Sentences with phrase «with gigatonnes»

There must be a risk that faced with gigatonnes of new potential food, they would learn to eat it, as a handy addition to the standard menu of fish shit and dead whales.

Not exact matches

A recent analysis of ice shelves across Antarctica has shown that basal melt rates are around 1325 ± 235 gigatonnes per year, with an additional calving flux of 1089 ± 139 gigatonnes per year.

If we wind up emitting an extra gigatonne [billion metric tons] of CO2 into the atmosphere this year, it commits the Earth to a certain amount of additional warming that can't be taken back — a warming that starts to emerge within decades but will still be with us after thousands of years.

That oil in - place is heavy oil, with a density close to a metric tonne per cubic meter, so the associated carbon adds up to about 230 gigatonnes — essentially enough to close the «game over» gap.

It's a big job, but it's one that has to be done anyway, since if the whole world tries to pull itself into prosperity by burning carbon at the rate the US does, then we run out of coal even at the highest estimates by 2100, and you wind up with no fossil energy and the hellish climate you get from 5000 gigatonnes cumulative emission.

But in order to align the EU ETS with the Paris Agreement an extra 1.6 gigatonnes of allowances would have to be squeezed out of the market, forcing a much greater switch to clean energy.

«With cumulative fossil fuel emissions of 10,000 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC), Antarctica is projected to become almost ice - free with an average contribution to sea - level rise exceeding 3 meters per century during the first millennium.&raWith cumulative fossil fuel emissions of 10,000 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC), Antarctica is projected to become almost ice - free with an average contribution to sea - level rise exceeding 3 meters per century during the first millennium.&rawith an average contribution to sea - level rise exceeding 3 meters per century during the first millennium.»

However, to align with the Paris Agreement action must be taken to reduce the EU ETS cap by 4 % a year to just over 0.943 gigatonnes in 2030.

The Very Reverend Jebediah Hypotenuse August 22, 2013 at 12:36 pm The real consensus police strictly enforce the «skeptic» «law» that humans can dump gigatonnes of GHGs into the atmosphere with no significant negative consequences.

As poorer countries develop and the world's population grows, emissions associated with food waste could soar from 0.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year to between 1.9 and 2.5 gigatonnes annually by mid-century, showed the study published in the Environmental Science & Technology journal.

Yet even if the high price of energy from fossil fuels and power plants combines with regional climate initiatives to slow the current rate of growth somewhat, we will probably hit 11 gigatonnes of carbon emissions per year by 2020.

These two floors take the forms and where A and B are constants with units of gigatonnes of carbon per year (GtC yr − 1) and represent the size of the emissions floor in the year 2050 (t = t2050), and τ is a time constant set to 200 years.

Just stick with how many gigatonnes of CO2 are in the atmosphere, how many gigatonnes have been added by man and how many gigatonnes of that remain.

The findings, from over 120 researchers working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), also indicate that the rising penetration of renewable energies could lead to cumulative greenhouse gas savings equivalent to 220 to 560 Gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (GtC02eq) between 2010 and 2050.

Raising the average global efficiency of coal plants from 33 % to 40 % with off - the - shelf technology available today would save 2 gigatonnes of CO2 emissions.

Raising the average efficiency of the global coal fleet from the current 33 % to 40 % — achievable with off - the - shelf technology — would save 2 gigatonnes of CO2 emissions.

Once developed, commercializing promising carbon removal solutions will require the development of markets that demand carbon removal — carbon removal as a co-benefit alone will not be enough to reach gigatonne - scale removal levels, with landscape restoration as the potential exception to this rule.

This is not surprising considering that each year about 750 gigatonnes of CO2 is added to the atmosphere and a near equal amount is removed resulting in this 2ppmv increase but humans today only contribute 31gt of CO2 with the other 96 % coming from nature, so it is far more likely that observed increases in CO2 are primarily naturally sourced and not from humans.

«Just 38 out of 160 countries set specific targets for natural climate solutions at the Paris climate talks, amounting to 2 gigatonnes of emissions reductions,» said Justin Adams, global lands managing director with The Nature Conservancy.

Paragrap 17 «Notes with concern that the estimated aggregate greenhouse gas emission levels in 2025 and 2030 resulting from the intended nationally determined contributions do not fall within least - cost 2 ̊C scenarios but rather lead to a projected level of 55 gigatonnes in 2030, and also notes that much greater emission reduction efforts will be required than those associated with the intended nationally determined contributions in order to hold the increase in the global average temperature to below 2 ̊C above pre-industrial levels by reducing emissions to 40 gigatonnes or to 1.5 ̊C above pre-industrial levels by reducing to a level to be identified in the special report referred to in paragraph 21 below;»

In the AR4 it was indicated that mitigation opportunities with net negative cost have the potential to reduce emissions by about 6 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent per year in 2030.

Moving toward highly efficient room air conditioners that use refrigerants with low Global Warming Potential by 2030 would save over 25 gigatonnes of CO2e emissions, saving energy equivalent to the removal of 1,500 500MW power plants.

Scenarios for how we can meet the 1.5 °C target leave us with as little as 200 gigatonnes of CO2 (IPCC), and maybe less, to release into the atmosphere as of 2016.

That's compared with about 127 gigatonnes per year on average for the Antarctic ice sheet (see chart below).