Sentences with phrase «climate by burning fossil fuels»

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The first is climate change, exacerbated by the greenhouse gases we encourage by burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests, and farming the way we do (particularly for meat production).

The will to overlook accelerated climate change caused by the extraction of tar sands oil, the destruction of the carbon sink that is / was the boreal forest, and the continued burning of fossil fuels to power trips to the corner store for a creamy, etc..

Howie Hawkins, the recent Green Party candidate for Governor, called today upon Governor Cuomo to acknowledge the climate change is being caused by human activity, starting with the burning of fossil fuels.

«He also refused to embrace the scientific view that climate change is now overwhelmingly driven by the burning of fossil fuels and failed to answer legitimate questions about Exxon's support for climate denial groups during his tenure.»

Extracting carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust and storing it underground may be the only hope to avoid a climate change catastrophe caused by burning fossil fuels

Cities in the United States are taking oil companies to court, arguing that they should pay for climate - related problems caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

The electricity is often produced by burning fossil fuels, and the refrigerant gases also exacerbate climate change.

If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on — weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become average by 2050.

For the industrial era, Lovejoy's analysis uses carbon - dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels as a proxy for all man - made climate influences - a simplification justified by the tight relationship between global economic activity and the emission of greenhouse gases and particulate pollution, he says.

The study, published online April 6 in the journal Climate Dynamics, represents a new approach to the question of whether global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by man - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

«We live in an era during which it has become clear that we can not burn all of the fossil fuels without causing dangerous climate change,» the letter, seen by Reuters, said.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013, reaching a record high of 36 billion tonnes — according to new figures from the Global Carbon Project, co-led by researchers from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.

And through greenhouse gases released by burning fossil fuels, we're pulling on the strings of the earth's unstable climate.

Pope Francis squarely blames the burning of fossil fuels for climate change in the leaked draft of his long - awaited environmental encyclical posted online by an Italian magazine.

Our current problems — especially climate change caused by burning fossil fuels — are real.

«Thanks to forests that sequester some of the carbon we are emitting by burning fossil fuels, human - induced climate change is happening more slowly than it otherwise would,» says Saleska.

A LITTLE good news on the climate front, for once: some marine creatures may adapt surprisingly well to ocean acidification caused by carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.

The world is warming due to the release of CO2 by fossil fuel burning This will change the climate unless we reduce CO2 emissions.

Because of the climate record is still short, more work needs to be done to determine how much of the warming results from natural climate swings and how much from the warming effects of carbon dioxide released by the burning of fossil fuels, Dr. Steig said.

98 % of actual climate scientists (a distinction Dr. Willie Soon does not earn) agree that global warming is real and primarily drive by humans burning fossil fuels like coal and oil.

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 cities are seeking compensation from the companies for cost related to sea level rise and other climate damages caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.

We explain the origin of fossil fuels, a by - product of earth's long - term «metabolism,» and how our burning of fossil fuels is leading to changes in our climate.

They have very little to do with the long term trend (driven by fossil fuel burning) but are important for understanding the sensitivity of the carbon cycle to changes in climate.

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.

[UPDATED 6/23, 9:30 a.m.] Twenty years ago today, James E. Hansen testified before the Senate Energy Committee — in a room kept intentionally warm by committee staff — that the atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels and forests was already perceptibly influencing Earth's climate.

That's the conclusion of a Carnegie Institution for Science study... that shows two things: Emissions from burning a lump of coal or a gallon of gas has an effect on the climate 100,000 times greater than the heat given off by burning the fossil fuel itself.

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.

The landmark decision, affirming a challenge brought by the Sierra Club and allies at Earthjustice, WildEarth Guardians, and High Country Conservation Advocates, could have far - reaching implications for protecting our climate from the threat of mining and burning of coal, natural gas, tar sands, and other fossil fuels.

The brochure for the workshop states: «Climate change caused by fossil fuel burning leads to increased risks of extreme events such as heat waves, droughts, fires, severe storms, floods which in turn have major health effects.»

