Our homes and offices account for more than one third
of all greenhouse gases emitted by human activity — the bulk of it for heating in winter and air - conditioning in summer, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Not exact matches
Even allowing for the relative strength
of the effects, CO2 is still responsible for two - thirds
of the additional warming caused
by all the
greenhouse gases emitted as a result
of human activity.
Lately, he's focused closely on carbon dioxide, developing a variety
of ways to visualize the roughly 80 million tons
of the
greenhouse gas emitted daily
by human activities.
The value at the end
of Barack Obama's presidency was set at roughly $ 40 for each ton
of carbon dioxide, the main
greenhouse gas emitted by human activities, or equivalent amounts
of other
gases such as methane.
The rise in
greenhouse gases corresponds with the extra amount
of CO2 known to have been
emitted by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests.
James Hansen, director
of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, today published a study showing that
greenhouse gases emitted by human activities have brought the Earth's climate close to critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet.
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greenhouse gases), 39 («use
of fossil fuels
emits carbon dioxide»), 45 («emissions resulting from
human activities are substantially increasing...
greenhouse gases»), 48 («increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide caused
by the combustion
of fossil fuels»), 52 («fossil fuels -LSB-,]... when combusted,
emit carbon dioxide»).