Sentences with phrase «carbon emissions from human activities»

The Farm Bureau does not share the scientific opinion on climate change, with its official position being that «there is no generally agreed upon scientific assessment of the exact impact or extent of carbon emissions from human activities, their impact on past decades of warming or how they will affect future climate changes.»

Three fourths of the carbon emissions from human activities are due to the combustion of fossil fuels; the rest is caused by changes in land use, principally deforestation.

They simply don't have the power to reduce carbon emissions from human activities, making it nearly impossible for them to deal with the sea ice decline face on.

Fears of carbon emissions from human activity have the rest of the developed (and much of the developing) world taking steps to move away from oil.

While the president and top administration officials continue denying the causal connection between carbon emissions from human activity and climate change, many corporations, including utilities like DTE, have accepted it as fact.

This idea, first proposed six years ago and formally endorsed by the International Energy Agency in 2011, has been gaining traction because of the ever - stronger scientific consensus that carbon emissions from human activity is the principal driver of destructive climate change.

In today's West Australian, which is the most widely newspaper in Western Australia, there is a piece by Paul Murray discussing the survey by the American Meteorological Society of the views of its members on the link between carbon emissions from human activity and global warming.

For example, certain countries started having greener forests in the 19th century, before the onset of widespread carbon emissions from human activity.

Not exact matches

It commits rich and poor nations to rein in rising carbon levels and is an attempt to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions from human activity this century.

Perry has questioned the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are the primary driver of climate change.

Marine biodiversity is in jeopardy from human activities such as acidification from carbon emissions, posing an existential threat to many marine animals, Wiens said.

And achieving any stabilization target — whether 2 degrees C of warming or 450 ppm or 1,000 gigatons of carbon added to the atmosphere by human activity — will require at least an 80 percent cut in emissions from peak levels by the end of this century and, ultimately, zero emissions over the long term.

Each year, CO2 emissions from human activity pour just over 6 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.

As emissions from human activities increase atmospheric carbon dioxide, they, in turn, are modifying the chemical structure of global waters, making them more acidic.

As more carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere, the global ocean soaks up much of the excess, storing roughly 30 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions coming from human activities.

Although carbon dioxide accounts for the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, methane emissions are also an important factor driving climate change.

«My perspective is that it is not settled science,» he told the Senate spending panel, arguing that the jury is still out on whether carbon dioxide emissions from human activities are driving global warming.

Carbon sequestration is a promising strategy for mitigating carbon dioxide emissions resulting from human activity.

Please note the last sentence of 71 pages from Exhibit 5: presentation on «Understanding how carbon dioxide emissions from human activity contribute to global climate change»).

I often try to step back and take the point of view of the atmosphere in considering claims of progress on curbing emissions of carbon dioxide from human activities.

His video illustrates what carbon dioxide emissions from human activities would look like if you could watch the gas volume accumulate in front of you in real - time.

In a move widely interpreted as his effort to «out green» Gore, Bush pledged to include carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping emission from human activities, in a basket of restricted power plant pollutants.

Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth's climate.

The reporter, Karen Youso, wrote that the city's tree - lighting practices, with 60,000 incandescent bulbs burning around the clock for five and a half weeks, costs about $ 1,300 and results in 18.7 tons of carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping emission from human activities.

«The primary cause of both trends is emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from industry, transport and other human activities.

But the IPCC concerns itself with consideration of anthropogenic (i.e. man - made) global warming (AGW) as a result of emissions of greenhouse gases (notably carbon dioxide, CO2) from human activities.

Apart from widespread damage to infrastructure (roads, houses) in northern territories, resulting annual carbon emissions could eventually amount to 15 - 35 percent of today's yearly emissions from human activities, making the reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere a much more difficult task.

Like DiCaprio's short film Carbon, released in the weeks prior to the United Nations» Climate Summit 2014, Before the Flood is based on the highly debatable hypothesis that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activities are causing catastrophic climate change.

