Sentences with phrase «offsetting anthropogenic emissions»

Returning carbon to soils and ecosystems has major benefits in addition to offsetting anthropogenic emissions from fossil fuel combustion, land use conversion, soil cultivation, continuous grazing and cement manufacturing.

It's just possible that the natural process could be skewed slightly to help offset anthropogenic emissions.

Not exact matches

They can accumulate large quantities of carbon, for example, which helps partially offset anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Moreover, Shindell et al. found that anthropogenic ozone depletion (via chlorofluorocarbon emissions) may have reduced the impact of UV variability on the climate, and may have even offset it entirely.

Such is the case for the explanation — popular with the press when it was first proposed — that an increase in aerosol emissions, particularly from China, was acting to help offset the warming influence of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.

• More than 100 % (i.e. GHG warming has been partly offset by aerosol cooling) • Between 76 % and 100 % • Between 51 % and 76 % • Between 26 % and 50 % • Between 0 and 25 % • Less than 0 % (i.e. anthropogenic GHG emissions have caused cooling) • There has been no warming • Unknown due to lack of knowledge • I do not know • Other (please specify)

And for this the researchers have an explanation — and a funny way of expressing that: the drop from El Niño to La Niña, together with declining solar insulation caused the cooling, because «rapid growth in short - lived sulphur emissions partially offsets rising greenhouse gas concentrations» — thus creating a smaller net anthropogenic climate forcing.

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.

Regardless of whether early land use significantly affected global climate, understanding the global role of land use in determining the onset and magnitude of anthropogenic climate change is critical for gauging the climatic impact of current and future modifications of the terrestrial biosphere, including efforts to offset fossil fuel emissions by reducing deforestation (114).

Clearly, anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are a serious problem, but these are better estimated directly [37] than by calculating a «number of planets» needed to offset emissions.

SGE deployment increases gradually over time and ends up being deployed at up to a 50 % intensity — that is, it offsets about one - half of the radiative forcing caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

Moreover, Shindell et al. found that anthropogenic ozone depletion (via chlorofluorocarbon emissions) may have reduced the impact of UV variability on the climate, and may have even offset it entirely.

This suggests to me that the long term trend is due to an increase in radiative forcing from anthropogenic emissions (partly offset by environmental uptake), but the short term variations are due to the modulation of the NNFI by the ENSO (which limits the partial uptake of anthropogenic emissions).

Finally, the last argument that climate hawks would employ is that anthropogenic effects, specifically emission of SO2 aerosols and carbon black, have been reflecting sunlight and offsetting the global warming effect.