Sentences with phrase «from humans burning fossil fuels»

The Earth is warmer (in an average sense) now than it has been at any time during the past 2000 years because of CO2 emissions from humans burning fossil fuels.

Annual carbon dioxide released in these infernos can exceed half the emissions from humans burning fossil fuels.

He strongly implies that this year's warmth is consistent with the theory that greenhouse gases from humans burning fossil fuels makes the earth warmer: it's our fault.

carbon dioxide from humans burning fossil fuels has increased the average temperature of the planet by 1.4 Fahrenheit or.8 Celsius over the past 130 years.

Michigan State students note how Willie Soon now refutes research indicating adverse impacts from ocean acidification, a global crisis that is married to climate change (both problems stem from humans burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere).

Not exact matches

The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

The current rate of burning fossil fuels adds about 2 ppm per year to the atmosphere, so that getting from the current level to 1000 ppm would take about 300 years — and 1000 ppm is still less than what most plants would prefer, and much less than either the nasa or the Navy limit for human beings.

Given the knowledge that they are crapping in their own habitat with their carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning on Earth, I'd like to think humans have gained an evolutionary advantage which canines lack.

The results imply that the interaction between organic and sulfuric acids promotes efficient formation of organic and sulfate aerosols in the polluted atmosphere because of emissions from burning of fossil fuels, which strongly affect human health and global climate.

Some greenhouse gases occur naturally in the atmosphere, while others result from human activities such as burning of fossil fuels such as coal.

Yet, despite this decline, Arctic temperatures have soared and the most likely culprit is the build - up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from fossil fuel burning, forest clearing and other human activity, Kaufmann and his colleagues wrote.

Or is minimizing alterations to the global environment introduced by human activity — rising levels of CO2 from fossil - fuel burning, widespread extinction, dams that impound water — more important to our success?

Do you think human activity — from overfishing to burning fossil fuels to illuminating our cities and highways with artificial light — could be speeding up the rate of mutation?

Of course, modern global warming stems from a clear cause — rising levels of CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) from fossil fuel burning, cutting down forests and other human activities.

Since levels of greenhouse gases have continued to rise throughout the period, some skeptics have argued that the recent pattern undercuts the theory that global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by human - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

Since 1751, roughly the start of the Industrial Revolution, humans have burned the amount of fossil fuel that would have come from all the plants on Earth for 13,300 years.

Over time, the majority of human fire use has shifted from indigenous burning to agricultural burning to fossil fuel burning.

And that makes controlling O3 pollution from fossil fuel burning as important for climate change as it is for human and plant health.

It was clear that climate change is an energy problem — burning fossil fuels to generate energy accounts for 74 per cent of human - made greenhouse gas emissions — but I could see that it was very difficult to change the energy industry from the outside and very little was happening on the inside.

The latest version, more than a year in the making, reiterates findings that global warming is unequivocal and primarily caused by humans from the burning of fossil fuels, the clearing of forests, and the disruption of agricultural activities.

Kyoto regulates all sources of carbon dioxide as well as other greenhouse gases, but reliable long - term data by country are available only for carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels (which accounts for about two - thirds of the human contribution to global warming).

«Of the carbon dioxide human beings put into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation,» Berry says, «roughly a third remains in the atmosphere, a third goes into terrestrial ecosystems, and a third goes into the ocean.»

That molecule — released by the gigaton from human activities like fossil fuel burning and clearing forests — causes the bulk of global warming.

There is hope, however, as CO2 from burning fossil fuels and other human activities appears to have leveled off in 2015 at roughly 40 billion metric tons of CO2 liberated into the atmosphere.

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 problem of global warming has resulted from human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels and clearing of forests.

We know with certainty that the increase in CO2 concentrations since the industrial revolution is caused by human activities because the isotopes of carbon show that it comes from fossil fuel burning and the clearing of forests.

The remaining 39 billion tons of annual human - made CO2 emissions come from other activities like burning fossil fuels in power plants and vehicles and producing concrete.

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 concentration of atmospheric CO2 has increased dramatically since the Industrial Revolution (from around 280 parts per million [ppm] in preindustrial times to 401 ppm in 2015), primarily due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and changes in land - use.

It also acts as a carbon sink — absorbing about 30 % of atmospheric CO2 released from human activities such as burning fossil fuels...

Michael Mann added that «Donald Trump and his campaign still firmly reject the scientific evidence that climate change is human - caused, opposing the only action (a reduction of fossil fuel burning) that can save us from ever - more dangerous climate change impacts,» according to EcoWatch.

In the first, human greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, create climate disruption, and then a hotter world.

Given the rapid rise in recent decades, the answer seems to be «pretty large,» but emissions from the burning of fossil fuels may only be part of the human contribution.

In addition, while toxicity has occurred from contaminated water getting into the food supply, human exposure to environmental cadmium is primarily the result of the burning of fossil fuels and municipal wastes.

The global warming gases derived from human activity are produced by fossil fuels used in cars, in industry and in power plants, the agricultural production and the burning forests.

Dr. Depledge described signs of a shift in the oil kingdom's stance, including its endorsement of science pointing to big impacts from a building human influence on climate and commitment of money to pursue technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other new energy options.

A great moment, reflecting the inevitability of diverse responses to climate risk on a variegated planet, came during a plenary panel focused on ways to satisfy fast - growing human energy needs while moving away from burning fossil fuels, which remain the world's dominant energy source.

Present levels are 380 ppm and rapidly rising due to accelerating emissions from human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels.

As if more evidence was needed to combat air pollution caused from burning fossil fuels, two recently released reports articulate a human toll that may be higher than previously imagined.

Extrapolating from their forest study, the researchers estimate that over this century the warming induced from global soil loss, at the rate they monitored, will be «equivalent to the past two decades of carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and is comparable in magnitude to the cumulative carbon losses to the atmosphere due to human - driven land use change during the past two centuries.»

If he understood this, he would understand how humans have disrupted the carbon cycle — we are releasing carbon from long - term storage by burning fossil fuels, which is causing an imbalance in the cycle and is leading to a build of carbon in the atmosphere.

Humans have been burning fossil fuels for only about 150 years, yet that has started a cascade of profound changes that at their current pace will still be felt 10,000 years from now.

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.

A) Those who think that governments around the world should take action to reduce CO2 emissions because data collected in the last 30 years indicates that recent changes in climate can be traced to CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels during various human activities.

As we've learned from what's called «the terrifying math of global warming», we need to leave a huge amount of fossil fuels that have been discovered in the ground instead of burning them into the atmosphere in order to keep the planet from warming so much as to make it inhospitable to human life.

In the standards for middle school, for example, one of the core ideas is that «human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth's mean surface temperature («global warming»).»

The difference in the case of climate change from burning fossil fuels is they are putting human civilization itself at stake, as well as most of the rest of life on Earth.

He says «The ocean takes up roughly one quarter of human emissions to the atmosphere of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning and deforestation.»

The ocean takes up roughly one quarter of human emissions to the atmosphere of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning and deforestation.