Sentences with phrase «offset global greenhouse»

Therefore, it certainly does not offset global greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation.

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This may have helped offset greenhouse warming from about 1940 to 1980, when global temperatures rose little before rising steeply.

Paying firms to destroy a potent greenhouse gas sounds like a good way to help combat global warming, but a coalition of outside groups says these companies are deliberately producing more of the waste just to earn offset credits

Scientists know that the clouds can act as a sunshield, cooling parts of the globe and offsetting the global warming caused by the greenhouse effect (see «Not warming, but cooling», New Scientist, 9 July 1994).

As roughly 30 percent of global permafrost carbon is concentrated within 7 percent of the permafrost region in Alaska, Canada, and Siberia, this study's findings also renew scientific interest in how carbon uptake by thermokarst lakes offsets greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

They tend to believe that as the planet warms, low - level cloud cover will increase, thus increasing planetary albedo (overall reflectiveness of the Earth), offsetting the increased greenhouse effect and preventing a dangerous level of global warming from occurring.

«A rapid cutback in greenhouse gas emissions could speed up global warming... because current global warming is offset by global dimming — the 2 - 3ºC of cooling cause by industrial pollution, known to scientists as aerosol particles, in the atmosphere.»

Global average surface temperatures are not expected to change significantly although temperatures at higher latitudes may be expected to decrease to a modest extent because of a reduction in the efficiency of meridional heat transport (offsetting the additional warming anticipated for this environment caused by the build - up of greenhouse gases).

To help reduce global economic inequality along with greenhouse gas emissions from its corporate travel, travel giant Expedia, Inc. has invested in four community - owned carbon offset projects from the global nonprofit Carbon Offsets to Alleviate Poverty (COTAP).

«The study did not look at greenhouse gases because they are not local air pollutants, and they can be offset globally by purchasing credits elsewhere in the world where the cost may be less to achieve the reduction» — Global warming from greenhouse gases is HOAX!

Thus a grand solar minimum would have to cause about 1 °C cooling, plus it would have to offset the continued human - caused global warming between 1 and 5 °C by 2100, depending on how our greenhouse gas emissions change over the next century.

The second contrarian argument we investigated involved the claim that the global climate is not very sensitive to the increased greenhouse effect because the planet has some sort of natural climate response that will offset global warming.

«For the purposes of decreasing the likelihood of catastrophic climate change, preserving tropical forests, building capacity to generate offset credits, and facilitating international action on global warming, the Administrator shall set aside the percentage specified in section 781 of the quantity of emission allowances established under section 721 (a) for each year, to be used to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries in accordance with part E.

First off, I would have to find validity in CO2 being a miraculous greenhouse gas that could provide the extra insulating properties to retain the heat needed to offset such a global cooling trend.

28 May 2014 Washington, D.C. In a bid to reduce their contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, corporate leaders like Chevrolet, Marks & Spencer, and Allianz continued to voluntarily purchase carbon offsets in 2013, locking 76 million metric tonnes of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, according to the annual State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets report, previewed by Forest Trends» Ecosystem Marketplace this week in Cologne, Germany.

28 May 2014 Washington, D.C. In a bid to reduce their contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, corporate leaders like Chevrolet, Marks & Spencer, and Allianz continued to voluntarily purchase carbon offsets in 2013, locking 76 million metric tonnes of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, according to the annual State of the -LSB-...]

All of these studies find that humans are responsible for close to 100 % of the observed global warming over the past 50 years, and human greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for close to 150 % of the observed warming, with human aerosol (sulfur dioxide - SO2) emissions offsetting approximately one - third to one - half of that greenhouse warming.

«In our mor recent global model simulations the ocean heat - uptake is slower than previously estimated, the ocean uptake of carbon is weaker, feedbacks from the land system as temperature rises are stronger, cumulative emissions of greenhouse gases over the century are higher, and offsetting cooling from aerosol emissions is lower.

We show that although increases in greenhouse - gas concentrations have driven the observed warming over the past century, approximately 60 % of the greenhouse - gas - induced warming has been offset by the combined response to other anthropogenic forcings, which is substantially greater than the fraction of global greenhouse - gas - induced warming that has been offset by these forcings.

Efforts at reducing greenhouse gases from the global aviation industry might mean that airlines buy offsets, including forestry credits, to offset emissions from 2020.

Solar Radiation Management (SRM) or «albedo modification» is a class of technologies that could lower global average temperatures and offset some of the worst impacts of climate change by reflecting a portion of incoming solar radiation back into space before that radiation could be trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Perhaps it's due to a smaller global energy imbalance due to more aerosol cooling and lower solar activity offsetting more of the greenhouse gas - caused warming.

Eventually other earth processes offset these positive feedbacks, stabilizing the global temperature at a new equilibrium and preventing the loss of Earth's water through a Venus - like runaway greenhouse effect.

Solar geoengineering, the goal of which is to offset the global warming caused by greenhouse gases, involves reflecting sunlight back into space.

So, in order to trigger another LIA, a new grand solar minimum would have to cause about 1 °C cooling, plus it would have to offset the continued human - caused global warming of 1 to 5 °C by 2100, depending on how our greenhouse gas emissions change over the next century.

Carbon offsets let you pay to reduce the global greenhouse gas total instead of making radical reductions of your own.

It's obvious to those whose eyes are open that without continued greenhouse - gas warming to offset these natural factors, we would have seen a notable decline in global temperature «since 1998.»