Sentences with phrase «emissions human world»

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Those changes have been driven by human - caused greenhouse gas emissions, which are warming the world and causing Earth's climate to change faster than reefs can keep up.

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.

The way we currently produce food around the world contributes up to 20 - 30 % of the world's greenhouse gas emissions and accounts for 70 % of all human water use.

Unless greenhouse emissions are cut, «we move toward a world where heat stress is a vastly greater problem than it has been in the rest of human history.

«Despite some reductions in air pollutant emissions in Europe and North America, human health impacts from ozone are still a cause for concern across the world and are rising in parts of East Asia, with the potential for serious health effects on their populations,» said Zo?

According to the European Space Agency, about a quarter of all human CO2 emissions are being taken in by the world's oceans.

It is clear that climate change is happening, driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and its impacts will be felt around the world.

In the first study of its kind, scientists have calculated the amount of carbon absorbed by the world's tropical forests and the amounts of greenhouse gas emissions created by loss of trees, as a result of human activity.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

The world's plants can only pull so much CO2 out of the atmosphere in a given season, while human emissions keep rising.

With the human population continuing to rise by 75 million or more per year and with torrid economic growth in much of the developing world, the burdens of deforestation, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, species extinction, ocean acidification and other massive threats intensify.

Yet despite all the complexities, a firm and ever - growing body of evidence points to a clear picture: the world is warming, this warming is due to human activity increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and if emissions continue unabated the warming will too, with increasingly serious consequences.

It marks the world's acceptance that climate change, driven by humans» greenhouse gas emissions, is about as close to a certainty as science can ever get — and that conclusion can not be covered up or waved away.

Though the figures vary, World Bank scientists have attributed up to 51 percent of human - caused greenhouse gas emissions to the livestock industry.

Some other statistics: About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land.

It's unlikely that the fossil fuel companies will deny in court what is widely accepted by authoritative scientific bodies around the world: that human emissions have already begun to warm the planet, that the harm is already being felt, that the risks of future harm are significant, and that to head them off emissions have to be rapidly reduced.

One will represent conditions and «possible weather» in the winter 2014, and the second will represent the weather in a «world that might have been» if human behaviour had not changed the composition of the atmosphere through greenhouse gas emissions.

To keep to 350 ppm, which already means a long - term warmer world, we may have to go to zero or less - than - zero human emission levels.

Ian Plimer in another contrarian tome included some even more made up facts: «massive volcanic eruptions (e.g. Pinatubo) emit the equivalent of a years» human CO2 emissions in a few days» (p472) and «Volcanoes produce more CO2 then the world's cars and industries combined» (p413).

In the first, human greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, create climate disruption, and then a hotter world.

Renewables are the new frontier of energy that does not pollute and that governments around the world are exploiting to curb carbon dioxide emissions harmful to humans and the environment.

Whereas PPM Data is immediate and accurately measurable and comparable to the «real world» be it back to human emissions, be it sources, be it sinks, be it ocean acidity, be it climate forcing long term and more than anything the dynamics of PPM is easily explained and communicated as a Definitive Yardstick or success or failure in meeting Goals (imho).

After 20 years of unfulfilled aspirational pledges (the original Framework Convention on Climate Change), seemingly dead - end detours (the Kyoto Protocol) and relentlessly rising greenhouse - gas emissions, the world may be better off shifting from climate - centric diplomacy to a slate of efforts aimed at advancing the human condition in ways that limit climate - related risks.

Libby's article speaks volumes about the difficulty of moving a world that is more than 80 percent dependent on fossil fuels toward one largely free of carbon dioxide emissions from such fuels within two or three generations, even as the human population heads toward 9 billion (more or less).

As for the ethics of all of this, Donald A. Brown of Pennsylvania State University argues that the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases are morally obligated to curb carbon dioxide and similar emissions based on the level of certainty that is already established on the impacts of those emissions — most of which will be in poorer places with small contributions to the human - caused gas buildup in the atmosphere.

``... the company [Exxon Mobil], the world's largest oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington - based policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

And then figure the overall effects on the world of the «before» situation & compare with what is & will happen «extra» with the human emissions.

