Sentences with phrase «through changes in greenhouse gases»

Not exact matches

New York collects about $ 728 million a year through RGGI, and has used the money to fund energy efficiency and alternative energy programs that are supposed to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and, in turn, combat climate change.

Unveiled late Friday by the state Public Service Commission, a cost analysis of the plan projects it could cost the state more than $ 3.6 billion through 2030 to reach ambitious clean energy goals backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but reductions in climate - changing greenhouse gases would create benefits worth more than $ 8 billion.

Shelley also believes that climate change denial is a hurting our future and supported Climate and Community Protection Act, a bill that would help put New York on track to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change through a reduction in statewide greenhouse gas emissions and improve the resiliency of the state with respect to the impacts and risks of climate change.

This includes, for example, how the atmosphere responds to increasing levels of greenhouse gases, how the gases cycle through the environment, and changes in water temperature and sea - levels.

The temperature change in any particular region will in fact be a combination of radiation - related changes (through greenhouse gases, aerosols, ozone and the like) and dynamical effects.

We ran two very large «ensembles» of weather simulations, one representing conditions and «possible weather» in the winter we have just had, and one representing the weather in a «world that might have been» if we had not changed the composition of the atmosphere through greenhouse gas emissions.

ACPI assumes a 1 percent annual increase in the rate of greenhouse gas concentrations through the year 2100, for little change in precipitation and an average temperature increase of 1.5 to 2 degrees centigrade at least through the middle of 21st century.

One will represent conditions and «possible weather» in the winter 2014, and the second will represent the weather in a «world that might have been» if human behaviour had not changed the composition of the atmosphere through greenhouse gas emissions.

Agriculture and land use change contributed about 1/3 of total human greenhouse gas emissions in the past decade, through crop cultivation, animal production, and deforestation.

The Earth's climate is predicted to change over time, in part because human activities are altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the buildup of greenhouse gases - primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

The theory suggests that the system is pushed by greenhouse gas changes and warming — as well as solar intensity and Earth orbital eccentricities - past a threshold at which stage the components start to interact chaotically in multiple and changing negative and positive feedbacks — as tremendous energies cascade through powerful subsystems.

The climate change hypothesis asserts that changes in radiative forcing resulting from increased greenhouse gas build up in the atmosphere increases GT and causes Atlantic SST to rise at least during the hurricane season months of August through October.

It is also addressing climate change directly in its operations by reducing its operational impact through aggressive goals for greenhouse gas emissions, water, and paper.

We have used the Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse - gas Induced Climate Change (MAGICC)-- a simple climate model emulator that was, in part, developed through support of the EPA — to examine the climate impact of proposed regulations.

That change in the rate of energy flow through the Earth system serves to keep the Earth system energy content at equilibrium despite changes in solar input or changes in greenhouse gas quantities.

Generally, research considers only how greenhouse gases contribute to climate change, but this study examined the role of released aerosols — that dusty, smoky, hard - to - see - through particulate matter suspended in the atmosphere.

CAMPUS CLEAN ENERGY — Institutions of higher - education across the U.S. are engaged in reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through a variety of strategies including energy efficiency upgrades, on - site renewable energy and behavior change to reduce energy use.

«At present, governments» attempts to limit greenhouse - gas emissions through carbon cap - and - trade schemes and to promote renewable and sustainable energy sources are prob ¬ ably too late to arrest the inevitable trend of global warming,» the scientists write in a paper published online in the scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, on Monday, 14 October 2012.

Through the program the Secretary will make grants to public and private institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use; potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits; the ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through changes in energy consumption habits; increase public awareness of Federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs; and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy indepeThrough the program the Secretary will make grants to public and private institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use; potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits; the ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through changes in energy consumption habits; increase public awareness of Federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs; and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy indepethrough changes in energy consumption habits; increase public awareness of Federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs; and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

The cryosphere derives its importance to the climate system from a variety of effects, including its high reflectivity (albedo) for solar radiation, its low thermal conductivity, its large thermal inertia, its potential for affecting ocean circulation (through exchange of freshwater and heat) and atmospheric circulation (through topographic changes), its large potential for affecting sea level (through growth and melt of land ice), and its potential for affecting greenhouse gases (through changes in permafrost)(Chapter 4).

