Sentences with phrase «greenhouse gas emissions from human activities»

Major sources of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities include power generation (about 25 per cent of all emissions), transport, industrial activities, deforestation and agriculture.

Scientists say that the world is currently undergoing warming due to carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, such as burning fossils, deforestation, and land use changes.

The minimum predicted temperature and sea level rises will jump, according to media reports, while the blame will be pinned firmly on greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

A small but vocal number of people maintain that the observed temperature anomalies are not the result of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities warming the planet.

The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.

In 2016, methane (CH4) accounted for about 10 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

It commits rich and poor nations to rein in rising carbon levels and is an attempt to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions from human activity this century.

Agriculture — thanks to deforestation, nitrous oxide from fields, methane from cattle and rice paddies — is responsible for one third of global greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, making emissions from transporting food, known as «food miles,» a «rounding error,» said ecologist Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of Minnesota.

At a time when greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are at historically high levels and glaciers are melting, Purple poses the question of human responsibility.

Despite decades of research and thousands of peer - reviewed publications to the contrary, AFP rigidly adheres to the denialist arguments that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities pose no significant danger to Americans — or the rest of the planet.

In a keynote address to the conference, Mr Jarraud reiterated the urgency of action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, and sounded a warning note about using geoengineering to try to limit climate change.

The region locks up more than 100 billion tons of carbon — more than 11 years» worth of total greenhouse gas emissions from human activities; plays an important role in global weather circulation patterns, including delivering rainfall to Central America, the United States, and southern South America; supports perhaps a third of terrestrial biodiversity; and is home to the bulk of the world's remaining indigenous people still living in traditional ways.

«Emissions of volcanic gases go up and down, helping to cool or heat the planet, while greenhouse gas emissions from human activity just continue to go up.»

Unfortunately for the EPA, a major pillar of support of the Endangerment Finding — that «most» of the «observed warming» since the mid-20th century is from greenhouse gas emissions from human activities — has been shown by recent scientific research in major peer - reviewed scientific journals to be largely in doubt.

In 2016, CO2 accounted for about 81.6 % of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

That warming has tracked closely with the rise in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, with little apparent contribution from natural factors like changes in solar activity, the group's latest paper concludes.

Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

Although carbon dioxide accounts for the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, methane emissions are also an important factor driving climate change.

German researchers suggest that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are linked to an increase in extreme weather events

All of the scenarios are now being applied by climate modelers around the world to understand how climate may respond to different levels of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

With our new focus, Climate Central aims is to reveal to the public and decision - makers when and to what extent impacts such as flood damage, heat - related illness and death, declines in property values, and other social and economic impacts associated with increases in extremes may be firmly connected to greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

Climate realists, those of us who do not support the hypothesis that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are causing a climate crisis, have certainly been pleased.

Deforestation accounts from nearly 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

In 2016, nitrous oxide (N2O) accounted for about 6 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.