Sentences with phrase «more greenhouse gases into»

Many environmentalists concerned about the dangers of opening up a warming Arctic to oil exploration, which would let loose yet more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

In a world rapidly warming as humans burn ever more fossil fuels, to add ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, researchers expect to observe an increase in the volume of meltwater on the south polar surface.

Professor Reif wrote, «As human activities emit more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the global average surface temperature will continue to rise, driving rising sea levels and extreme weather.»

When the volcano, Mt Pinatubo, erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in its entire YEARS on earth.

As well as pumping much as 600 million tonnes more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the carbon credits scheme has been abused by countries like Russia and the Ukraine which have used them as a money making scam.

That increased quantities of greenhouse gases will lead to global warming is as solid a scientific prediction as can be found, but other things influence climate too, and some people try to escape confronting the consequences of our pumping more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by supposing that something will come along miraculously to counteract them.

Humans are pumping more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

We're putting more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the planet can absorb.

This is about the radiation from the Earth to space, which is prevented by the atmosphere's greenhouse gases, and as we pour more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, less energy will be sent into space.

It's putting more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that would have stayed locked up for perhaps hundreds of years.»

If the world warms by 2 or more degrees will feedback effects kick in — such as unstoppable melting of the Siberian permafrost, which could send more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, making it virtually impossible to stabilize warming at 2 degrees, let alone 1.5.

In it she had the following line: «The eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 dumped more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than all that has been released since the industrial revolution.

To avoid adding more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, these data centers need new approaches, Reforgiato Recupero says.

The result, detailed in July in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, suggests that burning trash isn't just bad for human health — it could pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than had been realized.

The models can get the poles right if modellers inject more greenhouse gases into the simulated atmosphere, but then the tropics overheat.

Examples include the melting of permafrost, releasing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Many of us who follow climate change news are aware that Greenland's ice is melting away, the Antarctic is cracking, and some Pacific islands are going underwater as seas rise — all because we are pumping more greenhouse gases into the thin layer of atmosphere in which we live.

They have the responsibility to help poor countries during the pursue morden life and emit more and more greenhouse gas into atmosphere.

It was a shift that made perfect sense on paper, but not on the ground, where the country's forest fires have been pumping more greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere than do all the planes, trains, and factories of the United States, as the World Resources Institute (WRI) pointed out in a blog post called Indonesia's Fire Outbreaks Producing More Daily Emissions than Entire US Economy.

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«When we look back, this will be a historic day, certainly for oilsands, for Alberta and I think for Canada as we move into a more solutions - focused leadership position on greenhouse gases around the world.»

Some of the nitrogen the crops do not absorb is converted into nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

By capturing methane gas from cow manure and using it to generate electrical power, the Straus Dairy Farm prevents a greenhouse gas that is 72 times more detrimental than CO2 within a 20 - year period from getting into the atmosphere, while also creating a renewable energy source.

The application of hybrid powertrains and renewable fuels on diesel platforms will further reduce the vehicles» greenhouse gas emissions and could breathe still more life into what was a very hazy U.S. industry not long ago.

Incorporating a pricing mechanism into our climate policy would likely be more efficient at driving down greenhouse gas emissions at a lower cost than the current policy of regulating such emissions under the Clean Air Act.

But when unburned methane is released into the atmosphere, it is a potent greenhouse gas with a warming potential 28 to 34 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100 - year timeframe (and up to 84 times more potent over a 20 year timeframe).

Today more than 600 gas flares are identified in and around these craters, releasing the greenhouse gas steadily into the water column.

All the greenhouse gases absorb infrared, and they also release the infrared, so these act as blockades to the infrared, leaving the atmosphere and going off into space; and the Earth warms up to send off even more infrared from the surface in order to reach its state, sort of a steady state with regard to space.

Experts on greenhouse - gas emissions tell me that every time my car burns a gallon of gasoline, I am putting more than 25 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as well as a smaller amount of methane, nitrous oxide, and various other toxic gases.

As atmospheric carbon dioxide increases, the greenhouse gas is absorbed into ocean water, making it more acidic.

That may in turn have caused the planet to heat up enough to melt deposits of methane frozen in sediments on the ocean floor (something, incidentally, that could happen again), discharging even more potent greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and further heating the planet in an escalating feedback loop.

But along with the notorious polar vortex, the year also brought new evidence that human activities are altering the climate in ever more obvious ways — and that the risks of severe impacts rise with every ton of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.

The same greenhouse gases that trap heat in the lower atmosphere allow the stratosphere to more effectively radiate energy into space.

At higher temperatures, less of the gas is absorbed, and the ocean releases more carbon dioxide into the air, contributing to a runaway greenhouse effect.

A surprising recent rise in atmospheric methane likely stems from wetland emissions, suggesting that much more of the potent greenhouse gas will be pumped into the atmosphere as northern wetlands continue to thaw and tropical ones to warm, according to a new international study led by a University of Guelph researcher.

As average U.S. temperatures warm between 3 °F and more than 9 °F by the end of the century, depending on how greenhouse gas emissions are curtailed or not in the coming years, the waves of extreme heat the country is likely to experience could bend and buckle rails into what experts call «sun kinks.»

Among the implications of the study are that ocean temperatures in this area may be more sensitive to changes in greenhouse gas levels than previously thought and that scientists should be factoring entrainment into their models for predicting future climate change.

Yet farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create more arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke life in rivers and oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.

«There is massive uncertainty in this figure, and until much more research is done no serious scientist should express any confidence in such estimates,» of iron fertilization's geoengineering potential, cautions oceanographer Richard Lampitt of the National Oceanography Center in England, who also argues that more research into such potential geoengineering techniques is needed due to the failure of global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.

The next step, Wright notes, is to look at a more complete assessment of beaver meadows» carbon budget that takes into account the greenhouse gases emitted by microbes that tend to thrive in moist sediments such as natural wetlands and rice paddies.

«One source of potent greenhouse gas pinned down: Results suggest more methane may be released into atmosphere than thought.»

Night - time is a chance for heat to escape back out into space, but the extra greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are trapping ever more of it.

The understanding of the physics of greenhouse gases and the accumulation of evidence for GHG - driven climate change is now overwhelming — and much of that information has not yet made it into formal attribution studies — thus scientists on the whole are more sure of the attribution than is reflected in those papers.

Resource - conserving cropping practices from WHEAT, such as more targeted use of nitrogen fertilizers or sowing wheat into untilled soils and crop residues, can raise wheat farmers» incomes while curbing greenhouse gas emissions, if widely adopted, he added.

The outcome depends on how much more carbon dioxide, a main greenhouse gas, human activities (such as burning coal and oil) dump into the atmosphere.

As the planet warms from increasing greenhouse gases, more energy is going into the oceans, which is an important component in the strength of hurricanes (also known as tropical cyclones).

This releases methane, a greenhouse gas over 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere.

More than 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed into the oceans that cover two - thirds of the planet's surface.

Carbon dioxide and sulfur gases blown extremely high into the atmosphere would have the opposite of a greenhouse effect: surface temperatures plummeting by more than 20 degrees Celsius, or about 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

Science has predicted what will happen, depending on how many more megatons of greenhouse gases we toss into the sky.