Sentences with phrase «warming emissions associated»

For the average consumer, stronger standards would translate to fewer global warming emissions associated with the products we use and love, and more affordable shipping as companies realize the cost - saving benefits of using less fuel.

It is important to effectively track this energy usage, gain a better understanding of the global warming emissions associated with water use, and develop new approaches to groundwater management.

Even when including «life cycle» emissions of clean energy (ie, the emissions from each stage of a technology's life — manufacturing, installation, operation, decommissioning), the global warming emissions associated with renewable energy are minimal [3].

Known as flaring, this process substantially increases the global warming emissions associated with shale oil (flaring is so extensive in some areas that North Dakota's flaring sites can be seen from space).

While there are no global warming emissions associated with operating wind turbines, there are emissions associated with other stages of a wind turbine's life - cycle, including materials production, materials transportation, on - site construction and assembly, operation and maintenance, and decommissioning and dismantlement.

Not exact matches

Given that agriculture, along with the deforestation associated with it, drives 24 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, we are dependent upon farmers to do the heavy lifting when it comes to fighting climate change.

It obliges the UK to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 % by 2050 compared to 1990 levels and to adapt to the risks associated with a warming planet.

Worldwide, carbon storage has the capability to provide more than 15 percent of the emissions reductions needed to limit the rise in atmospheric CO2 to 450 parts per million by 2050, an oft - cited target associated with a roughly 50 - percent chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees, but that would involve 3,200 projects sequestering some 150 gigatons of CO2, says Juho Lipponen, who heads the CCS unit of the International Energy Agency in Paris.

Despite national and international efforts to reduce anthropogenic emissions, growing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide will yield planetary warming and associated impacts for the foreseeable future.

This choice, they say, is the sea level rise «locked in» by the two warming scenarios: the target of two degrees Celsius vs. the sea level rise associated with unabated emissions and four degrees warming by the end of the century.

This large uncertainty makes it difficult for a cautious policy maker to avoid either: (1) allowing warming to exceed the agreed target; or (2) cutting global emissions more than is required to satisfy the agreed target, and their associated societal costs.

Fossil fuel emissions of 1000 GtC, sometimes associated with a 2 °C global warming target, would be expected to cause large climate change with disastrous consequences.

The warmer dust component is spatially correlated well with the [O III] emission and hence likely to be associated with the highly - ionized gas locally heated by intense radiation from the two clusters.

Cumulative emissions of ~ 1000 GtC, sometimes associated with 2 °C global warming, would spur «slow» feedbacks and eventual warming of 3 - 4 °C with disastrous consequences.

``... the company [Exxon Mobil], the world's largest oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington - based policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

You keep ignoring the fact that there is no evidence for methane burps associated with conditions in the relatively recent past (early Holocene, Eemian) for which there is good evidence for warmer Arctic conditions than now, and you are happy to extrapolate emissions of a few Tg (at most) to values 1000 times larger on the basis of nothing very much.

Note also that there appears — already started — to be a likely increase in drought frequency with atmospheric warming and associated acceleration of the hydrologic cycle, assuming continued greenhouse gas emissions.

IF carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels only stayed in the atmosphere a few years, say five years, then there may not be quite the urgency currently associated with anthropogenic global warming.

Question: Does your study rule - out the rate of warming associated with the IPCC's RCP 8.5 emissions scenario?

Hansen's 2013 paper argued that «cumulative emissions of 1000 billion tons, sometimes associated with 2C global warming, would spur «slow» feedbacks and eventual warming of 3 - 4C with disastrous consequences.»

We used the multi-model mean warming associated with the RCP 8.5 emissions scenario (out to 2050) as a representation of the quickest rate of forced warming that could conceivably be occurring currently.

When we associate years with warming, sea level, and city commitments, we are referencing the 21st century years when the commitments are established through cumulative emissions, not the years farther in the future when the commitments are realized through sustained temperature increases and SLR.

«The influence of global warming deniers, consisting of a small group of scientists plus others that are motivated to deny global warming owing to the implications associated with any policy to control greenhouse gas emissions»

This ends up changing estimates of cumulative carbon emissions since the pre-industrial period, but given the large uncertainties involved the authors caution against using these revisions to draw conclusions about remaining carbon budgets associated with staying within the 2C or 1.5 C warming targets.

During the campaign, he vowed to «cancel» the US's participation in the Paris climate agreement, stop all US payments to UN programs aimed at fighting climate change and continued to cast serious doubt on the role man - made carbon dioxide emissions played in the planet's warming and associated impacts.

Some human emissions and associated warming are likely to have occurred by the late - 1800s.

Piers Forster, director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate at the University of Leeds, said the study «confirms that we will see significantly more warming and impacts this century if we don't increase our ambition to reduce CO2 emissions; but the possibility of 6 degrees or more warming with associated devastating impacts can perhaps begin to be ruled out».

Consequently, for large hard emissions floors, atmospheric levels of CO2 continue to rise throughout our 750 - year simulation, and are still increasing at the end of the experiment, along with associated levels of mean global warming.

While the brash brand of direct interference into the public discourse on scientific findings about global warming and associated harmful impacts we saw from Exxon operatives in the 1980s and 1990s has now morphed into a more passive, less - visible form of tampering — such as the company's continued stream of donations (some alleged to be illegal) to groups known for lobbying against and often shooting down federal and state - level proposals to promote renewable energy and limit carbon emissions — perhaps Avery will be able to persuade the new corporate leadership team to stop funding these groups altogether.

