Sentences with phrase «other than greenhouse gases»

• Some renewables decrease pollution other than greenhouse gases, pollutants that damage human health (as well as ecosystems and agriculture).

Air pollution other than greenhouse gases, and congestion from incorrectly priced fuels, cause an extra $ 57.50 in damage per ton of carbon dioxide, even though it is not the CO2 doing the damage.

IMF says in these countries, air pollution other than greenhouse gases, and congestion from incorrectly priced fuels, cause an extra $ 57.50 in damage per ton of carbon dioxide, although the damage is not from the CO2.

there's not some unknown but significant positive forcing agent other than greenhouse gases that's driving temperature.

They also find that anthropogenic forcings other than greenhouse gases have offset about 60 % of the warming that would have occurred if greenhouse gases had acted on their own.

Results on the importance and contribution from anthropogenic forcings other than greenhouse gases vary more between different approaches.

Such trends mean scientists and policymakers will have to factor in how synthetic climate forcers other than greenhouse gases will change temperature, rainfall and weather extremes.

On the other side, while there will undoubtedly be high costs to any serious attempt at mitigation, this would also require something like a global agreement (covering at least the rich world, India and China, and probably other states with large and currently poor populations) which would inevitably have to bring in issues other than greenhouse gas emissions — such as those you mention — if only because these states will say, reasonably enough, that they can not bring their populations on board without serious help in those other areas.

Prove me wrong: Propose a warming mechansim other than greenhouse gasses that would cool the stratosphere.

RGATES Yes thanks, That much was already clear from your earlier comments though, and doesn't relate to my question — which has I fear has itself become unclear due to my attempts to rephrase it... Anyway, so we understand that there can be factors other than greenhouses gasses warming the earth, but that's not what I'm asking about.

Re: # 50 Well, Propose a warming mechansim other than greenhouse gasses that would cool the stratosphere... I think any will do it!

Not exact matches

«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

This is more than avoiding pesticides and herbicides; it's about energy and water conservation, pest management, wildlife habitat protection and monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions, among other criteria.

Coffee, especially shade coffee, is a global crop that has a relatively lower impact on greenhouse gas emissions and a more positive impact on carbon sequestration than many other crops.There is potential for shade coffee farms to contribute to the mitigation of climate change and generate income for farmers at the same time; I have a previous post that outlines the basics.

(04 August 2015) The paper presents no scientific evidence that organic farms put out more greenhouse gases than other farming systems and uses unfounded assumptions to form conclusions.

We have also made significant strides toward our other 2020 goals to reduce water, energy and greenhouse gas emissions, while implementing more than $ 4.2 million of environmental and facility improvements.

Since 1 January 2005, all uses of methyl bromide, other than for certified Quarantine and Pre-Shipment, approved feedstock applications, or approved under critical use exemptions, have been prohibited in Australia under the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989 (the Act).

When Cuomo and Gore recently announced their support for the cap of 2 degrees (and a 80 % reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050, based on 1990 levels), they sided with the industrial countries led by the US versus more than two - thirds of the others countries and thousands of civil society groups.

These would be even more expensive than just reducing greenhouse gas emissions (and carry other risks which are hard to calculate), but that cost would not be paid by the current greenhouse gas emitters, especially if they can convince the public that it's not their fault.

Staff reductions in Erie County government, fewer coal - fired power generation, energy conservation projects in county office buildings and other measures allowed the county to meet the Paris accord's 26 percent reduction goal in greenhouse gases more than a decade ahead of schedule, according to an inventory County Executive Marc Poloncarz unveiled.

Staff reductions in Erie County government, fewer coal - fired power generation, energy conservation projects in county office buildings and other measures allowed the county to meet the Paris accord's 26 percent reduction goal in greenhouse gases more than a decade ahead of schedule, according to an inventory Poloncarz unveiled Thursday.

Some climate organizations have been critical of companies that invest heavily in RECs, charging that the financial instruments are less effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions than other measures.

A report in Nature stated that in some cases the escape of methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, «could effectively offset the environmental edge that natural gas is said to enjoy over other fossil fuels.»

The question is not just a scientific curiosity, but has real world applications because one mechanism contributes more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than the other.

