Sentences with phrase «slowing global warming as»

«Our findings mean that nature is not as efficient in slowing global warming as we previously thought,» said Kees Jan van Groenigen, research fellow at the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at NAU and lead author of the study.

Reducing emissions of these other pollutants might not slow global warming as much as previously thought

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The United States, under former President Barack Obama, had pledged as part of the Paris accord to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025 to help slow global warming.

In the particularly difficult question of global warming, thus far most economists have argued that it will be more efficient to respond to the problems caused by global warming as they occur than to make serious efforts to reduce it, since these efforts would slow economic growth.

Recently many have been willing to work toward the reduction of their carbon emissions so as to slow the process of global warming.

Now, research suggests that for the past decade, such stratospheric aerosols — injected into the atmosphere by either recent volcanic eruptions or human activities such as coal burning — are slowing down global warming.

It will be difficult to slow or stop this global warming, thanks to the oceans, which are warming as well.

The deceleration in rising temperatures during this 15 - year period is sometimes referred to as a «pause» or «hiatus» in global warming, and has raised questions about why the rate of surface warming on Earth has been markedly slower than in previous decades.

Since methane can cause about 20 times as much atmospheric warming as carbon dioxide, curbing methane would help slow global warming.

In this sense, the ocean has acted as a buffer to slow down the greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere and, thus, global warming.

Efforts such as these to slow deforestation have delivered some of humanity's few gains in its otherwise lackadaisical battle so far against global warming.

Environmentally, the fires are a double whammy: They destroy trees that help to slow global warming by absorbing heat - trapping carbon dioxide as they grow.

The researchers attribute the slowing down of the current known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to global warming.

There are periods when other factors might temporarily slow that rise such as the much - discussed global warming «pause» of the last decade, but the overall connection is clear.

The longevity of global warming (Fig. 9) and the implausibility of removing the warming if it is once allowed to penetrate the deep ocean emphasize the urgency of slowing emissions so as to stay close to the 500 GtC target.

Given the unprecedented rapidity of the human - made climate forcing, it is difficult to establish how soon slow feedbacks will become important, but clearly slow feedbacks should be considered in assessing the «dangerous» level of global warming, as discussed in the next section.

First, most climate simulations, including ours above and those of IPCC [1], do not include slow feedbacks such as reduction of ice sheet size with global warming or release of greenhouse gases from thawing tundra.

The wedge strategies rely on existing technologies such as wind power and fuel - efficient vehicles, so the activity drives home the hopeful message that we already have tools to slow global warming.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

Feed - in tariffs on fossil energy imports to the United States would surely end up reducing demand for fossil fuels as more and more renewable capacity became available — which is exactly what you would want to see happen if you are serious about slowing the rate of global warming.

All of this will play much better than calling for nothing more than emission controls involving many economic restraints as they just slow the expanding of the overload and the worsening of global warming.

A task force assembled by the American Psychological Association hopes to spur more research on the role of the human mind in shaping the behaviors resulting in rising greenhouse - gas emissions as well as on traits that can impede an effective response to global warming and similar slow - building environmental risks.

According to the submitted paper, they «fit each record [ENSO and AMO times series] separately to 5th order polynomials using a linear least - squares regression; we subtracted the respective fits... This procedure effectively removes slow changes such as global warming and the ~ 70 year cycle of the AMO, and gives each record zero mean.»

In a few countries and jurisdictions — such as Europe, California, and Vermont — people will invest lots of their own money to control emissions in an effort to slow global warming.

But the sheer rate of increase over just the past 55 years shows how fast global warming could hit us in the future — and the present — and underscores how much we've failed as a planet to slow down carbon emissions.

Longtime readers will recall how I've cited the Talking Heads lyric «same as it ever was» quite often over the years in assessing negotiations aimed at forging a new global agreement on slowing global warming and limiting its impacts.

It also strikes me as complacent, or even reckless, to assume that any slowing is proof that global warming is nothing to worry about.

