95 percent since the late 1980s and early»90s, depending on the type of solar cell.

Changes in atmospheric composition and chemistry over the past century have affected, and those projected into the future will affect, the lifetimes of many greenhouse gases and thus alter the climate forcing of anthropogenic emissions:

His previous measures to limit carbon emissions in cars and light trucks produced between fleet years 2012 and 2025 will cut 6 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions over the lifetime of those vehicles.

Together, we could save about $ 1.5 billion dollars in annual energy bills and prevent 17 billion pounds of annual greenhouse gas emissions — for a lifetime of special moments.

By one estimate, a baby born in Britain will, over the course of their lifetime, will create 160 times more greenhouse gas emissions than a baby born in Ethiopia.

Because of the long atmospheric lifetime of some of the main greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, there is a mismatch between the payoff from climate change mitigation, which involves reducing emissions of planet warming greenhouse gases to lessen to severity of climate change, and climate change adaptation, which refers to measures to better withstand the impacts of climate change.

Oxidation of methane to CO2, which requires reactions with the OH radical, produces an instantaneous reduction in radiative absorption and emission since CO2 is a weaker greenhouse gas than methane, although CO2 has a longer lifetime.

Category 2 is «Explicitly states humans are causing global warming or refers to anthropogenic global warming / climate change as a known fact» and gives as an example» «Emissions of a broad range of greenhouse gases of varying lifetimes contribute to global climate change»