Designed for future implementation in California's Silicon Valley, with rails extending throughout the valley, the system maintains some of what we love most about cars — a private, comfortable way to get from Point A to Point B — while also solving some of the issues associated with car - based transportation — skyrocketing oil use, global warming emissions, a lack of safety, and traffic.

Hmmm... despite over 845 billion tons of human CO2 emissions being added to the biosphere since 1978, that predicted dangerous warming, and associated catastrophes, have yet to materialize.

More recently, the focus of the climate debate has centered on man - made or anthropogenic warming, particularly as a consequence of the burning of natural resources like coal, oil, and natural gas and the associated carbon dioxide emissions.

Burns: Well, I certainly think it's harmful to rely on technologies that seek to mask the warming that's associated with emissions.

Thawing permafrost also delivers organic - rich soils to lake bottoms, where decomposition in the absence of oxygen releases additional methane.116 Extensive wildfires also release carbon that contributes to climate warming.107, 117,118 The capacity of the Yukon River Basin in Alaska and adjacent Canada to store carbon has been substantially weakened since the 1960s by the combination of warming and thawing of permafrost and by increased wildfire.119 Expansion of tall shrubs and trees into tundra makes the surface darker and rougher, increasing absorption of the sun's energy and further contributing to warming.120 This warming is likely stronger than the potential cooling effects of increased carbon dioxide uptake associated with tree and shrub expansion.121 The shorter snow - covered seasons in Alaska further increase energy absorption by the land surface, an effect only slightly offset by the reduced energy absorption of highly reflective post-fire snow - covered landscapes.121 This spectrum of changes in Alaskan and other high - latitude terrestrial ecosystems jeopardizes efforts by society to use ecosystem carbon management to offset fossil fuel emissions.94, 95,96

Both wetland drying and the increased frequency of warm dry summers and associated thunderstorms have led to more large fires in the last ten years than in any decade since record - keeping began in the 1940s.9 In Alaskan tundra, which was too cold and wet to support extensive fires for approximately the last 5,000 years, 105 a single large fire in 2007 released as much carbon to the atmosphere as had been absorbed by the entire circumpolar Arctic tundra during the previous quarter - century.106 Even if climate warming were curtailed by reducing heat - trapping gas (also known as greenhouse gas) emissions (as in the B1 scenario), the annual area burned in Alaska is projected to double by mid-century and to triple by the end of the century, 107 thus fostering increased emissions of heat - trapping gases, higher temperatures, and increased fires.

At the same time, the company, the world's largest oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington - based policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

About 80 percent of the global warming associated with carbon dioxide emissions has gone into raising the temperature of the oceans.

Increasing carbon dioxide emissions cause a warming climate and, associated with that, increase the intensity of extreme events.»

The evidence of the size of climate zone shifts and the associated changes in atmospheric heights from Mediaeval Warm Period to Little Ice Age to date suggests that the natural solar and ocean induced changes in the effective radiating height are far greater than anything that could be achieved by human emissions.

Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and associated global warming are often in the news — for example, coverage of an international environment summit (like that held in Johannesburg in 2002) or of local initiatives to cut carbon dioxide emissions (like «Walk to School Week»), or energy - saving initiatives in school.

The ethical basis for why national INDCs should specify; (a) the number of tons of ghg emissions that will be reduced by implementation of the INDC by a specific date, (b) the warming limit and associated carbon budget that the nation's INDC is seeking to achieve in cooperation with other nations, (c) the equity principles assumed by the nation in determining the fairness of its INDC, and (d) for Annex 1 nations, emissions reductions that will be achieved by the INDC from 1990, a common baseline year.

Although some nations have acknowledged their ethical duties to base their INDC on ethically justifiable criteria, almost all INDC submissions have not explained how specific emissions reductions commitments link to a specific desired atmospheric ghg concentration levels and its associated carbon budget that will provide some level of confidence that a warming limit will be achieved nor why their ghg emissions reductions commitment is fair as a matter of distributive justice.

And they learn to reject science whenever it comes into conflict with their libertarian ideology, whether it happens to be in the area of carcinogenic dioxins, ozone - destroying CFCs, asbestos - related lung disease, tobacco with all of its associated diseases or anthropogenic global warming due to greenhouse gas emissions.

If Americans want to consume vast quantities of cheap, factory - farmed cow and chicken and pig flesh, then there simply must be an unending supply of cheap factory - farmed grain to feed the animals, and an unending supply of cheap fossil fuels to power industrial agriculture, and the anthropogenic global warming associated with the CO2 and methane emissions from industrial animal agriculture must simply not be real.

(Every product you buy is associated with the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, which contribute to global warming, but there was no practical way for Hausfather to catalog every single purchase made by every contestant.)

The thermal emission seen by the satellites is expected to be influenced by both energy flow associated with convection warming the upper levels of the atmosphere as well as that of radiation in various bands.

«This is a technology that can really be a game changer if we're serious about reducing» emissions of carbon dioxide, the main gas associated with man - made global warming...

«Fossil fuel emissions of 1,000 gigaton, sometimes associated with a 2C global warming target, would be expected to cause large climate change with disastrous consequences.

According to the report, the current emission reduction pledges associated with the Copenhagen Accord fall short of the 2020 goals required to provide a reasonable chance of limiting warming to 2 °C, without requiring potentially infeasible post-2020 reduction rates.

The state alleges that emissions from cars made by these companies account for 30 % of all carbon dioxide emissions in California and seeks compensation for public expenditure on planning, monitoring and infrastructure changes associated with global warming.