Sentences with phrase «rather than greenhouse gas»

In a new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, three MIT scientists assert that the human influence on the climate of the Central United States is dominated by agricultural activity rather than greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

I prefer the term «IR absorbing gases», rather than greenhouse gases, since the greenhouse effect is still rather unclear and there is no consensus on the candidate mechanisms of «backradiation» or «insulation» or «IR absorption» and I think Gerlich and Tscheuschner have effectively falsified the greenhouse effect and I am still hoping someone will present a better verifiable theory.

Many of the usual suspects seem to be taking this paper as a sign that NASA has published a report indicating that changes in aerosols are responsible for global warming; rather than greenhouse gases.

Not exact matches

«We would agree that Alberta's historic focus on maximizing oilsands production... rather than optimizing production on the highest quality ore may be having unnecessary environmental impacts on things like greenhouse gas intensity and tailings production and lowering returns to Albertans as the owners of the resource,» said Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think - tank.

The effect of such displacement would globally result in an increase in greenhouse gas emissions rather than a decrease.

The livestock industry notes that if some or most of the methane could be incorporated into the animal's nutrition processes, rather than being emitted, this would increase productive weight gain at the same time as cutting greenhouse gas emissions, for a double bonus effect.

That's why we have to look at the balance in terms of what is cheaper: Can we reduce emissions of greenhouse gases today so that we can stabilize the earth's climate, rather than adapt to the impacts of climate change and incur much higher costs over a period of time?

Methane is an extremely efficient greenhouse gas which may contribute to enhanced global warming when free in the atmosphere, and such free methane, would then be considered a pollutant rather than a useful energy resource.

«Our four - year study suggests that AMP grazing can potentially offset greenhouse gas emissions, and the finishing phase of beef production could be a net carbon sink, with carbon levels staying in the green rather than in the red.»

So far, Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama and his team have focused on containing greenhouse gases rather than on reparations, a provocative issue that raises objections among wealthier nations.

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).

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.

Rather than using complex computer models to estimate the effects of greenhouse - gas emissions, Lovejoy examines historical data to assess the competing hypothesis: that warming over the past century is due to natural long - term variations in temperature.

A U.N. panel of scientists says it is at least 90 percent probable that manmade greenhouse gases are the main cause of recent warming, rather than natural variations.

The «obvious solution», he said, was to limit the CDM to carbon dioxide, rather than the six greenhouse gases covered by the UN's Kyoto Protocol.

Kirk Smith does a great job of explaining the importance of addressing emissions of all greenhouse gases rather than focusing...

And, although a few projects such as the Sleipner gas field in the North Sea or oil fields owned by the EnCana Corporation in Calgary, Alberta have proved that CO2 can be pumped underground and remain trapped below cap rock, they are aimed at enhancing recovery of the fossil fuels in those fields rather than permanently storing the greenhouse gas.

Governments agree they should focus most on cutting greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris agreement rather than on science - fiction - like short - cuts to limit temperatures blamed for causing more heatwaves, floods and rising sea levels.

Will Steffen of the Swedish Academy of Sciences says the message for policy makers is clear: «We need to get on top of the greenhouse gas emissions problem sooner rather than later.»

I was recently asked to explain why we can use the paleo - climate record this way when it is clear that the greenhouse gas changes (and ice sheets and vegetation) in the past were feedbacks to the orbital forcing rather than imposed forcings.

And, the best way to get the market involved is to internalize the cost associated with greenhouse gas emissions rather than making the earth's atmosphere a free sewer for these gases.

The Montreal Protocol had no impact on cleaning the air, it stopped the growth of CFCs which are powerful greenhouse gases (in addition to their role in depleting stratospheric ozone), therefore it slowed global warming, rather than increasing it, and we aren't trying to save ground - level ozone.

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.

The abstract includes the statement: «Evidence is presented that the recent worldwide land warming has occurred largely in response to a worldwide warming of the oceans rather than as a direct response to increasing greenhouse gases (GHGs) over land.»

A recent study suggests the result is likely to be a gradual release of greenhouse gases over many decades, rather than an abrupt pulse.

Such research is needed for understanding future changes in cyclones and avoided impacts if we follow the Paris Agreement on climate change, rather than current, high greenhouse gas emission pathways.»

