Sentences with phrase «fuels adds carbon dioxide»

The plaintiffs in Juliana argue that the federal government has known for at least 50 years that combustion of fossil fuels adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and damages the climate.

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Besides the burning of wood for fuel, forest fires add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Increases in the price of fossil fuels since 1979 have meant that less has been burned and less carbon dioxide has been added to the atmosphere.

The amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere grew at a record rate in 2016 to a level not seen for millions of years, potentially fueling a 20 - meter (65 - foot) rise in sea levels and adding 3 degrees to temperatures, the United Nations said.

As humanity burned fossil fuels such as coal, which added carbon dioxide gas to the Earth's atmosphere, we would raise the planet's average temperature.

While burning algae - derived fuel in an engine or factory generates carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions just like fossil fuels do, the algae itself requires CO2 to photosynthesize — so overall no new CO2 is added to the atmosphere.

The CLF argued that adding more fossil fuel generation — even an efficient gas - fired plant — would prevent Massachusetts from cutting its carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent by the year 2050, as state law requires.

But then we come along and start burning fossil fuels and adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and glaciers that would still be growing start to melt back because summer temperatures are warmer.»

«What's different [about carbon dioxide] is the scale and the disruption in the energy system from having to transition from carbon - intensive fuels to carbon neutrality,» he added.

Our activities, such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation, are pushing the cycle out of its natural balance, adding more and more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

As with any biomass fuel, any carbon dioxide produced when the reed is burnt was extracted from the air when it grew, so producing and burning it does not add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

The achievement could be revolutionary, enabling creation of a closed system in which carbon dioxide emitted by combustion was transformed back into fuel instead of adding to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The wonder - material graphene may have a new trick to add to its resume: converting carbon dioxide into liquid fuels.

But there can be too much of a good thing: In the last 200 years, humans have added a lot of extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas to produce energy.

We've been adding carbon dioxide from fossil fuels to the atmosphere at increasing rates since the dawn of the Industrial Era, and the result has been a steady warming of the planet's surface.

A caption below a photo of what looks like a smokestack added: «Humans have altered Earth's climate by burning coal and other fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide,» according to an image of the panel provided by the Perot Museum and by the panel's designer.

While the computer climate models exaggerate the warming effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide, they plausibly simulate that greater economic development driven by growing use of fossil fuels will add more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

But then we come along and start burning fossil fuels and adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and glaciers that would still be growing start to melt back because summer temperatures are warmer.

«It is almost certain that by adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere through burning fossil fuels (and through land clearance and other activities, like making cement) human beings are helping to warm the atmosphere.

Some estimates claim Germany will add up to 40 million tons of carbon dioxide with (supposedly temporary) new fossil - fuel plants to replace its nuclear power — an increase «equivalent to the annual emissions of Slovakia,» as Reuters put it not long ago.

Since the industrial revolution and the rapid increase in the use of fossil fuels, humans have added more than a trillion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Every year humans add over 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide in theatmosphere and that number seems to be increasing as our demand forfossil fuels increases.

The reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide per new unit of non-hydro «renewable» capacity falls off rapidly as additional «renewable» capacity is added to an electric grid because additional fossil fuel sources must be kept in «spinning reserve» in case the wind dies or the sun goes under a cloud unless hydro is available.

Added methane reduces heat radiation to space, amplifying the warming effect of carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels.

Hydropower dams can contribute to global warming pollution: When a forest is cut down to make way for a dam and reservoir, those trees are no longer available to absorb the carbon dioxide added by fossil fuels.

When we burn fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, we add to the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide.

Unlike fossil fuels, when biofuels and other plant - based substances are burned, no extra carbon is added to the air, even though this process also releases carbon dioxide into the air.

These and other human activities add over 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year into the atmosphere, with the greatest contribution from fossil fuel burning.

Of course, all of this ignores the fact that fossil fuels were burned to make and transport the burning logs, thus adding extra carbon dioxide into the air.

As humans burn fossil fuels, adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, globally average temperature rises as a result.

«Good examples of how we modify the stratosphere are the ozone hole and also fossil - fuel burning that adds carbon dioxide to the stratosphere.

The world must scale up technologies that capture carbon dioxide, instead of replacing the polluting fuels with renewable sources, he added.