Sentences with phrase «trapping gases»

Both effectively illustrate how heat - trapping gases increase the probability and intensity of drought, heat, and storms.

Future climate change impacts will depend on past and future socioeconomic development, which influences emissions of heat - trapping gases, the exposure and vulnerability of society and ecosystems, and societal capacity to respond.

In this stylized representation of the human - intensified greenhouse effect, human activities, predominantly the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), are increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases, increasing the natural greenhouse effect and thus Earth's temperature.

The 1997 Kyoto Protocol requires modest emission cutbacks by industrial countries but not the United States, the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases, because it rejected Kyoto.

This is consistent with the warming being caused by a build - up of heat - trapping gases near the surface of the Earth, and not by the sun getting «hotter.

The biggest single policy change that is needed is to put a price on carbon, making it no longer free to dump heat - trapping gases into the atmosphere.

In the current warming episode, it is clear that CO2 and other human - induced heat - trapping gases are driving the warming.

«The Clean Power Plan was a step toward the future: away from destructive and costly pollution, away from environmentally damaging fuel extraction and away from emissions of heat - trapping gases,» Francis told Live Science in an email.

A: Climate changes observed over recent decades are inconsistent with trends caused by natural forces but are totally consistent with the increase in human - induced heat - trapping gases.

U.S. greenhouse gas emissions rise 0.6 % in 2005 to new record U.S. greenhouse gas emissions rise 0.6 % in 2005 to new record mongabay.com November 14, 2006 Emissions of heat - trapping gases,...

An influential expert on global warming who for nearly 20 years has pressed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases now says the emphasis on carbon dioxide may be misplaced.

Ninety - seven percent of peer - reviewed research agrees with the conclusion that burning fossil fuels, deforestation and industrial farms are enshrouding the planet in heat - trapping gases, and a research review published last November found significant flaws in the methodologies, assumptions or analyses used by the 3 percent of scientists who concluded otherwise.

The letter warned that strong actions to limit emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases would add to the cost of goods like steel, cement, paper and aluminum.

While methane isn't the most plentiful of the heat - trapping gases in the atmosphere - unlike carbon dioxide - it certainly is the best at its job.

Emissions - Emissions of heat - trapping gases (greenhouse gases), greenhouse - gas precursors, and aerosols associated with human activities.

As permafrost temperatures have been increasing faster than air temperatures in the Arctic, scientists have questioned whether these heat - trapping gases could be released into the atmosphere, increasing their global concentrations.

Global warming is driven by emissions of heat - trapping gases, primarily from human activities, that rise into the atmosphere and act like a blanket, warming the earth's surface.

These heat - trapping gases are warming the planet, setting in motion changes that are taking us outside the climate bounds within which civilization developed.

(1) According to the summary, there is a greater than 90 percent likelihood that increased concentrations of man - made heat - trapping gases caused most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since 1950.

How hurricanes develop also depends on how the local atmosphere responds to changes in local sea surface temperatures, and this atmospheric response depends critically on the cause of the change.23, 24 For example, the atmosphere responds differently when local sea surface temperatures increase due to a local decrease of particulate pollution that allows more sunlight through to warm the ocean, versus when sea surface temperatures increase more uniformly around the world due to increased amounts of human - caused heat - trapping gases.25, 26,27,28

But the warming trend is closely correlated with the accumulation of heat - trapping gases in the atmosphere.

Maps show projected change in average surface air temperature in the later part of this century (2071 - 2099) relative to the later part of the last century (1970 - 1999) under a scenario that assumes substantial reductions in heat trapping gases (B1) and a higher emissions scenario that assumes continued increases in global emissions (A2).

Watson, former chair of the defunct Texas Air Control Board, now part of the commission, pressed Shaw on whether the agency had addressed climate change or even prepared for U.S. regulation of heat - trapping gases.

During that same period, average annual rainfall in New South Wales declined by 3.6 inches (92 millimeters).3 Scientists think the decline in autumn rainfall in southeast Australia since the late 1950s may be partly due to increases in heat - trapping gases in Earth's atmosphere.3, 14 Major bushfires over southeast Australia are linked to the positive phase of an ocean cycle called the «Indian Ocean Dipole» — when sea surface temperatures are warmer than average in the western Indian Ocean, likely in response to global warming.15, 16

But scientists and officials involved in the intensifying international debate on how to deal with global warming say it has taken the United States far too long to put the issue front and center, particularly because this country is the biggest source of heat - trapping gases, and because the spread of American - style consumerism to developing nations is likely to create the biggest source of the gases in the next century.

