Sentences with phrase «reduce warming substantially»

That means that especially in places like Finland, Siberia, and Canada this feedback loop may reduce warming substantially.

That means that especially in places like Finland, Siberia, and Canada this feedback loop may reduce warming substantially.

Not exact matches

Over what time period might this savannization process release carbon «equivalent to several years of worldwide carbon emissions», and how does that affect the assessment offered by Gore, Hansen and others that we have perhaps ten years in which to substantially reduce CO2 emissions to avoid irreversible catastrophic warming?

Hence, the projected regional warming and consequent increase in wildfire activity in the western United States is likely to magnify the threats to human communities and ecosystems, and substantially increase the management challenges in restoring forests and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

In warm climates light colored or reflective roofs can reduce cooling bills substantially.

To address global warming, policy makers must find bipartisan solutions that substantially reduce heat - trapping emissions.

Global warming threatens to substantially reduce the amount of land suitable for coffee - growing by 2050, but bees could fly to the rescue.

But the painful part, VTG, will be if they are forced to substantially reduce the warming forecasts for year 2100 to reflect the new data (or, alternately, totally lose credibility).

Hence, the projected regional warming and consequent increase in wildfire activity in the western United States is likely to magnify the threats to human communities and ecosystems, and substantially increase the management challenges in restoring forests and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The combination of these two points substantially reduces the confidence that we should place in attribution statements of warming since 1950.

Um... while the oceans as a whole would have to cool, the sea surface would have to warm up substantially in order to transfer lots of heat to the air (and in order to warm up substantially, I suppose there would have to be reduced circulation with cold deeper waters).

Any genuine scientific field would have learned from this, revised the models and made new, substantially reduced projections of warming.

The new research finds that limiting warming to 1.5 C rather than 2C could «substantially» reduce the risk of ice - free conditions in the coming decades, says Prof Michael Sigmond, a research scientist at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis at Environment Canada and lead author of one of the new studies.

If emissions continue to increase (as in the A2 scenario), warming of 4.5 ºF to 10ºF is projected by the 2080s; if global emissions were reduced substantially (as in the B1 scenario), projected warming ranges from about 3ºF to 6ºF by the 2080s.4

Thawing permafrost also delivers organic - rich soils to lake bottoms, where decomposition in the absence of oxygen releases additional methane.116 Extensive wildfires also release carbon that contributes to climate warming.107, 117,118 The capacity of the Yukon River Basin in Alaska and adjacent Canada to store carbon has been substantially weakened since the 1960s by the combination of warming and thawing of permafrost and by increased wildfire.119 Expansion of tall shrubs and trees into tundra makes the surface darker and rougher, increasing absorption of the sun's energy and further contributing to warming.120 This warming is likely stronger than the potential cooling effects of increased carbon dioxide uptake associated with tree and shrub expansion.121 The shorter snow - covered seasons in Alaska further increase energy absorption by the land surface, an effect only slightly offset by the reduced energy absorption of highly reflective post-fire snow - covered landscapes.121 This spectrum of changes in Alaskan and other high - latitude terrestrial ecosystems jeopardizes efforts by society to use ecosystem carbon management to offset fossil fuel emissions.94, 95,96

But a new study published in the journal Science Advances has concluded that another impact of global climate change might help coral reefs survive increasing sea temperatures: «even a modest sea level rise can substantially reduce temperature extremes within tide - dominated reefs, thereby partially offsetting the local effects of future ocean warming,» the authors of the study write.

They provide scientific evidence to support the call by vulnerable countries, such as the Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States, that a 1.5 C warming limit would substantially reduce the impacts of climate change.»

In addition to reduced aerosol cooling and increased black carbon warming there is the IPCC's new admission of strong evidence for some mechanism of solar forcing substantially stronger than TSI (p. page 7 - 43): «Many empirical relationships have been reported between GCR or cosmogenic isotope archives and some aspects of the climate system (e.g., Bond et al., 2001; Dengel et al., 2009; Ram and Stolz, 1999).

Recent standards from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will substantially reduce leakage from natural gas systems, but to help slow the rate of global warming and improve air quality, further action by states and EPA should directly address fugitive methane from new and existing wells and equipment.

With that kind of pressure, it's only natural that some would be unsure of our ability to effect a unanimous international agreement that would do what absolutely, unequivocally must be done: We must reduce the rate of global warming, immediately and substantially, in order to curtail the devastating effects of climate change.