Sentences with phrase «lived warming pollutants»

Interestingly, Penner et al. find that whether the climate sensitivity parameter is on the low or high end, reducing anthropogenic emissions of the short - lived warming pollutants would achieve a significant reduction in global warming over the next 50 - 100 years.

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Global warming is like a tea kettle (the earth) over a flame (greenhouse gasses plus short - lived pollutants) on your stove.

The researchers say that countries must also tackle short - lived climate pollutants like hydrofluorocarbons that accelerate warming greatly in the near term, and take some of the carbon that is currently in the atmosphere out.

For example, sequestrating short - lived climate pollutants, such as methane and black carbon, yields much faster reductions in global warming compared to reductions in CO2.

In February a U.S. - led coalition proposed limiting short - living pollutants like soot and methane because they offer a quick way to restrain global warming.

Short - lived climate pollutants are so called because even though they warm the planet more efficiently than carbon dioxide, they only remain in the atmosphere for a period of weeks to roughly a decade whereas carbon dioxide molecules remain in the atmosphere for a century or more.

Frustrated by failure to agree a broad international deal to limit global warming, about 30 nations have joined the U.S. initiative to limit short - lived air pollutants as a new way to curb temperature rises, protect health and aid crop growth.

The boats produce other short - lived pollutants, such as sulfur oxides and black carbon, which have cooling and warming effects, respectively.

We could reduce short - lived pollutants later, of course, but the inertia from CO2 - induced warming means that those measures can only slow the rate of warming, not reverse it and bring us back below 2 ̊C.

Given those two factors and ignoring future emissions that will drive the temperature even higher, we are already over +2 C warming once we stop emitting short - lived coal smoke and other pollutants into the air and we give the Earth time to reach temperature equilibrium.

The Nature commentary by Penner et al. on which this argument is based actually says that on top of the global warming caused by carbon dioxide, other short - lived pollutants (such as methane and black carbon) cause an additional warming approximately 65 % as much as CO2, and other short - lived pollutants (such as aerosols) also cause some cooling.

The mitigation of Short - lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) has received much attention in the past few years for its potential to lessen health - related impacts of air pollution, prevent major crop losses, and in some cases also slow down global warming.

There is growing recognition of the value of near - term actions to reduce short - lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) such as methane, black carbon, and various hydrofluorocarbons that have large global warming potentials.

of Short - lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) has received much attention in the past few years for its potential to lessen health - related impacts of air pollution, prevent major crop losses, and in some cases also slow down global warming.

One is a focus on warming driven only by carbon, ignoring short - lived climate pollutants, because of our emphasis on long - term commitment.

4.3 million of these deaths are due to 2.8 billion people in the developing world who cook and keep warm inside their homes, by burning dung, firewood and coal — filling their living spaces with smoke and pollutants.

While diesels are the workhorses of the transport sector and relatively energy efficient (as compared to gasoline vehicles or jet aircrafts), their combined contribution to transportation - related climate warming greenhouse gases and other short - lived climate pollutants, particularly black carbon, is significant.

Economists must offer convincing demonstrations of what is already apparent from the data: that modest warming correlates with increased GNP, higher average income, and enhanced living standards across the globe; and that carbon dioxide, rather than being a pollutant, benefits the growth of agricultural crops and forests.

To quantify the impact of changes in short - lived climate pollutants and regional climate forcings, in addition to the impact of warming induced by greenhouse gases, on weather extremes in Africa.

While we must continue to aggressively reduce CO2 emissions, efforts to reduce short - lived climate pollutants like black carbon and methane can have an immediate effect on slowing warming.

«The short - lived climate pollutants [like methane] that we emit from human activities are basically controlling how fast the warming occurs,» she said.

It discusses short lived pollutants, some that may contribute to warming, other that contribute to cooling.

Based on his research, he developed a new approach for mitigating climate change that involves mitigating emissions of four short - lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) to drastically reduce near - term warming and slowing down the retreat of the Himalayan glaciers.

Fast action to reduce short - lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) could slow the rate of global warming while saving millions of lives over the next several decades from air pollution — which now kills more than 6 million people a year.

A more accurate reading of the quote is that certain short - lived pollutants cause warming in addition to carbon dioxide - quantitatively, approximately 65 % as much warming as CO2.

Unfortunately, reducing the short - lived cooling pollutants such as aerosols would cause a warming effect of similar magnitude, and so CO2 remains the primary pollutant of concern.

Although it is important to reduce the remaining climate uncertainties, such as the magnitude of the impacts of short - lived pollutants, it does not change the fact that CO2 is very likely the driving force behind the current global warming, or that if we double the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from pre-industrial levels, the planet will likely warm in the range of 2 to 4.5 °C.

Deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are urgently needed to prevent dangerous climate change, but they must be complemented by reductions in short - lived climate pollutants, which produce a strong global warming effect but have relatively brief atmospheric lifetimes.

«Reducing black carbon and the other short - lived climate pollutants can cut the rate of Arctic warming by two - thirds.

Over its life, the Skystream can offset more than 6000 pounds of global warming pollutants (carbon dioxide and other gases that are associated with global warming) every year.