I've written an essay for Wednesday's Op - Ed page offering a short look at extreme weather in a warming world and the two prongs of the climate challenge — the need to limit human vulnerability to the worst the climate system can throw at us and to curb emissions that are steadily raising the odds of unwelcome outcomes, particularly extreme heat and either too much, or too little, water.

«In 1997, human - caused Indonesian peat fires were estimated to have released between 13 % and 40 % of the average carbon emissions caused by the burning of fossil fuels around the world in a single year.»

For example, with nitrogen, where the majority of human emissions come from synthetic fertilizers, the real - world challenge is to apply just the right amount of nitrogen to optimize crop yields while minimizing nitrogen losses that harm aquatic ecosystems.

A) Those who think that governments around the world should take action to reduce CO2 emissions because data collected in the last 30 years indicates that recent changes in climate can be traced to CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels during various human activities.

Obviously, we, the denizens of the world, will determine the future course of human emissions to the atmosphere as well as other perturbations to the earth.

Italy, Egypt, the Persian Gulf, Pakistan, Indiaand Japan have now all experienced mass hospitalizations and deaths due to the excess heat of a world forced to rapidly warm by human fossil fuel emissions.

The climate case for such a suggestion has been well - covered by now, but a quick refresher: Livestock is responsible for 14.5 percent of the world's human - caused emissions, nearly half of that coming from the resources needed to grow and ship the corn and soy that most of the animals eat, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

unless world - wide actions are undertaken to dramatically curtail human GHG emissions (principally CO2)

If future global emissions are not curbed, human - driven global warming could cause further large declines in long - term temperature variability, the lead author tells Carbon Brief, which may have far - reaching effects on the world's seasons and weather.

Most environmentalists and sympathetic politicians want you to believe that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a «dirty,» dangerous air pollutant and human emissions of it must be reduced by any means possible if the world is to survive.

On the other hand, despite the overwhelming evidence that global warming will transform the Earth's climate for centuries, with fearful consequences for human health and wellbeing (not to mention the survival of many species and ecosystems), the world can not agree to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions because of concerns about the effects on economic growth.

«Progressives» can have their low emissions energy supply, and the world can have uncurtailed improvement in human wellbeing.

Forests soak up roughly 25 percent of human carbon emissions, but some models suggest that by the end of the century the world's forests could flip from a critical carbon sink to a major source.

What can sociology tell us about whether or not global warming or CO2 emissions are net beneficial or net damaging for the world economy and human well - being up to say 4C increase in GMST?

It took about one percent of the world economy to develop the modern infrastructure of clean water and indoor plumbing; that's roughly what will be required to get rid of «another kind of human waste» — carbon dioxide emissions from burning fuels.

This has always been the only serious risk and what must be avoided if the US and the developed world is to have a prosperous future that will allow humans to have access to the fossil fuel - generated energy needed for continued economic progress and improved human welfare and if plants are to not to lose partial access to one of their basic nutrients (assumming CO2 emissions reductions have any real effects on atmospheric CO2 levels).

WHEN speaking to script, Australia's new conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott will say that he accepts that human emissions of greenhouse gases are having an impact on the world's climate.

«Meat production represents 18 percent of global human - induced GHG emissions... While the world is looking for sharp reductions in greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, growing global meat production is going to severely compromise future efforts... a study from the University of Chicago showed that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by 20 percent it would be as if they switched from a standard sedan to the ultra-efficient Prius.»

And besides, Jim, in case you failed to get the world, accelerated warming stopped around 2001, despite unabated human CO2 emissions and CO2 concentrations reaching new record levels.

The NY Times and Al Gore will not like this, but it is better to fight it out on the basis of the alarmists» invalid science rather than the moral wisdom of their alleged attempt to «save the world» from imaginary global warming / climate change due to human - caused CO2 emissions.

But the cost of reducing human CO2 emissions would be enormous and it would clearly damage the world's plants if it actually succeeded, which one would think would be a primary goal for those calling themselves «environmentalists» to avoid.

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.

In his address to diplomats Monday, Francis continued along a similar vein, stressing the duty to leave «a more beautiful and livable world» to future generations and «to work, in the light of the commitments agreed upon in Paris in 2015, for the reduction of gas emissions that harm the atmosphere and human health.»