Sentences with phrase «much more greenhouse gas»

They do a lot of good for the environment — from filtering contaminants out of the water to providing a critical animal habitat — and they store much more greenhouse gas than they emit.

We can't say how much Earth will warm over the coming years unless we know how much more greenhouse gas will end up in the atmosphere

Now, the United States, as a highly developed country, as I said before, per capita, consumes much more energy and emits much more greenhouse gases for each individual than does China.

Not exact matches

Greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry currently total about as much as those of Germany, not a small amount, and experts say that sum will grow as the world becomes even more mobile.

Even though the bulk of the added greenhouse gas effect in our atmosphere comes from carbon dioxide, methane — which is rarer — is much more potent.

The Paris Agreement is much more explicit, seeking to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions by the second half of the century and limit global warming to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.

The total biomass of our livestock is almost double that of the people on the planet and accounts for 5 % of carbon dioxide emissions and 40 % of methane emissions — a much more potent greenhouse gas.

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.

The idea being raising cattle produces so much methane (which is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2) that the primary contribution to greenhouse gases is actually the cow itself, not shipping, so eating local beef vs generic feed lot beef has little effect on the environmental impact.

The world can make lower sea - level rise outcomes much more likely by meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of bringing net greenhouse gas emissions to zero in the second half of this century, the study shows.

If greenhouse - gas emissions are not curtailed, heat - related deaths in Chicago alone could rise tenfold by the end of the century, government scientists say, and the Midwest and the South could swelter with triple - digit temperatures for much of the year, leading to more heatstroke and other heat - related illness and death.

It's a subject that has not gotten much attention, even as more research focuses on how to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and how to make farming more resilient to the impacts of extreme weather.

They don't need as much space as livestock, emit lower levels of greenhouse gases, and have a sky - high feed conversion rate: a single kilogram of feed yields 12 times more edible cricket protein than beef protein.

Yet the practice is widespread, in part because oil prices have been much higher in recent years and because it is hard to find new multimillion barrel reservoirs these days, especially in the picked over U.S. Denbury, based in Plano, Texas, controls more than 1,000 miles of CO2 pipelines and has published reserves of 17 trillion cubic feet of the greenhouse gas, used to pump more than 70,000 barrels of oil a day.

«As the climate gets warmer, the thawing permafrost not only enables the release of more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, but our study shows that it also allows much more mineral - laden and nutrient - rich water to be transported to rivers, groundwater and eventually the Arctic Ocean,» explained Ryan Toohey, a researcher at the Interior Department's Alaska Climate Science Center in Anchorage and the lead author of the study.

Although the earth has experienced exceptional warming over the past century, to estimate how much more will occur we need to know how temperature will respond to the ongoing human - caused rise in atmospheric greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide.

This switcheroo, if it holds true elsewhere, suggests that in the future the majority of Earth's plants might not soak up as much of the greenhouse gas as previously expected, while some grasslands might take up more.

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.

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.

In a separate study, Katey Walter, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, showed that much of this buried carbon may emerge as methane, a greenhouse gas some 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

«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.

With the human population continuing to rise by 75 million or more per year and with torrid economic growth in much of the developing world, the burdens of deforestation, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, species extinction, ocean acidification and other massive threats intensify.

While this represents a much smaller percentage of overall greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide, methane is about 20 times more effective at trapping heat.

«It will be much more interesting to see what the agency says when it actually develops a proposed rule to regulate greenhouse gas emissions — and therefore has to estimate the effects of that proposal.»

«As time goes on, the rate of burning in the power plant stays the same, but the carbon accumulates, so by the end of the year, the greenhouse gases will be heating the earth much more than the direct emissions of the power plant.»

«I see cities cutting greenhouse gas emissions and saving money in the process, but much more needs to be done,» Gore said.

But the bad news is that the climate system is much more sensitive to greenhouse gases than previously guessed.

The warming depends on how much we additionally close the window with more greenhouse gases and this must be observable from both sides.

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.

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.

But our study also shows that the world can make the 2 - foot road much more likely by meeting the Paris Agreement goal of bringing net greenhouse gas emissions to zero in the second half of this century.

Molecules with three or more atoms, like CO2 and other greenhouse gases, do this much better than molecules with just two, like oxygen (O2) and nitrogen (N2).

These myriad unmodeled amplifying feedbacks support the analysis that the climate is much more sensitive to changes in greenhouse gas emissions and other «forcings» than the IPCC models have been saying.

But because there is much disagreement — and more uncertainty — about the precise dimensions of the problem, we find it hard to settle on a set of concrete actions to cut these so - called greenhouse gases.

The news on climate change seemed bad enough in 2007, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced in their fourth assessment report that «warming of the climate system is unequivocal,» that humans were «very likely» to blame, and that if we keep pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, climate will «very likely» change much more than it did in the 20th century.

And amid all of their huffing and puffing, someone knowledgeable please tell me: exactly how much attention was paid to the fact that LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION contributes more to greenhouse gases than all the cars, trucks, trains, and planes on Earth put together?

To make things even more difficult, the current rate of warming is not comparable with previous periods, where greenhouse gas increases were much slower.

However, by then, we will be at higher levels of emissions, there will be more panic, and the costs of abruptly reducing greenhouse gas emissions will be much higher.

Even though the buildup of leaves and the lack of forest upkeep has a small part in the fires the build up of greenhouse gases has much more to do with the fires.

And we just cut a new agreement with the countries that are a part of the Montreal Protocol, of which, if you look back at the reporting, the effects of that agreement could actually cut greenhouse gases much more than anything Kyoto would have done.

Much higher on the list will be the melting of those two big chunks of ice you refer to, and the subsequent release of more greenhouse gases trapped in permafrost.

And obviously greenhouse gas warming could be much more rapid and destructive.

The hypothesis in this paper is that the ice albedo response and possibly the additional greenhouse gas feedback could respond much more quickly if the energy imbalance is larger, as it is right now with our forcing of additional CO2 into the atmosphere.

Here's an excerpt from the release, which stresses that much can be done locally to sustain the resilience of corals and the myriad species that live in and around them even as a long - term effort is made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: Read more...

Aside from Divine intervention and believing in miracles, which I do, I am much more inclined to believe a climate scientist's warning to cut greenhouse gas emissions than Mr. Taylor's anything.

The observed rapid warming gives more than just an «urgency to discussions»..., it gives urgency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as much as we can.

The second argument is that it is claimed that computer models are now powerful and accurate enough to replicate temperature given the inputs of greenhouse gas forcing and natural forcing (this is what Nordhaus shows in footnote 4) a graph with both is much more accurate than with just natural forcing.

One thing that I have never had explained and that I would very much like to understand is this: I believe carbon dioxide and methane are greenhouse gasses effectively because they retain heat more or longer than the Oxygen and Nitrogen that make up the bulk of the atmosphere.

China's environmental record much more mundane things than greenhouse gas emissions, such as lead utilization, agricultural fertilizer and pesticide use, and water use, and treatment, is deplorable.

CO2 also becomes a more effective greenhouse gas at higher atmospheric pressures (even if super-imposed upon several more bars of a non-greenhouse gas like N2 would generate a much stronger GHE by increasing absorption away from line centers).