Sentences with phrase «negative emissions because»

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Keith, who has since helped launch a direct air capture company, says the modelers seized on BECCS because it was one of the few ways to simulate negative emissions — and negative emissions were one of the few ways to try to keep warming below 2 °C.

Thus, only human - made emissions, such as factory and car secretions, could cause runaway global climate change because they lack natural negative feedbacks to balance them.

Peters co-authored a paper published last year warning that staking the future only on negative emissions technologies presents a «moral hazard» because they're unproven, there is a substantial risk that the technology can't be scaled up, and it may allow policymakers to think that weaning humanity away from fossil fuels is not urgent.

The debate over how to meet the Paris goals «should be broader», the lead author tells Carbon Brief, because there are risks to relying on negative emissions from BECCS.

The shale gas in recent exploration in the United States, that could meet the domestic demand of the country for natural gas at current levels of consumption for over 100 years, is extremely negative for the environment because it generates half the carbon emissions from coal, and pollutes the sheets underground aquifers.

As the negative forcings have a shorter shelf - life, the immediate result of removing CO2 emissions will be a big rise in net positive forcing because the short shelf - life negative forcings will disappear unmasking the full positive CO2 forcings.

In particular, these models love a technology called «bioenergy carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS)» because it has negative emissions — you grow biomass, harvest it and burn it for electricity, and then store the pollution underground.

We will not get to negative emissions without regenerative agriculture because we need the gt's it first make unnecesary, then the ones the ggt's they sequester.

The estimated SCC can be quite large, small, or even negative — the latter meaning that greenhouse gas emissions should arguably be subsidized because they benefit humanity — depending on defensible adjustments of the inputs to the analysis.

Similarly, because nearly any plausible scenario would require a large amount of negative emissions later in the century, the carbon budget itself is not a hard cap on emissions.

Right, the most significant positive and negative feedbacks because it's the primary driver of the radiation balance for both absorption, reflection and emission, especially if you count the surface - lower troposphere system.

Because it is a topic that's kind of reared up after the Paris Agreement, where suddenly we have this focus on 1.5 C, and we now realise, once we've looked under the bonnet of these models, that most of them do heavily rely, even the 2C ones, on negative emissions.

The most likely method of achieving negative emissions, biomass with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), is controversial because it might require very large areas of land to be set aside for fast - growing trees or other biomass crops.

The standard economic approach to carbon dioxide emissions treats them as a «negative externality» because they reputedly will lead to harmful climate change in the future.

You can tell because 350 pathways require that global emissions go negative (think large - scale biological sequestration) in about 50 years.

One can make this quite a bit more complicated, because as you correctly note the magnitude of the gross fluxes (e.g., natural sinks) isn't independent of the atmospheric concentration, so one can't just say that if we removed all human emissions the net natural flux would still be negative and atmospheric CO2 would be decreasing.

Mr. Ahmad said the price falls would be negative in the medium - term because, once the economy bounced back, emissions would be higher at that point than they would have been, had changes been made earlier.

Because there are no good markets for these industrial negative emissions projects today, the only viable way for companies to develop and test the components for these solutions today is through CCS projects like Petra Nova (e.g. on a coal power plant with the CO2 utilized to drill for more oil).

Weak negative correlations were found between the mean annual NCEP RH and cirrus over oceans, but again, most of the data over oceans are in the air traffic corridors where contrail formation and raw aircraft emissions could affect the cirrus trends more than over land because of greater susceptibility in the more pristine marine air.

The first order human forcings that are negative (e.g., sulphate emissions) and mask some of the CO2 forcing increase the risks of AGW; if they decrease because of Peak Oil, or economic changes, or are eliminated because of other adverse effects they have, the warming impact of the CO2 we're adding to the atmosphere will be even larger.

For even if the models are proven to be wrong with respect to their predictions of atmospheric warming, extreme weather, glacial melt, sea level rise, or any other attendant catastrophe, those who seek to regulate and reduce CO2 emissions have a fall - back position, claiming that no matter what happens to the climate, the nations of the Earth must reduce their greenhouse gas emissions because of projected direct negative impacts on marine organisms via ocean acidification.