Unfortunately for the EPA, a major pillar of support of the Endangerment Finding — that «most» of the «observed warming» since the mid-20th century is
from greenhouse gas emissions from human activities — has been shown by recent scientific research in major peer - reviewed scientific journals to be largely in doubt.
Not exact matches
It commits rich and poor nations to rein in rising carbon levels and is an attempt to eliminate net
greenhouse gas emissions from human activity this century.
Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in
greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
The findings are the first to note increased
greenhouse gas emissions due to antibiotic use in cattle; a recent study suggests that methane
emissions from cud - chewing livestock worldwide, including cows, account for about 4 % of the
greenhouse gas emissions related to
human activity.
German researchers suggest that
greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are linked to an increase in extreme weather events
Global warming became big news for the first time during the hot summer of 1988 when now - retired NASA climate scientist James Hansen testified before Congress that the trend was not part of natural climate variation, but rather the result of
emissions of CO2 and other
greenhouse gasses from human activities.
Although carbon dioxide accounts for the vast majority of
greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, methane
emissions are also an important factor driving climate change.
http://www.enterprisemission.com/ [Interplanetary] The claim is being used to encourage listeners to conclude that
greenhouse gas emissions from human activity is probably minor.
The past century has seen a 0.8 °C increase in average global temperature, and according to the IPCC, the overwhelming source of this increase has been
emissions of
greenhouse gases and other pollutants
from human activities.
Carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
At a time when
greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are at historically high levels and glaciers are melting, Purple poses the question of
human responsibility.
Mr. McCain has been an interesting voice on global warming, given that he broke with President Bush and most of his party years ago, acknowledging that the buildup of
greenhouse gases from human activities was risky and mandatory steps were needed to curb
emissions.
That the threat posed by the buildup of heat - trapping
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
from human activities is sufficient to justify a concerted, sustained effort to curb, and eventually deeply cut, such
emissions.
«The primary cause of both trends is
emissions of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases from industry, transport and other
human activities.
Human activity — particularly the production of
greenhouse gasses from fossil fuel
emissions — is reshaping our planet, effecting rapid environmental change at a rate never seen before.
In the 1980's,
greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions from human activity became a worldwide concern and are a possible cause of climatic changes.
In the causal chain that stretches
from human activities, to
greenhouse -
gas emissions, to
greenhouse -
gas concentrations, to temperature rise, to climate damages, there are all kinds of scientific uncertainties.
«The verdict is in: Global warming is real and
greenhouse -
gas emissions from human activity are the main cause.
of today's yearly
emissions from human activities, making the reduction of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere a much more difficult task.
To hold the temperature increase to about 1.5 degrees, the globe would need to cut its
greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050, and then have negative
emissions, meaning «the sum of all
human activities is a net removal of CO2
from the atmosphere,» the study says.
Despite decades of research and thousands of peer - reviewed publications to the contrary, AFP rigidly adheres to the denialist arguments that
greenhouse gas emissions from human activities pose no significant danger to Americans — or the rest of the planet.
But the IPCC concerns itself with consideration of anthropogenic (i.e. man - made) global warming (AGW) as a result of
emissions of
greenhouse gases (notably carbon dioxide, CO2)
from human activities.
Apart
from widespread damage to infrastructure (roads, houses) in northern territories, resulting annual carbon
emissions could eventually amount to 15 - 35 percent of today's yearly
emissions from human activities, making the reduction of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere a much more difficult task.
Scientists in the US say parts of Australia are being slowly parched because of
greenhouse gas emissions — which means that the long - term decline in rainfall over south and south - west Australia results
from fossil fuel burning and depletion of the ozone layer by
human activity.
In a keynote address to the conference, Mr Jarraud reiterated the urgency of action to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, and sounded a warning note about using geoengineering to try to limit climate change.
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.
The experts say their research DOES NOT UNDERMINE THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS THAT
EMISSIONS OF
GREENHOUSE GASES FROM HUMAN ACTIVITY DRIVE GLOBAL WARMING, BUT THEY CALL FOR A CLOSER EXAMINATION OF THE WAY CLIMATE COMPUTER MODELS CONSIDER WATER VAPOUR.
Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused primarily by the
emission of
greenhouse gases from human activities, and poses significant risks for a range of
human and natural systems.
Over the last 50 years, climate scientists have built an increasingly clear picture of how the
greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions that arise
from human economic
activity are changing the Earth's climate.
The warming of the Earth is largely the result of
emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other
greenhouse gases from human activities.
The region locks up more than 100 billion tons of carbon — more than 11 years» worth of total
greenhouse gas emissions from human activities; plays an important role in global weather circulation patterns, including delivering rainfall to Central America, the United States, and southern South America; supports perhaps a third of terrestrial biodiversity; and is home to the bulk of the world's remaining indigenous people still living in traditional ways.
Greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions from human activity and livestock are a significant driver of climate change, trapping heat in the earth's atmosphere and triggering global warming.
(04/23/2009) Fire accounts for roughly half of
greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and about twenty percent of total
emissions from human activities, report researchers writing in the journal Science.
In a recent article, we call this anthropogenic drought, which is water stress caused or intensified by
human activities, including increased demand, outdated water management, climate change
from anthropogenic
greenhouse gas emissions, growing energy and food production, intensive irrigation, diminished supplies, and land use change.
The planet is warming because of the growing level of
greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.
Major sources of
greenhouse gas emissions from human activities include power generation (about 25 per cent of all
emissions), transport, industrial
activities, deforestation and agriculture.
Climate realists, those of us who do not support the hypothesis that
greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are causing a climate crisis, have certainly been pleased.
Emissions of several important
greenhouse gases that result
from human activity have increased substantially since large - scale industrialization began in the mid-1800s.
In other words, the EF defines carbon uptake in forests as the single mechanism for offsetting
human emissions of
greenhouse gases from industrial
activity to the atmosphere.
Since the Industrial Revolution,
emissions from human activities of
greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide have driven the earth's climate system dangerously outside of its normal range.
¶ ¶ 38 («when used -LSB-,]... fossil fuels release
greenhouse gases), 39 («use of fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide»), 45 («
emissions resulting
from human activities are substantially increasing...
greenhouse gases»), 48 («increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide caused by the combustion of fossil fuels»), 52 («fossil fuels -LSB-,]... when combusted, emit carbon dioxide»).
This warming is largely the result of
emissions of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases from human activities... — Global Warming Basics World Wildlife Fund
Perhaps the most important issue in all this is, as the Royal Society pointed out in their assessment of geoengineering, the first and foremost thing we have to do to stop climate change is radically limit
greenhouse gas emissions resulting
from human activity — stopping burning fossil fuels and stopping deforestation are at the top of list for how to do that.
The identification of other, sometimes more powerful,
greenhouse gases such as methane, the contributions to atmospheric carbon dioxide
from other
human activities such as deforestation and cement manufacture, better understanding of the temperature - changing properties of atmospheric pollution such as sulphur
emissions, aerosols and their importance in the post-1940s northern hemisphere cooling: the knowledge - base was increasing year by year.
The largest uncrtainty is the level of
greenhouse gas emissions from future
human activity.
Deforestation accounts
from nearly 20 percent of
greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
Scientists predict that left unchecked,
emissions of CO2 and other
greenhouse gases from human activities will raise global temperatures by 2.5 º to 11.5 ºF (1.4 º to 6.4 ºC) this century.
In 2016, CO2 accounted for about 81.6 % of all U.S.
greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
In terms of
greenhouse agents, the main conclusions
from the WGI FAR Policymakers Summary are still valid today: (1) «
emissions resulting
from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the
greenhouse gases: CO2, CH4, CFCs, N2O»; (2) «some
gases are potentially more effective (at
greenhouse warming)»; (3) feedbacks between the carbon cycle, ecosystems and atmospheric
greenhouse gases in a warmer world will affect CO2 abundances; and (4) GWPs provide a metric for comparing the climatic impact of different
greenhouse gases, one that integrates both the radiative influence and biogeochemical cycles.
In 2016, nitrous oxide (N2O) accounted for about 6 percent of all U.S.
greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.