Sentences with phrase «significant changes in greenhouse gas»

[It is helps us to understand what natural forces are currently at work that could be causing changes... But note that some natural forces like the ones that I talked about above work over much longer timescales than the century timescale over which we are making significant changes in greenhouse gas levels.

Not exact matches

This would mean significant change to the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and would slow down the rate of warming.

In the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emissionIn the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emissionin the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.

«This funding and the demonstration project ensure that Ontario will continue to lead in the development of smart grid technology,» said Bob Leigh, President, Prolucid Technologies Inc. «Utilities globally face significant challenges to change the model of power consumption, reducing greenhouse gases and increasing the efficiency of the grid.

The global energy sector is in the midst of a significant transition, driven by new technologies, changing consumer preferences, and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

How critical is this transformation of the grid to getting the amount of renewables we need to be on track to make significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, the kind of cuts that we need to forestall or minimize global climate change?

As time ran out on the latest international climate change negotiations, an agreement was reached that includes all significant countries in the effort to reduce greenhouse gases.

If renewable energy is going to be a bigger player and have a significant impact in cutting the greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that are driving climate change, it's going to have to grow quickly.

THE RESULTS Both studies found that changes in land use related to biofuel production would be a significant source of greenhouse gases in the future.

Watch Video David L. Chandler MIT News Office Scientists agree that changes in land use such as deforestation, and not just greenhouse gas emissions, can play a significant role altering the world's climate systems.

Changes in a variety of other factors such as operating procedures, aircraft routing, and load factors can also have significant impacts on greenhouse gas emissions per passenger mile.

With the warming already committed in the climate system plus the additional warming expected from rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the Arctic will experience significant changes during this century even if greenhouse gas emissions are stabilized globally at a level lower than today's.

The problem there, as I pointed out a few months ago, is that not all greenhouse gases contain carbon, and not all carbon - containing pollution plays a significant role in climate change.

There is still a lot of work being done on this, but I wouldn't anticipate much of a significant change in NAO over 2005 - 2007 since there is a lot of noise and a lot of other influences — not least greenhouse gases, which with either mechanism, provide an opposing tendency.

«As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of not acting... a sufficiently ambitious, international and comprehensive legally - binding United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will provide business with the certainty it needs to scale up global investment in low - carbon technologies... the shift to a low - carbon economy will create significant business opportunities».

This means that the «pause,» or whatever you want to call it, in the rise of global surface temperatures is even more significant than it is generally taken to be, because whatever is the reason behind it, it is not only acting to slow the rise from greenhouse gas emissions but also the added rise from changes in aerosol emissions.

In particular, the authors find fault with IPCC's conclusions relating to human activities being the primary cause of recent global warming, claiming, contrary to significant evidence that they tend to ignore, that the comparatively small influences of natural changes in solar radiation are dominating the influences of the much larger effects of changes in the atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations on the global energy balancIn particular, the authors find fault with IPCC's conclusions relating to human activities being the primary cause of recent global warming, claiming, contrary to significant evidence that they tend to ignore, that the comparatively small influences of natural changes in solar radiation are dominating the influences of the much larger effects of changes in the atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations on the global energy balancin solar radiation are dominating the influences of the much larger effects of changes in the atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations on the global energy balancin the atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations on the global energy balance.

The deal made by Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama to limit greenhouse gases from those two nations represents the most significant action in the fight against climate change in years.

Then, as an expert, you cite from an interview the head of an organization created to refute the idea that geologically radical long lived greenhouse gas concentration level alteration of our atmosphere (said more correctly than the simplistic «climate change» phrase, it's a mouthful for our twitter age), poses a threat of significant climatic shift in response.

One driver of temperatures in this region is the abundance and variability of ozone, but water vapor, volcanic aerosols, and dynamical changes such as the Quasi - Biennial Oscillation (QBO) are also significant; anthropogenic increases in other greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide play a lesser but significant role in the lower stratosphere.

Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC): An agreement opened for signature at the «Earth Summit» in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 4, 1992, which has the goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent significant anthropogenically forced climate cChange (FCCC): An agreement opened for signature at the «Earth Summit» in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 4, 1992, which has the goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent significant anthropogenically forced climate changechange.

Like my post on how many greenhouse gasses humanity can safely emit and my post on the (absent) long - term future of the fossil fuel industry, it highlights how preventing catastrophic climate change obliges humanity to keep a significant proportion of all available fossil fuels in the ground.

As Yohe sees it, a prudent risk - management strategy dictates significant cuts in greenhouse gases and immediate planning to adapt to rising sea levels and other effects of climate change.

