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«Peatlands in Malaysia and Indonesia store around 70 gigatons of carbon — if all of this were oxidized, it would be equivalent to seven years of total global carbon dioxide emissions at the current rate.»

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The current regulations are aimed at cutting tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide, a major contributor to global warming.

'' [E] missions of black carbon are the second strongest contribution to current global warming, after carbon dioxide emissions,» wrote Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a prominent climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Greg Carmichael, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Iowa, in the April 2008 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience.

Like fossil fuel development or not, the Kemper plant is at the center of U.S. EPA's plans to regulate carbon dioxide from new power plants and at the center of global emissions, considering that «low - rank» coals like Mississippi lignite constitute half the world's coal supply.

CSIRO scientist Barrie Pittock presented a paper showing that stabilising the global level of carbon dioxide at three times the pre-industrial level will require reducing emissions below half the present level.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013, reaching a record high of 36 billion tonnes — according to new figures from the Global Carbon Project, co-led by researchers from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.

Global average temperatures will rise at least 4 °C by 2100 and potentially more than 8 °C by 2200 if carbon dioxide emissions are not reduced according to new research published in Nature.

Global average temperatures will rise at least 4 degrees C by 2100 and potentially more than 8 degrees C by 2200 if carbon dioxide emissions are not reduced, according to new research.

Fake paper fools global warming naysayers The man - made - global - warming - is - a-hoax crowd latched onto a study this week in the Journal of Geoclimatic Studies by researchers at the University of Arizona's Department of Climatology, who reported that soil bacteria around the Atlantic and Pacific oceans belch more than 300 times the carbon dioxide released by all fossil fuel emission, strongly implying that humans are not to blame for climate change.

Cities are responsible for 70 % of global carbon dioxide emissions, says Wee Kean Fong, who led development of the GPC at the World Resources Institute — a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. — in partnership with the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI).

Because everyone in this global community will be affected by climate change, it will be for our own benefit if we manage to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in such a way that global warming is limited to less than 2 degrees Celsius», says Prof. Ulf Riebesell, marine biologist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and coordinator of BIOACID.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide stood at 32.3 billion tonnes in 2014, unchanged from the preceding year.

Researchers at Stanford University who closely track China's power sector, coal use, and carbon dioxide emissions have done an initial rough projection and foresee China possibly emitting somewhere between 1.9 and 2.6 billion tons less carbon dioxide from 2008 to 2010 than it would have under «business as usual» if current bearish trends for the global economy hold up.

Late this week, the countries responsible for more than 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions will meet in Paris in the third round of climate and energy discussions organized by the Bush administration, aimed ostensibly at finding a common long - term goal for emissions limits.

Try telling India to leave its coal in the ground after examining the latest data on per capita emissions of carbon dioxide from the Global Carbon Project, released yesterday — with India's billion - plus citizens at 1.9 tons of CO2 emitted per person per year, the European Union and China tied (for the moment) at around 7 tons and the United States at 16.4 tons:

It calls for reducing carbon dioxide emissions in hopes of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above temperatures at the outset of the Industrial Revolution.

WASHINGTON — Even as the Trump administration dismantles climate policies at the federal level, a growing number of Democratic state governors are considering taxing or pricing carbon dioxide emissions within their own borders to tackle global warming.

While finishing up her dissertation at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Parkinson and climate scientist William Kellogg decided to take the theory about carbon dioxide emissions increasing global temperatures and apply it to a sea ice model that Parkinson had built.

The argument is whether us humans have super-imposed our excessive carbon dioxide emissions upon the existing natural balance of the climate system — thereby altering it's natural chemistry leading to possible dangerous global warming at some point in the near and distant future.

And if you look at the current rapid rise in global greenhouse - gas emissions, we'll likely put enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by mid-century to surpass the 2 °C limit — and soar past the 4 °C limit by century's end.

[12] In fact, using the Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change developed by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, even if all carbon dioxide emissions in the United States were effectively eliminated, there would be less than two - tenths of a degree Celsius reduction in global temperatures.

Emissions reductions larger than about 80 %, relative to whatever peak global emissions rate may be reached, are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level (see Figure 3Emissions reductions larger than about 80 %, relative to whatever peak global emissions rate may be reached, are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level (see Figure 3emissions rate may be reached, are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level (see Figure 3).»

Energy - related emissions of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that is widely believed to contribute to global warming, have fallen 12 % between 2005 and 2012 and are at their lowest level since 1994, according to a recent estimate by the Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the U.S. Energy Department.

At precisely the moment these executives were scheduled to unveil their American Energy Innovation Council report, the Senate was to begin debating a resolution from Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R - Alaska, to block the Environmental Protection Agency's plans to regulate the carbon dioxide emissions linked to global climate change.

