Sentences with phrase «rising greenhouse gas emissions»

In a report looking at the potential impacts of of rising greenhouse gas emissions, they discussed a number of ways scientists could measure the world's efforts to limit climate change.

There are serious long - term risks associated with rising greenhouse gas emissions, ranging from ocean acidification to sea - level rise to decreasing agricultural output.

Because rising greenhouse gas emissions account for all or part of the water vapor increase, it is likely to continue for many decades.

Over the past decade, countries around the world have been working to address the risks associated with rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Another study found Antarctic ice melt driven by rising greenhouse gas emissions could raise global sea levels by up to 39 centimeters (1.3 feet) by 2100.

Public lands are considered one of America's best defenses against rising greenhouse gas emissions because the forests there pull vast quantities of carbon from the atmosphere and store it in tree trunks and roots.

The extreme weather risk to communities like Ellicott City will only increase as the Earth's atmosphere continues to warm from rising greenhouse gas emissions.

«The reality is that those who are risking arrest have a much broader interest: the survival of humanity on Earth in the face of rapidly rising greenhouse gas emissions.»

In a series of papers, experts said that a reluctance — at virtually all levels — to address rising greenhouse gas emissions meant carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were on track to pass 650 parts per million, which could bring an average global temperature rise of 4C.

While this is categorically false (the last decade was the warmest on record and 2005 and 2010 are generally considered tied for the warmest year), scientists do admit that warming hasn't occurred over land as rapidly as predicted in the last ten years, especially given continually rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Environment groups said the Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, needed to explain how he would curb rising greenhouse gas emissions at a time when Queensland and NSW were dramatically boosting coal exports and several states were approving big road and power projects that would increase climate change pollution.

«Rising greenhouse gas emissions pose significant risks to society and ecosystems.»

Public lands are considered one of America's best defenses against rising greenhouse gas emissions because the forests there pull vast quantities of carbon from the atmosphere and store it in tree trunks and roots.

It says nations will have to impose drastic curbs on their still rising greenhouse gas emissions to keep a promise made by almost 200 countries in 2010 to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.

But in fact, the basic question of whether rising greenhouse gas emissions will lead to climate change hinges on mostly simple, and predictable, matters of physics.

To assess the urgency to act on rising greenhouse gas emissions, TCR is of course more informative than ECS.

In the WEF Global Risks repor t — developed from an annual survey of 1,000 experts from industry, business, government and civil society — respondents ranked rising greenhouse gas emissions and water supply crises as two of the top five risks most likely to manifest over the next decade.

Some global warming sceptics say these figures disprove the basic hypothesis of global warming, that rising greenhouse gas emissions automatically produce rising temperatures.

Contrary to model predictions, data released in October from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit show that global temperatures have held steady over the past 15 years, despite rising greenhouse gas emissions.

ExxonMobil takes global climate change seriously and the risks of rising greenhouse gas emissions warrant thoughtful action.

If rising greenhouse gas emissions sometimes seem like an inevitable byproduct of modern prosperity, new data suggests that need not be the case.

While the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration notes that it's «premature» to directly correlate rising greenhouse gas emissions with with a higher frequency of U.S. hurricane strikes, the NOAA admits these weather events will only become «more intense.»

* More than half of all plants, a third of animals at risk - study * Rapid peak in greenhouse gas emissions could reduce impacts By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, May 12 (Reuters)- The habitats of many common plants and animals will shrink dramatically this century unless governments act quickly to cut rising greenhouse gas emissions, scientists said on Sunday after studying 50,000 species around the world.

«What the Court does know is that Exxon has publicly acknowledged since 2006 the possible significant risks to society and ecosystems from rising greenhouse gas emissions, yet the attorneys general have only recently felt compelled to look further into Exxon's documents from the last 40 years to see if Exxon knew more than it shared with the public and investors about climate change.»

We call on the Government, or the Senate, to make major improvements to the proposed «solution'to Australia's rapidly rising greenhouse gas emissions.

It's important to remember that SRM technologies bring risks of their own and do not address rising greenhouse gas emissions, which are the root cause of both climate change and ocean acidification.

What is if not entirely false, but rather entirely short - sighted and misguided, is that continuing to expand palm oil plantations at the expense of the nation's environment, biodiversity, rights of local people and continually rising greenhouse gas emissions will have long term benefits in Indonesia.

In many ways, the Bali «road map» agreement marks a turning point in how the North and South will seek to curb rising greenhouse gas emissions, participants and observers said.

ExxonMobil (2014a) unequivocally declares that «rising greenhouse gas emissions pose significant risks to society and ecosystems.»

Decarbonizing our energy systems by encouraging greater usage of alternative energy — a frequent topic of this column — is one of the common themes in the fight against rising greenhouse gas emissions.

They say the companies» «awareness of the negative implications of their behavior corresponds» with rising greenhouse gas emissions.

He also writes regularly for Forbes, contributes opinion articles to US newspapers and has written several books critical of climate change science and the risks of rising greenhouse gas emissions.

And it is also clear — even to the negotiators who also agreed to be «informed» by the science expected from the International Government Panel on Climate Change's next assessment report in 2013 — that neither the «Durban Platform for Enhanced Action» nor the extended Kyoto Protocol are equal to the task of restraining ever - rising greenhouse gas emissions.

The Bulletin scientists said worsening effects from climate change have also increased the risk of global annihilation, citing destructive hurricanes in the Caribbean, heat waves around the globe, wildfires in the United States and Canada, rising greenhouse gas emissions, and declining Arctic ice cover.

More research is needed to draw a definitive conclusion, but their study does strongly indicate that rising greenhouse gas emissions could make Mount Everest's glaciers all but disappear by 2100.

But the organisations say biofuels policies are expanding palm oil plantations, and this has devastating and often irreversible consequences including land grabs, hunger, rising greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation.

While developed countries and regions have long been culprits for Earth's rising greenhouse gas emissions, Cornell researchers — balancing the role of aerosols along with carbons in the equation — now predict a time when developing countries will contribute more to climate change than advanced societies: 2030.

Only in the past few decades have scientists begun the measurements necessary to establish a relationship between current carbon levels and temperatures, and the science conducted since then has consistently pointed in one direction: that rising greenhouse gas emissions, arising from our use of fossil fuels and our industries, lead to higher temperatures.

But the price has been massive water consumption, and rising greenhouse gas emissions.

(Read: «Report Offers Clearest Picture Yet of Rising Greenhouse Gas Emissions.»)

Satellites have shown for more than a decade that the Thwaites region is an area of massive change and rapid ice loss as the global climate warms in response to rising greenhouse gas emissions from humans» profligate use of fossil fuels.

These should be supported by the broader aspirational goals of the Sustainable Development Goals, while the UN climate talks will attempt to strike at the root cause of rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Almost all climate models and reports, including those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, focus on the near - term effects of rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Another study found Antarctic ice melt driven by rising greenhouse gas emissions could raise global sea levels by up to 39 centimeters (1.3 feet) by 2100.

From November 28th through December 9th, the world's nations are meeting again to discuss solutions to the urgent threat of rising greenhouse gas emissions, this time in Durban, South Africa.