«Whether it's the science to slow global warming; the technology to protect our troops and confront bioterror and weapons of mass destruction; the research to find life - saving cures; or the innovations to remake our industries and create 21st - century jobs — today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation,» he said.

The world seems to be awakening to the fact that if we all continue on the «business as usual», burn - fossil - fuels - until - they're - gone trajectory, we can't stop or slow global warming.

So saving as many animals and plants as we can, trying to slow down global warming (we can't stop it) is our attempt to try to be around when the experiment ends.

If global warming does slow down or partially reverse with a sunspot crash, industrial polluters and reluctant nations could use it as a justification for turning their backs on pollution controls altogether, makingmatters worse in the long run.

As the market for coal goes global (see our piece in Boston Review on this issue, September 2009) the future of global warming will depend on the interests in the countries that are least interested in slowing global warming.

This would serve multiple purposes, of (a) weaning us from dependence on foreign oil and simultaneously depleting terror - exporting countries of their revenue stream, (b) reducing other pollutants besides CO2, (c) encouraging a more gradual and less economically disastrous transition from an economony based on a finite resource, (d) slow global warming, (e) move us in the direction of a VAT tax rather than an income tax (actually, personally I don't think e is such a great thing, but as many conversative groups favor it, I don't see why they would oppose a revenue - neutral tax on fossil fuels.

It does show that positive feedbacks are dominant, and for timescales of anthropogenic global warming about 2 to 4.5 degrees Celsius per doubling, and a bit higher if you include century - timescale «slower feedbacks» such as ice sheets.

We might also be able to slow global warming down quite a bit, and I'm sure this will appeal to the geoengineering crowd as well.

The Stern Report believes the figure to be higher, and recommends avoided deforestation as the most immediate and inexpensive way to slow global warming.

Obama's climate plan would double the yearly addition to the forces driving global warming by 2050 and he's selling this as a plan to «slow» it down.

With this prediction, and the trend toward the slowing down of the jet stream, is it time to consider / advocate geoengineering as a response to global warming?

Nature is kicking back on us because we're just slow learners about hurricane infrastructure preparations as well as not paying enough attention to the real world consequences of human - induced global warming and climate change.

My work has long taken the view that policies to slow global warming would have net economic benefits, in the trillion of dollars of present value -LSB-...] I have advocated a carbon tax for many years as the best way to attack the issue.

They have evidence that the soils may not store carbon as efficiently as they had once assumed, and that, to slow global warming, it may not be enough to just save the trees.

If blister rust can be regarded as a steadily, if slow - moving, disaster for whitebark pine, the relatively dramatic and sudden attack of mountain pine beetles can be regarded as a biological firestorm, fueled by global warming, experts at a recent workshop sponsored by the Natural Resources Defense Council said.

Our «end of business as usual» proposal is a multiple win: for car buyers, communities whose plants will stay open, automakers, energy security, and efforts to slow global warming.

This is not Emanuel, it is the writer: «This planetary engine is slowing down as global warming pushes land and ocean temperatures closer together.»

Recovery is slower when conditions after a drought are unusually warm, the study notes, which suggests that recovery times will get longer as global temperatures rise.

While the warming of average global surface temperatures has slowed (though not nearly as much as previously believed), the overall amount of heat accumulated by the global climate has not, with over 90 percent being absorbed by the oceans.

The researchers attribute the slowing down of the current known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to global warming.

Putting it all together, we have an increasingly clear picture that while the warming of global surface temperatures has slowed over the past decade, it has not slowed as much as previously thought.

Accordingly, controlling emissions in small as well as large amounts is essential to prevent, slow the pace of, reduce the threats from, and mitigate global warming and its adverse effects.

And we also know that the correlation between global average temperature and atmospheric CO2 is statistically not very robust, so that something else must also «be at work» to cause the gradual warming (or «slow thaw», as you've dubbed it).