Sentences with phrase «air by burning fossil fuels»

The invisible waste gas is dumped into the air by burning fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas.

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.

Scientists are more confident than ever that pumping carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels is warming the planet.

In other words, the plant growth should act like a sink, absorbing the gas released into the air by burning fossil fuel.

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.