Sentences with phrase «while global warming gases»

Visibility (particulates and nitrous oxides) and acid rain (sulfur dioxide) dominated in the formation of policy established via the 1970 Clean Air Act and subsequent Clean Air Act Amendments in 1977 and 1990, while global warming gases remained unregulated.

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It has been suggested that climate engineering could be used to postpone cuts to greenhouse gas emissions while still achieving the objectives of limiting global warming to under 2 degrees, as set in the Paris Climate Agreement.

While a strong El Niño provided a boost to global temperatures last year, the main driver of the planet's temperature surge, as well as other climate trends, is the warming caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

While a strong El Niño has given global temperatures a boost, the bulk of that heat comes from the manmade global warming driven by increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

While a strong El Niño has given global temperatures a boost, the main reason for the spate of intensely warm months is the long - term warming of the planet caused by the accumulation of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, scientists have found.

The United Nations scientific community is pointing to the overwhelming evidence that global warming, from increased greenhouse gas emissions, is propelling us towards an irreversible runaway melting of the ice caps and northern permafrost while rising temperature cause massive forest fires.

Unfortunately for policymakers and the public, while the basic science pointing to a rising human influence on climate is clear, many of the most important questions will remain surrounded by deep complexity and uncertainty for a long time to come: the pace at which seas will rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), the impact on hurricanes, the particular effects in particular places (what global warming means for Addis Ababa or Atlanta).

But President Bush's announcement Wednesday of a plan to halt growth in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, while not embracing all the enviro groups want, legitimizes their argument that global warming is caused by humans and an imminent threat to mankind.

Terrell Johnson, reporting on a recent NASA publication concluding that deep ocean temperatures have not increased since 2005 (http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/deep-ocean-hasnt-warmed-nasa-20141007): «While the report's authors say the findings do not question the overall science of climate change, it is the latest in a series of findings that show global warming to have slowed considerably during the 21st century, despite continued rapid growth in human - produced greenhouse gas emissions during the same time.»

While pressing for cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions and better efforts to control hunting, both legal and illegal, the participating scientists concluded on an optimistic note, saying they were «optimistic that humans can mitigate the effects of global warming and other threats to polar bears, and ensure that they remain a part of the Arctic ecosystem in perpetuity.»

Global warming has of late felt like a new issue, but it's useful once in a while to review the generations - long line of analysis that points to substantial climatic and environmental consequences from rising emissions of greenhouse gases.

Field is listed on the Global Warming Petition Project calling for the U.S. to reject international global warming agreements, while claiming there is «no convincing evidence» that manmade greenhouse gases will disrupt the earth's clGlobal Warming Petition Project calling for the U.S. to reject international global warming agreements, while claiming there is «no convincing evidence» that manmade greenhouse gases will disrupt the earth's cWarming Petition Project calling for the U.S. to reject international global warming agreements, while claiming there is «no convincing evidence» that manmade greenhouse gases will disrupt the earth's clglobal warming agreements, while claiming there is «no convincing evidence» that manmade greenhouse gases will disrupt the earth's cwarming agreements, while claiming there is «no convincing evidence» that manmade greenhouse gases will disrupt the earth's climate.

So while there may be additional, complicating factors (global dimming from the particulates slowing down the warming from the gases??)

[4] While a range of positions is possible, it seems particularly strange that ExxonMobil takes the position that it does in that future global warming will be caused most by emissions from use of coal rather than by emissions from use of petroleum or natural gas.

While industrial stacks belch greenhouse gases, and holiday - makers everywhere race crazily around in cars, boats and planes — total mentions of «climate change», «global warming» and «record - high carbon emissions» in press stories relating to major fires now burning in three provinces, Alaska and Siberia...?

For example, coal - fired power plants produce nearly twice the global warming emissions of natural gas - fired power plants, while renewable sources like wind and solar power produce virtually no emissions at all.

While critical for avoiding dangerous climate change, because of the way that gas leaks are currently under - accounted for in the Commonwealth's emissions inventory, fixing them does little to address Global Warming Solutions Act compliance.

While HFCs are not Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) and therefore an acceptable substitute for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) under the Montreal Protocol, they have high global warming potentials (GWPs) and contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

While President Bush's recent public statements seem to indicate that he may also be falling for global warming junk science so far, he's only for voluntary cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as well as «technology - based solutions.

While changes in solar output have slightly increased global average temperature since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the planet - warming effect of man - made greenhouse gases is about 20 times larger -LRB-

While the buildup of greenhouse gases leads to global warming at Earth's surface, it also cools the stratosphere, which increases the amount of ozone depletion in the polar regions.

While they do not expect the gases to do much damage to the ozone layer, think they may add to global warming.

Specifically, 84 + / - 2 % of respondents agreed that 50 % or more of «global warming since the mid 20th century» can be attributed to «human induced increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations»; while 86 + / - 2 % agreed that greenhouse gases had a moderate or strong warming contribution to the «reported global warming of ~ 0.8 degrees C since pre-industrial times».

Regardless of approach, all projections indicate an eventual sea ice - free Arctic with continued emissions of greenhouses gases, threatening the invaluable ecosystem service the Arctic sea ice provides while simultaneously exacerbating global warming.

My bottom line is that while the global climate models, when run with added CO2 and other greenhouse gases, show that this is a warming effect, they are inadequate tools to assess the consequences of these human climate forcings on the regional and local scale.

