Sentences with phrase «rate of emissions of greenhouse gasses»

Even though the rate of emissions of greenhouse gasses slowed down temporarily for some regions of the world, those gasses stay in the air after they are released, so this year greenhouse gas levels reached new record high levels

Not exact matches

In fact, the rate of greenhouse gas emissions have increased globally more in the past 20 years than it has in the previous 100 years.

But new models show that at the current rates of greenhouse gas emissions, warming seas will push these foraging grounds much farther south.

Yet the analysis shows that even with higher gas prices, coal plants still fail to be economically competitive under the new greenhouse gas rule, which requires that fossil plants not exceed emission rates of 1,000 pounds of CO2 per megawatt - hour.

Under the strictest pathway (RCP 2.6), which assumes an early peak of greenhouse gas emissions which then decline substantially, the potential net increases in mortality rates at the end of the century be minimal (between -0.4 % and +0.6 %) in all the regions included in this study, highlighting the benefits of the implementation of mitigation policies.

If these rates continue, emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide on 100 - year time scales, will increase 4 percent over the next decade.

The planet is warming at an unprecedented rate and reducing emissions of greenhouse gasses alone is not enough to remove the risk.

And yet, India and China remain two countries where emission rates of greenhouse gases continue to rise, driven mostly by economic growth, Eltahir says.

Computer models peg ocean acidity at 7.8 to 7.7 by the end of the century at the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions.

They looked at each of those conditions through, first, a business - as - usual lens that assumes a lack of international climate - policy action with continued high rates of greenhouse gas emissions and, second, an optimistic scenario of reduced emissions with climate change policy interventions.

They considered scenarios of either unchecked greenhouse gas emissions or a global reduction in the rate of emissions growth.

Projections indicate the temperatures could rise as much as 11 °F by century's end if greenhouse gas emissions aren't slowed and that the rate of warming could reach levels unseen in 1,000 years by 2030s.

«As time goes on, the rate of burning in the power plant stays the same, but the carbon accumulates, so by the end of the year, the greenhouse gases will be heating the earth much more than the direct emissions of the power plant.»

If greenhouse gas emissions continue on their current trend, the rate of warming will reach 0.7 °F per decade and stay that high until at least 2100.

Global rates of temperature change in high and declining greenhouse gas emission scenarios.

In other words the heat flows from the air to the surface at a rate determined by the number of molecules of greenhouse gas and their emission rate.

Results from the study showed indicated that with carbon taxes set at $ 50 per ton and increased at a rate of 5 % per year would lead to a reduction in the total greenhouse gas emission in the US by as much as 63 %, confirms Reilly.

By the way, in my opinion, the elevated greenhouse gas levels already in the air, combined with the future emissions from machines already built, plus increased natural emissions from carbon sinks becoming carbon emitters (i.e. permafrost melting) will cause the rate of warming to top 0.4 C / decade by mid-century.

With no change in the rate of greenhouse gas emissions, we could warm that much in just 50 years.

Angelenos could lower the city's greenhouse gas emissions from water supplies by up to 70 percent by reducing the use of imported water and increasing conservation rates, the study found.

Results: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to slow the rate of climate change is not the news.

«The alarming rate of change we are now witnessing in our climate as a result of greenhouse gas emissions is unprecedented in modern records.»

Brain research raises the possibility of a very exotic future (this article assumes that such animals wouldn't be vicious or use their new - found smarts to drive other species to extinction) «Liberated» mice from Italian lab now housed in poor conditions Methane leaks of shale gas may undermine its climate benefits: If methane leak rates are more than 3 percent of output, fracking of shale gas formations may be boosting greenhouse gas emissions rather than lowering them.

Potential annual damages are shown on the county - level in a scenario in which emissions of greenhouse gasses continue at current rates.

Emissions ratings for this car haven't been posted yet, although the Department of Energy (DOE) says it puts out 9.3 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year, right in the middle of the DOE's worst to beEmissions ratings for this car haven't been posted yet, although the Department of Energy (DOE) says it puts out 9.3 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year, right in the middle of the DOE's worst to beemissions per year, right in the middle of the DOE's worst to best scale.

It is relatively clean, getting a LEVII / BIN5 rating for emissions, but also is rated at 11.8 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually, which is below average.

