Sentences with phrase «more greenhouse gases last»

Three meat companies - JBS, Cargill and Tyson - emitted more greenhouse gases last year than all of France and nearly as much as some of the biggest oil companies like Exxon, BP and Shell.

Not exact matches

Nowhere is the climate fight more important than in China, the world's largest spewer of greenhouse gases, which is in the midst of an unprecedented promotion of electric cars: Last year, sales of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in China rose 50 % to 507,000, more than three times the U.S. figure.

The Upstate plant was formerly operated by AES Somerset, which declared bankruptcy late last year amid marketplace difficulties brought on, in part, by the importation of government - subsidized power from Canada, as well as ever more costly «greenhouse gas» restrictions.

A strong energy package approved last year by a key Senate panel is seen as a sweetener for passing a much more controversial cap - and - trade system to regulate the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Obama vowed at last year's climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, that America will cut its greenhouse gas emissions about 17 percent below 2005 levels in the coming decade and more than 80 percent by midcentury.

Five cities and regions set up new pilot carbon trading platforms last year to encourage local enterprises to address soaring greenhouse gas emissions and two more will be launched in 2014.

Rapid increases in greenhouse gases have happened more frequently in the Earth's history than previously realized, according to a Scripps Institution of Oceanography - led study published last week in the journal Nature.

The recent epic deluges this spring and early summer and blizzards last winter are emblematic of weather that is confidently foreseen as more common in a warming world, but it will long remain the case that no single superstorm can be attributed to the buildup of greenhouse gases.

[T] he last 10 to 15 years «make it more plausible that the size of climate response to greenhouse gas increase is on the lower side of what models have been projecting over the last 10 or 20 years rather than over the high side.»

Last summer's record loss of ice was due to a combination of natural cycle and global warming factors: «more greenhouse gases, an unusual wind pattern, and warming of the ocean water in regions with reduced sea ice.»

The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year on options for mitigating emissions concluded that stabilization of greenhouse gases could be accomplished with known technologies, but the new paper contends that the panel's assumptions about technological innovation made a daunting challenge look far more doable than it really is.

However well intentioned, I feel strongly that Gleick's actions of the last few weeks have offered far more ammunition and fuel to enemies * of curbing greenhouse gas emissions than to those pursuing these steps.

Last month, almost 200 nations agreed at a summit in Paris to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions this century to limit rising temperatures blamed for causing everything from more heat waves to downpours.

The last thing we need is more duplicative and costly regulation that could increase the cost of energy for Americans and that could potentially drive up U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.»

A prominent (in the media, anyway) research study last year by Rutgers's Jennifer Francis and University of Wisconsin's Stephen Vavrus suggests that the declining temperature difference between the Arctic and the lower latitudes (adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere warms colder, drier regions more so than warmer, wetter ones — with the notable exception of Antarctica) has led to changes in the jet stream which result in slower moving, and potentially stronger East Coast winter storm systems.

Understanding the significance of this last fact relies on the appreciation that displacing all fossil fuel power plants with solar and wind farms, while necessary in curbing the flow of additional greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, does nothing to capture the prevailing stock of greenhouse gases accumulated from 150 years of industrialization and that will remain in the atmosphere for upwards of a hundred or more years to come.

These analyses indicate that it is likely that greenhouse gases alone would have caused more than the observed warming over the last 50 years of the 20th century, with some warming offset by cooling from natural and other anthropogenic factors, notably aerosols, which have a very short residence time in the atmosphere relative to that of well - mixed greenhouse gases (Schwartz, 1993).

Other types of greenhouse gases, like methane — which does not last as long in the atmosphere as carbon but which traps more heat — are left out of the proposal.

Last year, more than 200 nations, including the United States, China and India, agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions during a historic accord in Paris.

The literature since the AR4, and the availability of more simulations of the last millennium with more complete forcing, including solar, volcanic and greenhouse gas influences, and generally also land use change and orbital forcing) and more sophisticated models, to a much larger extent coupled climate or coupled earth system models, some of them with interactive carbon cycle, strengthens these conclusions.

Bloomberg China installed almost three times more wind power than the U.S. last year, continuing its clean - energy investment blitz to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase air quality.

Last week, a team of 19 top climate scientists from government labs in the United States and Europe reported that the buildup of human - induced greenhouse gases in the atmosphere appeared to be the primary driving force behind warmer oceans that fuel more powerful hurricanes.

So let me nominate the twelve people who in my opinion have done more than all others over the last decade to prevent any effective action to reduce Australia's burgeoning greenhouse gas emissions.

Brazil has been recognized as a leader in global efforts to reduce deforestation and associated greenhouse gas emissions — mostly due to the successful implementation of forest conservation policies that reduced deforestation in the Amazon by 80 % below historical levels, and prevented more than 5 billion tons of CO2 from reaching the atmosphere over the last decade.

