Sentences with phrase «moderate global warming by»

For example, a carbon offset reforestation project adds to the planet's net carbon storage and helps moderate global warming by slowing the growth of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

Reforestation adds to the planet's net carbon storage and helps moderate global warming by slowing the growth of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

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Geoengineering proposals fall into at least three broad categories: 1) managing atmospheric greenhouse gases (e.g., ocean fertilization and atmospheric carbon capture and sequestration), 2) cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight (e.g., putting reflective particles into the atmosphere, putting mirrors in space to reflect the sun's energy, increasing surface reflectivity and altering the amount or characteristics of clouds), and 3) moderating specific impacts of global warming (e.g., efforts to limit sea level rise by increasing land storage of water, protecting ice sheets or artificially enhancing mountain glaciers).

According to a new poll released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a majority of voters in six moderate to conservative congressional districts now believe global warming to be the top environmental problem and favor immediate actions to reduce carbon emissions.

Even as many promoting the global - warming theory have moderated their language in the interest of restoring credibility, others on the same side of the table have actually employed more alarmist language, as if to compensate for the lack of climatic temperature increase by turning up the verbal heat.

Carlos Curbelo, the cochair of the Climate Solutions Caucus and a Republican whose district includes the Florida Keys, seemed to exemplify the tensions faced by moderate, climate - concerned Republicans this week as he voted «yes» for the tax bill — right after calling President Trump's refusal to recognize global warming as a national - security threat «unacceptable.»

Jeff «Id» Condon moderates a small blog called the Air Vent which is frequented by lukewarmers — a group of global warming enthusiasts that believe that CO2 does trap energy and could be warming the planet, but questions the magnitude of the problem and the certainty of climate science.

Knowing that global atmospheric temperatures are a lagged response to sea surface temperatures, characterized by the SOI, and that the SOI has moderated over the past decade, indicates that global warming will moderate as well.

This study finds that global warming of 0.6 ºC in the past 30 years has been driven mainly by increasing greenhouse gases and only moderate additional climate forcing is likely to set in motion disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet and Arctic sea ice.

This study finds that global warming of 0.6 °C in the past 30 years has been driven mainly by increasing greenhouse gases, and only moderate additional climate forcing is likely to set in motion disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet and Arctic sea ice.

The reconstruction suggests that moderate global warming occurred after the middle of the 19th century, with about 0.6 °C warming by the middle of the 20th century.