Sentences with phrase «emitted as a result of human activities»

Even allowing for the relative strength of the effects, CO2 is still responsible for two - thirds of the additional warming caused by all the greenhouse gases emitted as a result of human activity.

The major greenhouse gases the United States emits as a result of human activity and that are included in U.S. and international emissions estimates are:

If one attempts to measure heat with a thermometer, the waste heat emitted as a result of human activities and the humans themselves is a confusing factor.

CO2 remains in the atmosphere longer than the other major heat - trapping gases emitted as a result of human activities.

However, long - term climate change over many decades will depend mainly on the total amount of CO2 and other greenhouse gases emitted as a result of human activities.

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Human activities are emitting around 10.5 billion tonnes of carbon annually and rising, mostly as a result of burning fossil fuels.

That's right, the latest climate science (some 10 studies published in just the past 3 years) indicates that the earth's climate sensitivity — that is, how much the global average surface temperature will rise as a result of greenhouse gases emitted from human activities — is some 33 percent less than scientists thought at the time of the last IPCC Assessment, published in 2007.

«Marshes, swamps and bogs emit about 1.3 billion tonnes of CO a year as a result of human activity that drains them.

«One of the main causes of these changes is the growing concentration of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere as a result of human activity,» says Assaf Hochman of TAU's School of Geosciences, who led the research.