Sentences with phrase «emitted by burning fossil fuels»

There aren't many natural parallels between the physics of greenhouse gases emitted by burning fossil fuels and the biology of natural selection, but the American conservative movement depends on the cozy relationship between oil and the Christian right.

And I hardly need mention the vast amounts of completely uncontrolled waste emitted by burning fossil fuels.

CARB has never claimed that there is no relation between the pollution [CO2] emitted by burning fossil fuels and the rate at which they are burned [gallons of fuel consumed per distance traveled, i.e. fuel economy].

More than half of pollution emitted by burning fossil fuels is absorbed by ocean water.

Acid rain arises when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides (NOx), emitted by burning fossil fuels, react with water droplets in the air to form sulfuric and nitric acid.

At the moment, these carbon markets only trade in credits for terrestrial ecosystems; for example, keeping a certain amount of forest intact in order to offset a ton of carbon dioxide emitted by burning fossil fuels.

Carbon dioxide is mainly emitted by burning fossil fuels.

«Thanks to forests that sequester some of the carbon we are emitting by burning fossil fuels, human - induced climate change is happening more slowly than it otherwise would,» says Saleska.

The theory is that the CO2 emitted by burning fossil fuel is the «greenhouse gas» [that] causes «global warming» — in fact, water is a much more powerful greenhouse gas and there is 20 time more of it in our atmosphere (around one per cent of the atmosphere) whereas CO2 is only 0.04 per cent....

The number that I ask you to remember is the increase in thickness, averaged over one half of the land area of the planet, of the biomass that would result if all the carbon that we are emitting by burning fossil fuels were absorbed.

Not exact matches

VOCs come out of tailpipes and smokestacks as a by - product of burning fossil fuels; the trees emit them in part to repel insects and to attract pollinators.

According to the latest report from the Global Carbon Project, a group of scientists who track the amount of carbon emitted by human activity, 2017 will see a 2 percent increase in the burning of fossil fuels, after nearly no growth in 2014, 2015 or 2016.

The study adds to earlier evidence that mothers» exposures to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are emitted by the burning of fossil fuels and other organic materials, are linked to children's behavioral problems associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Scientists believe the world's peat bogs can contain up to 500 billion metric tons of carbon — that's about 50 times more carbon than is emitted into the atmosphere each year by the burning of fossil fuels.

While there are many instruments that can measure CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, the difficulty is in separating natural CO2 from plant life from humanmade CO2 emitted by fossil fuel burning.

Over a long enough period of time, the increased carbon burial could help offset a small fraction of carbon emitted by human activities such as fossil fuel burning, says study coauthor Antje

The transition from deeply rooted energy systems based on burning fossil fuels to new norms emitting ever less of this gas — here and in China — is seen by many as requiring a sustained energy quest including much greater direct government investment on the frontiers of relevant technologies (batteries, photovoltaics, superconductivity, photosynthesis).]

By burning fossil fuels, we are likely to emit the same amount over the next three centuries,» said James Zachos, professor of Earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Of the emitted CO2 from burning of fossil fuels, about 50 % is absorbed by the ocean and terrestrial carbon sinks at present.

While most of the CO2 emitted by far is the result of natural phenomena — namely respiration and decomposition, most attention has centered on the three to four percent related to human activities — burning of fossil fuels, deforestation.

Recent studies including an assessment by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization indicate that it's possible to slow the pace of warming and melting in the Arctic in the near term by reducing emissions of two common climate pollutants: black carbon and methane, both of which are emitted from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.

Fossil fuel burning by humans emits tiny particles in addition to releasing CO2 in the atmosphere.

In a study released in March, researchers affiliated with the University of Minnesota, Minnesota Sea Grant and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found that, globally, lakes and manmade «impoundments» like reservoirs emit about one - fifth the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by the burning of fossil fuels.

For a 1.5 - degree goal, large - scale negative emissions activity would need to begin soon, before 2030, and expand rapidly, so that by 2050 or sooner the amount of carbon sucked out of the atmosphere would have to exceed the amount emitted into it from fossil fuel burning.

About 40 percent of methane is emitted into the atmosphere by natural sources like wetlands and termites, with the rest coming from human activities like cattle breeding, rice growing, fossil fuel exploitation, landfills and biomass burning.

Friedman... would have viewed climate change as a negative externality associated with burning fossil fuels and would have believed that society was entitled to recover its losses from those who emit carbon to advance their economic interests... While there is a market for the products that are associated with greenhouse gas emissions — like electricity, fuel and steel — there is no market for the pollution inflicted by their manufacturers on the public.

Only half of the CO2 emitted by the burning of fossil fuels stays in the atmosphere.

Since 1750, we have emitted about 580 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests and making cement.

The rise in greenhouse gases corresponds with the extra amount of CO2 known to have been emitted by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests.

All the CO2 that's emitted by the burning of fossil fuels etc has already been in the atmosphere at some point in time.

Many aerosols are emitted by the burning of fossil fuels and wood, and cause lung damage, also adding to acid rain and smog.

The earth's average temperature has jumped by approximately 0.8 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit) over the last century due to burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and other land - use changes that emit greenhouse gases.

About a quarter of all the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from the burning of fossil fuels is absorbed by oceans.

Some of this climate change may be due to the CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels over the past century, although an inspection of regional climate data shows most of the Sierra warming occurred from 1910 through the early 1930s, long before the major emissions.

On a national scale, the pair calculate that fires in the US release about 290 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide each year — about 4 — 6 % of the amount that the country emits by fossil fuel burning.

The total amount of CO2 emitted by anthropogenic sources (mainly burning fossil fuels) is more than enough to account for the measured increase in atmospheric CO2.

Their efforts have primarily been directed towards reducing CO2 emitted by electric power generating plants burning fossil fuels.

Smogs were common in many British cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when domestic fires, industrial furnaces and steam trains were all emitting smoke and other hygroscopic pollutants by burning fossil fuels.

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.

Earlier this week, documents revealed by the Guardian and New York Times provide irefutable evidence that climate denier Willie Soon and the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophyics received more than $ 1 million in funding from fossil fuel companies to deliver scientific reports that called into question the scientific conclusion that climate change is the result of burning too much oil, coal and other carbon - emitting fuel sources.

It is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emitted by over 101,000 tonnes a year by reducing the amount of fossil fuels burned to produce electricity.

Approximately 40 percent of methane is emitted into the atmosphere by natural sources (e.g., wetlands and termites), and about 60 percent comes from human activities like cattle breeding, rice agriculture, fossil fuel exploitation, landfills and biomass burning.

Yet, supposedly, the experts know how much fossil fuel is burned each year by each country, as well as supposedly knowing how many metric tonnes of CO2 emissions are being emitted to atmosphere.

Already, more than 10,000 people die each day from the small particles emitted from fossil - fuel burning; each year, 339,000 people die from wildfire smoke, in part because climate change has extended forest - fire season (in the U.S., it's increased by 78 days since 1970).

Currently, carbon is emitted primarily by burning fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas.

The RPS are state impositions on utility companies, requiring them to generate a proportion of their electricity from sources that do not burn fossil fuels and thus stoke global warming by emitting the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.

If you add up all the fluxes, you find that 0.2 Gt of carbon are being absorbed by terrestrial plants and soils, 2 Gt are being absorbed by the ocean, and 5.5 Gt are being emitted by humans burning fossil fuels.