Sentences with phrase «warming reporting measure»

Exxon executives initially opposed shareholder measures, but activists managed to gather enough votes in May to pass a global warming reporting measure.

Not exact matches

The report outlines 10 measures or «transformative actions» its authors argue are essential to curb global warming, particularly over the next 15 years, when the global economy is expected to undergo what the authors call a «deep structural transformation.»

And only such measures would avoid continued warming beyond 2100, the report says.

A standardized unit of measure, the global warming index (GWI) namely the grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per megajoule of fuel delivered to the vehicle (gCO2e / MJ) is to be reported, adjusted, of course, for differences in the in - use energy efficiency of different fuels (e.g., gasoline versus diesel, versus natural gas or hydrogen).

Combined with the predictive equation which has matched 97 % with measured average global temperatures since before 1900 this all looks like a steepening downtrend of reported average global temperatures within a few months and accelerated increase of «months without warming».

In which case, a story reporting James Hansen's claim that global warming will «result in a rise in sea level measured in metres within a century» will be put in the AGW dominant / exclusive categories, while a story along the lines of «global warming unlikely to cause significant problems to New York City in the near future» will find itself in one of the sceptic categories — even though the latter is closer than the former to the IPCC position.

In this report, Shell's message was clear: although it is «not possible to dismiss the global warming hypothesis as scientifically unsound... any policy measure should take into account explicitly the weaknesses in the scientific case.»

Increased output from the Sun might be to blame for 10 to 30 percent of global warming that has been measured in the past 20 years, according to a new report.

In this report: Americans» Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes in May 2011, we find that since June 2010, a number of important beliefs and attitudes have shifted slightly up or down, depending on the measure.

... The paper, entitled «Recent Antarctic Peninsula warming relative to Holocene climate and ice — shelf history» and authored by Robert Mulvaney and colleagues of the British Antarctic Survey (Nature, 2012, doi: 10.1038 / nature11391), reports two recent natural warming cycles, one around 1500 AD and another around 400 AD (William: Same periodicity of cyclic warming and cooling in the Northern hemisphere), measured from isotope (deuterium) concentrations in ice cores bored adjacent to recent breaks in the ice shelf in northeast Antarctica.

Citing figures from the California secretary of state, Maplight.org reports that Bill Gates has donated $ 700,000 to the campaign against Proposition 23, the ballot measure that would repeal a California law related to reining in global warming.

As the Spencer - Christy method to measure atmospheric temperatures was being developed — a method that would permit scientists to test the greenhouse gas warming hypothesis in the Charney Report — international organizations did not wait to act.

These assertions include: — Supposed «out of date» findings from the IPCC and USCCP reports — Supposed decline in global temperature (already debunked dozens of times)-- Supposed lack of endangerment from anthropogenic global warming imputed from past improvements in measures of U.S. health and welfare

This report includes measures of public global warming beliefs, risk perceptions, personal importance, information needs, trust in different information sources, attitudes towards individual action, and how these have changed since January, 2010 and November, 2008.

Using government data on model year 2008 (MY2008) vehicles — the latest year for which final data are available — and assessing each manufacturer based on the actual smog - forming and global warming emissions of its vehicle fleet, this report objectively measures each automaker's true environmental performance of each of the «Top Eight» best - selling automakers» product offerings.

Now, after NASA's report showing that September 2016 was 1.13 C hotter than 1880s averages (or 0.91 C hotter than NASA's 20th - century baseline measure), this year is setting up to be the warmest ever recorded by a wide margin.

Lindzen (2011) reports that Wentz et al. (2007) used space - based observations to measure how evaporation changed with temperature compared with results from models and found that in GCMs, evaporation rose 1 - 3 % for each 1 K warming, while observed evaporation rose approximately three times faster, at 5.7 %.

Upward «adjustments» and fudge factors added by Hansen to the actual readings dwarf measured temperature increases, such that, for example, most reported warming in the US is actually from these adjustments, not measured increases.

In the area of climate change, the report highlights the findings of its Emissions Gap Report 2013 — which details the gap between current global emissions and the reduction needed to remain on track to meet the 2 degree Celsius global warming target — and its Africa Adaptation Gap Report, which describes the costs of adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming scenreport highlights the findings of its Emissions Gap Report 2013 — which details the gap between current global emissions and the reduction needed to remain on track to meet the 2 degree Celsius global warming target — and its Africa Adaptation Gap Report, which describes the costs of adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming scenReport 2013 — which details the gap between current global emissions and the reduction needed to remain on track to meet the 2 degree Celsius global warming target — and its Africa Adaptation Gap Report, which describes the costs of adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming scenReport, which describes the costs of adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming scenarios.

The day before the Paris Agreement enters into force, the United Nations Environment Program has released its annual Emissions Gap Report, which measures the discrepancies between likely emissions (based on climate policies and plans) versus the emissions levels necessary to limit warming.

I was most struck by the scientific reports from the arctic in the 1940's that SST's in many parts of the Arctic were up to 10C warmer than measured by Nansen fifty years earlier.

According to the report's preface, signed by Fred Palmer, «the evidence does not show that the increase in CO2 levels attributed to human activity is responsible for a measured rise in global temperature, or, for that matter, that a warmer climate, if it did occur, poses the threat of an environmental catastrophe.»

The report includes many other interesting results, including measures of public feelings of anger, fear and hope about global warming and the frames by which Americans conceptualize the issue (e.g., as an environmental, scientific, political, moral, or religious issue).

People have now generally accepted scientific theories on global warming, and I, for one, would like to see more research / studies on solutions and less research on measuring the problem in greater and greater detail and on IPCC reports.

Another report by the panel later this year will address the most effective measures for slowing global warming.

The report, released today, emphasizes both measures to prevent and limit climate change as well as legal measures to respond to the effects of global warming.