Sentences with phrase «warming potential impacts»

(The latter targets the destruction of a wide range of waste refrigerants and air conditioning substances — which not only deplete ozone, but have profound global warming potential impacts, ranging between 100 and 11,000 times the greenhouse gas potency of carbon dioxide.)

Not exact matches

The LCA examined the effects of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.

The comptroller said he'd leave it to federal lawmakers to explain the latter's impact on residents but he did not have warm feelings for its potential impact on public finances.

«A modest reduction in flows at Hinckley right now will alleviate any further threat from current low levels and the potential impact of the warm - weather months to come.

«In sperm whales, and likely other whales and dolphins, culture has the potential to affect population biology, and so issues as diverse as genetic evolution and the impacts of global warming on the species.»

The DOE panel found too little analysis and data on the potential global warming impact of a long - term gas boom in the United States, and it called on industry and government to work together on a comprehensive study.

The extensive methane seep mounds across the remote arctic island of Ellef Ringnes may be a caution from the past regarding potential impacts of modern warming of the Arctic Ocean.

«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global warming this year.

Already, cities such as New York have adopted a risk - management approach to potential climate impacts — preparing for the prospects posed by already guaranteed global warming.

Climate Interactive, meanwhile, wants to enable people to follow INDCs — and their potential impact on warming — in near real - time.

«The results thus predict an interesting two-fold negative impact on the potential world - wide distribution of the miconia plant resulting from global warming since a decrease in potentially affected areas in overrun territories would be minimum,» says González - Muñoz.

However, scientists say it is important to study the PETM because it is perhaps the best past event by which to understand the potential impacts of global climate warming seen today.

I'm not saying that greenhouse gases isn't a player, but I'd like the IPCC and the climate community to work towards understanding the other potential causes of warming, before jumping to conclusions on the impact of greenhouse gases.

Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow - dominated regions.

Oregon and Washington are the number one and two softwood - producing states in the nation, respectively; 20 these two states plus Idaho produce more than $ 11 billion in primary wood product sales.21 Our review of existing research suggests the Northwest's forests will experience significant potential impacts from climate change, in particular from wildfire — due to both increased drought and to wood damage from pests surviving warmer winters.

CO 2 equivalents: The GWP value (Global Warming Potential) of a gas is defined as the cumulative impact on the greenhouse effect of 1 tonne of the gas compared with that of 1 tonne of CO 2 over a specified period of time.

This is due to the fact that it has the strongest potential to warm the globe in the long - run based on its long lifetime in the atmosphere (ranging from decades to centuries, and a tail end that extends to millennia, and with many climate impacts occurring over these slow timescales).

Indeed, impacts of Arctic warming include the melting of major Arctic glaciers and Greenland (containing the potential for up to 7 meters of sea level rise if it were to melt entirely), the thawing of carbon rich permafrost (which could add to the burden of atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions) and signs of worsening wildfires across the boreal forests of Alaska, to name a few.

One of the biggest potential impacts on human affairs from sustained warming is coastal inundation as warming seas swell and fill with water flowing from melting ice sheets.

The sizes and lifetimes may and / or may not, depending on circumstance (component / mechanism), relate to the impact potential on warming, or cooling, or degrees of neutrality.

One could, for example, rerun the forecast models that computed Katrina's development with half a degree cooler SST, say, as a rough - and - imperfect estimate of the potential impact of this extra warming.

Having read other material on the consequences and relationships of CCN's and lifetimes regarding papers that have been written, it seems that a lot of the papers coming from the Svensmark angle, so to speak, are not conclusive enough of definitive impact in the impact potentials for global warming, to jsutify the claims made by Svensmark, or the press about his, or similar, work.

Speaking of polar temperature changes (this is my lame attempt at looking like I'm staying on thread), does anyone here have some expertise they can share regarding the potential (or lack thereof) for tropospheric impact resulting from the ongoing sudden stratospheric warming event in the Arctic?

A scientific review article cited by both IPCC and Stern is T.P. Barnett, J.C. Adam and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2005: Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow - dominated regions.

But that's just it, Paul, within the scientific community anthropogenic causation of increasing greenhouse gases, greenhouse gas - induced warming, and potential climate effects and impacts of increased warming are accepted science.

