Sentences with phrase «runaway greenhouse gas»

On the eve of the climate summit, Annie Leonard — the creator of the Internet phenomenon «The Story of Stuff» — threw a stink bomb into the debate over how best to address runaway greenhouse gas emissions.

That way they could look at the planet's molecular makeup for signs of runaway greenhouse gases that could indicate an inhospitable Venus - like planet.

Not exact matches

Climate scientists tell us that to keep the rise of global temperature above the pre-industrial level at below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in order to avoid runaway global warming, the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent per year starting in 2020.

The science says that industrial states like New York must get to 100 % clean energy and zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 if the planet is to avert runaway global warming and climate catastrophe,» Hawkins said.

«Significant» reductions needed The U.N. Environment Programme's «Emissions Gap 2012» report cautions that even if nations meet their strictest pledges, the world will not be able to cut its output of greenhouse gases in time to prevent runaway global warming (ClimateWire, Nov. 21).

At higher temperatures, less of the gas is absorbed, and the ocean releases more carbon dioxide into the air, contributing to a runaway greenhouse effect.

The point at which a planet's atmosphere would experience runaway greenhouse - gas effects like those seen on Venus — a point located just inside Earth's orbit in our solar system — forms the outer boundary.

«If we find all of these planets in the Venus Zone have a runaway greenhouse - gas effect, then we know that the distance a planet is from its star is a major determining factor,» Kane added.

Twenty years after such a release, methane is 72 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) as a greenhouse gas (after 100 years it remains 25 times more potent than CO2), so if the methane is released, the planet risks a runaway climate catastrophe.

Eberle and Kim said the early - middle Eocene greenhouse period from 53 to 38 million years ago is used as a deep - time analog by climate scientists for what could happen on Earth if CO2 and other greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere continue to rise, and what a «runaway» greenhouse effect potentially could look like.

To get a runaway of that sort, you need a reservoir of greenhouse gas that goes into the atmosphere to ever greater extents as temperature increases.

«The world has just ten years to reverse surging greenhouse gas emissions or risk runaway climate change that could make many parts of the planet uninhabitable.»

The United Nations scientific community is pointing to the overwhelming evidence that global warming, from increased greenhouse gas emissions, is propelling us towards an irreversible runaway melting of the ice caps and northern permafrost while rising temperature cause massive forest fires.

James E. Hansen, the prominent NASA climatologist who has become an outspoken advocate for sharp cuts in greenhouse gases, complained last year about the «reticence» of many of his peers when considering the risk of runaway ice loss within the lives of today's children.

It is therefore a mistake to imply that the four of us collectively wrote, or agreed with, the one answer you printed in the piece.Ray Pierrehumbert has responded well in the comments to the issue of the possibility of a true runaway greenhouse effect — that phrase is not appropriate for the likely range of future [greenhouse gas] concentrations in the next century.

Even CO2 which is a better greenhouse gas than methane (when comparing them side - by - side in equal concentrations) does not trigger a runaway greenhouse, even in studies where it becomes the substantial part of the atmosphere.

Because if it dose we might be stuck down the rabit whole for good because of runaway global warming caused by more bushfires and more melting of the permafrost releasing greenhouse gases and establishing a positive feedback loop.

To get a runaway of that sort, you need a reservoir of greenhouse gas that goes into the atmosphere to ever greater extents as temperature increases.

Technology will advance far enough during that time to make the issue of runaway warming or climate change tipping points from human greenhouse gas emissions moot historical footnotes.

Such a 35 percent equivalent emission, happening year on year for centuries, would be more than enough to push Earth into a runaway hothouse scenario without any further human greenhouse gas releases.

Endangered Species Act protection is necessary to safeguard warming - threatened mountain species from all threats, as well as protecting their habitats — and the planet — from runaway global warming by helping spur strong measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on the local, national and international scale.

The planet Venus has a runaway CO2 greenhouse gas effect so intense that lead melts on its surface.

Runaway climate change would mean that governments would lose the ability to control future climate change that they would otherwise have through reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation.

It also suggests that imminent «runaway» climate change — whereby our actions in pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere contribute to melting permafrost or sea changes that release stores of methane — is a real possibility.

Wide attention has recently been drawn to such a concern by one of our most eminent climate scientists, James Hansen: ``... if we burn all reserves of oil, gas, and coal, there's a substantial chance that we will initiate the runaway greenhouse.

Preventing runaway climate change by mitigating emissions of super greenhouse gases — hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)

So, I was simply saying that the generally - accepted projections for AGW are that positive feedbacks amplify the radiative effects due to greenhouse gases alone but do not lead to an actual «runaway» instability.

Yes, and the fact that the drain is not completely blockable may explain why the Greenhouse (Tyndall Gas) Effect won't lead to a runaway (overflow) situation however much CO2 is added.

He says that it is essential that we reduce and stabilize greenhouse gas emissions to avoid runaway climate change in the Arctic, but even our best efforts are unlikely to prevent changes that are likely to be dangerous for Inuit.

«The results should set at rest any apprehensions that India's GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions are poised for runaway increase over the next two decades,» the government report said.

As the planet warmed, large amounts of frozen methane gas under the ocean might have been released to trigger runaway greenhouse warming, Ward said.