The belief that the world can drastically cut global carbon - dioxide emissions at a time when about half of the people on the planet are still living in relative energy poverty borders on fantasy.

Now Raupach and colleagues plan to look at the relationship of emissions to the global carbon dioxide budget, and at continued increases in emissions as a source of Earth system vulnerability.

«At present, CSIRO and other measurements show that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are rising progressively faster each year — so the judgement of the atmosphere is that global efforts to reduce emissions have so far been spectacularly unsuccessful.

Given the global economic implications of carbon dioxide emission mitigation and the fact that geopolitical strategising tends not to be shared with the public at large, it seems inevitable that any attempt to answer your question will be denounced as a conspiracy theory.

When political leaders look at the need to cut carbon dioxide emissions to curb global warming, they ask the question: How much of a cut is politically feasible?

Peatlands store 100 years of CO2 emissions May 8, 2007 The UN Convention on Climate Change is putting global climate at risk by ignoring carbon dioxide emissions from the destruction of carbon - rich peatlands in Indonesia, charged Wetlands International, a Dutch environmental group that has highlighted the climate impact of land - use change in southeast Asia.

Most climate studies like those that look at global warming and its links to carbon dioxide emissions have examined changes that emerge gradually and steadily over decades or centuries.

Air transportation represents around 2.5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, at more than 700 million tons annually.

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

In the past two years, the global economy has grown by 6.5 percent, but carbon dioxide emissions from energy generation and transport have not grown at all, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported last month.

Years earlier, one climate researcher at the company, Henry Shaw, had called management's attention to a key conclusion of a landmark National Academy of Sciences report: global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions, not a scarcity of supply, would likely set the ultimate limit on the use of fossil fuels.

They have told the public, politicians, and the press that «global warming» (alias «climate change») is primarily due to human - caused emissions of carbon dioxide, and that if this continues at current levels that this will result in catastrophic global warming.

The Clean Power Plan aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel - fired power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 — still a far cry from what is needed to meet our commitments under the Paris Climate Accord to keep global warming at or below 2 degrees Celsius.

For more than a decade, researchers have struggled and failed to balance global carbon budgets, which must balance carbon emissions to the atmosphere from fossil fuels (6.3 Pg per year; numbers here from Skee Houghton at Woods Hole Research Center) and land use change (2.2 Pg; deforestation, agriculture etc.) with carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere (3.2 Pg) and the carbon sinks taking carbon out of the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide dissolving in Ocean surface waters (2.4 Pg).

(PBL 2012) Yet to stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations at about 450 ppm by 2050, global emissions will have to decline by about 60 % from current levels.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions for 1990 at 39.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, suggesting that the Nigerian emissions may have represented approximately 0.09 % of the total in terms of CO2 and 0.76 % of the total in terms of methane, using the IPCCs 100 - year global warming potential for methane of 25.

More recent data looking only at energy - related carbon dioxide emissions shows that this type of emission stayed flat globally between 2014 and 2016, even as the global economy grew during the same period.

Reduce carbon dioxide emissions even further, take greater steps to conserve forests and keep the global temperature at the 1.5 ° C maximum rise, and the chances are that the Arctic seaways will open only about one summer in 40 years.

There's some good news as climate negotiators prepare for the COP23 climate talks, beginning in Germany on November 6th: Global carbon dioxide emissions from energy production and industry were flat for the third year in a row in 2016, at about 35.8 gigatons.

Its report says 85 % of global CO2 emissions are currently not priced at all, and of those that are, about 75 % are priced below US$ 10 per tCO2 (metric tonne of carbon dioxide).

And researchers report in the journal Science Advances that unless there are serious reductions in global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that drive global warming and could trigger catastrophic climate change, the most extreme, once - in -25-years heat waves could increase wet bulb temperatures now at around 31 °C to 34.2 °C.

Exxon Mobil expects global carbon dioxide emissions to peak by 2040 at about 10 percent above 2016 levels.

At the same time, the company, the world's largest oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington - based policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

The latest in the series puts the gap between emissions trends and what is actually required to keep the rise in global temperature at a level which does not spell catastrophe for the planet at between 8 - 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide - equivalent (CO2e) by 2020 — less a gap than a gaping chasm!

Lead author James Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, concludes: «If global emissions of carbon dioxide continue to rise at the rate of the past decade, this research shows that there will be disastrous effects, including increasingly rapid sea level rise, increased frequency of droughts and floods, and increased stress on wildlife and plants due to rapidly shifting climate zones.»

The U.S. Department of Energy's Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center database pegs cumulative global emissions since 1751 at 1,323 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (1,450 GtCO2e including meDioxide Information and Analysis Center database pegs cumulative global emissions since 1751 at 1,323 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (1,450 GtCO2e including medioxide (1,450 GtCO2e including methane).