Sentences with phrase «humans burn coal»

Although mercury, a neurotoxin, occurs naturally in the environment, it is also released into the atmosphere when humans burn coal and other fossil fuels.

well not really climate change officially now means human caused climate change due to the extra CO2 put in the air from among other things humans burning coal and oil in order to stay alive and live effectively.

Not exact matches

Now, research suggests that for the past decade, such stratospheric aerosols — injected into the atmosphere by either recent volcanic eruptions or human activities such as coal burning — are slowing down global warming.

Burning coal produces more than half the country's electricity, despite its immense human and environmental costs.

Some greenhouse gases occur naturally in the atmosphere, while others result from human activities such as burning of fossil fuels such as coal.

We humans emitted 35.9 metric gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2014, mostly from burning coal and natural gas in power plants, making fertilizer and cement, and other industrial processes.

Now the residue from all the oil and coal burned to power modern civilization may provide the best marker for the start of a new geologic epoch that highlights Homo sapiens's world - changing impact, known as the Anthropocene, or «new age of humans.»

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

The Obama administration continues to struggle to decide whether the residue of coal - burning constitutes an environmental and human health danger

The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air is now at its highest level in human history, largely because of coal - burning power plants and vehicle emissions.

They found that across ocean basins, the ratio of human - generated mercury to human - generated CO2 tends to stay consistent among waters in the same layer of depth, because coal burning, for example, emits both mercury and CO2.

«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human history to date,» says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

«I agree that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing as a result of human activities — primarily burning coal, oil, and natural gas — and that this means the global mean temperature is likely to rise,» Ebell said in the statement released by CEI yesterday.

«Potentially harmful nanoparticles produced through burning coal: Environmental scientists led by the Virginia Tech College of Science have discovered that the burning of coal produces incredibly small airborne particles of a highly unusual form of titanium oxide with the potential to be toxic to humans.»

Plants produce VOCs when they decay, but a major source comes from automobile exhaust, coal burning, and other human activities.

After all, coal burning is responsible for 40 percent of the 30 billion metric tons of CO2 emitted by human activity every year.

Even though large amounts are released into the air by human activities such as coal burning, smelting, mining and waste incineration, mercury also occurs naturally in the environment, where it undergoes a complex chemical cycle.

The outcome depends on how much more carbon dioxide, a main greenhouse gas, human activities (such as burning coal and oil) dump into the atmosphere.

98 % of actual climate scientists (a distinction Dr. Willie Soon does not earn) agree that global warming is real and primarily drive by humans burning fossil fuels like coal and oil.

The concern that figuring out how to sequester CO2 could act as a «license to burn» more coal is important, since dirty coal has such a negative impact on local air quality and human health, in addition to emitting CO2.

But there can be too much of a good thing: In the last 200 years, humans have added a lot of extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas to produce energy.

Industrial activities like burning oil, coal and natural gas and destroying rainforests have pumped greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at levels unprecedented in human history, according to the United Nations - led Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Another booming area of the guggul gum industry is as an incense; local Indians believe that burning the raw gum over coal to create a thick dense smoke can drive evil spirits away from the household and remove the «evil eye» from nearby humans.

Whilst the symptoms don't match carbon monoxide poisoning; I will mention that if you have a wood burning stove, ensure that it is serviced annually to ensure you aren't putting your life at risk, a small dog can be like a canary in a coal mine as they are more adversely affected by small amount of carbon monoxide than humans.

We humans have caused 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit of global warming since we started burning coal in 1750.

Emissions of the main human - generated greenhouse gas are surely tracking the reversal in electricity output, given that the vast majority of the country's electricity comes from burning coal.

Human beings have overpopulated the Earth far beyond its natural carrying capacity, and is essentially sustained by burning coal, oil, gas and uranium.

-- For the moment, it's not cheap to move away from the fuels of convenience, coal and oil, that when burned are the main source of human - generated greenhouse gases.

We're going to burn more coal over the next 30 years than in all of human history, CO2 emissions are rising at worst case expectations, and we're looking at 6 degrees Farenheit temperature rise over that time.

Human generated heat (e.g. the actual heat from burning coal or uranium) is not what's important — and that number is indeed insignificant next to the amounts in question.

He has warned that if all the world's countries fail by 2030 to move away from burning coal for power (at least without capturing the emitted CO2), it will be impossible to avoid a long slide toward Earth becoming «a different planet» from the one human societies have experienced for thousands of years.

Dr. Hansen, like many who commented on Dot Earth after I wrote about his statements, insists that the parallels hold between the denial and passivity that allowed a human cataclysm to sweep Europe in plain sight and the denial and inaction now as the world prepares to build hundreds of conventional coal - burning power plants.

«Professor Tom Wigley, was chiefly interested in the prospect of world climates being changed as a result of human activities, primarily through the burning of wood, coal, oil and gas reserves...»

And don't you find it at all interesting that this time span lines up quite closely with the modern era of greatly increased burning of fossil fuels by humans, first coal and peat, and later oil and gas?.

A caption below a photo of what looks like a smokestack added: «Humans have altered Earth's climate by burning coal and other fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide,» according to an image of the panel provided by the Perot Museum and by the panel's designer.

Human activities, such as burning coal and oil and cutting down tropical forests, have increased atmospheric concentrations of heat - trapping gases and caused the planet to warm by 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880.

Since the mid-1980s, the US Department of Energy has invested over $ 3 billion in power plant «clean coal technologies,» but mine fires burn on, venting carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and methane in a wind poisonous to humans and the environment.

The 2009 State of the Climate report gives these top indicators: humans emitted 30 billion tons of of CO2 into the atmosphere each year from the burning of fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas), less oxygen in the air from the burning of fossil fuels, rising fossil fuel carbon in corals, nights warming faster than days, satellites show less of the earth's heat escaping into space, cooling of the stratosphere or upper atmosphere, warming of the troposphere or lower atmosphere, etc..

That has a clear implication for our fossil fuel consumption, meaning that humans can not burn all of the coal, oil and gas reserves that countries and companies possess.

George is convinced that by adding iron sulphate to the oceans, he can stimulate plankton blooms and so suck enough carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to offset human emissions from burning coal and oil.

About 300 years ago, humans began to burn coal and oil to produce energy and goods.

If humans dig up and burn coal, oil and gas, they returning much of this carbon back to the atmosphere, causing the level of CO2 to rise.

Humans are now burning more than 1 million tons of coal, oil, and natural gas every hour.

Mr. Dickson wrote passionately about several areas in climate science that troubled him, including: first, the idea that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real, caused by humans, and a threat; second, the idea that government agencies had manipulated temperature records to fit a narrative of warming; and third, that China is developing its coal resources so fast that nothing short of radical population control will save us, if burning fossil fuels really does cause global warming.

In 1995, they said, «We have found the human influence on the climate, and in particular, it's due to our burning of coal and oil, which is building up carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.»

That means that humans need to burn all available oil and a lot of coal to reach such quantities.

According to OSM definitions this database of problematic coal mines includes 1,167 «Dangerous Impoundments», 1,298 sites with polluted groundwater («Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial» and «Polluted Water: Human Consumption»), and 276 «Underground Mine Fires» like the one still burning beneath the ghost town of Centralia.

Humans burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) release carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Scientists say it's apparent that human activity — namely burning coal, oil and natural gas — has been driving a rapid rise of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

While it is true that most of the CO2 - caused warming in the atmosphere was there before humans ever started burning coal and driving SUVs, this is all taken into account by computerized climate models that predict global warming...