Sentences with phrase «human carbon pollution»

El Niño alone won't trigger an ice apocalypse — but when you combine it with human carbon pollution, it might just be the fracture that sets off the avalanche.

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When Rajan Chakrabarty, Ph.D., an assistant research professor at the Desert Research Institute, began looking into the regional inventories of human - produced sources of carbon aerosol pollution in South Asia, considered to be a climate change hot spot, he knew something was missing.

At present rates of pollution then, human society would blow through its carbon budget in the next decade or so.

In forested areas, the carbon compounds are byproducts of plants» metabolism; in populated areas, they are often from human pollution.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now,» echoed Kim Knowlton, senior scientist and deputy director of the Science Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a release.

At the most fundamental level, the ecological footprint incorporates six measurements — city cover, carbon dioxide pollution, farm fields, fisheries, forests and rangeland — to reveal «the aggregate area of land and water ecosystems required by specified human populations to produce the ecosystem goods and services they consume and to assimilate their carbon waste.»

The report, written and reviewed by leading U.S. scientists as part of the National Climate Assessment, reinforces that warming temperatures and extreme weather around the globe are «extremely likely» to be the result of carbon pollution from human activities.

Clean energy policies decrease not only carbon pollution linked to climate change but also other types of pollution that harm human health, such as sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and fine particles that can damage the airways of humans and other organisms.

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.»

«Controlling air pollution will bring huge benefits to human welfare but it may reduce the amount of nutrients to the surface ocean and, thus, the ocean carbon uptake rate.

A Climate Central analysis attributed almost all of 2015's record heat to carbon pollution from human activities with El Niño and other natural phenomenon also playing smaller roles.

· Coal - or gas - fired systems with carbon capture and storage (CCS) reduce GHG emissions, but increase other pollution problems by 5 - 80 per cent, and create higher human health and environmental impacts.

Indeed, the rehabilitation of our water bodies can not happen with a denial of science that portrays the toll of global warming on our oceans due to excessive carbon dioxide emissions and human folly in overexploitation, unregulated and destructive fishing, marine pollution and habitat destruction.

Through solar panels, organic compost recycling, paper recycling, community garbage removal and community human approach towards pollution issues — we try to reduce our carbon footprint.»

But now look at the breadth of support across the United States for using pollution regulations to curb carbon dioxide, the main human - generated greenhouse gas:

Human alteration of environments produces multiple effects, some advantageous to societies, such as enhanced food production, and some detrimental, like environmental pollution with toxic chemicals, excess nutrients and carbon emissions from fossil fuels, and the loss of wildlife and their habitats.

J.E.N. Veron, former chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, writes that human pollution of the water, as well as human - generated carbon dioxide emissions which are causing ocean acidification and rising ocean temperatures are rapidly killing off corals.

Actions to reduce emissions of carbon pollution and other greenhouse gases that accelerate climate change will protect human health in both the short...

Key elements include curbing human carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, improved control of local pollution sources, reducing coastal habitat destruction, and better preparing coastal human communities to withstand the amount of ocean acidification and climate change that is unavoidable.

A new study confirms that carbon pollution has ended the era of the stable climate conditions that enabled the development of modern civilization High levels of carbon pollution have caused global temperatures to rise above the slow - changing, relatively stable conditions that existed «when humans were figuring out where the climate — and rivers and sea levels — were most suited for living and farming.»

Policies and other strategies intended to reduce carbon pollution and mitigate climate change can often have independent influences on human health.

I will admit that carbon dioxide is to plant life what oxygen is to humans and that without it there would be no life on this planet, and stop calling it «pollution».

A draft that leaked in August raised that confidence level to «extremely likely,» or greater than 95 % confidence that humans are responsible for the majority of global warming through carbon pollution.

Earthjustice is representing the Arctic Athabaskan Council before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to reduce black carbon pollution, slow Arctic warming and protect Athabaskans» homeland.

Nature has provided humans with a buffer against the worst effects of our carbon pollution.

Controlling pollution from transportation sources would greatly reduce black carbon and ozone emissions, which affect both climate and also human health.

Nevertheless, climate scientists realized a half century ago that human carbon emissions qualify as pollution due to the dangers they pose via climate change.

It is quite likely that most of the human related warming is due to land use and black carbon / dust pollution.

The diagnosis is that humans are suffering from a fever (and related symptoms) caused by our own actions — primarily emissions of carbon pollution.

«By the way, yes, my plan will reduce the carbon pollution that is eating our planet because climate change is not a hoax,» President Obama said at a campaign rally last week, absurdly portraying the essential gas CO2 exhaled by humans and consumed by plants as a «pollutant» in need of regulation.

The Earth's forests perform a well - known service to the planet, absorbing a great deal of the carbon dioxide pollution emitted into the atmosphere from human activities.

The clearing of rainforests and carbon - rich peatlands for new plantations is releasing globally significant carbon pollution, making Conflict Palm Oil a major driver of human induced climate change.

That lack of immediate concern may in part stem from a lack of understanding that today's pollution will heat the planet for centuries to come, as explained in this Denial101x lecture: So far humans have caused about 1 °C warming of global surface temperatures, but if we were to freeze the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide at today's levels, the planet would continue warming.

The planet is warming because of manmade carbon pollution and other greenhouse gases emitted from human activities like burning fossil fuels.

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«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now.

The best estimate from the best science is that people can limit warming from human - caused carbon pollution to less than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius)-- if society acts now.

Humans put about 35 billion tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere every year!

When people are aware of the high level of scientific agreement on human - caused global warming, they're more likely to accept that climate change is happening, that humans are causing it and support policies to reduce carbon pollution.

The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere correlates closely — but not perfectly — with the amount of carbon pollution emitted by human activities.

For one thing, it's hard to say just how much carbon pollution humans will pump into the atmosphere 50 or 100 years from now.

Many lines of evidence now confirm our planet is warming because of carbon pollution released when humans burn fossil fuels like oil and coal.

Those who want to preserve the status quo have continued to deny and attack the expert consensus because it's a «gateway belief»: when people are aware of the high level of scientific agreement on human - caused global warming, they're more likely to accept that climate change is happening, that humans are causing it, and support policies to reduce carbon pollution.

That's not a surprise, given that more than half of the carbon pollution from human activities has also happened since the 1970s.

But carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases aren't the only air pollution released by human activities.

The global temperature is rising because of carbon pollution from human activities.

The truth is, about half the carbon pollution from humans has actually entered the atmosphere after 1979.

They also lessen reliance on fossil fuels, thus decreasing carbon dioxide emissions and other forms of pollution harmful to humans and the planet alike.

Whether or not global warming is entirely or largely due to human use of carbon for fuel, the reduction of the dependence on carbon makes sense for reducing asthma in children; reducing black lung disease; reducing the production of coal ashes, residues, and effluents; reducing the impact of carbon greenhouse gasses; reducing pipeline failures; reducing coal and oil surface transport accidents; reducing pipeline - related warfare; and reducing air pollution.

There is no doubt that carbon pollution is a threat to human health and should be strictly limited like other dangerous pollutants.