Sentences with phrase «warming impact»

The map above shows the predicted global warming impact of all anthropogenic emissions, including biomass burning, on global near - surface air temperature since 1850.

But overall, the global warming impact of metals is still dominated by the old - school elements iron and aluminum.

That could be welcome news for state lawmakers, who have often said that there is too much of a focus on warming impacts in the state and not enough on economics.

Instead, they stretch out methane's warming impacts over a century, which makes the gas appear more benign than it is, experts said.

So a 10 % reduction in cloud cover would have a greater warming impact than a doubling of CO2.

We can reduce human warming impacts most rapidly by tackling emissions from these sectors.

The relative warming impact of animal products to grains varies between about 50 for beef down to about 3 for eggs and chicken.

It's a fate that could be determined by the immediate warming impact of the gases we release to the atmosphere, and it is in the immediate future that methane is most dangerous.

One reason that warming impact analysis is hard is because while we may talk about the world warming a degree or two, the world does not warm evenly.

A big problem for anyone on the outside, in examining this recent mini-tempest, is that this is what's called «gray literature» — the same kind of unrefereed material that created heated fights over portions of the 2007 report on warming impacts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The researchers then plugged these results into a model to determine the extent to which urban warming impacted carbon storage for all of the willow oaks in Raleigh.

According to the new study, if U.S. farmers injected their dairy cows with bovine growth hormone, it would take just 843,000 cows to produce the same amount of milk as one million untreated animals, potentially saving 2.3 million metric tons of feed — and therefore 540,000 acres (219,000 hectares) of cropland — as well as reducing the global warming impact by the equivalent of 400,000 cars.

Updated, Nov. 10, 2015, 3:04 p.m. A new study in Nature Climate Change, «Revaluating ocean warming impacts on global phytoplankton,» has shown that the method used to calculate phytoplankton loss in the 2010 research greatly overstated plankton losses because of a missing vital factor.

Other particles released by ship engines also rank high among important short - lived climate forcers, and this study estimates their combined global warming impact potential.

Bond et al. find that the total warming impact from black carbon emissions is about 70 % as large as that from carbon dioxide emissions.

Background This study confirms that global warming impacts river flood risk in Europe significantly, though it can vary in magnitude from region to region.

Assuming a moderate CO2 fertilization effect — plants take up CO2 and could hence benefit from higher concentrations in the air, but the magnitude of this effect is still under debate -, the study shows that in most climate policy scenarios water management can counterbalance a large part of the regional warming impacts on farming.

April 9, 2007, Changing Climes: Global Warming Impacts Appearing Around the Globe, by David Biello.

Jacobson's work is original and important in showing that cooling by global dimming is less, and less important, than the various warming impacts of this pollution.

Natural gas is mostly methane, which is a much more potent greenhouse gas, especially in the short term, with 105 times more warming impact, pound for pound, than carbon dioxide (CO2), Howarth said, adding that even small leaks make a big difference.

Global warming impacts already underway in Australia and New Zealand include water stress, shrinking glaciers, rising sea level, regional disturbances in rainfall patterns, and increased frequency and intensity of fires and heat waves.

It is worth noting that shorter scenarios running to 2035 or 2050 may be developed using climate models which model warming impact to the end of the century in 2100, (to reflect the persistent nature of CO2 in the atmosphere).

The poll results are presented as an â $ œinverted pyramid, â $ with global warming impacts affecting â $ œYouâ $ just a tiny nub.

(Related: «Arctic Expedition to Spotlight Warming Impact on Inuit Groups» [February 23, 2007].)

I have a multiple linear regression model called CSALT which incorporates warming impacts due to effective CO2 increases and natural variability factors such as ENSO.

She is a biogeochemist and plant ecophysiologist with expertise in climate change, ranging from arctic warming impacts on permafrost carbon to plant responses to elevated carbon dioxide.

The overall warming impact of this El Niño is expected to continue into 2016.»

Carbon offsets are created by quantifying the global warming impact avoided by destroying the CFCs, rather than letting them eventually leak into the atmosphere.

Read more, it's pretty fascinating stuff, especially considering these sort of conditions are likely to become more usual in coming years and decades: The ridge, heat, humidity, drough, and Dust Bowl More on Extreme Weather Epic Drought Along Horn of Africa Mapped Out How Warming Impacts Extreme Weather: Meteorologist, Climate Scientist Explain (Video)

Druyan, L., P. Lonergan, and T. Eichler, 1999: A GCM investigation of global warming impacts relevant to tropical cyclone genesis.

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And, Kimball warned of other Global Warming impacts in the speech, such as greater vulnerability to invasive species.

Stott also has a paper in the works on the southern ocean warming impact on the carbonate compensation depth.

Unger's model finds that in 2020 (left), transportation, household biofuels and animal husbandry will have the greatest warming impact on the climate, while the shipping, biomass burning, and industrial sectors will have a cooling impact.

For instance, you could define the climate warming impact over a 100 - year period of 1 million tonnes (Mt) of methane as being same as if you'd released 25 Mt of CO2.