Sentences with phrase «especially burning of fossil fuels»

We — the undersigned medical societies — support the international scientific consensus, as established in multiple national and international assessments, that the Earth is rapidly warming, and that human actions (especially burning of fossil fuels) are the primary causes.

Over the past several years, scientists have succeeded in tracking with increasing confidence the portion of climate change that is tied directly to human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas produced by natural processes and everyday human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels.

The thinking behind it is straightforward: Human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels, generates carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that accumulate in the atmosphere; there they trap the sun's heat the way a greenhouse does; to reduce the heat, reduce the gases.

Over the past several years, scientists have succeeded in tracking with increasing confidence the portion of climate change that is tied directly to human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

Much of this energy still comes from the burning of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas, which release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and contribute to extreme weather patterns that imperil everyone on earth — especially our food producers.

Then, beginning early in the nineteenth century, the burning of fossil fuels, especially coal, took off.

The report also suggested that to have a reasonable chance of meeting the 2 °C target, CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels, especially coal, should fall dramatically by the 2050s and virtually cease by the end of the century.

Now once this ratio (whatever it might be) has been established, I see no reason why more or less the same ratio can not be applied to all cases of fossil fuel burning prior to that period, especially since there were no controls over the emission of such aerosols during either period.

Most of their materials can be recycled, but the fossil fuel that they burn and the pollution that people breathe in can never be taken back (especially now that the World Health Organization has confirmed that diesel fumes cause lung cancer).

The primary source of NO2 pollution is the burning of fossil fuels, especially by coal - fired power plants and diesel engine cars, like those in the Volkswagen emissions-gate scandal.

Electricity, especially in Australia, is commonly generated by burning fossil fuels; this is obviously unsustainable from several points of view.

11/19/17 — Despite its stated goal of dramatically reducing carbon emissions by aggressively pursing clean energy technologies and phasing out fossil fuels, Germany is still burning lots of an especially dirty form of coal and is likely to badly miss its upcoming emission - reduction targets.

Moms are amazing — especially those raising the kids who will turn this world around and stop our governments from burning fossil fuels past the point of no return.

But they can say with certainty that the world will continue to warm, especially if we continue on our business - as - usual path of burning ever more fossil fuels...

The worst - case emissions pathway, RCP8.5, is a scenario that burns a huge amount of fossil fuels, especially coal.

Those facts are these: Humans, since the Industrial Revolution, have been burning more and more fossil fuels to power their societies, and this has led to a steady accumulation of greenhouse gases, and especially carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere.

Given the complexities of the climate system, I would say the chance of any single component of that system having a long term warming impact all by itself, in a manner that effectively negates all other components, is highly unlikely — especially when that one component makes up a bare.04 % of just one of the subsystems making up the overall climate system, and further, when human burning of fossil fuels contributes a mere 3 - 4 % of that.04 %.

The fossil fuels we burn for energy coal, natural gas, and oil plus the loss of forests due to deforestation, especially in the tropics.

I'm a skeptic but I recognize there are risks in burning fossil fuels not only because of the climate, but also because fossil fuels, especially coal, are polluting, are a diminishing resource, and have other important uses.

For instance, «the burning of fossil fuels, together with other human activities such as deforestation, undoubtedly releases greenhouse gases — especially carbon dioxide — into the air.

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1800s, the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gasoline have greatly increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, especially CO2, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Then, perhaps in the early years of the next century, the climate could warm up a little as a result of human activity, especially the greater amount of carbon dioxide that will be released from the burning of fossil fuels.

The proven health problems relating to the burning of fossil fuels (especially coal, bunkering oil used for shipping, and diesel oil) are far worse than any that are claimed to be caused by wind turbines.

The largest climate forcing today, i.e. the greatest imposed perturbation of the planet's energy balance [1,2], is the human - made increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs), especially CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels.

But overall, especially with climate, since nearly all of the growth in emissions is going to come in poor countries, if you can't come up with energy choices that are less greenhouse gas emitting and also are cheap, they are just going to keep burning fossil fuels.

Aside from the main greenhouse gas contributor of fossil - fuel burning, the forestry sector can play a part — especially carbon - rich forests that are being cleared rapidly on a global scale, such as mangroves.