Current attempts by national governments worldwide to control industrial CO2 emissions following the recommendations of the IPCC could be viewed within the scientific paradigm as the projection of a large scale experiment on the earth's climate system to validate the hypothesis that anthropogenic CO2 emissions through the burning of fossil fuels and land use changes (inter alia) are a major factor driving climate change.

Greenpeace unleashed a press release that began with two words: «Greenpeace demands...» It talked about «climate chaos,» tipping points, and stoking «the fires of climate change by burning fossil fuels.»

UN Climate Change News, 28 April 2018 — Projects that increase bicycle use over fossil - fuel - burning vehicles can now earn carbon credits, thanks to a decision taken by the Board that oversees the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

* Our burning of fossil fuels» That's a total lie, proven by the fact that you can't cite a single peer reviewed paper that empirically shows that anthropogenic CO2 has been the primary cause of the climate warming over the past century.

Caused by the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, agricultural practices, and other human impacts, climate change has currently raised global temperatures 0.8 degrees Celsius (1.44 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the Industrial Revolution average.

Recent studies including an assessment by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization indicate that it's possible to slow the pace of warming and melting in the Arctic in the near term by reducing emissions of two common climate pollutants: black carbon and methane, both of which are emitted from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.

In a letter published in Science the researchers compare the recent furore around the so - called «climate-gate» stolen emails to the Communist witch hunts of the 50s led by Joseph McCarthy «We urge our policy - makers and the public to move forward immediately to address the causes of climate change, including the un-restrained burning of fossil fuels,» they... Read more

In a letter published in Science the researchers compare the recent furore around the so - called «climate-gate» stolen emails to the Communist witch hunts of the 50s led by Joseph McCarthy «We urge our policy - makers and the public to move forward immediately to address the causes of climate change, including the un-restrained burning of fossil fuels,» they

A caption below a photo of what looks like a smokestack added: «Humans have altered Earth's climate by burning coal and other fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide,» according to an image of the panel provided by the Perot Museum and by the panel's designer.

A recent study for Friends of the Earth Europe by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research found that EU countries can afford just nine more years of burning gas and other fossil fuels at the current rate before they will have exhausted their share of the earth's remaining carbon budget for maximum temperature rises of 2 °C.

Friedman... would have viewed climate change as a negative externality associated with burning fossil fuels and would have believed that society was entitled to recover its losses from those who emit carbon to advance their economic interests... While there is a market for the products that are associated with greenhouse gas emissions — like electricity, fuel and steel — there is no market for the pollution inflicted by their manufacturers on the public.

U.S. National Academy of Sciences founded by Abraham Lincoln back in the 19th century, all the national academies of all of the major industrial nations around the world have all gone on record as stating clearly that humans are warming the planet and changing the climate through our continued burning of fossil fuels.

We anticipate that the energy transition will be driven largely by mounting concerns about climate change, by climbing oil prices, and by the restructuring of taxes to incorporate the indirect costs of burning fossil fuels.

He has published scores of articles insisting that global warming isn't caused by humans, and suggesting that we can carry on burning fossil fuels without regard for the climate.

This report is one of dozens of internal documents unearthed by journalist Jelmer Molmers of De Correspondent and posted this week on Climate Files that shed more light on what Shell knew decades ago about the risks of burning fossil fuels.

When we talk about climate change, we're talking about the scientifically observable — and increasingly severe — changes in global climate patterns that became apparent in the mid-to-late twentieth century and can be attributed to the rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, in particular) produced by human activities like burning fossil fuels.

«Climate Change» is a general term used when referring to a wide range of effects brought about by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and «heat island effects» resulting from buildings and pavement in the major human settlements.

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.

Mr. Mercer was hardly the first to sound an alarm about greenhouse gases: Scientists were well on their way by the late 1950s toward connecting mankind's burning of fossil fuels to Earth's changing climate.

At the Northeast Public Power Association's annual conference in Lake Placid, N.Y. last month, what was billed as a «common sense» discussion on climate change was actually a talk by Steve Goreham, an author of books that deny that burning fossil fuels causes global warming.