Sentences with phrase «of potential warming»

The new report lowered the bottom end of the range of potential warming that could be expected to occur over the long term if the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere were to double, reversing a decision that the panel made in the last report and restoring a scientific consensus that had prevailed from 1979 to 2007.

Samset thinks the immediate health benefits of curbing air pollution mean that China will likely stick to these efforts, in spite of the potential warming effects.

Positive feedback means runaway warming «One of the oft - cited predictions of potential warming is that a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from pre-industrial levels — from 280 to 560 parts per million — would alone cause average global temperature to increase by about 1.2 °C.

Scientists have been interested in the effects of pollution on Arctic clouds because of their potential warming effect.

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Regulators accused Trader Joe's of failing to promptly fix leaks of R - 22, which is used as a refrigerator coolant but also depletes the ozone and has 1,800 times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide.

Given Tesla Motors Inc's (NASDAQ: TSLA) potential positive catalysts, including the January 4 launch of Gigafactory, a potential Model 3 launch in the summer of 2017 and depressed sentiment on the name, Pacific Crest's Brad Erickson is «warming to the name.»

«For anyone driven crazy by the faux warm and fuzzy PR of the so - called sharing economy Steven Hill's Raw Deal: How the «Uber Economy» and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.»

As parties to the Montreal Protocol consider an amendment to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), one critical concern is the availability of zero - or low - global warming potential (low - GWP) alternatives to replace high - global warming potential (GWP) HFCs.

Furthermore, efforts at oil giant Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A, +0.62 % to move beyond fossil fuels into low - carbon energy is as much driven by the growth potential of alternative energy markets as a concern for global warming.

warm support and affirmation of the person's potential capacities for coping.

Friendship between humans, the potential fecundity in the intimacy between sexual lovers, and the warm relationship of a mother and her child are each fragments of the Divine love.

Once wasted food reaches landfills, it produces methane, a gas with 21 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide.

The LCA examined the effects of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.

When food waste decomposes in a landfill, it generates methane, a potent greenhouse gas with 21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.

Despite surging energy prices and ever - spreading carbon taxes to counter global warming, many primary processing industries are still pouring potential profit down the drain by overlooking the green energy potential of waste water.

Latest Forecast Suggests «Godzilla El Niño» May Be Coming to California: The strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched California...

Ospina was the man to warm the bench for the former Chelsea star this term, but he is believed to have grown frustrated with his lack of football, and is said to be «determined» to leave the club with Everton and Besiktas named as potential suitors.

The odds are against that exact scenario happening, even considering the imbalanced schedule, but the very potential of it has to warm hearts around Texas.

The weather in Houston calls for a warm February day, though pockets of thunderstorms loping across the state brought the potential of a rainy backdrop for the big game.

Poldi could be being tactical and on the one hand trying to warm the Arsenal fans, whilst on the other trying to up the ante with regards to one of his potential suitors giving him an improved offer.

As I mentioned previously Wenger's faith in the goalkeeper has provided us with the potential of a unique and rather heart - warming story: an opportunity for a player to fight for redemption despite being written off by almost everyone.

Any area on an unwrapped mattress where a baby sleeps is a potential source of toxic gas, since that is the area which becomes warm and moist (promoting the fungal activity which can cause gas generation).

He has worked with hundreds of clients in his private practice in Greenwich Village, NY and around the world, gaining a reputation for drawing out the best potential in people and organizations through his warm, genuine, insightful, solution focused style.

While the operating instructions of the Munchkin bottle warmer are relatively straightforward, parents and caregivers must be careful to use these devices correctly to avoid potential injuries from overheated liquids.

The only major potential drawback of baby wipe warmers is the simple fact that they are a piece of electrical equipment that heats up and is often in close contact to water and wet surfaces.

A reader who attended the Livingston County GOP dinner last Friday night sent this photo of the evening's keynote speaker, former US Attorney Michael Garcia, a potential 2014 state attorney general candidate, who reportedly received a very warm welcome from a crowd of roughly 500 people.

