Sentences with phrase «potential effect of global warming»

A federal disclosure act would build on this model, requiring property owners and businesses to assess and disclose the potential effect of global warming to buyers and investors.

Not exact matches

The LCA examined the effects of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.

Dr Meleady, a lecturer in psychology, added: «If similar interventions were to be implemented in comparable situations in other cities and countries, the potential contribution to reducing air pollution, improving short and long term health, and reducing effects of global warming could be substantial.»

Bill Easterling Dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, Easterling studies global warming and its potential effects on the world's food supply.

Geoengineering — the intentional manipulation of the climate to counter the effect of global warming by injecting aerosols artificially into the atmosphere — has been mooted as a potential way to deal with climate change.

But perhaps trumping all of these examples is the potential disastrous health effects of global warming.

A much bigger issue in the often quoted «global warming potentials,» is the question of how the effect of relative lifetimes are figured in (see Archer's piece on this).

CO 2 equivalents: The GWP value (Global Warming Potential) of a gas is defined as the cumulative impact on the greenhouse effect of 1 tonne of the gas compared with that of 1 tonne of CO 2 over a specified period of time.

Polar amplication is of global concern due to the potential effects of future warming on ice sheet stability and, therefore, global sea level (see Sections 5.6.1, 5.8.1 and Chapter 13) and carbon cycle feedbacks such as those linked with permafrost melting (see Chapter 6)... The magnitude of polar amplification depends on the relative strength and duration of different climate feedbacks, which determine the transient and equilibrium response to external forcings.

There have been various studies investigating the potential effect of long - term global warming on the number and strength of Atlantic - basin hurricanes.

Well, this is exactly what a group of Canadian researchers have simulated in an attempt to measure the potential effects against global warming.

A task force of the Ministry calculated that thanks to these alternative solutions, 120 million tons of CO2 - equivalent (a figure for global warming potential measuring how much of a certain greenhouse gas contributes to the greenhouse effect) was eliminated in 2010.

They should be related to detecting or ameliorating the effects of global warming, should serve a public rather than a private need, and should provide no obvious potential source of profit to investors if successful.

This might be a good time to review all the potential signs and signals of AGW (all three parts: anthropogenic, global, warming), how to distinguish anthropogenic CO2 effects from natural variability and land use changes, and how long an interval the apparent signal has to persist in order to reach a reasonable conclusion.

1700: A new study aims to highlight the potential of a geoengineering technique referred to as «marine cloud - brightening» (MCB) which researchers say has the potential to cancel out the effects of global warming in a world double the CO2 concentration of the pre-industrial world.

For more than a decade, officials in Ecuador's mountainous capital have been studying the effects of global warming on nearby melting glaciers, developing ways of dealing with potential water shortages and even organizing conferences on climate change for leaders of other Latin American cities.

These materials could also play a role in long - term storage of carbon dioxide, a potential means of tempering the effects of global warming.

From hazardous effects causing potential loss of life, injury, or other negative health impacts, to the potential exposure of social, economic, and infrastructure assets to adverse impacts, global warming places vulnerable human lives and systems in dangerous jeopardy.

-- Since sea level is not rising, the chief ground of concern at the potential effects of anthropogenic «global warming» — that millions of shore - dwellers the world over may be displaced as the oceans expand — is baseless.

Other gases, like some of the blowing agents used in some foam insulation products, have much higher global warming potential but less overall effect than CO2 because of their much lower concentrations.

While the rising temperatures of global warming may be pushing the atmosphere towards greater extremes of weather - with all the destructive potential that implies - that extra heat is also having an effect on the oceans.

The global warming potential is an attempt to provide a simple measure of the relative radiative effects of the emissions of various greenhouse gases.

Presidents from 319 + Universities and Colleges We, the undersigned presidents and chancellors of colleges and universities, are deeply concerned about the unprecedented scale and speed of global warming and its potential for large - scale, adverse health, social, economic and ecological effects.

There is plenty of debate surrounding the potential effects of climate change, but a new study published in the journal Ecology offers a glimpse into the future of meadow ecosystems in the face of global warming.

People have been putting in efforts to improve a different source of energy by harnessing the sun's potential, all while continuing the fight against the bad effects of global warming.

Mark Lynas's «Six Degrees» is a modern classic, outlining potential effects of various levels of global warming.

The surprising effect of this is that the global warming potential of CO is three times that of CO2.

c The GWP, or the Global Warming Potential, is used to contrast the radiative effects of different greenhouse gases relative to carbon dioxide.

There is no area in global warming discussions where AGW advocates have done more to shoot down their own credibility than in the absolutely egregious science and absurd claims that have been made about the potential negative effects of global warming.

Geoengineering, the deliberate manipulation of environmental processes to counter the effects of climate change, is being considered as a potential last - ditch option to avoid the worst effects of global warming given the challenges of reducing the world's greenhouse gas emissions.