Sentences with phrase «on human emissions»

Future atmospheric CO2 is not determined entirely on human emissions.

A continuing negative feedback carbon cycle response, in conjunction with restraint on human emissions, plus some luck with experiencing the lower ranges of climate sensitivity, could lead to climate change of, let's say, 2 °C.

Yet according to official climate models, even if the U.S. enacted an immediate and total ban on all human emissions of greenhouse gases, the difference in global temperature by the year 2050 would be a mere five one - hundredths of a degree Celsius.

That is why deciding whether or not extreme weather events can be blamed on human emissions is so important.

If you had a case you'd be able to give a similar example where the rise isn't predicated on the human emission.

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Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

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.

Our research focuses on biologically - based mechanisms to reduce pest issues, soil erosion, fossil fuel use, and greenhouse gas emissions; increase nutrient and water use efficiencies; improve pollinator activity and food security; and apply a systems approach to soil, crop, animal, human and planetary health.

As well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resources.

Given the knowledge that they are crapping in their own habitat with their carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning on Earth, I'd like to think humans have gained an evolutionary advantage which canines lack.

Many noted that even though Tillerson parts ways with Trump in saying that human - caused emissions at least play a role in driving warming, his refusal to discuss Exxon Mobil's role in obscuring climate research and his caution on U.S. leadership on global climate engagement helped fuel Democratic opposition to his confirmation.

Pruitt is currently participating in a lawsuit against the EPA's regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and denies the overwhelming scientific consensus on human - caused climate change.

Nanoparticle emissions from traffic have a major effect on the quality of indoor air and human health.

«Despite some reductions in air pollutant emissions in Europe and North America, human health impacts from ozone are still a cause for concern across the world and are rising in parts of East Asia, with the potential for serious health effects on their populations,» said Zo?

Altogether, the unreported and underreported sources account for about 12 percent of all human - made emissions of sulfur dioxide — a discrepancy that can have a large impact on regional air quality, said McLinden.

Greenpeace is accusing one of the nation's largest conglomerates of sowing confusion around scientific assertions behind climate change, a broadside that comes amid waning public engagement on human - caused emissions.

ScienceInsider reported this week that the U.S. Senate rejected a resolution last week that would have blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions based on its finding that they endanger human health, among other stories.

«It's one of the clearest examples of how humans are actually changing the intensity of storm processes on Earth through the emission of particulates from combustion,» said Joel Thornton, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle and lead author of the new study in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

On the current trajectory, greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trains, ships and airplanes may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate changOn the current trajectory, greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trains, ships and airplanes may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate changon mitigation of climate change.

«This is a problem because forests currently take up about 25 percent of human emissions of CO2, which is an incredible break on climate change.»

Cooney himself made 294 edits to the administration's 364 - page Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program posted July 24, 2003, «to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming,» and Cooney and the CEQ played a role in eliminating climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report.

But while wildfires are estimated to contribute about 18 percent of the total PM2.5 emissions in the U.S., many questions remain on how these emissions will affect human populations, including how overall air quality will be affected, how these levels will change under climate change, and which regions are to most likely to be impacted.

«Speed reductions, which are known to reduce emissions, would need to be maintained over a very long - term period in order to produce regional air quality benefits,» said James Corbett, a professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, who has studied the impact of the shipping industry on human health.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — In the run - up to national elections on 21 August, the country's top science body, the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), has weighed in on the climate change debate with a report backing the mainstream scientific view that human - induced climate change is real and that a business - as - usual approach to carbon emissions will lead to a «catastrophic» four - to five - degree increase in average global temperatures.

«Even without the catalytic mufflers, there are much lower emissions of air pollutants that can have adverse effects on human health and promote the formation of smog.»

Human activities that act on the crust are likely to multiply in the future, Wilson noted, as projects to tap into geothermal sources of energy and to store carbon dioxide emissions become more widespread.

The team discovered that the human impact on biogenic methane and nitrous oxide emissions far outweighed the human impact on the terrestrial uptake of carbon dioxide, meaning that humans have caused the terrestrial biosphere to further contribute to warming.

