Sentences with phrase «warming contribution of»

Kirkby: The big warming contribution of mankind is greenhouse gases.

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This is a familiar dodge - emphasizing uncertainty about the precise amount of humanity's contribution while ignoring the broad scientific consensus that human activities are largely responsible for dangerous warming of our planet and that action is urgently needed before it is too late.

Paulson concludes with a two - part contribution on global warming, noting that even though «we can see the crash coming... we're sitting on our hands instead of altering course.»

These were cheaper because of agribusiness methods of production that do not count the cost of lost soil, contribution to global warming, the exhaustion of aquifers, or the pollution of waterways.

Alternately, in anticipation of the shortage of petroleum and to avoid excessive contributions to global warming, nations may turn increasingly to atomic power.

These words and the concepts associated with them were very useful for intellectual purposes, but they made no contribution to life, and Levin suddenly felt he was in the position of a man who had exchanged a warm fur coat for a muslin blouse, and who the first time he finds himself in the frost is persuaded beyond question, not by arguments but by the whole of his being, that he's no better than naked and is inevitably bound to perish miserably.16

When Elneny joined he was full of confidence and that's how you assess a player when he's at his very best otherwise a guy like Ozil will be considered trash taking by his last performances yet everyone goes back to his memory books to assess Ozil and the same should happen with Elneny who won back to back player of the month when he first joined and scored that screamer against Barcelona yet his all round contribution that made the headlines then came Xhaka on board and that is exactly when Elneny's form started slightly dipping because simply his confidence was shaken by finding himself a regular bench warmer instead of a regular like he was before Xhaka joining and I don't think Wenger addressed this psychological issue with Elneny or even noticed it probably because he had enough issues of his own.

With Speaker Bercow barely able to warm his new big green chair, the daggers were already drawn, with some unpleasant off and on the record briefing against him, a less than gracious welcome by Alan Duncan, Shadow Leader of the House, and a quite distasteful contribution from Nadine Dorries parading herself round the media outlets the day after Mr Bercow's election.

At all the places the President went to, and the people he met, the embrace was warm as the confessions of his contribution to the socio - economic infrastructure development of Ashanti region was ever present.

Damon Matthews of Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and his colleagues calculated national contributions to warming by weighting each type of emission according to the atmospheric lifetime of the temperature change it causes.

'' [E] missions of black carbon are the second strongest contribution to current global warming, after carbon dioxide emissions,» wrote Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a prominent climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Greg Carmichael, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Iowa, in the April 2008 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience.

Dr Meleady, a lecturer in psychology, added: «If similar interventions were to be implemented in comparable situations in other cities and countries, the potential contribution to reducing air pollution, improving short and long term health, and reducing effects of global warming could be substantial.»

The study, published online today in Environmental Science & Technology, provides the most comprehensive set yet of direct measurements of emissions from the distribution system and, with a series of partner studies, is helping to determine the natural gas industry's contribution to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and to global warming.

If a battery's energetic cost is too high, its overall contribution to global warming could negate the environmental benefits of the wind or solar farm it was supposed to support.»

Seven years ago Michael Mann introduced a graph that became an iconic symbol of humanity's contribution to global warming.

In the smoking and airplane examples, the son and Jim foolishly focus on the father's and Gore's hypocrisy rather than on the perils of smoking or the human contribution to global warming.

China's stated aim of improving air quality over the coming years would change this radiative forcing, leading to a rather counter-intuitive consequence; the increase in China's contribution to global warming.

After a painstaking analysis that modeled all known sources of acceleration for Juno, including the minute contributions from sunlight warming the spacecraft, Iess's team found a large north - south asymmetry in Jupiter's gravitational field — a clear sign of material flowing beneath the cloud tops on deep atmospheric winds.

Its mixing ratio in the atmosphere is lower than that of CO2 (about 4 parts per trillion ppt in 1990 versus 365 ppm of carbon dioxide), its contribution to global warming is accordingly low.

Human contribution may speed the condition of global warming but it WILL happen regardless.

Attribution research is relatively new, and scientists are still learning how to untangle the contribution of long - term global warming in a given weather event.

The warming, melting and potential contributions to sea level rise from glaciers in Greenland and West Antarctica in the face of climate change has long since been a serious concern.

Kyoto regulates all sources of carbon dioxide as well as other greenhouse gases, but reliable long - term data by country are available only for carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels (which accounts for about two - thirds of the human contribution to global warming).

Despite the continuing evidence of the growing contribution of vehicle pollution to global warming, acid rain and ground level concentrations of ozone, there is scant sign of concerted thinking on what should be done.

Their findings indicated that, overall, the contribution of changing solar activity, either directly or through cosmic rays, was even less and can not have contributed more than 10 percent to global warming in the 20th century.

