Sentences with phrase «capita fossil fuel consumption»

With the UN projections for population growth and assuming a 50 % increase in per capita fossil fuel consumption, we end up with around 600 ppmv CO2 by 2100.

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Climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, a senior researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric research, says that each and every person in the world would have to reduce his and her per capita consumption of fossil fuels by 75 percent to keep additional future temperature increases to no more than 1 degree.

The third is total energy consumption and the use of non-renewable energy sources (fossil fuels) to drive our total numbers and per capita consumption rates.

Simply tied future human CO2 emissions to expected future human population growth and added in a per capita increase in fossil fuel consumption similar to the one seen in the past.

If we assume that, despite economic and environmental pressures to reduce fossil fuel consumption, the world - wide per capita rate still increases by 50 % by 2100, we end up arriving at a concentration by 2100 of around 600 ppmv.

I would not deny that American's consumption of fossil fuels per capita is among the highest in the world.

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).