Sentences with phrase «by carbon dioxide emissions»

Global warming is largely caused by carbon dioxide emissions.

In order to understand the role played by carbon dioxide emissions in global warming, it is necessary to account for the effects of atmospheric aerosols.

Overall the potential methane emission increases would likely be offset by carbon dioxide emission reductions but much more research is needed to quantify these amounts.

Ocean acidification is caused by carbon dioxide emissions from human activity to the atmosphere that end up in the ocean.

There may have been a hiatus, depending on your definition and timescale, but it did not and does not change the big picture of a world of greenhouse warming driven by carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere, as a consequence of fossil fuel combustion worldwide.

I am sorry that it bothers you that Carl Zimmer would post a graph that shows temperatures rising followed 800 years later by carbon dioxide emissions rising as proof as a historical connection carbon dioxide emissions increases leading to global warming, and then when challenged on this point, can not update the graph to show the carbon dioxide emissions predating global warming.

The only way to do that is to reduce the output of so - called greenhouse gasses, caused primarily by carbon dioxide emissions from industry, automobiles and other human activities, Horton said.

The high mortality rate is due to ocean acidification, partly driven by carbon dioxide emissions, according to an April 2012 study.

But a new study shows that the preindustrial level used in the agreement, based on temperature records from the late 19th century, doesn't account for a potential century of rising temperatures caused by carbon dioxide emissions.

To minimise the danger of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) by carbon dioxide emissions, international institutions require an investment of about 10 times the material cost of the entire World War II within the next few decades.

Years earlier, one climate researcher at the company, Henry Shaw, had called management's attention to a key conclusion of a landmark National Academy of Sciences report: global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions, not a scarcity of supply, would likely set the ultimate limit on the use of fossil fuels.

For many years, advocates of serious action on climate change have rightly emphasized the importance of putting a price on carbon so that energy prices reflect the damage to society caused by carbon dioxide emissions.

«Our findings provide strong evidence that ocean acidification caused by carbon dioxide emissions will severely slow coral reef growth in the future unless we make steep and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions,» said first author Albright.