Human activities are releasing greenhouse gases more than 30 times faster than the rate of emissions that triggered a period of extreme global warming in the Earth's past, according to an expert on ancient climates.

In other words the heat flows from the air to the surface at a rate determined by the number of molecules of greenhouse gas and their emission rate.

With a population of 1.3 billion of which tens of millions stream each year from the countryside into the cities; a hypercaffeinated growth rate of 10 percent which is necessary to create jobs for all those urban arrivals; and greenhouse gas emissions now surpassing those of the United States would it be unfair to say that as goes China, so goes the world?

Our activities are warming the world's atmosphere at such a rate that most of our agriculture will be seriously dislocated over the next few decades — even if we were to get down to business now and start controlling our emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

The destruction of tropical forests around the world is one of the largest sources of emissions contributing to climate change, and deforestation rates in Peru doubled in 2012 from the previous year, accounting for nearly half its annual greenhouse gas emissions.

A dramatic decline in the ability of the Earth to soak up man - made emissions of carbon dioxide, and a corresponding acceleration in the rate of increase of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, have been detected for the first time by scientists.

Between the poles of real - time catastrophe and nonevent lies the prevailing scientific view: Without big changes in emissions rates, global warming from the buildup of greenhouse gases is likely to lead to substantial, and largely irreversible, transformations of climate, ecosystems and coastlines later this century.

And, while it is true that the developing nation's tend to have the highest RATE of growth of greenhouse gas emissions, it is still the developed world... and the U.S. in particular... that have the highest amount of greenhouse gas emissions per capita.

To compensate the temperature of the Earth system has to increase, increasing the rate of emission in regions of the thermal IR where greenhouse gases do not absorb.

But society's response, both in stemming heat - trapping greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to eroding coastlines, will always be more a function of the rate of change than the ultimate outcome.

Measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could slow the rate of climate change and allow our civilization the precious time it needs to adapt.

Representatives applauded at the approval of an agreement reached in Lima, Peru, on Sunday to reduce the global rate of greenhouse gas emissions.

Our current rate of warming is approximately 0.08 °C per decade over the past 100 years, 0.17 °C per decade over the past 30 years, and is expected to increase in upcoming decades unless we get our greenhouse gas emissions under control.

The important input to Hansen's model was the total forcing from greenhouse gasses, but Pielke ignores this to focus on the growth rate of emissions of each gas.

Human activity — particularly the production of greenhouse gasses from fossil fuel emissions — is reshaping our planet, effecting rapid environmental change at a rate never seen before.

This research, which was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Swiss National Science Foundation, is the first time that summer heat and its dependence on the rate of greenhouse gas emissions have been studied in a climate model simulation.

The new report further states that greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates would induce changes in the oceans, ice caps, glaciers, the biosphere, and other components of the climate system.

The scientists warned, however, that when the current cooling phase turns, the upward march of temperatures is likely to resume, perhaps at faster rates than before as greenhouse gas emission rates are higher.

The inappropriately - named «greenhouse» effect is actually the effect of absorption / emission of IR radiation due to radiatively - active gases combined with the effect of declining temperature with height of the atmosphere (lapse rate).

To understand emissions reductions necessary to have a good chance of limiting warming to 2 °C, the climate community has focused largely on emissions pathways — that is, when greenhouse gas emissions peak and the rate at which they must decline (e.g. peak sooner and then reduce less steeply versus peak later and then reduce more steeply).

For now, setting aside acreage and letting it return to native vegetation was rated the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, outweighing the results of corn - ethanol production over the first 48 years.

4.1 Trace Gases Scenario A assumes that growth rates of trace gas emissions typical of the 1970s and 1980s will continue indefinitely; the assumed annual growth averages about 1.5 % of current emissions, so the net greenhouse forcing increasese xponentially.»

Though governments around the world have agreed to curb emissions, and at numerous international meetings have reaffirmed their commitment to holding warming to below 2C by the end of the century, greenhouse gas concentrations are still rising at record rates.

It may be worth considering that if climate models are underplaying the actual amount of Arctic sea ice loss, and if Arctic sea ice loss is a positive feedback on global temperature, then, the observed rate of Arctic sea ice loss ought to be applying a warming pressure over and above that from greenhouse gas emissions.