Sentences with phrase «showing higher emissions»

The GCP's new global carbon budget also incorporates updated land - use emission estimates that significantly revise past land - use change emissions, showing higher emissions prior to 1960, lower emissions between 1960 and 1999, and higher emissions from 1999 through to present.
States like Texas with a large power demand showed high emissions of all pollutants, but smaller changes in emissions per degree Celsius.
For example, Meinshausen et al. showed the higher emissions are in 2020, the more challenging it will be to limit warming to 2 °C.
Studies in several Amazonian reservoirs show high emissions.
«We've also seen studies from Texas showing high emissions from oil - and - gas fields,» said Gwen Lachelt, a director of the Durango - based Oil and Gas Accountability Project.

Not exact matches

OSLO, Oct 7 - Greenhouse gas emissions rise when economies expand but don't fall as quickly when recession strikes, perhaps because people stick with a higher - emitting lifestyle from the boom times, a study showed.
For example, they might point to the fact that Detroit auto makers could no longer resist demands for higher emissions standards when Japanese car companies showed they could meet the standards.
Yet the analysis shows that even with higher gas prices, coal plants still fail to be economically competitive under the new greenhouse gas rule, which requires that fossil plants not exceed emission rates of 1,000 pounds of CO2 per megawatt - hour.
The study also showed significant variations by region, with some areas showing higher than average emissions because of large differences in the age and type of pipe in different parts of the US.
The Innsbruck data also show that, due to the very high proportion of oxygen - containing compounds, the total global amount of urban emissions is significantly underestimated.
The X-ray data show hot gas and the radio data show emission from electrons that have been accelerated to high energies by the nova shock wave.
Climate change research, shown here by number of publications, primarily concerns countries that are less vulnerable to climate change and have a higher emission of CO2.
«Our study shows that many of these deaths can be averted by limiting greenhouse gas emissions and pursuing measures to help people adapt to high temperatures.»
Built to eventually map emissions planetwide every 24 hours and to show pollutants in higher resolution than ever before, Tropomi's sharper images drew raves from its sponsors.
The findings show that locations on the planet with high fossil fuel emissions and biomass burning emissions are rare, suggesting an inverse relationship in which an increase in one causes a decline in the other.
In a detailed analysis of high - energy EGB gamma rays, published April 14 in Physical Review Letters, Ajello and his team show that blazars and other discrete sources can account for nearly all of this emission.
Global methane and ethane emissions from oil production from 1980 to 2012 were far higher than previous estimates show, according to a new study which for the first time takes into account different production management systems and geological conditions around the world.
For the first time, the researchers also showed that higher HTC production temperatures resulted in a significant reduction in emissions of methane (CH4) and ammonia (NH3) and an increase of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.
The results showed that higher greenhouse gas emissions would lead to more annual fatalities from heat across the city as far out as the 2080s.
The regulations that set fuel - economy and greenhouse - gas emission goals for cars and trucks have lower costs and higher benefits than previous analyses report, a new Carnegie Mellon University study shows.
The most contentious issue this year was whether to highlight economic groupings of nations, such as high or low income, and illustrations showing how each group was contributing to the growth of greenhouse gas emissions were particularly controversial.
«Sparing tracts of land as natural habitat is much better for the vast majority of species than a halfway house of lower - yielding but «wildlife - friendly» farming, and we have recently shown that in the UK land spared through high - yield farming could even sequester enough greenhouse gases to mitigate the UK's agricultural emissions *,» said Balmford.
Christopher Wilmers of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and colleagues showed last year that vanishing sea otters are linked with higher emissions from North American coastlines (Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, doi.org/khz).
Below is one of the figures from the draft summary that sparked debate; it shows that emissions from lower - middle income countries (LMCs) and upper - middle income countries (UMCs) are rising faster than emissions from high - income countries (HICs).
The results reveal that, after a comparison at national level, the vast number of substances tested show a clearly higher average consumption — thus more contaminant emissions — by private households than health care facilities.
But the inventories showed a constant rate of emissions over the Salt Lake Valley, failing to capture the high CO2 growth rate in suburban areas.
This breakdown showed that certain states, such as New York for example, that would expected to see its increasing population and affluence bring along significantly higher carbon dioxide emissions instead saw those emissions fall thanks to politics that favored environmental protections.