«A modest reduction in flows at Hinckley right now will alleviate any further threat from current low levels and the potential impact of the warm - weather months to come.

As the statewide vote approached, opponents warned that new casinos would exacerbate addictive gambling, while good - government groups cried foul after the state Board of Elections approved ballot language that included a warm description of the potential benefits of the change («promoting job growth, increasing aid to schools, and permitting local governments to lower property taxes») but none of the possible drawbacks.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged New Yorkers to take precautions against potential flooding in the wake of warmer temperatures and freezing rain expected across the state Thursday and Friday.

The first listed the potential candidates and asked respondents to say how they rated them on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 meaning respondents felt «very cold & unfavourable» toward them, and 10 meaning they felt «very warm & favourable».

Jing Helmersson shows in her doctoral dissertation that if climate change is held within the framework of the Paris agreement on a maximum of two degrees of warming, the Aedes aegypti mosquito will only be provided the potential to spread in southern small regions of Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece.

For the last 2.5 million years, Earth settled into a rather unusual period of potential instability as we rocked back and forth between ice ages and intervening warm periods, or interglacials.

«Although most of the macrophyte carbon is released back to the atmosphere in the same form that it is assimilated, carbon dioxide, some of it is actually exported to the ocean as dissolved carbon or released to the atmosphere as methane, a gas that has a warming potential 20 times larger than carbon dioxide,» said John Melack, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The findings suggest that effective new greenhouse gas controls could help lessen the effects of climate change on the release of carbon from soils of the northern permafrost region and therefore decrease the potential for a positive feedback of permafrost carbon release on climate warming.

«In sperm whales, and likely other whales and dolphins, culture has the potential to affect population biology, and so issues as diverse as genetic evolution and the impacts of global warming on the species.»

The gas has a global warming potential 86 times that of carbon dioxide on a 20 - year time scale.

The research adds one important data point to the ongoing question of how much methane, a greenhouse gas with a warming potential 25 times that of carbon dioxide, is emitted in the life cycle of natural gas production, transport and use.

Dr Meleady, a lecturer in psychology, added: «If similar interventions were to be implemented in comparable situations in other cities and countries, the potential contribution to reducing air pollution, improving short and long term health, and reducing effects of global warming could be substantial.»

Excessive swings in the world's climate patterns include the potential of increasing global warming and sea level rise.

The researchers detected a «significant regional flux» of methane, a greenhouse gas with about 30 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 100 - year period, coming from an area of gas wells in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Bill Easterling Dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, Easterling studies global warming and its potential effects on the world's food supply.

[So] there is potential that these tremendous stores of carbon in these soils can be a positive feedback for more warming.»

«Moreover, the latest developments in climate science lend greater urgency to the case for action: Effects on natural systems are already being observed and recent findings concerning the potential scope and magnitude of damages from future warming are increasingly worrisome,» the report says.

Geoengineering — the intentional manipulation of the climate to counter the effect of global warming by injecting aerosols artificially into the atmosphere — has been mooted as a potential way to deal with climate change.

Under the worst - case scenario (RCP 8.5), which assumes that greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century, the authors show the potential for extremely large net increases in temperature - related mortality in the warmer regions of the world.

The DOE panel found too little analysis and data on the potential global warming impact of a long - term gas boom in the United States, and it called on industry and government to work together on a comprehensive study.

The extensive methane seep mounds across the remote arctic island of Ellef Ringnes may be a caution from the past regarding potential impacts of modern warming of the Arctic Ocean.

A team at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) examined the potential distribution of over 900 species of shelf - dwelling marine invertebrates under a warming scenario produced by computer models.

Inertia toward continued emissions creates potential 21st - century global warming that is comparable in magnitude to that of the largest global changes in the past 65 million years but is orders of magnitude more rapid.

But perhaps trumping all of these examples is the potential disastrous health effects of global warming.