Sentences with phrase «driven by carbon dioxide emissions»

The high mortality rate is due to ocean acidification, partly driven by carbon dioxide emissions, according to an April 2012 study.

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Chevrolet Volt, Ford Focus Electric and Toyota Prius Plug - in Hybrid, consumers may want to know just how much they'll be saving in fuel and carbon dioxide emissions by driving an EV in their area.

Michael Replogle of ITDP, a co-author of the report «A Global High Shift Scenario», said transport, driven by a rapid growth in car use, had been the fastest growing source of carbon dioxide emissions in the world.

EUROPE»S plans for tackling global warming by driving down emissions of carbon dioxide may have backfired in Germany, where they have encouraged energy companies to build coal - fired power stations instead of gas - fired stations, which emit less CO2.

The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1.0 degree Celsius) since the late - 19th century, a change largely driven by increased carbon dioxide and other human - made emissions into the atmosphere.

Also, the Clean Power Plan, proposed by the EPA in June 2014, seeks to cap carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and drive investment in renewable energy.

The close relationship between ENSO and global temperature, as described in the paper, leaves little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions.

Hence the irony in Bob Carter's conclusion «The close relationship between ENSO and global temperature leaves little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions».

According to one of its authors, Bob Carter, the paper found that the «close relationship between ENSO and global temperature, as described in the paper, leaves little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions».

We all contribute to carbon dioxide emissions by driving, flying, and using electricity to heat and light our homes, run our appliances, and more.

But given what I understand to be true, that greater warming has occured than in the distant past than is currently occurring, how can we be so sure we are examining all the right 20th century events, since these earlier warmings were clearly caused by events other than human driven carbon dioxide emissions?

To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving would simply have to increase, according to a report released Thursday by researchers at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

The scientistsâ $ ™ predictions also undermine the standard climate computer models, which assert that the warming of the Earth since 1900 has been driven solely by man - made greenhouse gas emissions and will continue as long as carbon dioxide levels rise.

In a press release boldly titled «Nature, Not Man, is Responsible for Recent Global Warming,» study coauthor Bob Carter claimed that the findings left «little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions».

Ice loss is driven by emissions of long - lived gases like carbon dioxide and short - lived climate pollutants like methane and black carbon, or soot.

The ocean uptake of excess atmospheric carbon dioxide, the excess above preindustrial levels driven by human emissions, causes well - understood and substantial changes in seawater chemistry that can affect marine organisms and ecosystems.

At the same time, evidence shows that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, partly driven by industrial emissions, is boosting forest growth.

Global upper - ocean chemistry trends driven by human carbon dioxide emissions are more rapid than variations in the geological past.

SciDev.Net: LIMA - Rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere caused by human - driven emissions might lead to larger sweet potatoes, a staple food for many African and Asian countries, research reveals.

His analysis shows that despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from green energy schemes driven by the renewable energy target, Victoria's wind - farm developments have saved virtually zero carbon dioxide emissions in the state.

The most recent report of the International Panel on Climate Change says it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of this warming which is driven by the build up of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, cement production, and land use changes.

The former head of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) helped lead Britain's vote to leave the European Union (EU) and is famous for saying last year «I haven't got a clue whether climate change is being driven by carbon - dioxide emissions.»

Driven by increasing man - made emissions, the level of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere has been rising consistently for decades.

The current political cycle is dominated by shrill attacks on anyone who questions whether man - made emissions of carbon dioxide are driving global warming.

In a September article by National Geographic, every scientist contacted by the magazine was in agreement that Harvey's destructive rainfall was «almost certainly driven up by temperature increases from human carbon - dioxide emissions.»

Driven by efficiency gains, an unusually warm winter and a switch from coal to natural gas, energy - related carbon dioxide emissions actually declined 3.8 % in 2012 even though the U.S. economy grew 2.8 % that year, according to new data by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the Department of Energy.

An increase in carbon dioxide concentrations that is «unprecedented» in the last 20,000 years, along with increases in other emissions, have driven up average temperatures by about 0.6 degrees Celsius (1 degree Fahrenheit) since 1950, the report states.

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry are expected to rise 2 % in 2017, mainly driven by increases in China and other developing countries.

Increasing emissions and concentrations of carbon dioxide receive considerable attention, but our analyses identify an important change in another pathway for anthropogenic climate change — a rapid rise in anthropogenic sulfur emissions driven by large increases in coal consumption in Asia in general, and China in particular.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving would simply have to increase, -LSB-...]

The Paris accord, agreed by nearly 200 countries in 2015, seeks to limit planetary warming by curbing global emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that scientists believe drive global warming.

The drive to capture carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, and coal plants in particular, has been highlighted by the world's increasing reliance on coal - power.

With more than 5,500 megawatt hours of electricity put onto the grid on its behalf, Ricoh Canada has displaced more than 900 tonnes of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to the emissions from more than 3.5 million kilometres driven by an average passenger vehicle.

Since 2006, carbon - dioxide emissions have fallen more in the United States than in any other country, both because of the switch from coal to gas and because of increased energy efficiency driven by both regulation and market forces.

The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1.0 degree Celsius) since the late - 19th century, a change largely driven by increased carbon dioxide and other human - made emissions into the atmosphere.