A further potential climate change connection, which Kevin overlooks, is the impact of a warmer world on the strength of the prevailing winds, and their increase in strength with height.

There are continuing major questions about the future of the great ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica; the thawing of vast deposits of frozen methane; changes in the circulation patterns of the North Atlantic; the potential for runaway warming; and the impacts of ocean carbonization and acidification.

It was part of the panel's evolving effort to provide policymakers with a clear sense of what was known about potential impacts from various levels of warming and also what was uncertain.

While persistent and deep uncertainty surrounds the most important potential impacts from and responses to greenhouse - driven global warming (see David Roberts, Michael Levi and this list of reviewed research for more), the long - term picture of a profoundly changed Earth is clear.

In looking at potential global warming solutions, it is important to consider how big a role they can play, how fast they can be implemented, how affordable they are, and what impact they have on the environment.

This has prompted some researchers to explore the potential impact of these «forcings,» especially solar variability, on global warming's future.

While it is worth continuing study of global climate engineering to control warming if the rising concentrations of GHGs can not be halted over the next several decades, the potential for climate engineering approaches to moderate impacts in the particularly exposed regions being affected merits investigation.

Some climate scientists have looked at the potential impact of such an event and concluded that it likely would delay additional global warming — but only until the sun returned to more - normal swings in sun - spot activity.

The mitigation of Short - lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) has received much attention in the past few years for its potential to lessen health - related impacts of air pollution, prevent major crop losses, and in some cases also slow down global warming.

of Short - lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) has received much attention in the past few years for its potential to lessen health - related impacts of air pollution, prevent major crop losses, and in some cases also slow down global warming.

There has been global concern about the rampant rates of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and the potential impact this could be having on global warming.

RGGI has never quantified the potential impacts of their program on global warming.

Considering the difference in potential impacts between 1.5 C and 2C of warming, using SRM for a relatively small reduction in temperatures would still have clear benefits, the paper notes.

And as a rapidly warming Arctic encourages more ship traffic through Canada's Northwest Passage and along other polar routes, the sooty emissions from passing freighters will significantly accelerate climate change in the region, according to a new Canadian - American study that, for the first time, predicts the potential impact of engine exhaust particles on the Arctic environment.

Predicting the cost impact of various potential warming scenarios requires us to concatenate these climate predictions with economic models that predict the cost impact of these predicted temperature changes on the economy in the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd centuries.

Hedging against the risk to future generations of potential unanticipated impacts from global warming is a legitimate job for the U.S. government.

«Climate impacts are rising and the evidence of warming is increasingly clear, but most economic analysis still does not properly factor in the increasing risks of climate change or the potential benefits of acting on it,» said Commission chair and former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón.

... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention of several of the most important aspects of the potential relationships between hurricanes and global warming, including rainfall, sea level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection between recent climate change caused by human activities and hurricane characteristics and impacts; and 3) does not take full account of the significance of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing impacts as compared to increasing societal vulnerability.

A global phase - down could avoid 1.1 — 1.7 billion metric tons CO2 equivalent (CO2 equivalent is a measure used to compare impacts of greenhouse gases based on their global warming potential in relation to CO2) of GHG emissions per year by 2030, with cumulative emission reductions of nearly 100 billion metric tons CO2 equivalent by 2050.

Because of its long life span and high global warming potential (GWP), even a relatively small amount of SF6 can impact the climate.

An appropriate choice of the conversion to express the impact of methane in terms of CO2 - equivalents (the «global warming potential,» or GWP) is essential to achieving the Paris accords.

While persistent and deep uncertainty surrounds the most important potential impacts from and responses to greenhouse - driven global warming, the long - term picture of a profoundly changed Earth is clear.

The first clause is «While persistent and deep uncertainty surrounds the most important potential impacts from and responses to greenhouse - driven global warming....»

Perhaps the potential role of human pollution in causing a «devastating drought» sits too uncomfortably with the intended message of «positive impacts» from global warming.

Since most ODS are «super» greenhouse gases (GHG) with global warming potentials (GWP) hundreds or thousands of times greater than carbon dioxide (CO2), this phase - out has had dramatic impacts on mitigating climate change.