Sentences with phrase «human combustion of fossil fuels»

But these 139 nations account for perhaps 99 % of all the carbon dioxide emitted by human combustion of fossil fuels.

The implication is that even though other teams have repeatedly warned that the world's reefs are in peril as the world warms because of ever - greater ratios of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, as a consequence of human combustion of fossil fuels at a profligate rate, the world's great reefs may survive for perhaps another century, rather than perish within the next 50 years.

In fact, it clears up a long - standing uncertainty: just how much global warming − driven by prodigal human combustion of fossil fuels − is changing the rhythms of life in one zone of the planet.

Sea level rise is happening everywhere, as ice caps and glaciers melt and the seas rise in response to global warming driven by prodigal human combustion of fossil fuels, and researchers have advanced from general warning to the kind of detail that could help city and state planners prepare to cope with flood risks.

Since 288K is the average T, when there is an increase in one place there is a decrease in another and thus the net exchange of between the ocean and the atmosphere is zero if there is no other source of carbon dioxide such as human combustion of fossil fuels.

But a natural cycle of change in the North Atlantic may for the time being have countered the consequences of human combustion of fossil fuels, the rise of greenhouse gases and other impacts in the Arctic.

A notorious El Niño in 1998 helped make that year one of the hottest ever recorded, and since then meteorologists and climate scientists have been puzzling about what will happen to this natural cycle as carbon dioxide levels rise − in response to human combustion of fossil fuels − and in turn raise average global temperatures.

A new study based on 450 years of documentary and fossil evidence suggests that climate change driven by human combustion of fossil fuels is shifting the pathways of the hurricanes linked with the western Caribbean, and that global warming in the form of higher sea surface temperatures is affecting their intensity.

The atmospheric change is due to mainly to human combustion of fossil fuels, but also to large - scale tropical deforestation and wetland removal.

For decades, climate scientists have predicted that rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases from the human combustion of fossil fuel could lead to global warming, and that warming would be accompanied by more frequent or more violent storms.

Climate change is happening, being driven by the human combustion of fossil fuels at unprecedented rates for more than a century.

But the suspicion is that the long - term trend in global warming driven by human combustion of fossil fuels that dump vast quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere must be playing a part.

The report, The Human Cost of Weather - Related Disasters 1995 - 2015, is intended to focus attention during the UN climate change conference — which opens in Paris on Monday − on the damage already inflicted by global warming as a consequence of rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, in turn as a consequence of the human combustion of fossil fuels and the destruction of the planet's forests.

The link between the human combustion of fossil fuels, the destruction of the forests and the rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been repeatedly confirmed and attested separately not just by oceanographers and meteorologists, but less directly by glaciologists and foresters and naturalists who measure, on an annual basis, the timing of the seasons.

Since the icecap is melting as the atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide rise, and global temperatures rise with them, as a consequence of the human combustion of fossil fuels, the rate at which summer meltwater gets into the oceans becomes vital to climate calculations.