Sentences with phrase «produced warming emissions»

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The majority of them come from countries, such as the Philippines, India or China, which are warmer, poorer, and more densely populated than is Canada - and where the typical person produces far fewer CO2 emissions on a per capita basis.

As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.

I can understand the charges of greenwashing reported in the press, as environmentalists correctly point out that airlines produce massive emissions that contribute to global warming.

Formula production and use generate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which accelerate global warming and produce pollution and toxic emissions upon disposal.

Organic foods are also locally sourced and produced, which means there is less carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming.

These conflicts have stalled some high - profile projects despite the fact that renewable energy sources do not produce heat - trapping emissions of carbon dioxides, the primary greenhouse gas driving global warming.

They say a rise in methane in the northern hemisphere might be the result of a year - long warm spell in Siberia, where wetlands harbour methane - producing bacteria, but they have no immediate answer as to why emissions rose in the southern hemisphere at the same time.

I am ready and willing to examine the possibility that greenhouse gases produced the warming of the past 130 years, and that the future of the world is in jeopardy with further CO2 emissions — provided that sufficient technical proof is provided.

The oceans have absorbed approximately one third of human - produced CO2 emissions, dampening the effects of carbon dioxide - driven greenhouse warming.

According to his research, biomass burning has other impacts that increase warming in the atmosphere, beyond just producing greenhouse gas emissions.

If located within a few AUs of the central star, this dust is warmed to temperatures that produce near - infrared emission and small grains produce scattered light.

There is a surprisingly linear relationship between global warming and human carbon dioxide emissions since the pre-industrial age regardless of where and when these emissions were produced.

When burned, it produces emissions that contribute to global warming, create acid rain and pollute water.

By producing more food on less land, it may be possible to reduce these emissions, but this so - called intensification often involves increasing fertilizer use, which can lead to large emissions of nitrogen - containing gases that also contribute to global warming.

The hypothesis that greenhouse gas emissions have produced or are capable of producing a significant warming of the Earth's climate since the start of the industrial era is credible, and merits continued attention.

A Japanese study showed that producing a kilogram of beef leads to the emission of greenhouse gases with a global warming potential equivalent to 36.4 kilograms of carbon dioxide (CO2).

NativeEnergy, which works with individuals and organizations to help them compensate for their contributions to global warming, calculated the «carbon footprint» from producing the film, including all travel, office, and accommodations related emissions.

But emissions have two parts: One is the pollutants that are harmful to people, animals, oceans, etcetera; the other is CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions that are generally considered to be the cause of global warming, which is generally considered to be fact, and that CO2 is produced in direct proportion to how much fossil fuel is burned in cars, as well as buildings, locomotives, planes, and ships.

In order for Cook to produce the necessary «correlation» between CO2 emissions and the various warming and cooling trends of the last 100 years or so it is necessary to see CO2 as «the dominant forcing.»

Look at how hard it's been gaining global agreement on a path to limiting humanity's largely unintended warming influence through the buildup of heat - trapping emissions produced by our growth spurt.

Victor @ 28 citing some incredible ass: In order for Cook to produce the necessary «correlation» between CO2 emissions and the various warming and cooling trends of the last 100 years or so it is necessary to see CO2 as «the dominant forcing.»

Data from satellite observations «suggest that greenhouse models ignore negative feedback produced by clouds and by water vapor, that diminish the warming effects» of human carbon dioxide emissions.

The fact that coal burning produces toxic emissions aside from its global warming impact should be enough reason alone to make that switch.

Even if poor and rich countries agree, magically, to meet in the middle — at, say, 10 tons of carbon dioxide per person per year (about Europe's emissions rate)-- that produces a world well on the way to centuries of warming and coastal retreats, even at the low end of estimates of carbon dioxide's heat - trapping power.

Terrell Johnson, reporting on a recent NASA publication concluding that deep ocean temperatures have not increased since 2005 (http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/deep-ocean-hasnt-warmed-nasa-20141007): «While the report's authors say the findings do not question the overall science of climate change, it is the latest in a series of findings that show global warming to have slowed considerably during the 21st century, despite continued rapid growth in human - produced greenhouse gas emissions during the same time.»

