Sentences with phrase «co2 emissions from fossil fuel»

Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel and industry since 1960 (top left); global emissions by fuel type (middle left); Territorial (solid) and consumption (dashed) emissions by country group (bottom left); territorial emissions from biggest emitters (top right); per capita emissions from biggest emitters (bottom right).

My concern was expressed in # 87: «So, even in this most ideal case of complete cessation of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel immediately, the temperature will rise to unacceptable levels.

These data include CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion, as well as cement manufacturing and gas flaring.

The authors meant this as a method of offsetting CO2 emissions from fossil fuel plants by taking the CO2 out of the air and sequestering it.

Actual and projected CO2 emissions from fossil fuel consumption, 2005 — 2050 (billion metric tonnes).

Changes in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion are influenced by many long - term and short - term factors, including population growth, economic growth, changing energy prices, new technologies, changing behavior, and seasonal temperatures.

Projects that would reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion are therefore not being considered for offset protocol development.

From 2010 to 2011, CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion decreased by 2.5 % due to: (1) a decrease in coal consumption, with increased natural gas consumption and a significant increase in hydropower used; (2) a decrease in transportation - related energy consumption due to higher fuel costs, improvements in fuel efficiency, and a reduction in miles travelled; and (3) relatively mild winter conditions resulting in an overall decrease in energy demand in most sectors.

The implication: in addition to rapid reductions in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use, we'll likely need big industrial CCS processes to generate negative emissions via approaches like sustainable bioenergy coupled with CCS and / or direct air capture (DAC) + sequestration to make our climate goals a reality.

The IPCC concluded that the increase in CO2 emissions from both fossil fuel burning and land use change are the dominant cause of the observed increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration.

The scientists report a 29 per cent increase in global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel between 2000 and 2008 (the latest year for which figures are available), and that in spite of the global economic downturn emissions increased by 2 per cent during 2008.

Researchers have measured CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use in California and compared them to reported emissions.

CO2 emissions from fossil fuel have been growing steadily in the US and are projected to continue growing until 2030 and beyond if no legislation is passed to reduce emissions.

As temperatures continue to rise, a temporary stabilization in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use and industry between 2014 and 2016 appears to be ending, at least in 2017.

An historical summary of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use in Turkey is shown in Table 17.

In 2016, CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning decreased by 2 percent in the U.S. and Russia and 1 percent in Japan, but increased 5 percent in India, which doesn't yet show signs of decoupling growth from emissions.

And even as nations work to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel consumption, investment in coal, oil and gas production remains high and is expected to hold steady or continue to grow.

Encouragingly, the growth in global emissions in 2015 and 2016 is the slowest since the early 1990s (except years of global economic recession), and global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production remained stable in both 2015 and 2016.

If you would relate that to the global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use of 2014, which amounted to 32.3 billion tonnes — Indonesian forest fires during the current Super El Niño have the potential to add 10 - 29 % of extra CO2 to the world's fossil fuel - related emissions.

Using one of the IPCC's simpler climate models, Rutledge forecasts that total CO2 emissions from fossil fuel will be lower than any of the IPCC scenarios.

CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion in France and Belgium both declined at 3.7 % on average between 1978 - 1988 following the oil crisis of the 1970s: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v3/n1/full/nclimate1783.html#supplementary-information

And his predictions are even worse:» The continuing planetary imbalance and the rapid increase of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel assure that global warming will continue on decadal time scales.»

The continuing planetary imbalance and the rapid increase of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel assure that global warming will continue on decadal time scales.

An ► energy tax - a levy on the energy content of fuels - reduces demand for energy and so reduces CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use.

Regarding text on CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production in 2011, and anthropogenic net CO2 emissions from land - use change throughout the past decade, Saudi Arabia proposed also discussing other gases, sectors and sources, and addressing confidence levels and representative timeframes.

Figure 1: Observed global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement production compared with IPCC emissions scenarios.

The EPA uses a formula of «CO2 emissions from fossil fuel - fired power plants in pounds (lbs) divided by state electricity generation from fossil - fuel fired power plants and certain low - or zero - emitting power sources in megawatt hours (MWh)» to calculate each state target.

Just to add the appropriate emphasis to what the past 164 years of empirical science tell us, the «C3» estimator replica above also reveals what would happen to «global warming» if the entire U.S. economy shuts down for one year, eliminating some 5.8 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion - again, it's a nothing - significant outcome for the climate.

Globally, economic and population growth continue to be the most important drivers of increases in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion.

During the last century or so, over half of the CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, industry, and deforestation have been absorbed by natural sinks such as the forests and oceans.

Researchers have measured CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use in California and compared them to reported emissions.

In comparison, annual CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion are a tiny fraction of that, or about 5.7 gigatons.

Countries and regions report their CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by counting what they have used, such as the amount of oil, coal or gas they have burned.

«CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and industry did not really change from 2014 to 2016,» says climate scientist Pierre Friedlingstein at the University of Exeter in England, and an author of the 2017 carbon budget report released by the Global Carbon Project in November.

According the new research, last year global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and industry grew by just 0.6 % — compared to 2.4 % annual growth for the decade before.

AC at 78 wrote: «If there are bubbles of methane here and there boosting the local CH4 concentration spectacularly but which on the global level amount to less than 3 % of the effect of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, what does it matter really?»

If there are bubbles of methane here and there boosting the local CH4 concentration spectacularly but which on the global level amount to less than 3 % of the effect of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, what does it matter really?

The sooner it is deployed on a widespread scale the sooner we deal directly with the problem of Co2 emissions from fossil fuels.

The discussion talks explicitly about how diminishing terrestrial and ocean carbon sinks over time require reduced CO2 emissions from fossil fuels / land use to achieve stabilization goals at various levels (e.g. 550 ppmv of CO2 in the atmosphere).

It's interesting that you keep pushing geoengineering while at the same time disparaging, rejecting, ignoring and otherwise expressing extreme negativity towards the multiple, readily implementable plans that have been put forward by multiple independent organizations and academic researchers, as well as government agencies, for rapidly phasing out CO2 emissions from fossil fuels using benign technologies that we have at hand now.

I'm simply questioning the validity of the hypothesis offered by so many climate scientists that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are a significant factor in global warming, to the extent that they must be drastically reduced.

We expect an improving economy to increase CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by 0.7 percent in 2010.

Victor (243): I'm simply questioning the validity of the hypothesis offered by so many climate scientists that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are a significant factor in global warming, to the extent that they must be drastically reduced.

«that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels must be largely responsible for the run - up in global temperatures, because all other possibilities have been investigated and none are sufficient to produce the observed results on their own.

I.e., that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels must be largely responsible for the run - up in global temperatures, because all other possibilities have been investigated and none are sufficient to produce the observed results on their own.

To keep carbon emissions under the one - trillion - ton threshold, global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels must peak around 2016 and reach zero by about 2050.

With nuclear cheaper than fossil fuels it could replace 50 % of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by around mid 21st Century.

With nuclear power cheaper than fossil fuel generated electricity it could avoid 50 % of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by around mid 21st Century (and achieve the other objectives in the list).

Assuming that human CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by 2100 will exceed all the carbon contained in all the remaining fossil fuels on our planet is idiotic.

Over the past three years, global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels have remained relatively flat.