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Democrats and environmental groups have sought to make the pipeline a poster child for the type of dirty energy sources they say are exacerbating global warming.

Addressing global warming will require a wide range of measures, including investing in public transit and renewable sources of energy.

In this series, we examine the role of coal as an energy source in a world where constraints on carbon emissions are adopted to mitigate global warming.

If in the 1970s we had begun a program of efficient use and switching gradually to other sources of energy, «peak oil» would remain quite far in the future and there might still be some chance to reduce global warming.

Organic foods are also locally sourced and produced, which means there is less carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming.

Climate scientists tell us that we have at best 15 years to convert to carbon - free energy sources if we are to stop runaway global warming.

They found that it was possible to distinguish the impact of global warming from other sources of oxygen loss.

The biggest single source of global warming pollution actually started to shrink in 2014.

Cutting the black carbon, or soot, produced by burning fossil fuels, vegetation, dung and other sources could reduce global warming

These conflicts have stalled some high - profile projects despite the fact that renewable energy sources do not produce heat - trapping emissions of carbon dioxides, the primary greenhouse gas driving global warming.

In April, another IPCC report suggested strategies to cool global warming's consequences, including adopting more alternative energy sources and capturing more greenhouse gases (SN: 9/6

U.S. states are beginning to attack another major source of global warming pollution besides power plants: your car.

While hurricanes are a constant source of worry for residents of the southeastern United States, new research suggests that they have a major upside — counteracting global warming.

FACT: Seventy percent of our electricity is produced by burning coal and other fossil fuels, sources linked to global warming.

4 Global Warming Makes the Arctic Hot Property Countries from Russia to Canada are eyeing Arctic territory that are expected to thaw in the future, freeing up its methane riches, which could be used as an alternative energy source.

It increases the ability to predict how changes in land use or climate warming could affect the sources and global concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

According to one of its lead authors, the report will say that to limit global warming to 2 °C, we must keep CO2 emissions from all human sources since the start of the Industrial Revolution to below about a trillion tonnes of carbon.

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

Global food crisis, prevention and cure for HIV / AIDS, development of renewable energy sources, and global warming are some of the crucial issues that can be addressed with immense international collaborGlobal food crisis, prevention and cure for HIV / AIDS, development of renewable energy sources, and global warming are some of the crucial issues that can be addressed with immense international collaborglobal warming are some of the crucial issues that can be addressed with immense international collaboration.

With more than 70 percent of China's energy coming from coal, a power source that contributes heavily to air pollution and global warming, the nation's bad or good energy practices in buildings will be reflected in the color of the sky and the temperature of the Earth.

One possible source is a 1938 study by pioneering climate scientist Guy Callendar in which he predicted that doubling the global concentration of carbon dioxide from pre-industrial levels would result in around 2 °C of warming.

It won't do anything to help the climate in the next decade — a decade that scientists say is critical to arresting global warming and turning the world's energy infrastructure towards low - carbon sources.

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).

Global warming as hot topic, water worlds under Antarctic ice, King Tut's alien heat source, and more.

«If we can partition how much is from cows, natural gas, and other sources, we can more reliably strategize what to do about global warming.»

The results might not have immediate repercussions — nitrogen trifluoride currently adds 0.04 percent of the global warming effect created by carbon dioxide emitted from sources such as coal - burning power plants and cars.

«I do not know the source of that original document, but I assume it was sent to me because of my past exchanges with Heartland and because I was named in it,» said the scientist who has sparred often with Heartland and others who do not believe in the scientific underpinnings of man - made global warming.

We know that air pollution seriously damages human health and terrestrial ecosystems but this «new» source of soluble iron can potentially increase the amount of carbon dioxide stored in the oceans and, thus, inadvertently offset global warming.»

Agriculture is one of the biggest sources of the anthropogenic greenhouse gases responsible for global warming.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

The cooling effect of aerosols can partly offset global warming on a short - term basis, but many are made of organic material that comes from sources that scientists don't fully understand, said Joost de Gouw, a research physicist at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., who is unaffiliated with the studies.

Trump, who has called global warming a hoax and has promised to quit the Paris Agreement, was considering ways to bypass a theoretical four - year procedure for leaving the accord, according to the source, who works on Trump's transition team for international energy and climate policy.

Plants speed up their respiratory metabolism as temperatures rise, leading to a long - held concern that as climate warms the elevated carbon release from a ramped - up metabolism could flip global forests from a long - term carbon sink to a carbon source, further accelerating climate change.

-- The Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall conduct a joint scientific review, within 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, to evaluate how sources of biomass from Federal lands could contribute to the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

Moreover, there is no direct evidence, no smoking gun, which points to anthropogenic sources as the reason behind global warming.

First he states that rising CO2 is a «source» for concern, then he states that it might be contributing «somewhat» to global warming.

They are a significant source of global methane that contributes to global warming.

Milloy tries to set himself up as a source of information about what is good science, and in trying to put global warming in the same class as copper bracelets, crystals and pyramids he is doing a great disservice to public discourse.

Puncak Jaya is the only place to get ice core data from the western side of what's known as the Pacific Warm Pool the single largest heat source to the global atmosphere.

Not only has Dr. Soon lied to us and our lawmakers about the seriousness of global warming — he even lied directly to Congress in 2003 about his sources of funding at a time when he was promoting his study funded by the American Petroleum Institute, the $ 200 million / year oil and gas lobbying group.

Metcalf says that methane is both «a staggering untapped source of natural energy» and «a fairly frightening contributor» to global warming.

The process also creates tiny bits of soot, called black carbon, and traces of harmful substances, known as brown carbon, which together cause more global warming per unit weight than other human - associated carbon sources.

But as much as public lands may serve as part of a climate change solution, they are also sources of the emissions causing global warming.

Permafrost in the coldest northern Arctic — formerly thought to be at least temporarily shielded from global warming by its extreme environment — will thaw enough to become a permanent source of carbon to the atmosphere in this century

The response to global warming of deep convective clouds is also a substantial source of uncertainty in projections since current models predict different responses of these clouds.

In contrast, chemistry modeling and paleoclimate records [222] show that trace gases increase with global warming, making it unlikely that overall atmospheric CH4 will decrease even if a decrease is achieved in anthropogenic CH4 sources.

Making use of the abundantly available natural energy sources help save our environment and can also reduce the harmful effects of global warming.

PowerPoints for Topic 7.1 and 7.2 Climate Change and Energy Resources Global warming Renewable energy sources Non-renewable energy sources

Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air by David MacKay (free): If you're confused by all the conflicting claims about global warming and alternative energy sources, this book, by a Cambridge physicist, will, um, clear the air.

Likewise, global warming has caused concern for many traders as the development of green energy sources diminishes consumption.