Sentences with phrase «of changes in greenhouse gas»

If we assume for a moment that the ENSO variability and volcanoes are independent of any change in greenhouse gases or solar variability (reasonable for volcanoes, debatable for ENSO), then the work by Foster and Rahmstorf, or Thompson et al (2009) to remove those signals will reveal the underlying trends that will be easier to attribute to the forcings.

Furthermore, the whole «If we assume for a moment that the ENSO variability and volcanoes are independent of any change in greenhouse gases or solar variability» doesn't sit very well with me on multiple levels, thus using it to set up an argument seems spurious.

The authors find that the results from each of these analyses are consistent, showing that the effects of changes in greenhouse gases, aerosols and other anthropogenic forcings on the climate of the Arctic region can be detected.

Not exact matches

Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases, which trap heat in the atmosphere and exacerbate climate change.

The report in Monday's edition of the journal Nature Climate Change dents many governments» hopes that recession can at least bring the consolation of a sharp contraction in greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

«Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said in a statement.

However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.

This would mean significant change to the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and would slow down the rate of warming.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

In the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emissionIn the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emissionin the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.

«This funding and the demonstration project ensure that Ontario will continue to lead in the development of smart grid technology,» said Bob Leigh, President, Prolucid Technologies Inc. «Utilities globally face significant challenges to change the model of power consumption, reducing greenhouse gases and increasing the efficiency of the grid.

As the Climate Science Special Report states, the magnitude of future climate change depends significantly on «remaining uncertainty in the sensitivity of Earth's climate to [greenhouse gas] emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday in a statement.

By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal Kvisle Published in the Hill Times — December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal KvislePublished in the Hill Times - December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how...

And, of course, those commitments and associated domestic measures are just Canada's means to achieve the ends of contributing to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids the dangerous climate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agrechange, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris AgreChange and reiterated in the Paris Agreement.

The technologies — which can repay the cost of their installation in as little as two years — will be explained by Mr Bambridge, who has decades of experience in assisting organisations manage energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and the impacts of climate change.

World scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agree that we need to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by 80 per cent by 2050 in order to have a chance of avoiding catastrophic climate cChange agree that we need to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by 80 per cent by 2050 in order to have a chance of avoiding catastrophic climate changechange.

Changes in food related greenhouse gas emissions will be quantified and reported in a format that you can use in communications with your customers / students, and also as part of any wider greenhouse gas reduction strategy your school or institution may have.

The global energy sector is in the midst of a significant transition, driven by new technologies, changing consumer preferences, and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

As you see, food waste is the largest waste stream going to landfills in the US, accounting for 21 percent of the American waste stream and contributing to climate change as food waste in landfills decomposes and generates methane, a very powerful greenhouse gas.

Granted, there are more benefits to reducing particulate and greenhouse gas emissions than just climate change, i.e. PM 2.5 which can be stuck in the human lung and cause cancer / respiratory issues, SO2 which contributes to acid rain (we've already eliminated the majority of this problem), as well as soot (nobody wants the surrounding area covered in ash).

The Climate Change Act 2008 sets legally binding emission reduction targets for 2020 (reduction of 34 % in greenhouse gas emissions) and for 2050 (reduction of at least 80 percent in greenhouse gas emissions); the Act also introduces five - yearly carbon budgets to help ensure these targets are met.

Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said, «The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative has been an incredible success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change in New York and the Northeast, while supporting thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of investments in sustainable developmentGreenhouse Gas Initiative has been an incredible success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change in New York and the Northeast, while supporting thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of investments in sustainable development projecGas Initiative has been an incredible success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change in New York and the Northeast, while supporting thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of investments in sustainable developmentgreenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change in New York and the Northeast, while supporting thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of investments in sustainable development projecgas emissions that contribute to global climate change in New York and the Northeast, while supporting thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of investments in sustainable development projects.

A climate - change report being released on Wednesday by the mainline Democratic conference in the Senate calls for a 100 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by the middle part of this century.

