Sentences with phrase «carbon dioxide from fossil fuels»

Although carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion is the primary cause of global warming, other human activities and greenhouse gases are also central to the climate story.

To be most effective, carbon prices should cover the entire economy and all greenhouse gases, not only carbon dioxide from fossil fuels.

The company's scientists warned as far back as the 1970s that carbon dioxide from fossil fuels posed a danger to the planet.

We may add black carbon to the list of significant climate «control variables» (1)-- second only to carbon dioxide from fossil fuel sources.

Within months the company launched its own extraordinary research into carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and its impact on the earth.

To be most effective, carbon prices should cover the entire economy and all greenhouse gases, not only carbon dioxide from fossil fuels.

Severe climate change, caused mainly by emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning and associated emissions of other greenhouse gases;

The congressmen made their request for a federal probe following disclosures in an InsideClimate News series that Exxon scientists were warning of potentially catastrophic effects of a buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil fuels as early as 1977.

Updates below InsideClimate News, showing the value of focused and sustained investigative reporting, has published the first piece in an illuminating review of what Exxon Mobil Corp. (and its earlier incarnations) learned through its own research from the 1970s onward about the potential climate impacts of rising emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel use.

Based on documents and other evidence from an eight month investigation, ICN described how Exxon scientists were warning of potentially catastrophic effects of a buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil fuels as early as 1977.

The award honors Tartakovsky's research on subsurface flow that addresses past and future energy needs: cleaning up buried nuclear or toxic contaminants and storing carbon dioxide from fossil fuels underground.

We've been adding carbon dioxide from fossil fuels to the atmosphere at increasing rates since the dawn of the Industrial Era, and the result has been a steady warming of the planet's surface.

Hales» pioneering research in ocean carbon chemistry underlies much of what we know about the role carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions plays in changing the chemistry of Northwest seas.

The three countries most responsible, per capita, for filling the air with carbon dioxide from fossil fuels are the UK, the US and Germany, in that order.

As long as we emit so much carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning, the fate of oceanic life is liable to be as dramatic as the products of global warming, According to the IPCC recently, we have to reduce carbon dioxide emissions before global warming exceeds 2 degrees Celsius.

The ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning and land use changes, leading to lower pH and greater acidity, according to NOAA.

The results surprised even Caldeira, who specializes in climate change, and has studied how carbon dioxide from fossil fuels will likely linger in the atmosphere for a very long time — about a quarter of it remaining aloft for more than a thousand years.

Late in October, California Governor Jerry Brown threatened to sue the administration of President Donald Trump for implementation of environmental policies focused more on real pollutants (e.g., heavy metals) and less on contrived ones (e.g., carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion.

Mitigation of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel use will need a range of technologies in a number of sectors — ... Continue reading →

Since the landmark 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, adopted and ratified by virtually all nations including the US, emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels have risen by more than 40 %, said the authors.

Most scientists agree that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide from fossil fuels have contributed to the warming of the planet in the past few decades, but have questioned whether other factors beyond man's control are also to blame.

Long before the present alarms about global warming through the emission of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, climate researchers were puzzled by the phenomenon of the Ice Ages and the «interglacials» that punctuated those long periods when the Arctic ice extended from the North Pole to the Atlantic coast of France, and over huge tracts of North America.

The sensible energy and climate change plan for the UK, MacKay said, was for the country to focus on nuclear power and carbon capture storage technology, which traps the carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning.

This effort is a critical component of NOAA's research into the future of the earth as a system under the influence of anthropogenic forcing to better understand how emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, land use decisions and climate and ecological interactions will determine future carbon dioxide levels and the corresponding climate change.

The largest contributor to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions is carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion.