Sentences with phrase «atmosphere by burning fossil fuels»

«The correlation between climate change and carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels has not yet been conclusively proven.»

To recap, about a quarter of the carbon dioxide people put into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels is absorbed by the ocean, where it forms carbonic acid.

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, people have been releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and clearing forests.

That's because according to estimates, there is more than 10 times the amount of carbon in Arctic soil than has been put into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels since the start of the Industrial Revolution.

Worse, the fine aerosol particles released into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels could put a complete stop to the monsoon rains in central southern China and northern India.

Since 1750, we have emitted about 580 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests and making cement.

The CO2 pumped into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels today will hang around for centuries, building up over time and continuing to warm the planet.

But there can be too much of a good thing: In the last 200 years, humans have added a lot of extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas to produce energy.

Imagine a power plant that takes the excess carbon dioxide (CO2) put in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and converts it back into fuel.

The Post reported that Rasool, writing in Science, argued that in «the next 50 years» fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun's rays that the Earth's average temperature could fall by six degrees.

«In the next 50 years fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun's rays that the Earth's average temperature could fall by six degrees.

Not exact matches

For example, who really notices that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by 25 per cent since the middle of the nineteenth century (as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, along with destruction of rainforests)?

Produced by the burning of fossil fuels in power plants and car engines, carbon dioxide continues to accumulate in the atmosphere, warming the planet.

Some are calling this new epoch the anthropocene and it is all thanks to our increasing the relatively small amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by burning the vast stores of carbon trapped inside of the fossil fuels that power our modern lives.

This equilibrium has been increasingly upset by the higher concentrations of CO2in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels.

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.

The burning of fossil fuels is the main CO2 contributor to the atmosphere, followed by clearing land for agriculture.

Scientists believe the world's peat bogs can contain up to 500 billion metric tons of carbon — that's about 50 times more carbon than is emitted into the atmosphere each year by the burning of fossil fuels.

While there are many instruments that can measure CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, the difficulty is in separating natural CO2 from plant life from humanmade CO2 emitted by fossil fuel burning.

Fossil fuels have been a great gift — but as the greenhouse gases produced by burning them accumulate in the atmosphere, our continued dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas poses a grave threat to the climate on which all life depends.

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.

The polynyas may be serving as storage sites for the carbon released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels.

The gasses, released by burning of fossil fuels and land clearing among other factors, trap heat in the atmosphere and warm Earth's surface.

Greenhouse gases released by the burning of fossil fuels have steadily risen in the world's atmosphere since the industrial revolution, trapping heat and leading to a global increase in average temperatures.

«The increase in the atmosphere is about half the amount that has been released by burning fossil fuels in that time.

3a) The increase in the atmosphere is about half the amount that has been released by burning fossil fuels in that time.

The drought - induced decline of carbon - dense tropical forests and their replacement by lower - carbon savannas would release enormous amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere, amplifying global warming far beyond the effects of just the CO2 released by burning fossil fuels.

[And just to make the point one more time: The greater fraction of the CO2 in the atmosphere today is from fossil fuel burning (by rich countries), not deforestation - eric]

Revelle and Seuss's «Grand Geophysical Experiment» — they had the luxury in the late»50s to define it in that geologically detached way — will dump thousands of gigatonnes of carbon from gas, oil and coal into the atmosphere as CO2 as they are burned for energy a million times faster than these fossil fuels were made by nature.

If he understood this, he would understand how humans have disrupted the carbon cycle — we are releasing carbon from long - term storage by burning fossil fuels, which is causing an imbalance in the cycle and is leading to a build of carbon in the atmosphere.

Well, given humankind's renewed eagerness to burn fossil fuels and their long lifetime in the atmosphere, even a climate sensitivity below the low end estimate (which no one believes) or at the low end (which is highly unlikely) can still be overwhelmed by CO2 emissions going forward.

The Skeptical Science site refers to a paper by Flanner in 2009, a summary of which can be found here http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/tss/ahf/, that shows the direct heat from burning fossil fuels is just 1 % of the effect of the CO2 produced by this burning on the absorption of heat by the atmosphere from the sun, i.e. global warming.

And also snip The bottom line is that about 15 - 30 % of the CO2 released by burning fossil fuel will still be in the atmosphere in 1000 years, snip

Greenhouse gases produced mainly by the burning of fossil fuels are altering the atmosphere in ways that affect earth's climate, and it is likely that they have «contributed substantially to the observed warming over the last 50 years,» an international panel of climate scientists has concluded.

When fossil fuels are burned and CO2 gets trapped in the atmosphere, it is then absorbed by the ocean: 93 percent of trapped carbon goes into the ocean.

Fossil fuel burning by humans emits tiny particles in addition to releasing CO2 in the atmosphere.

For a 1.5 - degree goal, large - scale negative emissions activity would need to begin soon, before 2030, and expand rapidly, so that by 2050 or sooner the amount of carbon sucked out of the atmosphere would have to exceed the amount emitted into it from fossil fuel burning.

Acid rain: Also called acid precipitation or acid deposition, acid rain is precipitation containing harmful amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids formed primarily by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned.

About 40 percent of methane is emitted into the atmosphere by natural sources like wetlands and termites, with the rest coming from human activities like cattle breeding, rice growing, fossil fuel exploitation, landfills and biomass burning.

In other words, when we burn fossil fuels, we are utilizing a small part of the solar energy that had been collected and stored by plants over millions of years, and in the process we are liberating into the atmosphere the carbon dioxide that those plants had absorbed from the atmosphere in the first place.

Only half of the CO2 emitted by the burning of fossil fuels stays in the atmosphere.

Today, science tells us that we have increased the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere by 40 % since 1880 by burning fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas, for our energy needs.

1) If we accept that the radiative forcing equations are correct and that a doubling of CO2 will cause an increase of 3.7 W / m2 and that will cause an increase in 1C we have to figure out what is the equation for normalizing this doubling of CO2 so as to get rid of the reference point Ex: doubling of CO2 from 1ppm to 2 ppm will not increase the temperature by 1C 2) Since 1980 mankind has increased fossil fuel burning by 75 % but CO2 in atmosphere has only increased 21 %.

Humans are adding CO2 to the atmosphere, mainly by burning fossil fuels.

Oceans mop up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, lowering the water's pH value - an effect that may be exacerbated by burning of fossil fuels.

Government & Energy Innovation Innovation in the energy sector is necessary to maintain economic competitiveness, meet ever - increasing energy demands, and limit the changes to our atmosphere caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

The CDIAC has told us how much CO2 we've added to the atmosphere since 1750 by burning fossil fuels, making cement, and changing land use (slash and burn etc.).

The basic claim of the paper is that by burning fossil fuels at a prodigious pace and pouring heat - trapping gases into the atmosphere, humanity is about to provoke an abrupt climate shift.

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.

In all three cases it is easy to know what nature does: a net source, a net sink or a huge sink, simply by substracting the calculated emissions of fossil fuel burning from what is measured in the atmosphere.