Sentences with phrase «increase coal burning»

Such climate changing pollution continues to increase — in 2010, the world emitted some 49 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases, thanks largely to increased coal burning in countries such as China.

India has steadily increased its coal burning capacity and the amount of cars for personal use.

In making the arguments about the coal - export impact you have to use a figure for the the increased coal burning, not the total coal burning.

Germany made big noises and lots of wind turbines, but increased coal burning to make up for the closing of nuclear power plants, as did Japan.

Recently, there have been debates about the slowing of the warming rates since 2005, with explanations (44 ⇓ — 46) ranging from increases in stratospheric water vapor and background aerosol to increased coal burning in the emergent economy of China of the past 20 y.

But since most of America's electricity comes from coal - fired power plants, critics worry that any cut in tailpipe emissions would be offset by dirty air from increased coal burning.

Not exact matches

Alberta is boosting its use of renewable energy, closing power plants that burn coal and in January increased its tax on carbon emissions by 50 percent.

First, he discusses the recent conclusion that China's massive burning of coal actually thwarted warming (an ironic idea) by increasing particulate pollution.

But the court accepted the Australian government's case that there was no definitive proof that coal from the Carmichael mine would increase global greenhouse emissions, because multiple factors affect how much coal is burned annually.

Additional moisture near coal - burning power plants accelerates the conversion of sulfur dioxide fumes into sulfuric acid, increasing acid rain in the area.

That sulfur dioxide market, run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has reduced sulfur dioxide levels by 40 percent since 1992 by allowing companies to buy and sell the right to emit the acid - rain forming pollution from coal - burning plants, which has increased the acidity of lake waters throughout the region.

The reason, according to the report, was that Denmark had increased its burning of coal and decreased the amount of renewable energy it imported.

Pollution from China's coal - burning power plants has increased the strength of storms in the Pacific Northwest by 10 percent over the last three decades

«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.

Although global mercury emissions continue to rise due largely to increases in coal burning in Asia, emissions in North America between 1990 and 2007 went down 2.8 percent per year, according to published studies in 2010 and 2013.

«That increase is not a surprise to scientists,» said NOAA senior scientist Pieter Tans, with the Global Monitoring Division of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. «The evidence is conclusive that the strong growth of global CO2 emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas is driving the acceleration.»

Their intent, apparently, was to disparage the views of scientists who disagree with their contention that continued business - as - usual increases in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions produced from the burning of coal, gas, and oil will lead to a host of cataclysmic climate - related problems.

Increases in coal burning and car emissions are major sources of pollution in China and other Asian countries.

The increase started around 1800, when we started burning fossil fuels (mostly coal to start) in a big way at the start of the Industrial Revolution.

But the burning of oil, coal, and gas also caused most of the historical increase in atmospheric levels of heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

At the same time, the burning of ever - increasing quantities of coal, oil and natural gas converts some atmospheric nitrogen into oxides of nitrogen (NOx).

Simply increasing carbon dioxide levels — by hitting the planet with a large rock and causing a massive dieoff, or exposing something like the US western deserts» coal beds long ago and having them catch fire and burn off — also causes warming.

If we continue increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations with emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas, the Earth will continue to get hotter.

This is evident by the decline in bituminous coal being burned in the U.S. for electricity and the increasing share of coal production and consumption coming from the lower btu sub-bituminous and lignite coal.

Positive can continue to dominate due to aspects related to psychological handling, and more heat has been shown to increase conflict potential, increased disruptions means increased rebuilding efforts, by all means (using wood and coal for burning if someone lacks technological advancements).

It was then used to power very big and inefficient steam engines that pumped water out of mines; when James Watt developed his steam engine that used 75 percent less coal than the Newcomen engine it replaced, the common thinking was that the increased efficiency meant that they would burn less coal.

«One of the main causes of warming is the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere resulting from our burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal and natural gas.»

China is increasing the burning of coal.

In fact the increase in coal burning by China from 2002 — 2012 is implicated as one contributory factor in the so called temperature pause, but not a huge one.

This is a practical impossibility due to increased amounts of greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere from the growing global production and burning of coal, tar / oil sands, heavy oil and bitumen.

4) Increasing lock in of new coal burning plant which is not designed to be capture ready.

The ocean, with around 38,000 gigatons (Gt) of carbon (1 gigaton = 1 billion tons), contains 16 times as much carbon as the terrestrial biosphere, that is all plant and the underlying soils on our planet, and around 60 times as much as the pre-industrial atmosphere, i.e., at a time before people began to drastically alter the atmospheric CO2 content by the increased burning of coal, oil and gas.

they have increased the burning of lignite coal, largely for generation of electricity exports.

Between 2002 and 2012, CO2 emissions from coal burning in China increased by 4.5 billion [metric tons].

«Burning fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum is the leading cause of increased anthropogenic CO2; deforestation is the second major cause.

Germany increased burning of lignite coal for exports as JE says, and as a bridge after nuclear was taken offline after the Fukushima disaster as follows.

Carbon dioxide increased with coal burning — increased because it's showing up in the atmosphere, where it can absorb (in those bands of infrared).

Since the countries with low cost power are burning coal while the countries with high cost power are using less CO2 intensive energy supplies, the net result is a gobal increase in CO2.

The Greenpeace report notes that coal burning has increased in Europe each year from 2009 to 2012.

The graph produced from its measurements, known as the Keeling Curve, was the first to show the tight relationship between the increase in CO2 in the air and the rise in the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas.

Although APS plans to reduce its coal burn from the current 35 % to 17 % by 2029, by increasing its natural gas burn from 19 % to 35 %, it will actually increase its greenhouse gas emissions in the near term, since the global warming potential from methane, which is leaked at multiple points of the natural gas supply chain, is 86 times that of carbon over 20 years, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2013 report.

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?.

It was a reminder of the skepticism that conservative and business groups have expressed over whether other nations — particularly China, which is responsible for about a quarter of the world's carbon emissions and is burning increasing amounts of coal — will follow Obama's lead in restricting such emissions.

Burning wood instead of coal therefore creates a carbon debt — an immediate increase in atmospheric CO2 compared to fossil energy — that can be repaid over time only as — and if — NPP [net primary production] rises above the flux of carbon from biomass and soils to the atmosphere on the harvested lands.»

Meanwhile, scientists have determined that biomass burning generates more CO2 emissions per kWh than burning coal does, and the projected rapid growth in biofuel use will only serve to «increase atmospheric CO2 for at least a century».

A carbon tax on coal destined to be burned will increase the price of electricity, but income tax, GST, or other taxes could be reduced so that the cost of living, and the total tax take, would remain the same.

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.

• our future rests on a vague Government hope that we can continue to burn coal at ever - increasing rates and at some point bury the problem under the ground;

This means that, since the share of coal in the power mix will remain steady, the actual volume of coal that Japan burns could increase by around 30 % over the next 15 years.

I strongly believe that the increased summer melts of Arctic ice are in part a result of black carbon from Asia coal burning landing on the ice and reducing its albedo (and greatly accelerating melt rates).