Sentences with phrase «mainly by burning fossil fuels»

The Commonwealth Government's independent Climate Commission released a report yesterday saying climate change is still real, it is still caused mainly by burning fossil fuels and digging up trees and the consequences are still going to be bad.

Humans are adding CO2 to the atmosphere, mainly by burning fossil fuels.

Black smoke and sulphur dioxide were produced mainly by burning fossil fuels (including coal, oil, diesel, petrol).

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Carbon dioxide is mainly emitted by burning fossil fuels.

Schlosser states, «In the last 150 years, the earth's temperature has increased by nearly 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) due to humans» emission of greenhouse gases, mainly burning of fossil fuels.»

On the one hand, warnings from the scientific community are becoming louder, as an increasing body of science points to rising dangers from the ongoing buildup of greenhouse gases — mainly those produced by the burning of fossil fuels and forests.

The choice is up to U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon, who says stronger action by all, mainly to curb emissions from burning fossil fuels, is needed to avert more heatwaves, droughts, floods and rising sea levels.

Greenhouse gases produced mainly by the burning of fossil fuels are altering the atmosphere in ways that affect earth's climate, and it is likely that they have «contributed substantially to the observed warming over the last 50 years,» an international panel of climate scientists has concluded.

The climate talks are intended to hash out rules for the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement, mainly by slashing carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

Severe climate change, caused mainly by emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning and associated emissions of other greenhouse gases;

The total amount of CO2 emitted by anthropogenic sources (mainly burning fossil fuels) is more than enough to account for the measured increase in atmospheric CO2.

rapid warming in recent decades has been driven mainly by non-CO2 greenhouse gases, not by the products of fossil fuel burning, CO2 and aerosols, the positive and negative climate forcings of which are partially offsetting.

can only be accounted for by anthropogenic processes — mainly fossil fuel burning and deforestation, with little room for other variables.

I've been following this topic since the mid-90's and from what I've read, I think they want to stop the burning of fossil fuels mainly in developed countries as well as put the clamps on democracy, and redistribute our wealth to developing countries for two reasons: 1) to bring down their fertility rates by development and 2) to provide reliable electric power to areas of the world without it so that the NSA can easily keep track of the rest of the world's population.

On the one hand, warnings from the scientific community are becoming louder, as an increasing body of science points to rising dangers from the ongoing buildup of human - related greenhouse gases — produced mainly by the burning of fossil fuels and forests.

By contrast, power stations burning fossil fuels, mainly coal and gas, are responsible for a quarter of the increase in greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere.