Sentences with phrase «such high emissions»

There may be more to consider under such a high emissions scenario.

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With an ultimate feedstock capacity of one million barrels a day and «near net zero» emissions, the refinery would produce high - margin products such as kerosene and aviation fuel for the Asian market.

High prices, plus the added pressure of the necessary emissions standards, mean Canadian manufacturers are struggling to remain competitive against companies in China where such standards don't exist.

The world's food security would be ensured even with over 9 billion people in 2050, agricultural land area would not increase, greenhouse gas emissions would be lowered and the negative effects of today's intensive food systems, such as nitrogen surplus and high pesticide exposure, would be greatly reduced.

However, its popularity has driven a rapidly expanding industry that has been linked with deforestation, high carbon emissions, displacement of local communities and threats to endangered species such as the orang - utan, Sumatran tiger and sunbear.

Traits targeted for improvement include higher nutritional quality; tolerance of pests, diseases, and environmental stresses, such as flood and drought; and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

They include: high levels of degraded soils; reductions in irrigation quotas to restore the health of the Murray - Darling system; the re-forestation of some agricultural land to meet emissions reductions targets; the impacts of peak oil, such as the diversion of food crops into feed - stock for biofuels; and the price and crop yield implications of peak phosphorous, given Australia's dependence on imported fertilisers.

«It was surprising to see some of the less - industrialised countries with such high rankings, but this also reflects their CO2 emissions related to deforestation,» says Matthews.

Headed toward an 8 F rise in warming Other such low - probability but high - risk scenarios mentioned in the report include ecosystem collapses, destabilization of methane stored in the seafloor and rapid greenhouse gas emissions from thawing Arctic permafrost.

X-rays are absorbed by the atmosphere so I use data from X-ray satellites located above our atmosphere — such as NuSTAR, Suzaku and Swift — to detect high energy X-ray emission throughout the Universe.»

Such so - called in situ production requires less water but far more energy to get the bitumen flowing, resulting in greenhouse gas emissions some 2.5 times higher than those from mining.

«The deposition of compounds such as sugars and organic acids from living roots can increase the activity of bacteria and fungi, and it's this increase in activity that accelerates the decomposition of carbon in the soil, leading to higher CO2 emissions,» Sulman said.

Areas with high fossil fuel emissions, such as cities and industrial zones, will have below - normal concentrations of heavy CO2.

States that use coal power, such as Wyoming, West Virginia and Kentucky, have the highest carbon dioxide emissions.

In addition, HESS has detected emissions from new classes of objects emitting very high energy gamma rays, such as stellar - mass black holes orbiting massive stars, and has characterized the absence of emissions from other classes of objects such as rapidly moving stars.

«It's important to note that the article doesn't address the direct and immediate impact of forest burning, such as emissions of black carbon [considered a major driver of global warming owing to its high capacity for absorbing solar radiation].

Another particulate, secondary sulfates (formed in the atmosphere from emissions, such as those from coal - fired power plants), had the highest concentration (between 30 and 44 percent) of all pollutants at urban and rural sites, with readings being mostly uniform across locations.

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) measures such emission lines with high precision within the US - German SOFIA project.

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.

New research explores the source of unexpectedly high nitrous oxide emissions from such bare peat soils in Arctic tundra.

In studying the functional behavior of the brain, from control of muscles to the formation of memories, scientists are using such tools such as electron microscopy, recordings of electrical signals from individual brain cells, and imaging of brain structures and processes using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and high - resolution optical imaging.

Last January was a prime example of what can happen during such measurements: the test candidate, a 2016 diesel Renault Mégane, already displayed high nitric oxide emissions at Empa's test rig.

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.

Astete said some of the highest mercury levels were in people who were not directly involved in mining, but who lived near places where gold is bought and sold, such as the shop where the emissions were too high to be measured by the EPA's gauge.

Setting Priorities: The transition to «climate smart» land management practices, including for example low - emissions agriculture, agroforestry and the restoration of high carbon - value ecosystems, such as forests and peatlands, will require sectoral coordination and investments in integrated land use planning.

Otherwise, HD110432 and gamma Cas share similarly peculiar X-ray and optical characteristics such as high X-ray temperature, erratic X-ray variability on timescales of a few hours, optical emission lines, and submigrating features in optical line profiles.

This theory applies to the light from stars, or any hot object such as molten iron or stove burners, and predicts that the radio emission increases at higher frequencies.

The highest purity searches to date have made use of relatively clean signals such as the presence of emission or absorption features at two distinct redshifts in the same optical spectrum (e.g. Bolton et al. 2004), or the strong «magnification bias» towards detecting strongly lensed sources in the sub - mm / mm waveband (e.g. Negrello et al. 2010).

