Sentences with phrase «reducing potential warming»

By reducing potential warming they may be doing a great disservice to our descendants..

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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.»

«With land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative.

«(VII) standards for practices and materials to achieve cool roofs in residential buildings, taking into consideration reduced air conditioning energy use as a function of cool roofs, the potential reduction in global warming from increased solar reflectance from buildings, and cool roofs criteria in State and local building codes and in national and local voluntary programs, without reduction of otherwise applicable ceiling insulation standards; and

Even some environmentalists have begun to embrace nuclear power, because of its potential to reduce the greenhouse emissions that are blamed for global warming.

Trying to find other issues, «Masking», or crutches,... still isn't ever goin to reduce the numbers on the GHG content we already have and their future global warming potentials that continue to go calculate, compound daily...

In one sentence: Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and colleagues found that if followed by measures of equal or greater ambition, individual country pledges to reduce their emissions called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions have the potential to reduce the probability of the highest levels of warming and increase the probability of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

This has great potential to lower atmospheric CO2 levels (reducing warming) and dissolved CO2 levels (reducing ocean acidification).»

Atmospheric upward heat convection has the potential of providing carbon free energy while reducing global warming.

So it is much more likely that a warming planet will see reduced crop yields, rather any potential benefit from «CO2 fertilization».

This would tend to reduce the potential for TOA forcing even more, leading to more stratospheric cooling in response to an increase in CO2; however, the presence of such a substance would itself make the inital stratospheric temperature warmer than otherwise.

Thus there is always some potential for what the experts call «warming» by reducing further the number of air conditioners in operation / recently in operation.

However, the Polar sector will warm more than the Tropical sector, thus reducing the ZI and the potential for severe weather.

Although APS plans to reduce its coal burn from the current 35 % to 17 % by 2029, by increasing its natural gas burn from 19 % to 35 %, it will actually increase its greenhouse gas emissions in the near term, since the global warming potential from methane, which is leaked at multiple points of the natural gas supply chain, is 86 times that of carbon over 20 years, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2013 report.

There is growing recognition of the value of near - term actions to reduce short - lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) such as methane, black carbon, and various hydrofluorocarbons that have large global warming potentials.

The Most Ineffective and Expensive Way to Address Potential Global Warming The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme is proving horrendously expensive and unpopular, but is actually doing little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

«(VII) standards for practices and materials to achieve cool roofs in commercial buildings, taking into consideration reduced air conditioning energy use as a function of cool roofs, the potential reduction in global warming from increased solar reflectance from buildings, and cool roofs criteria in State and local building codes and in national and local voluntary programs, without reduction of otherwise applicable ceiling insulation standards.

One option presented was a hydrocarbon unit from Gree, which uses propane instead of a fluorinated gas, reducing the global warming potential from 1,810 to three.

A new study, if interpreted literally, would mean the world could reduce global warming potential if rain forests were reduced in size instead of encouraging their growth in size, which was the original desired outcome.

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

Global greenhouse gas emissions per region / Global CO2 emissions per region from fossil - fuel use and cement production The Report includes a new systematic assessment of how various economic sectors can reduce their climate - warming emissions, focusing on the potential eductions from the wide application of already - known and cost - effective technologies.

The science indicates the Russian drought was not caused by global warming: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/natural-causes-drove-russian-heat-wave-study-finds/ Sure, global warming has the potential to reduce crop output, but the information posted here has nothing to do with global warming.

Reducing HFCs: The U.S. is also taking action to phase down the use of high - global - warming - potential HFCs by finding environmentally - friendly alternatives to traditional ozone - depleting substances through the Significant New Alternatives Policy, or SNAP, program.

The US apparent unwillingness to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions beyond what it is already on track to achieve is of considerable controversy in the Qatar negotiations this week because of the growing scientific concern about the potential inevitability of catastrophic warming caused by human activities.

Nevertheless, it seems likely that a CO2 concentration in the range 500 to 900 ppm might produce a temperature rise of at least 2 °C from the late 19th century that could be problematic for humankind; (7) The potential negative impact on humanity has been exaggerated; (8) The only alternative to rising greenhouse gas concentrations is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions — whether this averts a «pending disaster» is not well understood; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 probably resulting in some warming; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are neither technically feasible nor economically affordable, and would necessitate inadequate energy supply to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing, leading to worldwide depression.

If global warming is marked by Arctic Amplification, this tends to flatten the slope of potential temperature which reduces the intensity of potential subsidence:

Certified Emission Reduction Unit (CER)- Equal to one metric ton (~ 2,205 pounds) of CO2 - equivalent emissions reduced or sequestered through a Clean Development Mechanism project, calculated using Global Warming Potentials..

You also have to bear in mind that UHI isn't just about having the potential to artificially raise maximum temperatures, but more significant is the effect it has on reducing the extremes of night time minimums; sun - warmed asphalt / concrete, radiation from warm buildings and warm air from AC vents are the key to the UHI effect.

Comfort — due to continuous air - exchange, reduced noise pollution, as well as warm interior surfaces, which reduce radiant heat - loss potential (make you comfortably warm in your building)

Ms. Sattler previously worked as a thermal technologies engineer at TIAX LLC, where she researched and analyzed potential technologies to reduce global warming emissions from combustion devices.

Washington, D.C. — New home water heater efficiency standards proposed yesterday by the Obama Administration will save energy and money for U.S. households and reduce global warming and other harmful emissions; but they fall short of their potential according to a broad coalition of energy - efficiency, consumer and environmental organizations.

In the Succulent Karoo biome of South Africa, 2,800 plant species face potential extinction as bioclimatically suitable habitat is reduced by 80 % with a global warming of 1.5 - 2.7 °C above pre-industrial levels (see Table 4.1).

They are a powerful device to further sustainability goals and to tell impactful stories about sustainability, communities, and technology that is reducing the global warming potential of harmful greenhouse gases in ways that benefit people, planet, and profit.

New research published in the journal Science shows that coordinated international reductions of greenhouse gases over time have the strong potential to reduce the highest levels of global warming.

That means there was more H2O in the atmosphere to begin with reducing the H2O potential feedback to warming.

I whole - heartedly support clean water / fresh air legislative efforts, reducing dependence on oil through funding of promising energy technologies, and reinstatement of the use of nitrogen - rich miracle fertilizer experimentation in the famine - stricken regions of Africa — that have, ironically, been attacked as potential global warming threats.

In fact, climate change alone could affect migration considerably through the consequences of warming and drying, such as reduced agricultural potential, increased desertification and water scarcity, and other weakened ecosystem services, as well as through sea level rise damaging and permanently inundating highly productive and densely populated coastal lowlands and cities [165,166,167,168].

Emissions can be reduced by better handling of these gases and use of substitutes with lower global warming potentials and other technological improvements.

Leakage can be reduced through better system components, and through the use of alternative refrigerants with lower global warming potentials than those presently used.

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.

«Energy efficiency is the most affordable energy resource in Florida — it has the potential to meet the state's growing need for energy while reducing Floridians» future energy costs and at the same time addressing the challenge of global warming.