While this project will threaten our groundwater, waterways, and general health, increase gas prices and world dependency on oil, and further forestall a necessary shift to a green economy (Read more: TransCanada: «Keystone XL National Security Risk»), President Obama is expediting pipeline construction and has remained mute on global warming.

While I acknowledge that the levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere are increasing, that climate change is real, that human activity plays a role in these changes and that these changes are impacting our state, I simply disagree that RGGI is an effective mechanism for addressing global warming.

In the climate models, increases in greenhouse gases such as methane, and CFCs, are assumed to also cause some global warming, while increases in aerosols are assumed to cause global cooling.

While this does not prove that global warming is caused by greenhouse gas emissions, it does set the bar for alternative explanations.

Since then, Pachauri has raised the specter of large - scale population displacement and the existential threat that global warming poses to low - lying island nations, while arguing that large, industrializing countries such as China and India will not act on the issue before the Western world curbs its own greenhouse gas emissions.

It's hard enough for the «experts» to even explain why the Arctic basin warming took off in recent years, while the Southern Ocean basin did the exact opposite, let alone trying to make sense of this global «mishmash» using the rather lame construct of CO2 greenhouse gas causation.

While environmental activists and some politicians claim «the debate is over» and call for immediate action to reduce man - made greenhouse gas emissions, others say the science points to only a very small human impact — too small to warrant concern — and the costs of trying to prevent global warming far exceed the benefits.

I'm thinking that a newswriter could start with, «While the basics of global warming are well established, and our greenhouse gas emissions are causing the warming, with many dire consequences, there is still some scientific uncertainty about (or debate on).....»

While Clinton supports reducing greenhouse gas emissions, tackling environmental justice issues, and boosting clean energy, Trump is still calling global warming a «hoax» and threatening to shut down the EPA.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

While the bill and likely substitute amendment offered by Senator Boxer would initiate the first step in placing a declining cap on greenhouse gas emissions so the United States can do its part to reduce the impacts of global warming,...

Over the past 60 years (1951 — 2010), the study finds that global average surface temperatures have warmed 0.6 °C, while in climate models, greenhouse gases caused between 0.6 and 1.2 °C surface warming.

Singh, while inaugurating the Fourth Clean Energy Ministerial, also made it clear that rich nations, who were responsible for a bulk of global warming causing greenhouse gas emissions, [continue reading...]

It remains one of the greatest ironies of the environmental movement that those most concerned with global warming, like Ms. Collard, are opposed to nuclear energy, the only non-greenhouse gas - emitting power source that can effectively replace fossil fuels while satisfying Canada's growing demand for energy.

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Singh, while inaugurating the Fourth Clean Energy Ministerial, also made it clear that rich nations, who were responsible for a bulk of global warming causing greenhouse gas emissions, were best placed to provide workable solutions.

AP debunks Obama on climate claims: THE FACTS: «Obama failed to get a global warming bill through Congress when both Houses were controlled by Democrats in 2010» — AP: «With Republicans in control of the House, the chances of a bill to limit the gases blamed for global warming and to create a market for businesses to trade pollution credits are close to zero... And while there are still other ways to address climate change without Congress, it's questionable regulation alone can achieve the reductions needed to start curbing global warming»

AB 32's preface states that California alone can not stop global warming, but California can and will * show the way * for the world to increase economic activity while reducing greenhouse gases.

Within scientific journals, global warming refers to surface temperature increases while climate change includes global warming and everything else that increasing greenhouse gas levels will affect.

While the international community came together to phase out the use of ozone depleting gases, the chosen alternative was a super greenhouse gas known as hydroflurocarons (HFCs), with a global warming potential (GWP) hundreds to thousands of times that of carbon dioxide (CO2).

Admittedly, they are also trying to make carbohydrate, while this process mainly mops up the gas causing global warming.

E.g., research assumes greenhouse gas emissions cause warming without explicitly stating humans are the cause»... carbon sequestration in soil is important for mitigating global climate change» (4a) No position Does not address or mention the cause of global warming (4b) Uncertain Expresses position that human's role on recent global warming is uncertain / undefined «While the extent of human - induced global warming is inconclusive...» (5) Implicit rejection Implies humans have had a minimal impact on global warming without saying so explicitly E.g., proposing a natural mechanism is the main cause of global warming»... anywhere from a major portion to all of the warming of the 20th century could plausibly result from natural causes according to these results» (6) Explicit rejection without quantification Explicitly minimizes or rejects that humans are causing global warming»... the global temperature record provides little support for the catastrophic view of the greenhouse effect» (7) Explicit rejection with quantification Explicitly states that humans are causing less than half of global warming «The human contribution to the CO2 content in the atmosphere and the increase in temperature is negligible in comparison with other sources of carbon dioxide emission»»

In 2013, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide exceeded 400 parts per million for the first time in millions of years, marking a milestone that, while symbolic, called greater attention to escalating greenhouse gas levels and a steady global warming trend.

While world leaders met in Paris to hash out a climate deal that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Nye shared with Quartz his thoughts on climate change denial, curbing global warming, the wonders of electric cars, and why we should invest in science education.

While I believe the evidence supports human - caused global warming, I don't think the world has the collective will to voluntarily reign in greenhouse gas emissions.