«We conclude that the level of contribution of changing solar activity is less than 10 percent of the measured global warming observed in the 20th century.

Belches, burps and flatulence from these sheep over the next three years could help to quantify the contribution of British agriculture to global warming.

So the report notes that the current «pause» in new global average temperature records since 1998 — a year that saw the second strongest El Nino on record and shattered warming records — does not reflect the long - term trend and may be explained by the oceans absorbing the majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as well as the cooling contributions of volcanic eruptions.

So it's a serious entrant, and from my potentially biased point of view in the nuclear fission category, I don't know many other entrants that you look and say, «Okay, if you go from paper to real then this is a meaningful contribution to cheap energy / global warming as an incredible problem.»

It remains to be seen if that will bring a decline in the sun's output of visible light — and therefore a decline in the sun's contribution to a warming climate during this upward part of the present solar cycle.

Because existing phenomena — such as thermal expansion of water from warming — do not fully explain the corrected sea - level - rise number of 3.3 millimeters, stored heat in the deep ocean may be making a significant contribution, Cazenave said.

Since it is the cumulative volume of carbon dioxide emitted that determines how much the planet warms, this makes it difficult to assess how far Russia's contribution will go to meeting the 2C limit set by governments.

Since 1950, the volcanic forcing has been negative due to a few significant eruptions, and has offset the modestly positive solar forcing, such that the net natural external forcing contribution to global warming over the past 50 years is approximately zero (more specifically, the authors estimate the natural forcing contribution since 1950 at -10 to +13 %, with a most likely value of 1 %).

With the contribution of such record warmth at year's end and with 10 months of the year record warm for their respective months, including the last 8 (January was second warmest for January and April was third warmest), the average global temperature across land and ocean surface areas for 2015 was 0.90 °C (1.62 °F) above the 20th century average of 13.9 °C (57.0 °F), beating the previous record warmth of 2014 by 0.16 °C (0.29 °F).

In one sentence: Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and colleagues found that if followed by measures of equal or greater ambition, individual country pledges to reduce their emissions called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions have the potential to reduce the probability of the highest levels of warming and increase the probability of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

«There is no agreement among climatologists as to the relative contributions of Man and Nature» to the warming of the planet that has already been observed, they claim.

Carbon dioxide emitted at the start of the industrial revolution is still warming the atmosphere today, which is why scientists take into account historical emissions as well as present day ones to work out a country's contribution to climate change.

From 1992 to 2003, the decadal ocean heat content changes (blue), along with the contributions from melting glaciers, ice sheets, and sea ice and small contributions from land and atmosphere warming, suggest a total warming (red) for the planet of 0.6 ± 0.2 W / m2 (95 % error bars).

The relative contributions of the various feedbacks that make up climate sensitivity need not be the same going back to the LGM as in a world warming relative to the pre-industrial climate.

The quantitative contribution of CO2 to the ice age cooling and warming is fully consistent with current understanding of CO2's warming properties, as manifested in the IPCC's projections of future warming of 3 ± 1.5 C for a doubling of CO2 concentration.

Smaller contributions to planetary energy imbalance are from heat gain by the deeper ocean (+0.10 W / m2), energy used in net melting of ice (+0.05 W / m2), and energy taken up by warming continents (+0.02 W / m2).

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His screenplay for the 1959 film version of Tennessee Williams» Suddenly Last Summer was the most overt example of out - of - the - closet cinema of the fifties, while his contributions to the screenplay of Ben Hur (1959) were intended to suggest that Judah Ben Hur and Messala enjoyed more than just a warm friendship (Ben Hur star Charlton Heston bristles to this day over Vidal's claiming responsibility for the tone and texture of the screenplay; Heston insists that director William Wyler rejected Vidal's script suggestions after a single cold reading).

«The School Leadership Program selected Tamesha Webb as its Intellectual Contribution Award,» says Professor Mary Grassa O'Neill, faculty director of SLP, «because of her strong and inspirational leadership, ability to bring people together and her keen intelligence, hard work, warm personality and positive outlook.»

Write about the importance of informing people about the problem of global warming and their contribution to the work on solving this problem.

Thankfully, the contributions came pouring in to fly the eight pooches 1,600 miles from Puerto Rico to New York, where they would be greeted at the airport by the soothing sounds of Animal League America Mobile Rescue Units and warm embrace of our Rescue Team.

This warm - hearted, pre-Christmas evening also offers an introduction of Sternfeld's work in the 2013 Carnegie International by co-curator Tina Kukielski, as well as a visit with Wade to the very exclusive Founders Room, where his second contribution to the exhibition is located.

What kinds of international agreements could effectively limit risks related to human - driven global warming, either by blunting human contributions to climate change or building resilience to hazards related to changing conditions?

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I did an investigation of the contribution of different forced and unforced contributions to the warming trends in such periods.