Sentences with phrase «as humans burn fossil fuels»

As humans burn fossil fuels, adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, globally average temperature rises as a result.

The permafrost is a vast reservoir of ancient carbon, protected from decay by microorganisms simply by its frozen state: it becomes increasingly vulnerable as the world warms, as humans burn fossil fuels and dump ever greater concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

as humans burn fossil fuels and dump ever greater concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Some greenhouse gases occur naturally in the atmosphere, while others result from human activities such as burning of fossil fuels such as coal.

Human activities are emitting around 10.5 billion tonnes of carbon annually and rising, mostly as a result of burning fossil fuels.

And that makes controlling O3 pollution from fossil fuel burning as important for climate change as it is for human and plant health.

Over the last few centuries, the ocean has absorbed huge amounts of the carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels.

Over the past 250 years, human activities such as fossil fuel burning have raised the atmospheric CO2 concentration by more than 40 % over its preindustrial level of 280 ppm (parts per million).

Kyoto regulates all sources of carbon dioxide as well as other greenhouse gases, but reliable long - term data by country are available only for carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels (which accounts for about two - thirds of the human contribution to global warming).

There is hope, however, as CO2 from burning fossil fuels and other human activities appears to have leveled off in 2015 at roughly 40 billion metric tons of CO2 liberated into the atmosphere.

Over a long enough period of time, the increased carbon burial could help offset a small fraction of carbon emitted by human activities such as fossil fuel burning, says study coauthor Antje

As such the paper serves as a complement, rather than an alternative, to other methods of attributing climatic change to human activity (fossil fuel burningAs such the paper serves as a complement, rather than an alternative, to other methods of attributing climatic change to human activity (fossil fuel burningas a complement, rather than an alternative, to other methods of attributing climatic change to human activity (fossil fuel burning).

The concentration of atmospheric CO2 has increased dramatically since the Industrial Revolution (from around 280 parts per million [ppm] in preindustrial times to 401 ppm in 2015), primarily due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and changes in land - use.

It also acts as a carbon sink — absorbing about 30 % of atmospheric CO2 released from human activities such as burning fossil fuels...

And the less common and more extreme the hot extreme or heavy rainfall event, the more this can be blamed on human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels.

When asked about global warming, 84 percent of scientists say the earth is getting warmer because of human activity such as burning fossil fuels, while only 49 percent of the public agrees.

In other words, there is no warming effect of greenhouse gases and humans can carry on with Business As Usual, including massive burn of fossil fuels.

As if more evidence was needed to combat air pollution caused from burning fossil fuels, two recently released reports articulate a human toll that may be higher than previously imagined.

Such factors include increased greenhouse gas concentrations associated with fossil fuel burning, sulphate aerosols produced as an industrial by - product, human - induced changes in land surface properties among other things.

Whether human activities such as burning fossil fuels is contributing to the greenhouse effect is where much of the debate lies.

As we've learned from what's called «the terrifying math of global warming», we need to leave a huge amount of fossil fuels that have been discovered in the ground instead of burning them into the atmosphere in order to keep the planet from warming so much as to make it inhospitable to human lifAs we've learned from what's called «the terrifying math of global warming», we need to leave a huge amount of fossil fuels that have been discovered in the ground instead of burning them into the atmosphere in order to keep the planet from warming so much as to make it inhospitable to human lifas to make it inhospitable to human life.

In the standards for middle school, for example, one of the core ideas is that «human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth's mean surface temperature («global warming»).»

They looked at the potential long - term consequences of oceans ever richer in dissolved carbon dioxide, as humans burn ever more fossil fuels and emit greenhouse gases that continue to warm the atmosphere.

The difference in the case of climate change from burning fossil fuels is they are putting human civilization itself at stake, as well as most of the rest of life on Earth.

This acceleration was due to a strong El Niño event — which triggered droughts and reduced the capacity of forests, vegetation and the oceans to absorb CO2 — as well as human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels.

They report in the journal Climatic Change that, if humans continue to burn fossil fuels at an accelerating rate, and as average global temperatures creep up by the predicted 4 °C above historic levels, then on the hottest days, between 10 % and 30 % of fully - loaded planes may have to remove fuel, cargo or passengers before they can take off: either that, or flights will have to be delayed to the cooler hours.