In addressing the question of the effects of greenhouse gases on Atlantic tropical storms, it might clarify (and even partially defuse) the controversy to lump internal variability together with other forced responses (particularly aerosols), rather than to focus on internal variability vs the total forced response.

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.

Recent IEA reports show that world - wide greenhouse gas emissions still are growing rather than receding and the use of coal still is dramatically rising.

I was recently asked to explain why we can use the paleo - climate record this way when it is clear that the greenhouse gas changes (and ice sheets and vegetation) in the past were feedbacks to the orbital forcing rather than imposed forcings.

Even though the gas system is almost certainly leakier than previously thought, generating electricity by burning gas rather than coal still reduces the total greenhouse effect over 100 years, the new analysis shows.

«However, we must not engage in a self - defeating effort that displaces greenhouse gas emissions rather than reducing them and displaces U.S. jobs rather than bolstering them.»

And, the best way to get the market involved is to internalize the cost associated with greenhouse gas emissions rather than making the earth's atmosphere a free sewer for these gases.

[T] he last 10 to 15 years «make it more plausible that the size of climate response to greenhouse gas increase is on the lower side of what models have been projecting over the last 10 or 20 years rather than over the high side.»

Domestically it would appear that major shifts in the trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions will come as a result of the larger scale development and deployment of lower emitting sources of energy rather than through a climate bill that constrains emissions.

By basing the levy on emissions rather than carbon all greenhouse gases stand on a common level, sequestration is strongly encouraged as well as such simple things as capturing methane from oil wells and garbage dumps (that gets built into the cost of disposal).

Robbie Blake, biofuels campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said: «EU biofuels policy is a disaster — contributing to forest destruction, damaging communities around the world and destabilising food markets — while potentially increasing greenhouse gas emissions, rather than reducing them.

It's more about UN house - keeping than grandstanding, and many of its conclusions will be technical and businesslike, designed to make the process of cutting greenhouse gas emissions work better, rather than announcing new goals or targets.

Biomass - to - energy is a sustainable solution that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, assuming that secondary and tertiary biomass is used (rather than crops grown primarily for biomass fuel) to substitute the use of fossil fuels.

The San Francisco Carbon Fund is the first fund of its kind to invest solely in local projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions close to where they were created — rather than large scale offset projects across the globe.

This could happen because SRM masks the warming caused by greenhouse gases rather than reducing the concentration of gases in the atmosphere.

What's most offensive and cruel about Shuford's recent letter is his suggestion that we focus solely on climate adaptation rather than reducing greenhouse - gas emissions.

And it suggested that Americans devote «our limited dollars» to adapting to climate change rather than slowing it by reducing greenhouse - gas emissions.

Simulations of future climate are all based upon assumptions about future greenhouse gas concentrations and other factors that influence climate; this is one reason why these simulations are referred to as «projections» rather than «predictions.»

If Northern Hemisphere temperatures have been in an overall cooling trend for two millennia due to «orbital forcing» (i.e. reduced solar irradiance), then the burden of proof becomes greater on those who attribute the warmth of recent decades to solar variability rather than rising greenhouse gas concentrations.

Rather than endangering the environmental and economic health of our coasts, New York is carefully and responsibly expanding renewable energy to support the state's comprehensive efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change.»

Isn't carbon offsetting is just a «get out of jail free» card for businesses to carry on emitting greenhouse gases, rather than address their carbon footprint?

When Gort first visited in 1951, it spent little effort on climate change issues, focusing on other aspects of our planet instead: Gort returned in 2012 to answer puny human climatologist questions about whether climate change caused particular weather phenomena by making an obvious point: rather than struggle with theoretical analysis, you can simply use your Climate Changeometer to remove all the excess greenhouse gases and aerosols above natural levels and then measure the outcome.

Most of us acknowledge the existence of the internal variables, but an attempt to substitute them for known effects of greenhouse gases rather than to try to see how natural and anthropogenic factors balance out at different timescales will be seen as a dead end by individuals familiar with the abundant data in these areas.

A few Democrats, particularly those representing poorer industrial areas, were deeply suspicious of cap - and - trade policies to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, arguing that their constituents would be hurt when a local polluter simply paid for pollution allowances rather than cutting back on the pollution itself.