Sentences with phrase «offset effects of greenhouse gases»

Solar radiation management attempts to offset effects of greenhouse gases by causing Earth to absorb less solar radiation.

Not exact matches

Overall these aerosol effects promote cooling that could offset the warming effect of long - lived greenhouse gases to some extent.

Scientists knew about the warming effects of greenhouse gases, but proponents of global cooling argued that greenhouse warming would be more than offset by Earth's orbital changes.

Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns, heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.

(I think that an anomalously warm ocean surface heated from below would lead to more evaporation, and the additional water vapor would give a positive greenhouse effect that would partially offset the effect of a drop in greenhouse gas concentrations.)

Multi-signal detection and attribution analyses, which quantify the contributions of different natural and anthropogenic forcings to observed changes, show that greenhouse gas forcing alone during the past half century would likely have resulted in greater than the observed warming if there had not been an offsetting cooling effect from aerosol and other forcings.

Thus it is entirely unsurprising that these short - term effects all aligning in the cooling direction in recent years have offset much of the surface warming caused by human greenhouse gas emissions.

As the CO2 and CH4 (methane) level goes up, H2O vapour in the atmosphere falls which — because H2O is 30 times more important than CO2 as a «greenhouse gas» offsets the effect of CO2 on temperature, while cloud cover and albedo increases because warmed moist air rises to form clouds, further cooling the world.

«It isn't the case, of course, that carbon - emission controls are the only policy response to climate change risks; technologies that furnish a substitute for and that offset the effects of greenhouse - gas - producing energy sources can contribute, too,» wrote Kahan and his colleagues.

Yesterday, we released our annual survey of the voluntary carbon markets, which takes stock of what individuals, corporations, and governments have been doing to offset their greenhouse - gas emissions until the Paris Agreement takes effect — which could happen as early as next year.

Which points out the anemic effect that U.S. greenhouse gas reductions will have on the climate of the U.S. and just how easily the whims of foreign nations, not to mention Mother Nature, can completely offset any climate changes induced by our greenhouse gas emissions reductions.»

By reflecting the sun's rays back to space, these cool materials also release less heat into the atmosphere, thus cooling the planet and offsetting the warming effects of substantial amounts of greenhouse gas emissions.

Declining solar insolation as part of a normal eleven - year cycle, and a cyclical change from an El Nino to a La Nina dominate our measure of anthropogenic effects because rapid growth in short - lived sulfur emissions partially offsets rising greenhouse gas concentrations.

At this time, there will be a lesser offset of the positive greenhouse effects of the halocarbons and the other well - mixed greenhouse gases (WMO, 1999).

16 November 2010 Governors from the US state of California, the Brazilian state of Acre, and the Mexican state of Chiapas have taken concrete steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) by creating a working group designed to help Acre and Chiapas generate REDD credits that can be recognized by California's Air Resources Board (ARB) and sold as offsets to industrial emitters in California once the state's mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions goes into effect at the end of next year.

The resulting simulations show the cooling contribution of aerosols offset the ongoing warming effect of increasing greenhouse gases over the mid-twentieth century in that part of the Arctic.

By absorbing less sunlight than either green or black roofs, white roofs offset a portion of the warming effect from greenhouse gas emissions...

If we add in the warming effects of the other long - lived greenhouse gases, the best estimate rises to 1.22 °C surface warming caused by human emissions (we've only observed ~ 0.8 °C warming because much of that has been offset by human aerosol emissions).

There is substantial question as to the behavior of a minute amount of a trace gas in an atmospheric / hydrological system the basic effect of which is to move immense amounts of heat and moisture from point A to point B. For example, a 10 % reduction in humidity in the upper troposphere is enough to offset the entire greenhouse effect of all the atmospheric CO2 above 160 ppm, which is the minimum level needed to sustain life.