A: In this draft statement on Earth's Changing Climate, APS «reiterates» its 2007 statement in stating that: the climate is changing, humans are contributing to climate change, and rising concentrations of greenhouse gases pose the risk of significant disruption around the globIn this draft statement on Earth's Changing Climate, APS «reiterates» its 2007 statement in stating that: the climate is changing, humans are contributing to climate change, and rising concentrations of greenhouse gases pose the risk of significant disruption around thChanging Climate, APS «reiterates» its 2007 statement in stating that: the climate is changing, humans are contributing to climate change, and rising concentrations of greenhouse gases pose the risk of significant disruption around the globin stating that: the climate is changing, humans are contributing to climate change, and rising concentrations of greenhouse gases pose the risk of significant disruption around thchanging, humans are contributing to climate change, and rising concentrations of greenhouse gases pose the risk of significant disruption around the globe.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new offshore oil and gas plan from the U.S. Department of the Interior blocks two drilling leases in the Arctic, but allows a new lease in Alaska's Cook Inlet and 10 new leases in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years — a step that will worsen climate change by ensuring significant greenhouse gas pollution for the next 70 years.

Unless you believe the energy transition is not for real, there would be minimal impact on greenhouse gasses since new pipelines are not likely to change oil sands economics enough in a low price world to spur significant new investment.

Stabilization of climate to avoid «dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system», as called for in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, will require significant cutbacks in greenhouse gas emissions during the 21st century; and

(The fact that they all are is conclusive evidence that there is little or no scope on real planets for changes in «greenhouse» gasses to have significant temperature effects — even if the process worked just the way the AGW theorists claim!)

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activity and livestock are a significant driver of climate change, trapping heat in the earth's atmosphere and triggering global warming.

For example, the paper includes the following: «greenhouse gas pollution can impose great harms», «significantly increased risks of severe harms», and «A handful of geographic regions may experience short - term benefits from climate change, such as temporary agricultural gains in colder regions, but even in those areas, long - term, catastrophic scenarios would bring significant harms.»

Analysts say circumstances have changed that make it easier for the two countries to seriously consider emissions reductions, after a major U.N. climate meeting in Copenhagen five years ago ended without significant cuts to greenhouse gases.

Other factors, including greenhouse gases, also contributed to the warming and regional factors played a significant role in increasing temperatures in some regions, most notably changes in ocean currents which led to warmer - than - average sea temperatures in the North Atlantic.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

My personal views are: (1) Yes, it is true that increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will tend to warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Yes, human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia are uncertain because proxies have been misapplied by the hockey stick crowd.

The latter is a politico -(pseudo) scientific construct, developed since the late - 1980s, in which the human emission of «greenhouse gases», such as carbon dioxide and methane, is unquestioningly taken as the prime - driver of a new and dramatic type of climate change that will inexorably result in a significant warming during the next 100 years and which will inevitably lead to catastrophe for both humanity and the Earth.

«Industrialised countries, including the USA, which have all done most to contribute to climate change, must lead the way by making significant cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions.

The NWRA's climate change web page says there has been «a significant increase in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases» in the last two decades, and that: «Scientific consensus is clear: these emissions are making the earth warmer in an unusually fast time period.»

These moist enthalpy - related studies confirm previous results showing that changes in vegetation cover, surface moisture and energy fluxes generally lead to significant climatic changes (e.g. 41 - 43) and responses which can be of a similar magnitude to that projected for future greenhouse gas concentrations (44, 45).

In combination, these two research efforts add to the massive amount of scientific evidence that climate change is always occurring; and, most definitely does not require human consumer / industrial greenhouse gases to produce significant impacts on planetary environments and those associated civilizations.

Moreover, at a time when we should be making massive cuts in the emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere in order to reduce the threat posed by climate change, the food system is lengthening its supply chains and increasing emissions to the point where it is a significant contributor to global warming.

In what his aides called one of the most significant policy addresses of his second and final term, the mayor argued that directly taxing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change will slow global warming, promote economic growth and stimulate technological innovation — even if it results in higher gasoline prices in the short terIn what his aides called one of the most significant policy addresses of his second and final term, the mayor argued that directly taxing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change will slow global warming, promote economic growth and stimulate technological innovation — even if it results in higher gasoline prices in the short terin higher gasoline prices in the short terin the short term.

Paolo Frankl, Head of IEA's Renewable Energy Division, commented: «Given that global energy demand for heat represents almost half of the world's final energy use - more than the combined global demand for electricity and transport - solar heat can make a significant contribution in both tackling climate change and strengthening energy security, The IEA's Solar Heating and Cooling Roadmap outlines how best to advance the global uptake of solar heating and cooling (SHC) technologies, which, it notes, involve very low levels of greenhouse - gas emissions.

Significant progress in reducing emissions and limiting climate change could be achieved if companies 1) unequivocally communicate to the public, shareholders, and policymakers the climate risks resulting from continued use of their products, and therefore the need for restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the 2 °C global temperature target; 2) firmly reject contrary claims by industry trade associations and lobbying groups; and, 3) accelerate their transition to the production of low - carbon energy.

The space - time structure of natural climate variability needed to determine the optimal fingerprint pattern and the resultant signal - to - noise ratio of the detection variable is estimated from several multi-century control simulations with different CGCMs and from instrumental data over the last 136 y. Applying the combined greenhouse gas - plus - aerosol fingerprint in the same way as the greenhouse gas only fingerprint in a previous work, the recent 30 - y trends (1966 — 1995) of annual mean near surface temperature are again found to represent a significant climate change at the 97.5 % confidence level.

The consensus of the world's climate scientists is that man - made greenhouse gas emissions are creating significant changes in the global climate system.