In other words, the plant growth should act like a sink, absorbing the gas released into
the air by burning fossil fuel.
Scientists are more confident than ever that pumping carbon dioxide into
the air by burning fossil fuels is warming the planet.
So if the C13 to C12 ratio is falling (as more C12 rich carbon is put into
the air by burning fossil fuels) then we can't know if it's due to man - made CO2 or natural CO2 from plants.
The invisible waste gas is dumped into
the air by burning fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas.
Not exact matches
Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned
air pollution, generated
by electric power plants that
burn fossil fuels.
However, at least two of the state's nuclear reactors are in danger of closing within the next few years and would significantly increase
air pollution because they would be replaced
by fossil -
fuel burning power plants in the near future.
This is the rise in
air temperature expected
by the year 2040, if current trends in the use of
fossil fuels and forest -
burning continue.
Acid rain arises when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides (NOx), emitted
by burning fossil fuels, react with water droplets in the
air to form sulfuric and nitric acid.
The carbon cycle defines the fate of CO2 injected into the
air by fossil fuel burning [1], [168] as the additional CO2 distributes itself over time among surface carbon reservoirs: the atmosphere, ocean, soil, and biosphere.
But as we build that clean energy future, our modern lives are still powered
by fossil fuels and the
burning of those
fuels is releasing tons of carbon dioxide into the
air.
Wind farms reduce greenhouse emissions
by displacing
fossil fuelled power stations and they save lives
by reducing the
air pollution from the
burning of
fossil fuels that kills millions of people each year.
But humans release carbon dioxide into the
air, too,
by burning fossil fuels.
We already know we are putting too much heat - trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) into the
air when we
burn fossil fuels to generate electricity,
fuel our cars, and heat our homes — but
by cutting down and
burning trees, we are also releasing an astounding amount of the same heat - trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Hydrogen
burns in
air, so one can easily imagine using hydrogen instead of
fossil fuels to supply energy for our transportation needs that can not be met
by electric trolleys and trains.
Favorable energy economics are just one of solar's many benefits — including less water use, lack of requirement for a centralized grid in undeveloped regions, low cost, zero
air pollution, and in providing a mitigation for the rising problem of global climate change (which is primarily driven
by human
fossil fuel burning).
Less happily, the electricity for running all these
air conditioners is generated
by burning fossil fuels.
Because most heating systems
burn fossil fuels, which creates pollution, all the energy saved
by a solar water heating eliminates the pollution that would otherwise add to our problems of poor
air quality, poor health, smog and global climate change, a problem which requires immediate action.
... as we sit in our
air - conditioned cars, driving to / from work, lit
by electric lights — most of which is powered
by burning fossil fuels...
Radiative Transfer Physics does not depend entirely on the simple absorbtivity of CO2, which
by the way is effectively permanent in
air when added
by burning fossil fuels, compared to water which saturates and precipitates out depending on climate conditions, such as warming due the GHE, as a marginal shift in the dynamic equilibrium through feedbacks.
By burning fossil fuels, we are releasing Carbon dioxide into the
air.
The carbon cycle defines the fate of CO2 injected into the
air by fossil fuel burning [1], [168] as the additional CO2 distributes itself over time among surface carbon reservoirs: the atmosphere, ocean, soil, and biosphere.
In the climate change space, emissions refer to greenhouse gases released into the
air that are produced
by numerous activities, including
burning fossil fuels, industrial agriculture, and melting permafrost, to name a few.
Obviously they use only a few carefully selected values from the older literature, invariably choosing results that are consistent with the hypothesis of an induced rise of CO2 in
air caused
by the
burning of
fossil fuel.
Ozone is an odorless gas that is not directly emitted into the
air but is created
by chemical reactions between nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC)-- which occur naturally but are also produced from the
burning of
fossil fuels and are released in the process of drilling for oil and natural gas.
He shows no indication of caring about the ocean acidification that the
burning of
fossil fuels is causing, nor the many deaths and serious diseases caused
by the
air pollution from
burning coal to generate power.
Leading off a June 12, 2012 Senate Finance Committee hearing on energy taxation, Dr. Jorgenson proposed internalizing the health and environmental costs of
fossil fuel burning by eliminating
fossil fuel «tax expenditures» (i.e., indirect subsidies) and taxing emissions of the six Clean
Air Act «criteria» pollutants.
Air conditioning too, is a big electricity consumer, and is becoming more common, at least partly driven
by rising temperatures due to climate change (which, of course, is driven largely
by burning fossil fuels).
In Australia 3000 deaths annually are caused
by air pollution; most of which comes from the mining, transport and
burning of coal and from
fossil fuel powered motor vehicles.
Condider this:» The
fossil fuels we
burn today - coal, oil and gas took Mother Nature 500 million years to make
by taking carbon dioxide out of the
air and turning it into algae, plants, trees and critters that ultimately became coal, crude oil and natural gas.»
While swapping out biomass cookstoves with more efficient ones, or with electric stoves powered
by clean energy sources, improves indoor
air quality for their users (an important issue unto itself), cleaning up
fossil fuel burning really ought to be getting more effort.
Because they use less energy, ENERGY STAR certified products reduce
air pollution and greenhouse gases caused
by burning fossil fuels.
For example, in 2010 it was predicted that cleaner
air from an emissions reduction target of 30 per cent
by 2020 in the European Union would deliver savings worth 80 billion euros a year due to reductions in the incidence of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases (associated with
air pollution from
burning fossil fuels).»
(«Half the
air pollution is due to
burning fossil fuels and the other have due to the incessant spouting of nonsense
by environmentalists»: ^)
The oceans play a central role in the global carbon cycle, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide (CO2) that humans put into the
air («anthropogenic carbon»), primarily
by fossil fuel burning.