Sentences with phrase «without additional greenhouse gas»

Partly that reflects the fact that costs begin rapidly to escalate beyond that amount of warming; partly it reflects the possibility (discussed in considerable detail by Mr. Lynas) that that may be enough warming to trigger climate feedbacks that would make yet more warming inevitable even without additional greenhouse gas emissions.

As a result, without any additional greenhouse gases, the Arctic soon will be ice - free in the summer.

It means that there is additional climate change in the pipeline that will occur in coming decades even without additional greenhouse gases.

Not exact matches

Rather, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture would drop by 28 percent without farmed animals because of increases associated with producing additional food crops and the use of more synthetic fertilizer to replace manure.

The IPCC predicts that without additional efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the global temperature (relative to the pre-industrial era) will increase by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) or more by the year 2100.

3) If countries like China and India follow the American pattern in transportation, ballooning demand for oil is bound to be a disruptive influence on world affairs with or without the climate impact of all those additional emissions of greenhouse gases.

Without additional efforts to reduce [greenhouse gas] emissions beyond those in place today, emissions growth is expected to persist driven by growth in global population and economic activities.

The global surface temperature increase since about 1860 corresponds to a recovery from the Little Ice Age, modulated by natural ocean and atmosphere cycles, without need for additional forcing by greenhouse gases.

If California continues «business as usual» (BAU), or without any additional energy - savings measures, greenhouse gas emissions in 2050 are expected to nearly double those in 2005, to more than 900 metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent.

The body found that, without additional action, emissions of the greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto Protocol - namely carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride, PFCs and HFCs - are likely to rise by 25 - 90 % by 2030 over their levels in 2000.

It is simply that after accounting as best one can for the influence of the sun you still can't match the observed climate over the past ~ 30 - 50 years without including the effects of additional greenhouse gas forcing.

As far as replacing coal with natural gas resulting in reducing CO2 emissions, the conventional environmental wisdom supports that, but that wisdom was developed without considering the additional greenhouse gas impact of fracking and the projected increase in the proportion of fracked gas as part of the US» overall natural gas supply.