Sentences with phrase «human greenhouse gas pollution»

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Coral reefs are dying: We've already lost half the world's coral because of human activity like dredging the sea floor, pollution, and emitting greenhouse gases that warm ocean waters and make them more acidic.

With the human population continuing to rise by 75 million or more per year and with torrid economic growth in much of the developing world, the burdens of deforestation, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, species extinction, ocean acidification and other massive threats intensify.

Application is an environmental issue in industrialized countries like the United States because of high energy input, increased greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and other adverse effects on ecosystems and human health.

Iron particles generated by cities and industry are being dissolved by human - made air pollution and washed into the sea — potentially increasing the amount of greenhouse gases that the world's oceans can absorb, a new study suggests.

Known as a «co-benefit,» using state of the art models for human and natural systems, along with climate projections from the international community, the team was able for the first time to put a value on the global air pollution benefits of cutting greenhouse gas emissions over the 21st century.

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:

The glaciers going away will hopefully cause human population to drop off drastically, leading to less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, which will allow the usual processes to take over.

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

IPL advocates for energy policies that reduce greenhouse gas pollution, protect the health, beauty, and integrity of earth, support the health of human communities, and promote the use of clean energy.

The reason greenhouse gases can be (and probably are) responsible for more than 100 % of the observed warming is that other factors (mainly human aerosol pollution) have caused cooling at the same time.

(Inside Science)-- For 40 years, heat trapped by human - caused greenhouse gas pollution has been eating away at Arctic sea ice.

It described trends such as the growing hole in the ozone layer, pollution and depletion of freshwater sources, overfishing, deforestation, plummeting wildlife populations, as well as unsustainable rises in greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures and human population levels.

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

Clearly human pollution (not greenhouse gases) is a problem.

The impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on human health include the effects of air pollution on increased respiratory disease, the spread of vector - borne illnesses like cholera, malaria, and dengue fever due to changing weather patterns, and compromised agricultural production and food security leading to greater malnutrition.

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

• Some renewables decrease pollution other than greenhouse gases, pollutants that damage human health (as well as ecosystems and agriculture).

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.

We support educating the public and policymakers in government and industry about the harmful human health effects of global climate change, and about the immediate and long - term health benefits associated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions (i.e., heat - trapping pollution) and taking other preventive and protective measures that contribute to sustainability.

Human impacts on the climate system include increasing concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases (e.g., carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons and their substitutes, methane, nitrous oxide, etc.), air pollution, increasing concentrations of airborne particles, and land alteration.

The chart got its name because Hansen's unsupported, non peer - reviewed conjecture depicted a «run - away» line suggesting human - caused pollution was the sole culprit of greenhouse gases which is the primary cause of a changing climate.

The identification of other, sometimes more powerful, greenhouse gases such as methane, the contributions to atmospheric carbon dioxide from other human activities such as deforestation and cement manufacture, better understanding of the temperature - changing properties of atmospheric pollution such as sulphur emissions, aerosols and their importance in the post-1940s northern hemisphere cooling: the knowledge - base was increasing year by year.

Warming from decade to decade can also be affected by human factors such as variations in the emissions, from coal - fired power plants and other pollution sources, of greenhouse gases and of aerosols (airborne particles that can have both warming and cooling effects).

* As was recently stated in Nature, «Climate: The real holes in climate science» 463 (7279): 284 (2010): «Such holes do not undermine the fundamental conclusion that humans are warming the climate, which is based on the extreme rate of the twentieth - century temperature changes and the inability of climate models to simulate such warming without including the role of greenhouse - gas pollution.»

I find it difficult at best to comprehend your position on human - induced climate change, given the fact that every science academy across the globe, including the NAS, AAAS, AMA, AMS, AGU, and countless other scientific bodies, ALL agree that AGW is happening, it is already bad, it is going to get worse, and we should be doing everything in our power to cut down our emissions of greenhouse gases and pollution in general.