Sentences with phrase «year warming potential»

The 100 - year warming potential (GWP100) of methane is 34, according to the IPCC.

The 100 - year warming potential (GWP100) of methane is 34, according to the IPCC.

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In a warming climate, scientists see increasing potential for epic deluges like the one that swamped Houston and last year's devastating rains around Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

For the last 2.5 million years, Earth settled into a rather unusual period of potential instability as we rocked back and forth between ice ages and intervening warm periods, or interglacials.

The gas has a global warming potential 86 times that of carbon dioxide on a 20 - year time scale.

The researchers detected a «significant regional flux» of methane, a greenhouse gas with about 30 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 100 - year period, coming from an area of gas wells in southwestern Pennsylvania.

But when unburned methane is released into the atmosphere, it is a potent greenhouse gas with a warming potential 28 to 34 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100 - year timeframe (and up to 84 times more potent over a 20 year timeframe).

By reconstructing past global warming and the carbon cycle on Earth 56 million years ago, researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute among others have used computer modelling to estimate the potential perspective for future global warming, which could be even warmer than previously thought.

Inertia toward continued emissions creates potential 21st - century global warming that is comparable in magnitude to that of the largest global changes in the past 65 million years but is orders of magnitude more rapid.

«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.

Payne and two other scientists wrote a letter to the U.S. delegation at the United Nations» climate change summit this month suggesting that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change require nations to use a 10 - year global warming potential, or GWP10, in their emissions inventory.

That year the U.S. released 7.40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e), a measure of the global warming potential of any greenhouse gas in terms of the amount of warming generated by CO2.

If countries abide by the Paris Agreement global warming target of 1.5 degrees Celsius, potential fish catches could increase by six million metric tons per year, according to a new study published in Science.

They found that for every degree Celsius decrease in global warming, potential fish catches could increase by more than three metric million tons per year.

This gradual shift in the Sahara's overall climate contradicts a common theory that the region dried rapidly over a few hundred years, and provides clues about a potential re-greening triggered by global warming, Kröpelin says.

The Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)- an ancient warming event that occurred about 56 million years ago - is often thought of as a potential framework for future climate change.

«(2) the carbon dioxide equivalent value for purposes of this Act for any greenhouse gas not listed in the table under paragraph (1) shall be the 100 - year Global Warming Potentials provided in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report.

«(C) global atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, expressed in annual concentration units as well as carbon dioxide equivalents based on 100 - year global warming potentials;

A group of researchers from Germany has taken to investigating the potential changes in extreme rainfall patterns across the UK as a result of future global warming and has found that in some regions, the time of year when we see the heaviest rainfall is set to shift.

It has a high global warming potential: 72 times that of carbon dioxide over 20 years, and 25 times over 100 years, [43] and the levels are rising.

The potential influence of rapid Arctic warming on such extremes has been a hot research topic in recent years, though it is much debated in the climate community.

«With the potential that next year could be similarly warm, it's clear that our climate continues to change.»

Pierrehumbert said Howarth uses the figure for methane's 20 - year global warming potential — 86 times that of carbon dioxide — without seriously discussing the magnitude of warming caused by those methane emissions compared to warming prevented by the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

Hello Alex I read a study a few months ago that says that carbon emissions d'ont take 40 years to reach thei full warming potential, but only 10... I wish I had kept the link though.

I love this time of year - warmer days, cooler nights, and full of exciting potential.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas; according to the EPA, methane has a high global warming potential of 28 - 36 times that of CO2 over a 100 - year period.

As a far - flung member of the global climate change blogging community, focusing specifically on the possible need for sustainable «polar cities» in the far distant future to house potential survivors of catastrophic global warming events, in say the year 2500 or so (okay, so I am being generous; I don't want to be accussed of fear - mongering in the present).

But policymakers typically ignore methane's warming potential over 20 years (GWP20) when assembling a nation's emissions inventory.

Thus it appears that, provided further satellite cloud data confirms the cosmic ray flux low cloud seeding hypothesis, and no other factors were involved over the past 150 years (e.g., variability of other cloud layers) then there is a potential for solar activity induced changes in cloudiness and irradiance to account for a significant part of the global warming experienced during the 20th century, with the possible exception of the last two decades.