David Ciplet, also of Brown University, adds: «Only two of the ten donors we assessed are delivering their fair share of climate finance, based on their ability to pay and how much they have contributed to climate change through emitting greenhouse gases in recent decades.»

And that to use it as an example or reason why we are thus NOT affecting the earth through a multi million year change in long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases — which absorb and re radiate thermal radiation, slowly increasing the energy balance of the earth — is irrational.

Indeed, strong observational evidence and results from modeling studies indicate that, at least over the last 50 years, human activities are a major contributor to climate change.Direct human impact is through changes in the concentration of certain trace gases such as carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and water vapor, known collectively as greenhouse gases.

The plaintiffs, once again as they are in some of these other climate change cases are seeking some pretty sweeping, both declarations of their rights under the Constitution and how those rights are being infringed by both what the state of Alaska is doing and not doing, but they're also asking for a science - based plan of attack or a plan of how to deal with climate change through reducing greenhouse gas emissions based on what the science requires and that's something on the order of eight percent per year reduction in emissions plus an accounting of the emissions that the state is responsible for, and how fast they're being reduced.

This is similar to the error they make when they claim that greenhouse gases can produce temperature increases 3 - 5 times that of the direct radiative effects of doubling CO2 (through the action of non-linear feedbacks), but deny that small changes in insolation can produce effects that are much larger than can predicted from the original forcing.

ARLINGTON, VA, November 23, 2010 — The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a nonprofit enterprise of Winrock International (Winrock), announces approval of a pioneering greenhouse gas (GHG) offset methodology to quantify agriculture sector emissions reductions through changes in fertilizer management.

Preventing climate change's worst impacts will require global action — both in the form of an international climate agreement and through national, regional, and state policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

The pattern of temperature change through the layers of the atmosphere, with warming near the surface and cooling higher up in the stratosphere, further confirms that it is the buildup of heat - trapping gases (also known as «greenhouse gases») that has caused most of the Earth's warming over the past half century.

This post reviews the Cancun outcome through an ethical lens in light of the overall responsibility of those nations that are exceeding their fair share of safe global emissions in regard to their duties: (a) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to levels necessary to prevent harm to others, (b) to reduce greenhouse gas emission to levels consistent with what is each nation's fair share of total global emissions, and (c) to provide financing for adaptation measures and other necessary responses to climate change harms for those who are most vulnerable and least responsible for climate change.

«Whilst there are certainly other potential drivers of changes in the climate we know that over the last century we have greatly increased the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and, through detection and attribution analyses, we know that the rising levels of atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases have driven the rise in global temperature,» King said.

However, science, speaking through the IPCC, can provide guidance by suggesting what degree of severity of climate change is likely to be associated with any specific amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Schmidt: What we've been doing in the last 150 years is we've been increasing the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere — over 40 % in terms of CO2, we've more than doubled the amount of methane, which is another greenhouse gas, and the signatures of those changes are very very clear, all the way through the system.

«Climate engineering can not be seen as a substitute for a policy pathway of mitigating climate change through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions,» they conclude in the paper.

23 Thousands of years ago Temperature change (° c) Carbon dioxide (ppmv) Temperature Change through time Compares to the present temperature Current Level Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Temperature change Current Level 2100 CO2 Concentration in the atmosphere (Antarctic Ice Core) If nothing is done to slow greenhouse gas emissions... CO 2 concentrations will likely be more than 700 ppm by 2100 Global average temperatures projected to rise at 2.5 - 10.4 degrees If nothing is done to slow greenhouse gas emissions... CO 2 concentrations will likely be more than 700 ppm by 2100 Global average temperatures projected to rise at 2.5 - 10.4 dchange (° c) Carbon dioxide (ppmv) Temperature Change through time Compares to the present temperature Current Level Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Temperature change Current Level 2100 CO2 Concentration in the atmosphere (Antarctic Ice Core) If nothing is done to slow greenhouse gas emissions... CO 2 concentrations will likely be more than 700 ppm by 2100 Global average temperatures projected to rise at 2.5 - 10.4 degrees If nothing is done to slow greenhouse gas emissions... CO 2 concentrations will likely be more than 700 ppm by 2100 Global average temperatures projected to rise at 2.5 - 10.4 dChange through time Compares to the present temperature Current Level Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Temperature change Current Level 2100 CO2 Concentration in the atmosphere (Antarctic Ice Core) If nothing is done to slow greenhouse gas emissions... CO 2 concentrations will likely be more than 700 ppm by 2100 Global average temperatures projected to rise at 2.5 - 10.4 degrees If nothing is done to slow greenhouse gas emissions... CO 2 concentrations will likely be more than 700 ppm by 2100 Global average temperatures projected to rise at 2.5 - 10.4 dchange Current Level 2100 CO2 Concentration in the atmosphere (Antarctic Ice Core) If nothing is done to slow greenhouse gas emissions... CO 2 concentrations will likely be more than 700 ppm by 2100 Global average temperatures projected to rise at 2.5 - 10.4 degrees If nothing is done to slow greenhouse gas emissions... CO 2 concentrations will likely be more than 700 ppm by 2100 Global average temperatures projected to rise at 2.5 - 10.4 degrees