V: More to the point: if you want to argue that ocean heating is due to increased CO2 emissions, then you need to explain how warming produced by those emissions found its way into the oceans.

Surely it was in the depressed 1930's that industry would have produced less emissions, and that was a warm decade.

One of the biggest issues is that it would take many decades for any reduction in emissions of heat - trapping gases to produce a measurable blunting of warming.

Entitled «The Sky's Limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals Require a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production,» the report says that just burning fossil fuels from projects presently in operation will produce enough greenhouse gas emissions to push the world well past 2 °C of warming this century.

In regions with the «cleanest» electricity grids, EVs produce lower global warming emissions than even the most fuel - efficient hybrids.

Nearly half of Americans (45 %) live in the «best» regions where EVs produce lower global warming emissions than even the most fuel - efficient gasoline hybrids on the market today (greater than 50 mpg).

For example, coal - fired power plants produce nearly twice the global warming emissions of natural gas - fired power plants, while renewable sources like wind and solar power produce virtually no emissions at all.

Nuclear power, which does not produce earth - warming emissions, is viewed with scepticism by many environmental activists, who say its dangers outweigh its benefits.

Electric vehicles (EVs) burn no gasoline and have no tailpipe emissions, but producing the electricity used to charge them does generate global warming emissions.

The report evaluates regional electricity grids across the United States based on the global warming emissions produced from electricity generation, and then compares the emissions generated by charging an EV with those produced by gasoline - powered vehicles.

The well documented, accelerating growth of CO2 emissions has not produced the «expert» predicted warming across the globe, nor the contiguous U.S.

Because of methane's greater greenhouse potency, the warming potential of the emissions measured during the second period greatly exceeded the potential cooling produced by the uptake of carbon dioxide during photosynthesis.

By increasing fuel economy, producing better biofuels, and investing in electric vehicles, we can cut our oil use, reduce global warming emissions, and clean up our air.

First, WORC noted that an increase in greenhouse gas emissions would ultimately occur, contributing to global warming, stating that «Exporting 140 million tons a year would produce roughly 280 million tons of CO2 per year.»

A global median of 54 % say that rich countries such as the U.S., Japan and Germany should do more than developing countries to address global warming, because they have produced most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions so far.

Unless our ability to grow emissions increases greatly, which is unlikely due to constaints on our ability to produce and operate the productive capital, we can't see warming much higher that the beneficial rate we've experienced.

Their purpose is to assist in the mitigation of global warming by compensating or «offsetting» an emissions - producing activity by investing into offsets that improve efficiency, conserve energy and biodiversity, and change in behaviour.

Thick peat, El Niño weather, and economic development in Indonesia came together to produce prodigious fires and planet - warming emissions.

Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.

It seems obvious that some form of adaptation will be necessary (unless you think climate change isn't happening) and it seems clear that reducing the risk of the most severe impacts will require reductions in GHG emissions (unless you think GHGs don't produce warming, or you think that the higher climate sensitivity values are simply impossible).

«Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles» found that even when accounting for the metals required to build PV cells, the efficiency of the cells, and the waste produced, PV cells still emit less global warming pollution throughout their life cycle than the fossil fuels needed to produce the same amount of power.

Both the type of feedstock and the manner in which it is developed and harvested significantly affect land use and life - cycle global warming emissions impacts of producing power from biomass.

The hypothesis that greenhouse gas emissions have produced or are capable of producing a significant warming of the Earth's climate since the start of the industrial era is credible, and merits continued attention.

Clearly, any warming impact of CO2 emissions has barely surpassed the per century trend produced by natural climatic forces from 1919 - 1943.

Even if natural gas combustion creates approaching 50 percent less CO2 equivalent per unit of energy produced, an amount which is well beyond best case on ghg emission reductions, it will not create the much greater emissions reductions necessary in the next 30 years to give any hope of limiting warming from exceeding levels that will cause catastrophic impacts.