Sentences with phrase «of fossil fuel emissions»

Global mean surface temperatures are only one way to assess the full impact of fossil fuel emissions and they do not reflect the regional aspects and ever - growing complexity of our changing climate.

That is still a good assumption today, if you look at the observed CO2 increase as fraction of fossil fuel emissions.

I decided to look into purchasing a carbon offset to compensate for the 17 + hours worth of fossil fuel emissions I'd put into the world!

We first define our method of calculating atmospheric CO2 as a function of fossil fuel emissions.

Basically, they want to make something useful and beneficial out of fossil fuel emissions, so that those emissions stay out of the atmosphere.

Coal recently passed petroleum as the leading source of fossil fuel emissions.

The report's conclusion strongly recommends the development of multiple solutions, making it clear that no single approach will take the state to a future nearly free of fossil fuel emissions.

And also impact of fossil fuel emission to the climate change is happening and we are feeling it.

We first define our method of calculating atmospheric CO2 as a function of fossil fuel emissions.

If those aerosols canceled the warming effect of fossil fuel emissions from 1940 - 1979, as has been claimed, then they would have had the same effect prior to 1940, regardless of whether the volume of both CO2 emissions and aerosol emissions were smaller.

From there, the researchers estimated that the carbon stored in Central Congo Basin's peat is equivalent to about 20 years of fossil fuel emissions from the United States, at current rates.

In order to bestow upon future generations a planet like the one we received, we need to win on all three counts, and by far the most important is rapid phasedown of fossil fuel emissions.

The growth rate of fossil fuel emissions increased from 1.5 % / year during 1980 — 2000 to 3 % / year in 2000 — 2012, mainly because of increased coal use [4]--[5].

The growth rate of fossil fuel emissions increased from 1.5 % / year during 1980 — 2000 to 3 % / year in 2000 — 2012, mainly because of increased coal use [4]--[5].

I think the only hope we have of phasing down emissions and getting to the middle of the century with a much lower level of fossil fuel emissions — which is what we will have to do if we want young people to have a future — we're going to have to have alternatives and at this time nuclear seems to be the best candidate.

Example research papers on the impact of fossil fuel emissions on tropical cyclones, on sea level rise, and on the carbon cycle demonstrate that the conclusions drawn by researchers about their anthropogenic cause derive from circular reasoning.

They then compared their results with other estimates of fossil fuel emissions, including estimates from the California Air Resources Board, who assisted with the study.

Our evaluation of a fossil fuel emissions limit is not based on climate models but rather on observational evidence of global climate change as a function of global temperature and on the fact that climate stabilization requires long - term planetary energy balance.

Our evaluation of a fossil fuel emissions limit is not based on climate models but rather on observational evidence of global climate change as a function of global temperature and on the fact that climate stabilization requires long - term planetary energy balance.

A 6 % / year decrease of fossil fuel emissions beginning in 2013, with 100 GtC reforestation, achieves a CO2 decline to 350 ppm near the end of this century (Fig. 5A).

I want to echo Joel, # 7, in reminding people to start with the total carbon mass of fossil fuel emissions.

Overall, net biospheric uptake is about 1.3 GtC / yr [billion tons of carbon a year], which is a small fraction of the overall annual exchange of about 60 GtC / yr and only a modest fraction of fossil fuel emissions of over 8 GtC / yr.

Absorbing about 35 — 40 percent of all fossil fuel emissions, forest growth keeps CO2 out of the other places in the biosphere where it does damage.

In the new study, Hansen writes, «there is no morally defensible excuse to delay phase - out of fossil fuel emissions as rapidly as possible.»

While China's consumption of fossil fuel emissions is relatively modest, its global manufacturing contributed 826 million tonnes of CO2 to Europe, the United States and Japan.

Earth's forests, it turns out, play a dominant role in absorbing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, acting like a giant sponge and soaking up on average about 8.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year, the new study led by the US Forest Service shows — or about one - third of fossil fuel emissions annually during the 1990 - 2007 study period.

I thought the article was a bit disingenuous, postulating a sudden cessation of fossil fuel emissions, and offering only the binary choice of artificial aerosol injection longterm or none.

We point out, to the surprise of a surprising number of people in the development field, that addressing the ending of extreme poverty with fossil fuels, when these are the cheapest option, does not bust the global system of fossil fuel emissions reduction.

«Even the connection of fossil fuel emissions to atmospheric CO2 levels is open to question.

CCS is a technology that allows reduction of fossil fuel emissions by capturing CO2 from large emitters (such as coal or gas power plants and the steel industry) and storing it underground.

That would reduce the amount of fossil fuel emissions required to produce the RCP8.5 GHG forcing to about 1300 GtC from the AR5 figure of 1685 GtC.

Each person on the planet produced 1.3 tons of carbon last year — an all - time high — despite a global recession that slowed the growth of fossil fuel emissions for the first time this decade, according to a report published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The current level is around 385 ppm and rising at a rate of more than 2 parts per million (ppm) year as a result of fossil fuel emissions, agriculture, and deforestation.

Even in the aggressive IEA 450 pathway, the build - out of CCS is making only a small dent, compared to the scale of the fossil fuel emissions.

«The real surprise was that we were expecting a bigger dip due to the financial crisis in terms of fossil fuel emissions,» said Pep Canadell, Executive Director of the GCP and a coauthor of the study, on the telephone to Reuters.