«Climate models used historic data for factors like greenhouse gas concentrations, solar output, volcanic eruptions, air pollution, and other factors that can affect the climate through 2005 or so, but after that point made assumptions of how these would change in the future.

The theory suggests that the system is pushed by greenhouse gas changes and warming — as well as solar intensity and Earth orbital dynamics — past a threshold at which stage the components start to interact chaotically in multiple and changing negative and positive feedbacks — as tremendous energies cascade through powerful subsystems.

[PUBLIC, early 1990s] «The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood,» the coalition said in a scientific «backgrounder» provided to lawmakers and journalists through the early 1990s, adding that «scientists differ» on the issue.

The researchers asked 1,215 Audubon Society members to write a short essay on (a) The extent to which they personally engage in behaviors that produce greenhouse gases; (b) How climate change is exacerbated on a societal level, such as through the pervasiveness of fossil fuels; or (c) Their daily routines.

At this point, it sounds like you're saying that no, mankind can not alter the albedo of the Earth through aerosols or soot or changes in land use, and no, greenhouse gases don't exist.

The fact is that we have altered the environment in which weather develops, on a global scale, in various ways, some directly through greenhouse gases, but also through pollutants and land surface changes.

«The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood,» the coalition said in a scientific «backgrounder» provided to lawmakers and journalists through the early 1990s, adding that «scientists differ» on the issue.

The primary objective here is to try to quantify the character of natural variability though the instrumental record of climate, through paleoclimate evidence (e.g. ice cores), and in computer models that run for long periods of time without any change in climate forcing (i.e. constant sunlight and greenhouse gases).

I was continuing to root through the AGU FM abstracts and came across this from Christina Ravelo et al. (paragraphed for easier digestion by dyspeptic elderly bunnies): «The response of climate to past changes in atmospheric greenhouse gas composition can be used to assess Earth System sensitivity.

The theory suggests that the system is pushed by greenhouse gas changes and warming — as well as solar intensity and Earth orbital eccentricities — past a threshold at which stage the components start to interact chaotically in multiple and changing negative and positive feedbacks — as tremendous energies cascade through powerful subsystems.

Even though the Protocol has prevented a reduction of 220 Gt CO2e since the 1990s, which is more than the approximate emissions 60,000 coal powered plants would release in a year, the Montreal Protocol risks negating its contribution to combating climate change through its unintentional commercialization of the super greenhouse gases, HFCs.

Consequently, greenhouse gases have become weaponised through the fear of «catastrophic climate change» in the «sustainability» (sic) effort to control all aspects of your life.

Drilling in the Arctic Ocean not only would exacerbate climate change effects in the region through the emission of black carbon, but it also takes the country in the wrong direction in the fight to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Human - generated greenhouse gases and other pollutants, along with vast changes in landscapes through the expansion of agriculture and cities, have altered the composition and dynamics of the atmosphere, from poles to equator.

We need to run two very large «ensembles» (groups) of weather simulations, one representing conditions and «possible weather» in 2013, and one representing the weather in a «world that might have been» in 2013 if we had not changed the composition of the atmosphere through greenhouse gas emissions.

And our biggest energy companies, utilities and auto companies became dependent on cheap hydrocarbons that spin off climate - changing greenhouse gases, and we clearly have not forced them, through a carbon tax, to price in the true risks and costs to society from these climate - changing fuels.