Traits targeted for improvement include higher nutritional quality; tolerance of pests, diseases, and environmental stresses, such as flood and drought; and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

A narrow band of them in the high - energy spectrum would be a «smoking gun» for the presence of dark matter, says Michelson, but he thinks it's more likely that the dark matter emission would be mixed in with gamma rays from other energy sources in the universe and that scientists such as GLAST pioneer Elliott Bloom will have to work very hard to untangle the GLAST data to find it.

Such research is needed for understanding future changes in cyclones and avoided impacts if we follow the Paris Agreement on climate change, rather than current, high greenhouse gas emission pathways.»

Although sustainability guidelines are unlikely to be included in the final version of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the Advisory Committee included the following statement in their initial report: «Consistent evidence indicates that, in general, a dietary pattern that is higher in plant - based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, and lower in animal - based foods is more health promoting and is associated with lesser environmental impact (greenhouse gas emissions and energy, land, and water use) than is the current average U.S. diet.

But unless there are noticeable signs of clogged fuel injectors (such as a rough idle, stalling, poor acceleration or high emissions levels), it might not be necessary.

Items such as high - level encryption in ECUs, tire - pressure monitors, integrated axle carrier / ring gears and complicated diesel emissions systems make it very difficult for the aftermarket to come to market with performance - oriented modifications.

Nonetheless, a stop - start system is standard on every model, keeping CO2 emissions down to a relatively reasonable 199g / km on the automatic 335bhp V6 - a figure that's very impressive for such a high - performance sports car.

Audi has not offered a V8 with the Mk2 R8 because of what Ingolstadt officials describe as a combination of the high costs of updating it to meet future emissions standards and concerns in markets such as China, where road tax is linked to engine capacity.

Its CO2 emissions are 14 - percent higher per gallon, but offset by the fact that turbo diesels such as in the Cruze tend to be more thermally efficient.

Less slippery aerodynamics mean the bluffer and higher - riding C - HR can't match the Prius for economy and CO2 emissions, but Toyota's claims of 74.3 mpg and 87g / km put it ahead of traditional diesel rivals such as the Nissan Qashqai 1.5 dCi and SEAT Ateca 1.6 TDI.

A number of changes have been made to help reduce emissions, such as: use of a complex exhaust gas recirculation system (with high pressure EGR and a cooled low - pressure EGR); integration of the water - cooled intercooler and the EGR valve with the intake manifold, which also improves throttle response; and packaging the exhaust after - treatment components close to the engine by combining the DPF with the SCR Catalyst.

The high operating effectiveness of the engine, the standard - fitted Auto Start - Stop function and other examples of Efficient Dynamics technology, such as Brake Energy Regeneration helps to reduce fuel consumption and emissions by around 30 per cent.

And all this while achieving fuel consumption figures not typically associated with such high performance: both new models return 28.5 mpg on the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC), with CO2 emissions of 231 g / km.

Volkswagen has also integrated a number of secondary zero - emission vehicle technologies into the HyMotion, such as regenerative braking that feeds a high - voltage, lithium - ion battery that can give the car a boost to maximize acceleration.

I would like to see a discussion of the likelihood that factors traditionally viewed as slow response feedback factors (such as Arctic albedo, or high methane emissions permafrost degradation) may actually become faster response feedback factors.

However, the high end of the IPCC range (or even higher) is often waved about in order to hype the issue and draw «concern» from the general public such that they stand behind efforts to limit carbon dioxide emission.

Given that impacts don't scale linearly — that's true both because of the statistics of normal distributions, which imply that (damaging) extremes become much more frequent with small shifts in the mean, and because significant breakpoints such as melting points for sea ice, wet - bulb temperatures too high for human survival, and heat tolerance for the most significant human food crops are all «in play» — the model forecasts using reasonable emissions inputs ought to be more than enough for anyone using sensible risk analysis to know that we making very bad choices right now.

On the other side, while there will undoubtedly be high costs to any serious attempt at mitigation, this would also require something like a global agreement (covering at least the rich world, India and China, and probably other states with large and currently poor populations) which would inevitably have to bring in issues other than greenhouse gas emissions — such as those you mention — if only because these states will say, reasonably enough, that they can not bring their populations on board without serious help in those other areas.

Which is a good job, given the shortage of high - grade uranium ore, the huge unmanageable risks associated with nuclear plants and nuclear proliferation, the large amounts of embedded carbon in uranium refining and processing (and other GHG emissions from the nuclear industry), and the insanity of developing a huge strategic fuel dependence on countries such as Russia.

Scoping the challenge of 4Gt (C) / yr negative - emissions, 8 million sq km of willow would do the job but such land use is surely too high.

«Hence, a reduced optical depth explains why atmospheres are not easily «saturated «and why planets such as Venus have surface temperatures that are substantially higher than the emission temperature.

Since emissions in the last 40 years have been 3 times higher than in the period from 1924 to 1963 and 30 times higher than 1844 to 1883 it is not too hard to believe that the rapid growth in atmospheric partial pressure has forced such a change in airborne fraction