The Climate Change Act 2008 made the UK the first country in the world to set legally binding targets of greenhouse gases reduction.

Unveiled late Friday by the state Public Service Commission, a cost analysis of the plan projects it could cost the state more than $ 3.6 billion through 2030 to reach ambitious clean energy goals backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but reductions in climate - changing greenhouse gases would create benefits worth more than $ 8 billion.

We'll need to come back to this at the next conference of the climate change convention, to be held in Doha this December — a curious choice, given Qatar's position close to the top of the league table for greenhouse gas emissions per head.

We have increased our investment in measures to improve the energy efficiency of Scotland's homes which, in addition to making fuel bills cheaper, has also helped to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from housing, consistent with our ambitions to combat climate change.

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President Obama's landmark agreement with China to cut greenhouse gas pollution is a bet by the president and Democrats that on the issue of climate change, American voters are far ahead of Washington's warring factions and that the environment will be a winning cause in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Cuomo can aim for his aggressive goals to reduce climate - changing greenhouse gas emissions in the state, or he can see a network of proposed new natural gas pipelines built.

Republican state lawmakers in the Senate are pushing a $ 100 million bailout of the state's nuclear power industry using funds from a climate change program meant to cut greenhouse gases from power plants.

Compiled by scientists at 13 federal agencies, it contains the results of thousands of studies showing that climate change caused by greenhouse gases is affecting weather in every part of the United States, causing average temperatures to rise dramatically since the 1980s.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;

Shelley also believes that climate change denial is a hurting our future and supported Climate and Community Protection Act, a bill that would help put New York on track to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change through a reduction in statewide greenhouse gas emissions and improve the resiliency of the state with respect to the impacts and risks of climate change.

«technology - driven, market - based solutions that will decrease emissions, reduce excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, increase energy efficiency, mitigate the impact of climate change where it occurs, and maximize any ancillary benefits climate change might offer for the economy.»

While leading the Office of Climate Change, Mr. Iwanowicz's oversaw the State's participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

The main cause of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), which trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet.

It flies in the face of science, fairness, common sense and the Governor's own greenhouse gas reduction targets to build new fracked gas power plants at a time when climate change is the most pressing issue facing our nation and the world.

Dina Kruger, former director of EPA's Climate Change Division, said in a recent interview that industries like the greenhouse gas inventory.

For example, my industry — the ski business — could eliminate all its greenhouse gas emissions, but we'd still go out of business in less than 100 years if the rest of the world doesn't change.

AAAS Submits Comments and the AAAS Board Statement on Climate Change in Response to the EPA's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Clean Air Act.

It allows greenhouse gases to increase for another decade until the commitments each country made (known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs) mature in 2025 or 2030 and it provides very few specific targets with the exception of a financial target that «strongly urges» wealthy countries to contribute ($ 100 billion / year by 2020) to support developing countries that are suffering the consequences of climate change but don't have the ability to adapt to it.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develoChange], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develochange, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develochange; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develochange and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.

Polar latitudes hold secrets into the earths's past climate, secrets Berry Lyons believes may provide insights into the implications of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and better models of future climate change.

That's why we have to look at the balance in terms of what is cheaper: Can we reduce emissions of greenhouse gases today so that we can stabilize the earth's climate, rather than adapt to the impacts of climate change and incur much higher costs over a period of time?

Biello: A lot of scientists that I've spoken to think we have no chance of meeting 450 ppm given that we haven't done hardly anything to change our course and there are other scientists who say that we have already well past kind of the safe point for concentration of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

This means that the science of climate change may partially undergo a shift of its own, moving from trying to prove it is a problem (it is now «very likely» that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already caused enough warming to trigger stronger droughts, heat waves, more and bigger forest fires and more extreme storms and flooding) to figuring out ways to fix it.

Tebaldi and co-author Pierre Friedlingstein, of the University of Exeter, analyzed when scientists would be able to detect the difference between a scenario known as RCP 2.6, where greenhouse gas emissions are curbed quickly, versus two other scenarios outlined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports.