Sentences with phrase «human burning of fossil fuels»

Global warming, blamed mainly on human burning of fossil fuels that produce heat - trapping carbon dioxide, is projected to bring more floods, droughts and to raise world sea levels.
Since 1900, human burning of fossil fuels emitted an average of 3 petagrams per year — even closer to the rate 55.5 million years ago.
According to a paper by Gerald Meehl at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, models show that if human burning of fossil fuels is not curtailed there could be 20 heat records for every cold record by 2050, and by 2100 the ratio could be 50 to 1.
5 (3) Causes of the climate change This warming is largely attributed to the increase of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide and methane) in the Earth's atmosphere caused by human burning of fossil fuels, industrial, farming, and deforestation activities.
However, the rise in atmospheric concentration of CO2 driving the modern warming is NOT coming from the oceans, but from the human burning of fossil fuels.
However, as Mr. Outing points out, presenting a «balanced» view of global heating doesn't make sense — there isn't anything resembling a serious debate about whether human beings are causing global heating because the current scientific consensus is that human burning of fossil fuels is causing global heating.
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