Sentences with phrase «from burning of fossil fuels»

Some 40 percent of energy - related emissions come from the burning of fossil fuels, such as oil, coal, and natural gas, to generate electrical power.

Click here to view the most recent Carbon Emissions Indicator and Data In 2005, carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels climbed to a record high of 7.9 billion tons, an increase of some 3 percent from the previous year.

The fact that air pollution from the burning of coal kills millions of people each year seems not to bother them, nor does the climate change damage from the burning of fossil fuels.

97 % of climate scientists agree that global warming trends are clear and «extremely likely» due to human activities, most prominently the rising emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.

The aim in general was to work out how much of the carbon dioxide resulting from the burning of fossil fuels was ending up in the oceans, vegetation, soils, weathered minerals and so on.

The current rate of increase is about 0.2 percent a year, primarily as the result of nitrogen - based fertilizers but also from burning of fossil fuels in cars and power plants.

When the carbon comes back up, the ratios of 12C to 13C are preserved: emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, for example, are relatively «light» because they originated from the tissues of living organisms; emissions from volcanoes are more or less «normal» because they came from molten crust that was once the ocean floor.

Read / Purchase the Report Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia (2011) Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth's climate.

In 2008, some 7.9 billion tons of carbon were emitted from the burning of fossil fuels and 1.5 billion tons were emitted from deforestation, for a total of 9.4 billion tons.

EPA assumes zero benefits from the burning of fossil fuels while proclaiming heavy costs from increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

Prominent among this are the major impacts from the burning of fossil fuels, most notably the climate impacts.

«It is certain that GHG emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and from land use change lead to a warming of climate, and it is very likely that these GHGs are the dominant cause of the global warming that has been taking place over the last 50 years.»

That may appear to be «double taxation», but it is just an attempt to more equitably share the consequences of the need to penalize the unacceptable pursuers of benefit from the burning of fossil fuels (between consumers and pursuers of profit).

The world must move away from the burning of fossil fuels.

Global Warming is being caused by both the human release of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels (oil, coal) and a natural warming cycle the Earth is going through As the global temperature begins to rise many changes will occur to climates around the world Complete the global warming simulation on the class webpage.

162 fatalities in the whole history of wind farms against millions of deaths each year from air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels!

Taxation focused on activities directly trying to benefit from the burning of fossil fuels should be the sole source of such tax revenue.

The earth's climate sensitivity is the most important climate factor in determining how much global warming will result from our greenhouse gas emissions (primarily from burning of fossil fuels to produce, reliable, cheap energy).

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.

Maybe a case can be made that if Exxon had told us decades ago about the speculative theory of human caused climate change from the burning of fossil fuels, then the hijacking of climate science for a political agenda could have commenced earlier?

With other greenhouse gases it is responsible for the natural greenhouse effect, and the extra levels of CO 2 from burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) in industry, transport and the generation of electricity, are causing the enhanced (or accelerated) greenhouse effect which is why global warming is happening.

The scientific basis for the entire global warming alarmism is an hypothesis that the increase of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities is producing a greatly increased greenhouse effect through a process called «radiative forcing» in - which the CO2 greatly magnifies the greenhouse warming of the water vapor.

That the increase is in fact a predominantly anthropogenic disturbance, caused by accelerated release of CO2 from burning of fossil fuels, has been elegantly demonstrated through 14C analyses of tree rings from the last two centuries... [references follow]».

The initiative is designed to reduce pollutants from the burning of fossil fuels, including the development of commercial - scale geologic storage sites for carbon dioxide emissions.

Electricity generators typically use steam turbines to transform energy from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal into electricity that can be used for residential, commercial, industrial, or transportation purposes.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), which result from the burning of fossil fuels, also reduces the incidence of health problems from particulate matter in these emissions, according to Berkeley Lab researchers and colleagues.

The debate over global warming centers on the extent to which gases released from the burning of fossil fuels — mainly carbon dioxide — are trapping the sun's heat in the Earth's atmosphere, creating a greenhouse effect.

Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which result from the burning of fossil fuels, also reduces the incidence of health problems from particulate matter (PM) in these emissions.

«In addition to causing changes in climate, increasing levels of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities have a direct affect on the world's oceans,» the report found, particularly an increase in levels of acidity, which it said are a threat to marine life.

An international panel of scientists recently concluded that it's «very likely» that manmade pollution primarily from the burning of fossil fuels is warming the world.

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.

Not essentially different from the burning of fossil fuels, just more controlled as it is mediated by a series of biochemical reactions.

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.

But there's virtually no way to explain the change in the isotope ratio, other than by an increase in CO2 originating from the burning of fossil fuels.

There is no doubt whatsoever that the planet is warming and it is primarily due to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from burning of fossil fuels.

The rate and extent of glacial retreat, the scientists say, depends on the levels of greenhouse gases emitted from the burning of fossil fuels in future.

DeSmog has uncovered Exxon corporate documents from the late 1970s stating unequivocally «there is no doubt» that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing «problem» well understood within the company.

So, for the last 30 years, climate scientists have carefully explained that no particular climate event could be identified as the consequence of a rise in global average temperatures driven by the release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels.

Despite decades of persistent uncertainty over how sensitive the climate system is to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, we now have new satellite evidence which strongly suggests that the climate system is much less sensitive than is claimed by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

In addition, worldwide events between 1988 and 1998, such as the collapse of the Soviet Union and tearing down of the Berlin Wall, resulted in reduced global CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

JimD — Everyone has benefited from the burning of fossil fuels.

So John Dawson, you are saying that you agree with me that more than enough CO2 has been released from the burning of fossil fuels to increase its concentration in the atmosphere by over a third.

«Nobody with any knowledge on the subject denies that carbon dioxide (CO2) derived from the burning of fossil fuels is measurably warming the planet.

In addition to causing changes in climate, increasing levels of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities have a direct effect on the world's oceans.

But the full statement should read «Nobody with any knowledge on the subject denies that carbon dioxide (CO2) derived from the burning of fossil fuels is measurably warming the planet however other factors have counter balanced that warming.»

Attacking the oil companies makes that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels is causing global warming a forgone conclusion.

Globally, about 80 percent of human - induced carbon dioxide emissions comes from the burning of fossil fuels, while about 20 percent results from deforestation.

The oceans absorb excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, including some from the burning of fossil fuels.

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

DeSmogBlog's own investigation uncovered Exxon corporate documents from the late 1970s stating unequivocally «there is no doubt» that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing «problem» well understood within the company.