Sentences with phrase «created by burning fossil fuels»

There is now widespread agreement among climate scientists that the earth is warming as a result of human activity, primarily due to rising levels of carbon dioxide and other heat trapping atmospheric gases created by burning fossil fuels.

The warmunists continually warn about the «risk», so far not in evidence, of «climate change», meaning of course the risk to our civilization created by our burning fossil fuels to sustain it.

And the team gets its rosy results even though it didn't add in the health and environmental costs of the pollution created by burning fossil fuels.

A study in Krakow, Poland, corroborates New York City findings that link children's lower IQ scores with mothers» exposure to compounds created by burning fossil fuels

Not exact matches

When we clear forests, we're not only knocking out our best ally in capturing the staggering amount of GHGs we humans create (which we do primarily by burning fossil fuels at energy facilities, and of course, in cars, planes, and trains).

The primary way freshwater ecosystems absorb CO2 created by humans burning fossil fuels is likely different than what happens in oceans.

REMI concluded that CCL's proposal would create between 2.1 to 2.8 million jobs, reduce carbon pollution by 50 %, increase household incomes, save up to 230,000 lives that would otherwise be lost from the pollution of burning fossil fuels, and add up to 1.3 trillion more to the GDP over a 20 year period.

Most Americans can correctly identify carbon dioxide as a gas created by the burning of fossil fuels (68 %), and a similar share, 65 %, recognize that a comparison or control group is a better method for testing the effectiveness of a new drug than simply giving the drug to a single group.

It can be added that CO2 impacts are only part of the troubles and impacts created by the fighting over the right to benefit most from burning fossil fuels.

Because most heating systems burn fossil fuels, which creates pollution, all the energy saved by a solar water heating eliminates the pollution that would otherwise add to our problems of poor air quality, poor health, smog and global climate change, a problem which requires immediate action.

That guy keeps babbling that the atmosphere of Venus was created by a runaway greenhouse effect and that this could happen to us too if we don't stop burning fossil fuels.

My point is not that we can't keep burning fossil fuels (unfirtunately there's plenty), but rather that it is an entropy - creating process — there's no way this sort of activity is somehow offset by solar energy (which, you'll recall, is the only difference between us and an chaos - prone closed system).

Ozone is an odorless gas that is not directly emitted into the air but is created by chemical reactions between nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC)-- which occur naturally but are also produced from the burning of fossil fuels and are released in the process of drilling for oil and natural gas.

So turning CO2 into fuel would be a 1 - 2 punch to climate change: it would mean burning fewer fossil fuels, and using up some of the waste we created by burning them in the first place.

According to the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, a team led by G.K. Surya Prakash and George Olah has developed a method to turn carbon dioxide (CO2)- the primary gas humans create - into methanol, a fuel which is cleaner - burning and safer than fossil fuels.

As a first step, we should dismantle the web of policies that overwhelmingly favors fossil - fuel production and use and actively discriminates against new technologies and practices that would reduce harmful emissions... The second step is to institute federal, state, and local policies that reverse the disincentives created by the existing policy structure and force users to pay the costs of extracting, transporting, and burning fossil fuels.

Obviously, if we burn as much fossil fuel in creating an alternative (in addition to the problematic pollution created by phosphates and nitrogens), we don't have the right solution.