Sentences with phrase «warming pollution as»

«This is another reason why we must take steps to curb global warming pollution as much and as quickly as possible,» said Amanda Staudt, a climate scientist with the National Wildlife Federation, which released the report today with Physicians for Social Responsibility.

But the environmental price tag of biofuels now joins the ranks of other, cheaper domestic fuel sources — such as coal - to - liquid fuel — as major sources of globe - warming pollution as well as unintended social consequences.

Not exact matches

With its slower pace of living, warm, welcoming climate, healthy, fresh foods and reputation as one of the «greenest and cleanest» countries in the world with little pollution, lots of clean water and fresh air... it's no wonder Costa Ricans are considered the «happiest people on the planet».

Water pollution is accelerating as a result of global industrial development and warming.

Elections sweeping Republicans into the House leadership set climate proposals on a path to nowhere in 2010 and 2011 as partisanship marginalized supporters of any federal bill aimed at cutting global warming pollution.

Two Atlantic Ocean coral species — elkhorn and staghorn — are listed as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act, and NOAA is considering whether an additional 82 coral species also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and pollution.

But it's a good sign that China is on track to restrain global warming pollution in the next decade or so, as agreed under a lauded deal with the United States — the world's second largest polluter.

As Roger Short of the University of Melbourne writes in the introduction, «The inexorable increase in human numbers is exhausting conventional energy supplies, accelerating environmental pollution and global warming, and providing an increasing number of failed states where civil unrest prevails,» among other faults.

The scientists expect further warming in the Arctic as levels of greenhouse gases will continue to increase and aerosol particle emissions will likely decrease to combat air pollution in different parts of the world.

But that still leaves a load of pollution: China this year surpassed the U.S. as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind global warming.

In addition to preferentially using warmer - colored LEDs, the study's authors say, the loss of starry skies to light pollution could be forestalled or reversed with stricter regulations on artificial lights as well as the advent of driverless cars, which require less street illumination.

As part of the Renewable Fuels Standard, EPA will attempt to determine the global warming pollution associated with fuel from plants

For almost 100 years, Science News has been reporting the latest advances in science, such as this week's cover story by reporter Laurel Hamers, «When bogs burn, the environment takes a hit,» on how the increased frequency of bog fires worldwide is becoming a surprisingly large source of air pollution and climate - warming carbon dioxide.

Power plant owners and speculators yesterday bid for the right to emit carbon dioxide (CO2) as part of a new multistate government program designed to reduce global warming pollution.

As to reasons for the decline, most analysts point to a range of factors including diversions of river water for farming, pollution, the intermingling of wild salmon with weaker, disease - ridden hatchery fish, and global warming — which creates some problems and exacerbates others.

That would translate to steadily rising temperatures as carbon pollution continues to accumulate in the atmosphere (see red curve below), and fail to reach the goal of holding warming to 2 °C (blue curve at bottom).

But they are very sensitive to changes in ocean chemistry resulting from greenhouse gas emissions, as well as to coastal pollution, warming waters, overdevelopment, and overfishing.

EVEN AS THE U.S. EXPLORES THE COMPLEX CHALLENGES OF global warming, air pollution remains widespread and dangerous.

To hold global warming in check requires reducing current emission levels by as much as 70 percent by 2050, compared with 2010 levels, and nearly eliminating such pollution by 2100.

Without any action, the world is on track to achieve at least 4 degrees C warming of global average temperatures by 2100, as the world hits 450 parts - per - million of greenhouse gases in 2030 and goes on to put out enough greenhouse gas pollution to achieve as much as 1300 ppm by 2100.

The report, written and reviewed by leading U.S. scientists as part of the National Climate Assessment, reinforces that warming temperatures and extreme weather around the globe are «extremely likely» to be the result of carbon pollution from human activities.

Analysis of the first seven years of data from a NASA cloud - monitoring mission suggests clouds are doing less to slow the warming of the planet than previously thought, and that temperatures may rise faster than expected as greenhouse gas pollution worsens — perhaps 25 percent faster.

The party opposes «any and all cap and trade legislation» that would create a system of tradable pollution permits designed to reduce industrial emissions of warming gases such as carbon dioxide.

In the second scenario, Pfister and her colleagues found that sharp reductions in nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds could reduce ozone pollution even as the climate warms.

Aerosols in urban air pollution and from major industries such as the Canadian tar sands are of concern to scientists because they can affect regional climate patterns and have helped to warm the Arctic.