Reduced demand for fossil fuels will improve the environment by reducing air and water pollution as well as the heat - trapping gases that cause global warming.

Energy - related US emissions of carbon dioxide — one of the heat - trapping gases that linger in the atmosphere and contribute to rising global temperatures — rose 2.39 percent last year, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

It also contains a case study into the record hot Australian summer of 2012/13 and record hot calendar year of 2013, concluding that the record hot summer «was about five times as likely as a result of human - induced influence on cliimate» and that the record hot calendar «would have been virtually impossible without human contributions of heat - trapping gases.»

«If Wall Street traders can commodify sub-prime mortgages with impunity, and the Enrons of the world can manipulate energy markets like a pinball machine, imagine a future when tradeable permits for carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases are auctioned and swapped ov...

The basic claim of the paper is that by burning fossil fuels at a prodigious pace and pouring heat - trapping gases into the atmosphere, humanity is about to provoke an abrupt climate shift.

But, as we have added heat - trapping gases to the atmosphere, we have seen human influence «emerge» from natural variability.

The two former — and possibly future — political rivals to President Bush and each other offered their bill to reduce the emissions of heat - trapping gases, saying the administration was stuck in neutral on that crucial environmental matter.

For example, a major El Niño event combined with the persistent rise in heat - trapping gases made 1998 one of the hottest years on record.

But when DSCOVR begins sending that measurement each day from the L1 point, scientists will be able to more accurately calculate the total effect of heat - trapping gases on our planet's climate.

Mr. Bush set a policy that until 2012 would rely on voluntary measures by industries to slow growth in emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases.

Of the many heat - trapping gases, CO2 puts us at the greatest risk of irreversible changes if it continues to accumulate unabated in the atmosphere — as it is likely to do if the global economy remains dependent on fossil fuels for its energy needs.

Most scenarios that meet the 2 - degree Celsius (3.6 - degree Fahrenheit) cap on global warming endorsed by world leaders require a 40 percent to 70 percent reduction in heat - trapping gases by 2050 from 2010 levels, according to the third installment of the UN's biggest - ever study of climate change.

By driving cars, using electricity from coal - fired power plants, or heating our homes with oil or natural gas, we release carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases into the atmosphere.

Since 2004, researchers in NOAA's Global Monitoring Division have released the Annual Greenhouse Gas Index: a single value that compares the total warming effect of each year's concentrations of heat - trapping gases to 1990 levels.

Figure 9.4: The maps show projected increases in the average temperature on the hottest days by late this century (2081 - 2100) relative to 1986 - 2005 under a scenario that assumes a rapid reduction in heat - trapping gases (RCP 2.6) and a scenario that assumes continued increases in these gases (RCP 8.5).

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

The amount of future warming will depend on changes in the atmospheric concentration of heat - trapping gases.

These trends are consistent with expectations of increased concentrations of heat - trapping gases and observed changes in concentrations of certain particles in the atmosphere.14, 114

We're the ones who burn fossil fuels and clear trees that absorb carbon dioxide, sending heat - trapping gases into the atmosphere.

The scientists also calculate that the world's emissions of heat - trapping gases must peak in less than 10 years and then dive quickly to nearly zero, if warming of more than another 2 degrees Fahrenheit above the current annual global temperature is to be prevented after 2050.

The region's highly energy - intensive economy emits a disproportionately large amount of the gases responsible for warming the climate (called greenhouse gases or heat - trapping gases).

Sea level rise, ocean acidification and the rapid melting of massive ice sheets are among the significantly increased effects of human - induced global warming assessed in the survey, which also examines the emissions of heat - trapping gases that are causing the climate change.

But the Senate measure so far leaves a number of crucial questions unanswered, chief among them how the permits to emit carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases would be distributed to utilities, manufacturers, agribusiness and other interests.

Most of the studies on the Arctic climate and ice trends cited to support the proposed listing assumed that the buildup of heat - trapping gases was probably contributing to the loss of sea ice, or that the continued buildup of these gases, left unchecked, could create ice - free Arctic summers later this century, and possibly in as little as three decades.

Human activities, such as burning coal and oil and cutting down tropical forests, have increased atmospheric concentrations of heat - trapping gases and caused the planet to warm by 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880.