Sentences with phrase «despite human emissions of carbon dioxide»

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Despite the absence of warming in actual measured temperature records over the last 16 years, and near - record lows in hurricane and tornado activity, they still cry «wolf» repeatedly and try to connect every unusual or «extreme» weather event to human emissions of plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide.

The key pieces of empirical data are that average global temperature has now failed to increase for 17 years despite an accompanying increase of about 8 % in carbon dioxide which represents 34 % of all the human emissions since the start of the industrial revolution (NIPCC SPM, Figure 6).

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found to their surprise that despite the increased human emissions of greenhouse gases, between 2002 and 2014, plants were somehow able to absorb more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than in previous decades.