It looks like a very important reminder that we should be using more updated numbers for the global warming potential of methane, and that the 20 year potential is at least as relevant as the 100 year one.

While, in theory, human activities have the potential to result in net cooling, a concern about 25 years ago, the current balance between greenhouse gas emissions and the emissions of particulates and particulate - formers is such that essentially all of today's concern is about net warming.

2006 will be remembered by climatologists as the year in which the potential scale of global warming came into focus.

That was the conclusion of the National Academy of Sciences, which last year reported, «Despite the great uncertainties, greenhouse warming is a potential threat sufficient to justify action now.»

Cathles et al. believe the focus should be just on electricity generation, and the global warming potential of methane should be considered only on a 100 - year time scale.

If the planet's climate were changing solely because that's what planets do, evolve through different climatic periods of warming and cooling over millions of years, adverse consequences like the loss of coral reefs and the potential for disappearing Polar Bears would still be undeniably sad, but at least a little easier to swallow.

Emanuel, who was not involved in this research, said he published a study last year that calculated that increasing the potential intensity of a storm via warming by 10 percent increases hurricane power by 65 percent, whereas increasing shear by 10 percent decreases hurricane power by only 12 percent.

Below is a note sent to me by Vic Svec, who you heard from here earlier in the year in relation to efforts by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, a rising star in the Democratic Party, to deny permits for two proposed coal - burning power plants because of their potential contribution to global warming.

Or, trying to «correct» for the different lifetimes of the gases using Global Warming Potentials, over a 100 - year time horizon (which still way under - represents the lifetime of the CO2), you get that the methane would be equivalent to increasing CO2 to about 500 ppm, lower than 750 because the CO2 forcing lasts longer than the methane, which the GWP calculation tries in its own myopic way to account for.

The release of this trapped methane is a potential major outcome of a rise in temperature; it is thought that this is a main factor in the global warming of 6 °C that happened during the end - Permian extinction as methane is much more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (despite its atmospheric lifetime of around 12 years, it has a global warming potential of 72 over 20 years and 25 over 100 years).

As Parties to Montreal Protocol negotiate a global agreement for an HFC phase - down this year, several safety standards and building codes are threatening to limit the climate ambition and effectiveness of this agreement by blocking the uptake of low global warming potential (GWP), energy efficient alternatives to hydrofluorocarbon (HFC)- based cooling around the world.

Over the years, the more I learned, the more sceptical I became, I don't believe at this stage that the massive economic costs incurred by proposed anti-AGW policies can be justified, and that if it is proven to be a serious issue, then dealing with it is better deferred until economic growth and potential technological breakthroughs would make the cost more feasible, if and only if it had been demonstrated that (a) AGW were real; (b) the costs of inaction were enormous; and (c) the costs of action would bring commensurate benefits, e.g. would stop or long defer dangerous warming.

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.

Although APS plans to reduce its coal burn from the current 35 % to 17 % by 2029, by increasing its natural gas burn from 19 % to 35 %, it will actually increase its greenhouse gas emissions in the near term, since the global warming potential from methane, which is leaked at multiple points of the natural gas supply chain, is 86 times that of carbon over 20 years, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2013 report.

It assumes that all nations of the world undertake emissions mitigation simultaneously and effectively, and share a common global price that all emissions to the atmosphere must pay with emissions of different gases priced according to their hundred - year global warming potentials (Schimel et al. 1996).

A recent study shows that the emission of a CO2 molecule reaches its maximum warming potential within ten years, then continues to warm the planet for well over a century.

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.

This is 10 times the potential warming from radiative forcing in a year — and I assume that the excess is lost to space.

And I'm kinda of the old school which, rather unimaginatively favors strategic, long - range planning in the form of a multiplicity of potential futures — to include a world of possible, cold climate change along with a possible, warm climate change — especially when the planning horizon is more than 80 years out.

The scientists then combined all these other potential explanations for the warming over the 135 year period between the Challenger voyage and the modern Argo data.

An ambitious HFC agreement has the potential to avoid 100 billion CO2 - equivalent emissions by 2050 and 0.5 °C warming by 2100, significantly contributing towards the goals of the landmark Paris Agreement last year and eliminating the use of some of the most potent greenhouse gases in existence.