Sentences with phrase «since emissions from fossil fuel»

«Since emissions from fossil fuel burning have been at a record high during the last several years, the rate of CO2 increase has also been at a record high.

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Since levels of greenhouse gases have continued to rise throughout the period, some skeptics have argued that the recent pattern undercuts the theory that global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by human - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

Cumulative emissions of CO2 since 1870 are set to reach 2015 billion tonnes in 2013 — with 70 per cent caused by burning fossil fuels and 30 per cent from deforestation and other land - use changes.

Since the air that comes from the chimneys of fossil fuel - burning power stations contains up to 20 percent of CO2, even the emissions represent a potential for more power.

«Since the transition away from fossil fuels is likely to take a very long time, we foresee a long - term need to deal with coal - based emissions and, therefore, the sooner we begin to develop [carbon capture and storage] technology, the better,» Austin - based energy policy specialist Scott Anderson of Environmental Defense told a Senate panel earlier this year during a hearing on CCS technology.

CO2 concentrations have increased by 40 % since pre-industrial times, primarily from fossil fuel emissions and secondarily from net land use change emissions.

After a short dip in 2009 due to the global financial crisis, emissions from fossil fuels rebounded in 2010 and have since grown 2.6 percent each year, hitting an all - time high of 9.7 billion tons of carbon in 2012.

«According to the cover story in Nature, the fires in Indonesia released upwards of 2.57 gigatonnes of carbon, 40 percent of the mean carbon emissions released annually from fossil fuels, and «contributing greatly to the largest annual increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration detected since records began in 1957.

Since, the solar power is Green House Gas (GHG) emissions free, the power generated will replace anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases estimated to be approximately 93,022 tonnes of CO2e per year, thereon displacing 95,145 MWh / year amount of electricity from the generation - mix of power plants connected to the INDIAN GRID, which is mainly dominated by fossil fuel based power plant.

Only in the past few decades have scientists begun the measurements necessary to establish a relationship between current carbon levels and temperatures, and the science conducted since then has consistently pointed in one direction: that rising greenhouse gas emissions, arising from our use of fossil fuels and our industries, lead to higher temperatures.

This paper, by contrast, takes a supply - side view of CO2 emission, and generates two supply - driven emission scenarios based on a comprehensive investigation of likely long - term pathways of fossil fuel production drawn from peer - reviewed literature published since 2000.

Emissions from fossil fuels and industry have seen a staggering increase in recent years — 63 percent since 1990.

USA Today: In a bit of encouraging climate news, the U.S. government reported Monday that U.S. emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels were lower last year than at any time since 1994.

Emily Adams» Data Highlight «U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Down 11 Percent Since 2007» revealed that carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels in the United States peaked in 2007 and have since fallen 11 percent, dropping to over 1.4 billion tonsEmissions Down 11 Percent Since 2007» revealed that carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels in the United States peaked in 2007 and have since fallen 11 percent, dropping to over 1.4 billion tons in Since 2007» revealed that carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels in the United States peaked in 2007 and have since fallen 11 percent, dropping to over 1.4 billion tonsemissions from burning fossil fuels in the United States peaked in 2007 and have since fallen 11 percent, dropping to over 1.4 billion tons in since fallen 11 percent, dropping to over 1.4 billion tons in 2013.

Despite early knowledge about climate change, electric utilities have continued to invest heavily in fossil fuel power generation over the past half a century, and since 1988 some have engaged in ongoing efforts to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

400 % increase in carbon dioxide emissions growth since 1990s 400 % increase in carbon dioxide emissions growth since 1990s mongabay.com November 13, 2006 Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are...

Switching from coal to natural gas presents significant emission reduction opportunities, particularly in fast growing economies with coal - based power generation, since natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel.

Carbon dioxide concentrations have increased by 40 % since pre-industrial times, primarily from fossil fuel emissions and secondarily from net land use change emissions.

«The underlying energy consumption trends that resulted in these changes — mainly because more electricity has been generated from natural gas than from other fossil fuels — have helped to lower the U.S. emissions level since 2005 because natural gas is a less carbon - intensive fuel than either coal or petroleum.»

There is only one incontrovertable fact about global; warming and that is that NCDC, GISS, HadCRUT, UAH MSU, and RSS MSU all show no global warming since 2002 in spite of the increase in CO2 emissions from fossil fuels from 26.301 Gt in 2002 to 33.158 Gt in 2010.

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.

seeking this answer is what used to be called «science»; trying to explain why the prediction of continued accelerating global warming from the 52 % increase in CO2 emissions from fossil fuels since Hansen predicted this in 1988 has failed to materialize and trying to explain why the Earth has experienced no global warming for over a decade in spite of the 26 % increase in CO2 emissions from fossil fuels is what is funny

Concerning the CO2 in the atmosphere I personally am 100 % (not 99.9999 % but 100 %) convinced by the arguments that — we know the emissions from burning fossil fuels, — we know the increase in CO2 concentration since Keeling started his measurements at Mauna Loa — we have a rough, certainly inaccurate, but still very significant understanding on the movements of carbon in atmosphere, biosphere, oceans and continents.

Indeed, global - scale fossil fuel or CO2 emissions rates have increased by approximately 100 % since the late 1970s, or from about 5 gigatons of carbon (GtC) per year (late 1970s) to about 10 GtC / year by 2014.

The complaint alleged that the defendants had produced and promoted the use of «massive amounts» of fossil fuels despite having been aware since the 1950s, based on information from the American Petroleum Institute, that emissions from fossil fuels would cause severe and even catastrophic climate change impacts.

«When you can trace the lion's share of humanity's carbon emissions from fossil fuel use since the invention of the steam engine to a few dozen companies that have produced those carbon fuels, the story becomes more powerful than just looking at emissions on a country - by - country basis,» Heede explained.

Since beginning the great Energiewende transition from fossil fuels and nuclear energy, Germany has gone from strength to strength, leading the EU in both economic growth and emissions reduction as it moves toward a clean energy future.

Since 1750, it is estimated that about 2 / 3rds of anthropogenic CO2 emissions have come from fossil fuel burning and about 1 / 3rd from land use change.

But if one were able to maintain the large numbers of domesticated / food animals without using fossil fuels to power the farming systems, and didn't make any further land use changes, then there would be no net positive CO2 emissions (there might still be net CH4 emissions, but presumably every CH4 would be released at the expense of CO2, since there's nowhere else for the carbon to come from).

They attribute it to reduced emissions of methane and ethane from fossil fuel since the 1980s.

Since the combustion of fossil fuel is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, changes in emissions from fossil fuel combustion have historically been the dominant factor affecting total U.S. emission trends.

By contrast current climate change is caused by the thermal effects of CO2 emissions from burning of some 300 billion tons of fossil fuel since the dawn of the industrial age, with consequent increase of CO2 to 380 parts per million, 36 percent above maximum levels (about 280 parts per million) which pertained over the last one million years (The Pleistocene).

Aviation emissions now account for about three percent of annual CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, more than a century since Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered airplane flight.

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).

Cumulative emissions from 1854 to 2010 traced to historic fossil fuel production by the largest investor - owned and state - owned oil, gas, and coal producers, in percent of global industrial CO2 and methane emissions since 1751.