Sentences with phrase «global carbon dioxide emissions last»

And the fact that global carbon dioxide emissions last year rose by a record amount to almost 31 billion tonnes is neither here nor there.»

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The team found that adopting global best practices would set China on track for peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2020, a full decade earlier than they promised last week.

The International Energy Agency estimated last year that both the decline in China's coal use and falling electricity demand reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 percent in 2014, leading to a 0.2 percent reduction in global emissions.

He cited Australia's Parliament, under a conservative coalition elected last year, which last week repealed a two - year - old tax on carbon dioxide emissions — the country's only legislated policy for reducing global warming pollution.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil - fuel burning jumped by the largest amount on record last year, upending the notion that the brief decline during the recession might persist through the recovery.

Please note the last sentence of 71 pages from Exhibit 5: presentation on «Understanding how carbon dioxide emissions from human activity contribute to global climate change»).

Last week I posted a «Your Dot» contribution from Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, a University of Chicago climate scientist concerned that policy makers and the public keep in mind the primacy of carbon dioxide emissions if they are serious about limiting the chances of propelling disruptive human - driven global warming.

The International Energy Agency has reported that global emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use, tracking the recovering world economy, hit a new high of 30.6 billion metric tons of the gas last year.

Over the last three decades, five IPCC «assessment reports,» dozens of computer models, scores of conferences and thousands of papers focused heavily on human fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, as being responsible for «dangerous» global warming, climate change, climate «disruption,» and almost every «extreme» weather or climate event.

After a 1 % decline in 2009, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased by more than 5 % in 2010, which is unprecedented in the last two decades.

Last year global carbon dioxide emissions rose...

Energy - related US emissions of carbon dioxide — one of the heat - trapping gases that linger in the atmosphere and contribute to rising global temperatures — rose 2.39 percent last year, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

A paper published in the Nature Geoscience journal as part of the Global Carbon Project has found that despite the deep financial crisis last year, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2009 dropped only 1.3 per cent on 2008 levels.

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.

The new target: Naomi Oreskes who last week found her research used as a foil by some lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives to try and discredit the widely - accepted and growing view that there is a broad scientific consensus on the evidence of human - caused global warming caused by rising carbon dioxide emissions.

Over all the Dutch agency found that global emissions of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas, were unchanged last year.

(05/29/2012) Last year global carbon dioxide emissions rose 3.2 percent to a new record of 31.6 gigatons, keeping the planet on track to suffer dangerous climate change, which could propel global crop failures, sea level rise, worsening extreme weather, and mass extinction.

Crichton reportedly met with President Bush last year after the president «avidly read» the novel, «fueling a common perception among environmental groups that Crichton's dismissal of global warming... has undermined efforts to pass legislation intended to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide,» according to the International Herald Tribune.

It is therefore difficult to see how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) can maintain there is a 95 per cent probability that human emissions of carbon dioxide have caused most of the global warming that has occurred over the last several decades (4).

All of the above is background to one of the great mysteries of the climate change issue... how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) can maintain there is a 95 per cent probability that human emissions of carbon dioxide have caused most of the global warming that has occurred over the last several decades (4).

Mr. Inhofe reminded the delegates that the last time the group assembled in Washington, the House had just passed a sweeping cap - and - trade bill to address global warming by putting limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other climate - altering gases.

Menon's previous study, based on a global land surface climate model and published last year in Environmental Research Letters, concluded that deploying cool roofs and pavements in cities around the world could offset 57 gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions.

New data published by the International Energy Agency extends the surprising finding, discovered last year, that global carbon dioxide emissions have stopped growing despite continued economic growth.