Algae production consumes more energy, has higher greenhouse gas emissions and uses more water than other biofuel sources, like corn, switch grass and canola, Clarens and his colleagues found by using a statistical model to compare growth data of algae with conventional crops.

Other scientists have criticized the planetary boundaries as too generous (for example, allowing too much human appropriation of freshwater flows) or employing the wrong metric (atmospheric concentrations of CO2 rather than cumulative emissions of greenhouse gases).

A short list of relatively simple actions taken to reduce greenhouse gases other than CO2 could help put the brakes on global warming — if implemented globally

Experts on greenhouse - gas emissions tell me that every time my car burns a gallon of gasoline, I am putting more than 25 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as well as a smaller amount of methane, nitrous oxide, and various other toxic gases.

According to researchers at Oregon State University, having one fewer child reduces a U.S. family's greenhouse gas impact 20 times more than driving a Toyota Prius, using Energy Star appliances and other lifestyle choices combined.

If it is replaced by other farmers boosting their yields more than they otherwise would, spurred by higher prices, you may get a benefit because higher yields absorb more carbon (but it comes at some greenhouse gas costs from fertilizer use and the like).

The research suggests that — contrary to some prior findings — CO2 led the prior round of global warming rather than vice versa, just as it continues to do today thanks to rising emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

Together the dumps emit more of the greenhouse gas methane than any other human - related source.

Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Biofuels use more land area, generate more greenhouse gas emissions, and have a greater impact on the environment than other alternative energy sources such as photovoltaic solar energy, solar thermal energy, or wind power.

Some economists believe a simple tax on greenhouse gas emissions makes more sense than the elaborate cap - and - trade regime for carbon dioxide envisioned by Evolution and other players in the nascent market.

New research finds that livestock emissions are on the rise and that beef cattle are responsible for far more greenhouse gas emissions than other types of animals.

A host of new techniques and technologies will be required to reduce emissions from these sources that includes reusing heat and power generated in manufacturing processes; recycling materials or substituting them; controlling greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide (CO2); and, ultimately, capturing and burying the CO2 produced.

Producing beef for the table releases more heat - trapping greenhouse gases than most people realize — far more, pound for pound, than are generated by the production of most other kinds of food

And to negate some of the advantage this approach automatically gives to electric cars (whose greenhouse emissions include those generated by electric utilities), the award also incorporates other measures in its criteria, including a cap on greenhouse gas emissions of no more than 200 grams per mile.

Together, the other greenhouse gases account for roughly a third of the molecules trapping heat in the atmosphere — and more than a third of the overall warming of average temperatures globally.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tires deliver 25 percent more energy than coal, with an emission profile of greenhouse gases and other pollutants that is about the same, making them acceptable as an industrial fuel.

Cities are not just where 3.5 billion of us live — they are where more than half of humanity uses electricity, drives cars, and throws out garbage, among myriad other activities that emit greenhouse gases.

What's more, cleaning up emissions of some of these other greenhouse gases may prove quite a lot simpler than cutting back on CO2 — forestalling catastrophic climate change.

Doniger notes that Bush has refused to sign on to a plan that calls for a 50 percent cut in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 2050 or to an effort to hold average temperatures from rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, as have been proposed by other countries.

It also means that scientists and other experts are going to have to monitor measures other than just atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases to catch catastrophic climate change developing.

-- Not later than July 1, 2013, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report describing the extent by which the initiative has been enacted and the actual and projected effectiveness of the program under this section, including the energy efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions reductions, cost savings, and safety benefits at manufacturing facilities, power plants, refineries, hospitals, universities, government buildings, and other commercial and industrial locations.

Indeed, the observed warming during the 20th century can not be explained other than by assuming that the models are reasonably accurate in their response to greenhouse gases.

Some, at all latitudes and longitudes, will have the opportunity to redefine their relationship with the carbon cycle, and start removing more greenhouse gases than they emit sooner than others.

In other words, if greenhouse gas emissions continue at current rates, the world would see an extreme La Niña event every 13 years, rather than every 23 years.

Transforming «greenhouse» gas into solid rock may be better than other methods at fighting climate change