But most of what they are doing is not visible, because it is rooted in local concerns, such as urban air pollution, rather than fear of global warming.

As I understand it (from the IPCC report and from Ramanathan en Feng, Sept 23 2008 in PNAS) stopping all emissions suddenly would cause about 1.6 degree Celsius of extra warming, because short - lived pollution would quickly be removed from the atmosphere.

Waterways are warming worldwide as oceans absorb most of the energy trapped by greenhouse gas pollution.

As it turned out, the world's temperature has risen about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F) and mainstream scientists continue to predict, with increasing urgency, that if emissions are not curtailed, carbon pollution would lock in warming of as much as 3 to 6 °C (or 5 to 11 °F) over the next several decadeAs it turned out, the world's temperature has risen about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F) and mainstream scientists continue to predict, with increasing urgency, that if emissions are not curtailed, carbon pollution would lock in warming of as much as 3 to 6 °C (or 5 to 11 °F) over the next several decadeas much as 3 to 6 °C (or 5 to 11 °F) over the next several decadeas 3 to 6 °C (or 5 to 11 °F) over the next several decades.

As one form of pollution is eliminated, the mask concealing the true impact of global warming will be stripped away.

«A carbon price would make the price of oil better reflect its true societal costs (including global warming impacts, health cost due to air pollution, as well as other environmental costs).

``... one study found that the feedback from just the CO2 released by the thawing permafrost alone could add 1.5 °F to total global warming by 2100, if we don't sharply curtail carbon pollution as soon as possible.»

International review finds that protected areas are good for adaptation to global warming as well as preventing overfishing and pollution

Even as greenhouse gas pollution has warmed the planet's surface in recent decades, warming rates across the West have been exceptionally rapid.

-LSB-...] The CAA as amended in 1990 does mention «carbon dioxide» and» global warming potential,» but only once, in the context of non-regulatory provisions, and each time followed by a caveat admonishing EPA not to infer authority for «pollution control requirements» or «additional regulation.»

As for plants soaking up the excess, forests and other vegetation are indeed major carbon sinks that can absorb lots of carbon — in other words, healthy forests could offset some of our global warming pollution.

But it's concerning, because similar sea surface warming is now well underway as greenhouse gas pollution heats up the globe.

The rapid disappearance of species was ranked as one of the planet's gravest environmental worries, surpassing pollution, global warming and the thinning of the ozone layer.»

(1) Of the other anthropogenic factors, some have a warming effect (other greenhouse gases such as methane) while others have a cooling effect (air pollution).

If human - induced global warming, among other factors such as human - driven pollution and human - forced overpopulation, serve decisively to precipitate the massive extinction of biodiversity, the irreversible degradation of Earth's environment and the reckless dissipation of its resources, so as to make our planetary home unfit for life as we know it, then is no one to bear responsibility for such a colossal wreckage as we could help to perpetrate in these early years of Century XXI?

Furthermore certain sources of energy that are considered «clean» such as nuclear power and the potential, in the future, to transmit energy from satellites to the Earth will continue to generate waste heat (thermal pollution) that will continue to warm the Earth.

«We have dumpted (today) another 70 million tons of global - warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an open sewer,...»

The first program proposed that as human kind has mopped up its pollution so global warming may increase as pollution seemed to be preventing a certain amount of sunlight from reaching the ground.

«Their unceasing drum - beat for Anthropogenic Global Warming will ultimately discredit their otherwise worthwhile and necessary programs to reduce human pollution as a result of unrestricted human population and economic growth.»

Global warming is widely viewed at the policy level as a pollution problem like acid rain, smog, or the ozone hole.

«A rapid cutback in greenhouse gas emissions could speed up global warming... because current global warming is offset by global dimming — the 2 - 3ºC of cooling cause by industrial pollution, known to scientists as aerosol particles, in the atmosphere.»

And talk passionately about the basic facts in public: climate changes (expressed as the wacky and destructive weather that has become so common) are caused by the global warming produced by having too much greenhouse gas pollution in the atmosphere.

It is very odd and very noticeable that the issue of pollution as opposed to global warming is rarely now mentioned by all the scientific bodies engaged in the climate change debate.

And all of the issues that arise in other shipping corridors — from pollution to smuggling to conflict — will be simmering there as long as warming continues.

Particle Pollution's Cooling Effect... Plus Death Interestingly, this particle pollution has the opposite effect on the climate as does the ship's carbon emissions: The particles have a cooling effect that is at least five times greater than the warming effect of the CO2 emissions.