Using publicly available data from NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, independent scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Chicago have developed new maps showing that the galactic center produces more high - energy gamma rays than can be explained by known sources and that this excess emission is consistent with some forms of dark matter.
Our IR observations show the comparatively broad emission lines, the rapid development of the spectrum to higher ionization, the early appearance of coronal lines, and the absence of dust emission, all features that indicate the hybrid nature of the nova.
The emission is shown in false color with black as low values, green as medium, and white as high.
The HII region shows an elongated morphology and the 1280 MHz map comprises six resolved high density regions encompassed by diffuse emission spanning 1.4 pc x 1.0 pc.
Beyond equilibrium climate sensitivity -LSB-...] Newer metrics relating global warming directly to the total emitted CO2 show that in order to keep warming to within 2 °C, future CO2 emissions have to remain strongly limited, irrespective of climate sensitivity being at the high or low end.»
The subsequent studies have produced a mixed bag of results, with some showing higher methane emissions than expected, and others lower.
Maps show median projections for 2100 under the high emissions future.
In other words, over 98 percent of forecasts show CO2 emissions as high as we have had in recent years leading to more of a temperature increase.»
The current estimates show that cellular agriculture can have lower greenhouse gas emissions, land use and water use, but often has a higher energy use requirement when compared to conventionally produced animal source foods.
The projected transition of livestock systems from pure grazing diets to diets supplemented by higher quality feeds will cut greenhouse gas emissions from land use change globally by as much as 23 % by 2030, while improving food availability and farmers» income, shows new IIASA research.
The scientific principles that are used to calculate infrared emissions from a surface or body show that lower temperatures produce higher quality far infrared heat.
The motorists» association says results show emissions of noxious gases up to four times the regulatory limits, while greenhouse - gas emissions and fuel consumption was up to 35 % higher than figures shown on the government - mandated Fuel Consumption Label.
A spokeswoman for the German transport ministry told AN that out of 53 vehicles tested, 30 of them «were showing inexplicably high CO2 emissions,» which has led authorities to conduct another round of testing.
In the first case, the show car coasts with zero emissions since the combustion engine is shut off; in the latter case, braking energy is fed back into the high - voltage battery.
Toyota's own data show that the cumulative effect of full hybrid operation leads to high proportions of zero - emissions, EV driving.
* Exciting new next - generation Ford Focus gears up for Paris launch of full production - ready range of bodystyles * Global reveal of new high - performance 250PS Focus ST for 2012 launch * New C - MAX and Mondeo ranges on show * Ford accelerates efforts to reduce CO2 emissions with high - efficiency Ford ECOneticTechnologies and electrification feature displays * September 30: Alan Mulally and Stephen Odell to unveil the next - generation Focus family at 09.15 on the Ford stand in Hall 1
On Thursday, April 5, at the New York Auto Show, Infiniti will unveil a zero emission concept that will preview the stylish, high - performance, electric luxury car that is set to launch in 2014.
We find (i) measurements at all scales show that official inventories consistently underestimate actual CH4 [methane] emissions, with the natural gas and oil sectors as important contributors; (ii) many independent experiments suggest that a small number of «super-emitters» could be responsible for a large fraction of leakage; (iii) recent regional atmospheric studies with very high emissions rates are unlikely to be representative of typical natural gas system leakage rates; and (iv) assessments using 100 - year impact indicators show system - wide leakage is unlikely to be large enough to negate climate benefits of coal - to - natural gas substitution.
For instance, an effort to shape an initiative for curbing emissions would have a higher chance of success if it considered research showing which messages and incentives cause people to change, or resist change.
I would bet that it was highest in 1900 (and increasingly better the futher in the past we look), declined to the mid-70s (when emissions - control laws started taking effect, then the gradual improvement shown.
The midcentury ratio could be much higher if emissions rose at an even greater pace, or it could be about 8 to 1 if emissions were reduced significantly, the model showed.
Worldwide, vegetation fires are showing a trend toward longer burning periods, increased fire severity, larger areas burned and increased (mostly human caused) frequency — with all of these factors contributing to more damaging environmental impacts, higher shares of emissions and increasing socioeconomic costs, including greater threats to human health and security.
The images clearly show the high SO2 emissions from sources in northeast China.
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