During recent years, as human fossil - fuel burning has continued to warm the Earth, such fires have become more and more common.

U.S. National Academy of Sciences founded by Abraham Lincoln back in the 19th century, all the national academies of all of the major industrial nations around the world have all gone on record as stating clearly that humans are warming the planet and changing the climate through our continued burning of fossil fuels.

The IPCC has not only asserted that global warming is occurring, but that to a large degree it is caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels rather than being a natural phenomenon.

When asked to pick among three choices, 50 % say that climate change is occurring mostly because of human activity such as burning fossil fuels, 23 % say that climate change is mostly because of natural patterns in the earth's environment, and another 25 % say there is no solid evidence the earth is getting warmer.

Consequently an increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases from human activities such as burning fossil fuels leads to an enhanced greenhouse effect.

As long as humans continue to increase the greenhouse effect by burning massive quantities of fossil fuels, the planet will continue to warm, as is clear from the acceleration of global warming since 200As long as humans continue to increase the greenhouse effect by burning massive quantities of fossil fuels, the planet will continue to warm, as is clear from the acceleration of global warming since 200as humans continue to increase the greenhouse effect by burning massive quantities of fossil fuels, the planet will continue to warm, as is clear from the acceleration of global warming since 200as is clear from the acceleration of global warming since 2000.

«Climate Change» is a general term used when referring to a wide range of effects brought about by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and «heat island effects» resulting from buildings and pavement in the major human settlements.

Scientists complained that the programme makers distorted evidence, and made elementary mistakes such as claiming that volcanoes produce more carbon dioxide than human activities, when in fact they produce less than 2 % of that caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

«The Kullman study points to mounting evidence that climate is largely out of human control, as humans were not burning large amounts fossil fuels during Roman and Medieval times.

This suggested that over the past 20 years, human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation had begun to dominate «the natural factors involved in climate change,» he said.

I see the burning of fossil fuels as the handmaiden of human betterment down the ages, and before I see it denied to today's developing populations and to future generations, I want to see proper scientific evidence.

There is no logical requirement for the first answer to lead to «mostly because of human activity such as burning fossil fuels.»

After atmospheric CO2 levels remained steady for thousands of years, natural sources suddenly began to emit more than the sinks absorb at the exact same time as humans began burning fossil fuels.

Is the earth getting warmer (a) mostly because of human activity such as burning fossil fuels, or (b) mostly because of natural patterns in the earth's environment.?

Let's go ahead and pump, dig, excavate and burn every last possible fossil fuel we can as the Earth is immune to anything humans can do.

They found that, as humans burn ever more fossil fuels to release ever higher levels of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, to stoke yet further global warming and trigger catastrophic climate change, all 571 cities will experience ever greater heatwaves: that is, three consecutive days and nights at which temperatures are about as high as they have ever been for that city.

Data correlating «ordinary science intelligence» (as measured by a standard nine - question test), political ideology, and tendency to agree with the statement «there is «solid evidence» of recent global warming due «mostly» to «human activity such as burning fossil fuels»» suggests that conservative Republicans become less likely to agree with the scientific consensus on climate change the more educated they are.

In the IPCC's «Climate Change 2007 — The Physical Science Basis», figure 1 (a) on page 513 shows the human contribution from fossil fuel burning and cement production as being 7Gt of carbon for each year from 2000 to 2005.

In fact, 97 percent of actively publishing climate scientists agree — that's right, there is an overwhelming 97 % consensus position that global warming is real and largely driven by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels.

The rise in greenhouse gases corresponds with the extra amount of CO2 known to have been emitted by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests.

After staying below 300 parts per million (ppm) for some 800,000 years, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere skyrocketed as humans started burning more and more fossil fuels.

But human actions, such as raising cattle or burning fossil fuel, now account for more than half of the methane released.

And there is very real risk that the next few decades could see considerable further acceleration of Antarctica's glaciers as a result of human - forced warming due to fossil fuel burning.

CO2 can act as both a primary driver, if humans burn fossil fuels to increase CO2 levels, and a secondary driver (part of the positive feedback loop) if CO2 levels increase naturally as a result of other forcings which cause a warming and which, in turn, lead to increased CO2 levels.