Sentences with phrase «larger than the anthropogenic emission»

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• BIOTECHNOLOGY The livestock business accounts for about 18 percent of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions — an even larger contribution than the global transportation sector, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.

The possibility that natural variability explains the century - scale observed rise in atmospheric CO2 can easily be dismissed based on simple accounting (anthropogenic emissions are larger than the rise itself, and thus account for over 100 % of the observed rise).

I understood Selby to say that natural sources and sinks are much larger, vary much more, and have much higher uncertainties than anthropogenic emissions.

Asia has become the largest contributor of anthropogenic atmospheric Hg, responsible for more than half of global emissions, and a significant increase in emissions from this region is expected in the next few decades due to rapid economic and industrial development (54).

This demonstrates that there are larger changes to natural flows in and out of the air than the flow to the air that is the anthropogenic emission.

Now, regardless of the error margins on the measure of this large flux, even if they are substantially larger than total anthropogenic emissions, we KNOW that the fluxes were in balance before.