Over the last few decades, however, that ice has been thinning due to increasing greenhouse gases, so when it does melt in the summer, as it normally does, more of the sun's energy gets absorbed into the Arctic Ocean, which then contributes to even more melting.

It suggested that the climate might be much less sensitive to greenhouse gases than had been claimed by the IPCC in its report last September, and recommended that more work be carried out «to reduce the underlying uncertainty».

Methane gas lasts just nine years in Earth's atmosphere but is about 34 times more potent at trapping infrared radiation (the greenhouse effect) than carbon dioxide, which is more abundant and lasts longer.

Both wetland drying and the increased frequency of warm dry summers and associated thunderstorms have led to more large fires in the last ten years than in any decade since record - keeping began in the 1940s.9 In Alaskan tundra, which was too cold and wet to support extensive fires for approximately the last 5,000 years, 105 a single large fire in 2007 released as much carbon to the atmosphere as had been absorbed by the entire circumpolar Arctic tundra during the previous quarter - century.106 Even if climate warming were curtailed by reducing heat - trapping gas (also known as greenhouse gas) emissions (as in the B1 scenario), the annual area burned in Alaska is projected to double by mid-century and to triple by the end of the century, 107 thus fostering increased emissions of heat - trapping gases, higher temperatures, and increased fires.

Climatologist Dr. Pielke Sr. rips RealClimate.org's claims: «It is straightforward to shed doubt on Gavin Schmidt's (and the IPCC) claim» — «If the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentration were so dominate we would expect the global average [annual] lower troposphere temperature to more - or less monotonically continue to rise in the last decade or so.

Schmidt: What we've been doing in the last 150 years is we've been increasing the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere — over 40 % in terms of CO2, we've more than doubled the amount of methane, which is another greenhouse gas, and the signatures of those changes are very very clear, all the way through the system.

Last week the G8 summit adopted the UK's two key targets: it proposed that developed countries should reduce their greenhouse gases by 80 % by 2050 to prevent more than two degrees of global warming.

And with Athabasca's already massive carbon footprint the last thing they want is even more troublesome greenhouse gas emissions from refining the crud in Alberta.

More nitrogen is now converted into reactive forms by industry than all by all the planet's natural processes and our industrial and agricultural processes are causing a continual build - up of long - lived greenhouse gases to levels unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years and possibly much longer.

For the last 20 years there has been a global effort to quantify and more accurately understand greenhouse gas emissions.

Edit 3: The very next sentence says, «This conclusion ignores the long - lasting, incredibly powerful greenhouse gas discovered 9 December 2013 by University of Toronto researchers: perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA) is 7,100 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, and it persists hundreds of years in the atmosphere.»

It remains true that Earth has warmed more than 1 degree farenheit degrees over last century largely due to the buildup of human - made greenhouse gases... it remains the case that the projections of future climate change are every bit of discouraging as they were before the recent flap began.»

The Comprehensive Energy Strategy is expected to have a more aggressive requirement for clean energy use to align with interim benchmarks for greenhouse gas emissions approved just last week by the Governor's Council on Climate Change.

We further recognize the need to reduce the global emission of greenhouse gases by 80 % by mid-century at the latest, in order to avert the worst impacts of global warming and to reestablish the more stable climatic conditions that have made human progress over the last 10,000 years possible.

I can't find the reference, but recall a study published last year that showed the bovine population - both dairy and meat - producing more greenhouse gasses than all of mankind.

The appeal from scientists follows a petition last week from more than 150 global business leaders also demanding the 50 percent cut in greenhouse gases.

The Great Global Warming Swindle «documentary» purports to prove that the warming we have experienced over the last century is, in fact, unrelated to the more than 300 billion tonnes of heat - trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases that we have released into the atmosphere since the furnaces of the industrial revolution were first lit.

Building them, in the last analysis, creates more greenhouse gasses than they replace.

Reporting from Toronto — In a last - minute turn in global climate talks, international negotiators agreed over the weekend to adopt more ambitious plans than expected to trim government subsidies to oil companies worldwide, part of a broader effort to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions.

This is completely unrealistic, because we've got other ways to estimate climate sensitivity, notably the temperature and albedo, dust, greenhouse gas induced forcings of the last ice age, and those independently make it quite hard for sensitivity to be less than 1.5 C or more than 4.5 C.

More than 20 years ago, analyses of greenhouse gas concentrations in ice cores showed that downward trends in CO2 and CH4 that had begun near 10,000 years ago subsequently reversed direction and rose steadily during the last several thousand years.

The 2001 report more definitely declared that «most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations» where «likely» falls only a little short of reasonable certainty.