Scientists say that the world is currently undergoing warming due to carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, such as burning fossils, deforestation, and land use changes.

Seven times more carbon emissions per year from human activity than from natural sources (NASA).

«It's [the increase in carbon dioxide through increased emissions from human activities] the only variable that can best explain the rapid increase in global temperatures.»

Also the Paris Agreement says by the second half of this century, there must be a balance between the emissions from human activity such as energy production and farming, and the amount that can be captured by carbon - absorbing «sinks» such as forests or carbon storage technology.

Meanwhile, emissions of carbon dioxide from human activities may be decreasing; he said they shrank slightly in 1998 and 1999, even as the global economy grew.

The warming of the Earth is largely the result of emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases from human activities.

The region locks up more than 100 billion tons of carbon — more than 11 years» worth of total greenhouse gas emissions from human activities; plays an important role in global weather circulation patterns, including delivering rainfall to Central America, the United States, and southern South America; supports perhaps a third of terrestrial biodiversity; and is home to the bulk of the world's remaining indigenous people still living in traditional ways.

Of the world's total carbon dioxide emissions only a small fraction comes from the activities of human beings, but it is that small fraction that might threaten the equilibrium between the much greater flows.

That is just 1 percent of the total carbon dioxide emissions which come from all human activity.

NGOs argue for reductions to carbon dioxide emissions from human activities (i.e. anthropogenic CO2 emissions) because it is assumed that these emissions are causing the recent rise of carbon dioxide in the air.

Fossil fuels supplied about 81 % of the primary energy consumed in the United States and were responsible for about 93 % of total U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from human activity in 2015.

Remember that this is the same Professor who believes that ``... the Great Barrier Reef will benefit from rising seas, that there is no correlation between carbon dioxide levels and temperature, that only 0.1 % of carbon dioxide emissions are due to human activities, and that 96 % of the greenhouse effect is due to water vapour.»

As best researchers can tell, the oceans are taking up about a quarter of the carbon emissions arising from human activities.

In other words, the EF defines carbon uptake in forests as the single mechanism for offsetting human emissions of greenhouse gases from industrial activity to the atmosphere.

Ditto the challenge of flight: «If aircraft carbon emissions continue to rise they could contribute up to 15 per cent of global warming from human activities within 50 years.»

Since the Industrial Revolution, emissions from human activities of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide have driven the earth's climate system dangerously outside of its normal range.

¶ ¶ 38 («when used -LSB-,]... fossil fuels release greenhouse gases), 39 («use of fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide»), 45 («emissions resulting from human activities are substantially increasing... greenhouse gases»), 48 («increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide caused by the combustion of fossil fuels»), 52 («fossil fuels -LSB-,]... when combusted, emit carbon dioxide»).

This warming is largely the result of emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from human activities... — Global Warming Basics World Wildlife Fund

The identification of other, sometimes more powerful, greenhouse gases such as methane, the contributions to atmospheric carbon dioxide from other human activities such as deforestation and cement manufacture, better understanding of the temperature - changing properties of atmospheric pollution such as sulphur emissions, aerosols and their importance in the post-1940s northern hemisphere cooling: the knowledge - base was increasing year by year.

Read / Purchase the Report Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia (2011) Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth's climate.

[7][8] The vast majority of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions (i.e., emissions produced by human activities) come from combustion of fossil fuels, principally coal, oil, and natural gas, with comparatively modest additional contributions coming from deforestation, changes in land use, soil erosion, and agriculture.

In terms of greenhouse agents, the main conclusions from the WGI FAR Policymakers Summary are still valid today: (1) «emissions resulting from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases: CO2, CH4, CFCs, N2O»; (2) «some gases are potentially more effective (at greenhouse warming)»; (3) feedbacks between the carbon cycle, ecosystems and atmospheric greenhouse gases in a warmer world will affect CO2 abundances; and (4) GWPs provide a metric for comparing the climatic impact of different greenhouse gases, one that integrates both the radiative influence and biogeochemical cycles.