Sentences with phrase «to emit greenhouse gases»
Solar panels on your roof do not emit greenhouse gases.
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So even if we were to stop emitting greenhouse gases right now, it's going to continue warming for at least the next two decades.
What's more, if we continue emitting greenhouse gases at the same rate, we might have put off the next ice age for at least half a million years.
Current climate change models indicate temperatures will increase as long as humans continue to emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but the projections of future precipitation are far less certain.
It will take decades or even centuries after humans stop burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases for the ocean to reach equilibrium.
But since we depend on these models to predict the possible consequences of emitting greenhouse gases, we would clearly like to know how reliable they are overall.
But importantly, if we continue emitting greenhouse gases as fast as we are, we'll see serious warming this century wherever climate sensitivity sits within the range scientists have identified.
There are no waste products, only water is consumed, producing hydrogen without emitting any greenhouse gases.
The conventional coal plants we build today will still be emitting greenhouse gases in the middle of the century.
We need to take action to bring our society away from emitting greenhouse gases, towards sustainability and clean energy.
Scientists are currently interested in why temperatures at the surface of the ocean have been rising slower than in previous decades, even though we're emitting greenhouse gases faster than ever.
The idea is that industries buy allowances to emit greenhouse gases if they exceed a certain quota or sell them if they have too many.
That's 1.2 per cent of clean, renewable energy emitting no greenhouse gases once installed.
But even with today's fuel technologies and your best efforts to reduce the amount of fuel you use, your aircraft will still emit greenhouse gases.
That is to say, if we continue to emit greenhouse gases as we have up to now.
He has an even grander idea — one aimed at nixing the world's reliance on fossil fuels, which emit greenhouse gases when burned.
The problem of climate change involves a fundamental failure of markets: those who damage others by emitting greenhouse gases generally do not pay... Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen.
They argue that the only way to respond to this crisis is to dramatically slash the use of fossil fuels, like coal, oil and gas, which, when burned, emit the greenhouse gases warming the planet.
Under the bill passed by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, companies could emit greenhouse gases only if they had annual «allowances» — quotas issued by the government.
«We would dearly love to have found that we can go on emitting greenhouse gases and magically either clean them up after the fact or magically reflect sunlight to cool the Earth,» McNutt says of her committee's analyses.
Not only do humans emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but they also do things that help remove these gases from the atmosphere — for example, planting more forests or other land management techniques can lead to greater uptake of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
When gas prices increase by 10 %, the number of people opting to travel by bus or rail also jumps by 4 % and 8 % respectively, which means fewer vehicles emitting greenhouse gases.
Even with today's power plants emitting greenhouse gases, the overall levels would be reduced because the entire process of moving a car one mile is more efficient using electricity than producing gasoline and burning it in a car's engine.
Those nations, sub-national governments, organizations, businesses, and individuals that are emitting greenhouse gases above their fair share of safe global emissions have obligations, duties, and responsibilities for the costs of adaptation or damages to those who are harmed are will be harmed by climate change.
«Human actions not only are emitting greenhouse gases based on our own activities, but also are causing plants and animals and microbes to be net emitters of greenhouse gases as well,» said study co-author Anna Michalak.
4) Humans affect the climate in more ways than just emitting greenhouse gases.
Solar power emits no greenhouse gases, no carbon dioxide and, when distributed, can provide power at or near the point of use without turning our cities into smog factories.
The burning gas emit greenhouse gas that cause global warming and earth surface temerpature raise.
Fearnside was not the first scientist to discover that dams emitted greenhouse gases; that honor belongs to a Canadian group that discovered that in 1993.
Its thirst drains Lake Geneva of its water three times a year, its hunger devours a third of all of Earth's food, and its breath emits greenhouse gases at a level outpaced only by the U.S. and China.
Whilst Japan, Russia and Canada all advocate a new wider agreement, poorer nations point to the fact richer nations have been emitting greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution and want Kyoto extended before they sign up.
TVA is also one of the nation's largest producers of hydropower, which like nuclear generation emits no greenhouse gases but has other environmental downsides.
Emissions from fossil fuel consumption account for the majority of global greenhouse gas emissions, but extraction of oil, natural gas and coal also emits greenhouse gases, particularly methane that frequently mingles within coal seams or oil and gas deposits.
«Climate: Meat turns up the heat as livestock emit greenhouse gases.»
No longer does Al Gore have to fly around the world in private jets emitting greenhouse gases to save the world from — greenhouse gases.
Little did I know that the real vision of the future of urban transportation would be a bicycle that was invented at least 200 hundred years ago, that emits no greenhouse gas emissions, and would be shared with thousands of other people.
His basic starting point is that when people emit greenhouse gases, that causes damage elsewhere.
The Earth's sea level was fairly stable for most of the past 6,000 years but significant changes started to occur about 150 years ago, the period when humans started to excessively emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
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.»
Even if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, fire conditions will become even more persistent in areas already at risk, and will spread to new regions as warming drives vegetation patterns and land - use changes.