The scientists looked at the so - called biogenic fluxes or flow of the three greenhouse gases on land that were caused by human activities over the last three decades and subtracted out emissions that existed «naturally» during pre-industrial times.

The study supports calls for improved monitoring of wetlands and human changes to those ecosystems — a timely topic as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepares to examine land use impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, says Prof. Merritt Turetsky, Department of Integrative Biology.

Scientists can confidently say that Earth is warming due to greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans, but data on climate trends over the Antarctic and the surrounding Southern Ocean only go back to 1979 when regular satellite observations began.

It was clear that climate change is an energy problem — burning fossil fuels to generate energy accounts for 74 per cent of human - made greenhouse gas emissions — but I could see that it was very difficult to change the energy industry from the outside and very little was happening on the inside.

The authors of the new study, Steven Smith and Andrew Mizrahi, both climate analysts at the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, argue that for one thing, the earlier work assumes that dramatic cuts in methane and soot emissions are feasible based on shifting technologies and changes in human behavior.

The projected increases in human population also cast doubt on whether the emission goals can be reached at all.

And such techniques might be capable, at best, of sequestering one billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year (based on the extent of iron - deficient waters around the globe), compared with annual human emissions of more than eight billion metric tons and rising.

But based on that data, they estimate that emissions from abandoned wells represents as much as 10 percent of methane from human activities in Pennsylvania — about the same amount as caused by current oil and gas production.

The study also focuses attention on Texas and nearby states as a source of nearly a quarter of the country's human - related methane emissions.

Titled «Modeling Sustainability: Population, Inequality, Consumption, and Bidirectional Coupling of the Earth and Human Systems,» the paper describes how the rapid growth in resource use, land - use change, emissions, and pollution has made humanity the dominant driver of change in most of the Earth's natural systems, and how these changes, in turn, have critical feedback effects on humans with costly and serious consequences, including on human health and well - being, economic growth and development, and even human migration and societal confHuman Systems,» the paper describes how the rapid growth in resource use, land - use change, emissions, and pollution has made humanity the dominant driver of change in most of the Earth's natural systems, and how these changes, in turn, have critical feedback effects on humans with costly and serious consequences, including on human health and well - being, economic growth and development, and even human migration and societal confhuman health and well - being, economic growth and development, and even human migration and societal confhuman migration and societal conflict.

Understanding the role rivers play in the carbon cycle can help researchers model non-natural (or human - caused) carbon emissions and more accurately assess the impact these emissions have on the atmosphere, he said.

But sulfur emissions, which are hazardous to human health and can lead to acid rain, are on the wane.

We could drastically cut back on human - generated carbon emissions without giving up on an energy source that could last us a century or more.

That is roughly 10 times the amount of all human - caused mercury emissions over the last 30 years, based on emissions estimates from 2016.

Considering that human activity has indirectly brought together species through planetary warming and increased fossil fuel emissions, the question on the minds of many biologists like Arnold is whether humans should play a role in preventing hybridization like this.

In the time since the 2007 version of this report, the human effect on the climate has grown more than 40 percent stronger, thanks to continued emissions of greenhouse gases and more precision in measurements, with carbon dioxide leading the charge.

But the paper «Political influences on greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. states» adds what the MSU researchers say is an important layer to understanding human impact on climate change.

WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters)- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said greenhouse gases from aircraft endanger human health, taking the first step toward regulating emissions from the domestic aviation industry.

Application is an environmental issue in industrialized countries like the United States because of high energy input, increased greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and other adverse effects on ecosystems and human health.

This will also require an improved knowledge of the mechanisms controlling the degradation, preservation and emissions of carbon along the aquatic continuum to fully understand the impact of human activity on carbon transfer.

Decisions made today are made in the context of confident projections of future warming with continued emissions, but clearly there is more to do to better characterize the human and economic consequences of delaying action on climate change and how to frame these issues in the context of other concerns.

Human emissions however are on the decline in many countries due to more strict pollution controls on power plants like burning low - sulfur fuel and technological advances to remove it during and after combustion.

While this number is higher than the previous estimate made in the late 1990s based on ground measurements, the new research includes data on more volcanoes, including some that scientists have never visited, and it is still lower than human emissions of sulfur dioxide pollution levels.