Sentences with phrase «fuel emissions overwhelm»

Today, however, CO2 is under the control of humans as fossil fuel emissions overwhelm natural changes.

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In 2015, at a Heartland press conference criticizing the pope's environmentally oriented encyclical, Lehr said that the overwhelming consensus that global warming is real and is driven by fossil fuel emissions is dead wrong.

Even though questions of air emissions, fuel economy, and safety have seemed so overwhelming in the U.S. over the past 40 years, BMW still believes in an automobile that is beautiful, energetic, and full of life.

Well, given humankind's renewed eagerness to burn fossil fuels and their long lifetime in the atmosphere, even a climate sensitivity below the low end estimate (which no one believes) or at the low end (which is highly unlikely) can still be overwhelmed by CO2 emissions going forward.

An overwhelming objection is that exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts... [I] f emissions from coal are phased out over the next few decades and if unconventional fossil fuels including tar sands are left in the ground, it is conceivable to stabilize earth's climate.

Also, Inside Climate News recently described a new study published in Science about how fossil - fuel funded climate - science deniers disingenuously shift their arguments and use normal scientific uncertainties to deflect attention from the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and argue for no action to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions.

We are told that there is an overwhelming agreement, or consensus, among scientists that most weather and climate changes that have occurred since the mid-20th century have been caused by human activity — our fossil fuel burning and CO2 emissions in particular.

Even if forest cover was returned to preindustrial levels, the carbon cycle would still be overwhelmed by fossil fuel emissions.

but the real agenda in climate science is not to prove that atmos CO2 radiative forcing can overwhelm nature but to reduce or eliminate fossil fuel emissions and thereby migrate to renewable fuels.

Fuel - economy standards or CO2 standards have been effec - tive in reducing GHG emissions, but so far, transport growth has overwhelmed their impact.