Sentences with phrase «humans burned over»

This meant that humans burned over 27 % more energy per day on average than chimps.

Not exact matches

The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women as less than human, stoning people to death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands of INNOCENT people, and these clowns are worried about their precious Koran being burned by a nutjob.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

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.

Over time, the majority of human fire use has shifted from indigenous burning to agricultural burning to fossil fuel burning.

Over the last few centuries, the ocean has absorbed huge amounts of the carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels.

Over the past 250 years, human activities such as fossil fuel burning have raised the atmospheric CO2 concentration by more than 40 % over its preindustrial level of 280 ppm (parts per milliOver the past 250 years, human activities such as fossil fuel burning have raised the atmospheric CO2 concentration by more than 40 % over its preindustrial level of 280 ppm (parts per milliover its preindustrial level of 280 ppm (parts per million).

«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.

Over a long enough period of time, the increased carbon burial could help offset a small fraction of carbon emitted by human activities such as fossil fuel burning, says study coauthor Antje

It's also sensitive to the atmospheric composition of gases, and humans have influenced that by burning fossil fuels for over a century.

Over the past several years, scientists have succeeded in tracking with increasing confidence the portion of climate change that is tied directly to human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels.

Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia.

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.

As with «The Crucible,» Day - Lewis» big explosion — this time into outright stark - raving, animalistic rage, drooling and towering over Eli while pushing at him to tease him — wouldn't count for much if not for the slow - burn of the rest of the performance, with the actor's gradual shift from at least somewhat human to All - Powerful American Businessman as a Monster shown by his body going from upright to crooked, his face from quietly hateful to anything but.

I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet, just like a human being...» Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, his back twisted beyond repair by the catastrophic events of «that night» when a burning fog of poison smoke from the local factory blazed out over the town of Khaufpur, and the Apocalypse visited his slums.

Extrapolating from their forest study, the researchers estimate that over this century the warming induced from global soil loss, at the rate they monitored, will be «equivalent to the past two decades of carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and is comparable in magnitude to the cumulative carbon losses to the atmosphere due to human - driven land use change during the past two centuries.»

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.

Making fire undoubtedly was a major reason we as humans are still here, but since we now are burning up all organic matter sequestered over millions of years, shouldn't we change directions and find other ways to satisfy our need for energy and isn't it time we start using all our knowledge we as humans have acquired over all these years?

But that's actually an understatement by Gallup, since more than 97 % of the world's climatologists say that those carbon gases, which are given off by humans» burning of carbon - based fuels, are causing this planet's temperatures to rise over the long term, as those carbon gases accumulate in the atmosphere and also block the heat from being radiated back into outer space.

carbon dioxide from humans burning fossil fuels has increased the average temperature of the planet by 1.4 Fahrenheit or.8 Celsius over the past 130 years.

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.

This suggested that over the past 20 years, human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation had begun to dominate «the natural factors involved in climate change,» he said.

Scientists in the US say parts of Australia are being slowly parched because of greenhouse gas emissions — which means that the long - term decline in rainfall over south and south - west Australia results from fossil fuel burning and depletion of the ozone layer by human activity.

But Earth's climate had roughly stabilized over the last 10,000 years, until humans began burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases.

If you look at the increase in global mean temperature over the last fifty years, the vast majority of that is associated with human activity and the burning of fossil fuels.

Within a few generations he is burning the fossil fuels that slowly accumulated in the earth over the past 500 million years... The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings.

We are somewhere over 95 % certain that human activity (mainly fossil fuel burning) is adding more net energy to the system.

R. Gates, «We are somewhere over 95 % certain that human activity (mainly fossil fuel burning) is adding more net energy to the system.

Compared with natural factors that influence climate (including solar variation and volcanic eruptions), human activities — primarily burning fossil fuels and deforestation — have been a major contributor to climate change over the last 50 years.

So, I'll ask you, have humans burned enough fossil fuel to release enough CO2 to increase its concentration in the atmosphere by over a third?

Over the past several months, the Arctic Ocean on the opposite side of the world has also seen record - low sea ice — a new nadir in a decades - long decline that, climate scientists say, is one of the many fingerprints of humans» hand in warming Earth's atmosphere and oceans through the burning of fossil fuels.

Over the past several years, scientists have succeeded in tracking with increasing confidence the portion of climate change that is tied directly to human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels.

The red numbers and arrows show the additional fluxes caused by human activities averaged over 2000 - 2009, which include emissions due to the burning of fossil fuels, cement production and land use change (in total about 9 PgC / year).

On the question of whether observed changes in climate can be attributed to human activities such as burning fossil fuels, Bolin noted that «The global mean temperature has increased by 0.3 - 0.6 degrees C since the late 19th century, and about 0.3 degrees over the last 40 years.»

They are fed up with a bunch of white environmentalists and oppressed do - gooders running the country into ruin by ignoring the fundamentals of jobs, wage growth, and personal and family security in favor of reduced coal burning, reduced oil drilling, no oil pipelines, no fracking, endangered species over the human kind, and attempts to control the long - term climate at tremendous cost to the citizenry.

In fact, if humankind was really as dumb as the fans of DPS would have us believe, we wouldn't be around today to hear their doomsaying, because Homo sapiens would have been wiped out during vastly larger environmental swings (in and out of ice ages, for example) in our past, than those expected as a consequence of the burning of fossil fuels to produce the energy that powers our world — a world in which the human life expectancy, perhaps the best measure of our level of «dumbness» or «smartness» — has more than doubled over the last century and continues to grow ever longer.

As aerosol pollution is predicted to decrease over the next few decades, unmasking of the greenhouse effect may lead to accelerated global warming.storms and ocean plankton The human - generated aerosols are derived from industry, motor vehicles and vegetation burning.

In page 196 of the Stern Review, which you sited later, it says «Over the past two centuries, around 2000 Gt CO2 (Gt = billion tonnes) have been released into the atmosphere through human activities (mainly from burning fossil fuels and land - use changes).

These and other human activities add over 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year into the atmosphere, with the greatest contribution from fossil fuel burning.

Read / Purchase the Report Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia (2011) Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth's climate.

Next week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the main international body tasked with studying climate change, is expected to release the first section of a four - part report that is expected to be the strongest statement yet by scientists that the burning of fossil fuels by humans over the past half century is warming the planet.

Maybe it should be obvious that you don't want to burn a bridge with a recruiter, or a recruiter with a candidate... Over these past 20 years, I've become curious about human behavior.