Sentences with phrase «on human fossil fuel»

Over the last three decades, five IPCC «assessment reports,» dozens of computer models, scores of conferences and thousands of papers focused heavily on human fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, as being responsible for «dangerous» global warming, climate change, climate «disruption,» and almost every «extreme» weather or climate event.

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Asked on Sunday to clarify a statement he made last month that carbon dioxide — emitted from fossil fuel power plants — is not a primary contributor to climate change, Pruitt said «human activities contribute to that change in some measure.»

He's going to placeholdercolonize Mars, save Puerto Rico, free us from dependence on fossil fuels, redefine high - speed transportation, and ensure human beings can survive in the age of artificial intelligence.

If we continue to focus on renewables and human based energy (walking, biking, insulation, passive heating and hand tools), we can gradually replace our reliance on fossil based fuel.

The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

By employing fossil fuels to replace human labor, on the one hand, and by having each person perform limited repetitive operations, on the other, total production could be greatly increased.

Our research focuses on biologically - based mechanisms to reduce pest issues, soil erosion, fossil fuel use, and greenhouse gas emissions; increase nutrient and water use efficiencies; improve pollinator activity and food security; and apply a systems approach to soil, crop, animal, human and planetary health.

But as human population expands and subsistence farming gives way to mechanized agriculture, food production has become reliant on fossil fuel and fertilizers to increase yield from rapidly shrinking farmland.

Given the knowledge that they are crapping in their own habitat with their carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning on Earth, I'd like to think humans have gained an evolutionary advantage which canines lack.

Under the new plan, the government will have the power to veto investment decisions made locally on ethical grounds concerning human rights, arms trade, fossil fuels and much else.

The world's experts have stated that the global warming is largely due to human activity — primarily as the result of reliance on fossil fuels.

Environmental groups have cautioned that drilling for natural gas in New York will pollute water sources, increase reliance on fossil fuels and harm human health.

Considering what is possible and what is desirable in our energy future, Smil argues that human dependence on fossil fuels must be reduced not because of impending resource shortages but because of the environmental, economic, and political problems caused by our current consumption.

Since 1751, roughly the start of the Industrial Revolution, humans have burned the amount of fossil fuel that would have come from all the plants on Earth for 13,300 years.

► On Wednesday, also at ScienceInsider, David Malakoff reported that «[a] half - dozen academic journals are investigating allegations that aerospace engineer Willie Wei - Hock Soon, a prominent skeptic of the idea that humans are contributing to global warming, failed to disclose financial ties to a fossil fuel company in papers they published.»

It was clear that climate change is an energy problem — burning fossil fuels to generate energy accounts for 74 per cent of human - made greenhouse gas emissions — but I could see that it was very difficult to change the energy industry from the outside and very little was happening on the inside.

Already, it is becoming clear that burning fossil fuels and clearing forests are having an impact on the atmosphere, which is rebounding to the detriment of the humans behind those activities.

Considering that human activity has indirectly brought together species through planetary warming and increased fossil fuel emissions, the question on the minds of many biologists like Arnold is whether humans should play a role in preventing hybridization like this.

With the human activity associated with industrialization, however, came the burning of fossil fuels for manufacturing and transportation, putting more carbon dioxide into the air and creating an increased pressure of this gas on some regions of the earth's surface — including coastal areas.

In 1996, when climate research was more certain about the link between fossil fuel combustion and climate change than during the time of Shaw's memo, Exxon's new chairman and chief executive Lee Raymond said in a speech in Detroit: «Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.»

Today, photosynthesis is considered «the most important chemical reaction on earth», providing food for humans and animals, releasing oxygen for them to breathe — and millions of years later, this process provides fossil fuel in the form of oil, coal and natural gas, as Michel likes to point out.

Human influences on the climate (largely the accumulation of CO2 from fossil fuel combustion) are a physically small (1 %) effect on a complex, chaotic, multicomponent and multiscale system.

These results imply a greater potential than previously thought for fossil fuel industry efficiency improvements to mitigate the effects of human activity on the climate.

Bigger plants growing more quickly could provide more energy, lessening human reliance on fossil fuels.

A clear illustration of direct effects of fossil fuels on human health was provided by an inadvertent experiment in China during the 1950 — 1980 period of central planning, when free coal for winter heating was provided to North China but not to the rest of the country.

More than 170 nations have agreed on the need to limit fossil fuel emissions to avoid dangerous human - made climate change, as formalized in the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change [6].

And the less common and more extreme the hot extreme or heavy rainfall event, the more this can be blamed on human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels.

It's no secret that autonomous and electric vehicles are expected to go hand in hand in the future, reducing the stress on fossil fuels as well as us human beings.

In other words, there is no warming effect of greenhouse gases and humans can carry on with Business As Usual, including massive burn of fossil fuels.

In an interview at The Times last week, Fox said his focus on human - driven climate change emerged as he grappled, after that small fracking success, with the unrelenting demand for fossil fuels and emerging impacts of warming temperatures, made emblematic by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

In the case of climate change, a clear consensus exists among mainstream researchers that human influences on climate are already detectable, and that potentially far more substantial changes are likely to take place in the future if we continue to burn fossil fuels at current rates.

would never pass an IRB (Institutional Review Board, which must approve any experiments on humans at all institutions doing such experiments — except fossil fuel companies &; >).

It will be «ugly» but it's inevitable that either a microbe or climate change or mismanagement of earth's fossil fuels will do to humans what similar forces have done periodically to every species on terra firma.

He mainly pointed his camera at ecosystems and human communities in harm's way, but sometimes focused on the fossil fuel industry — most notably in capturing the first images of Shell's (ultimately ill - fated) Arctic oil rig Kulluk as it prepared to drill an exploratory oil well in the Beaufort Sea in 2012.

Dr. Depledge described signs of a shift in the oil kingdom's stance, including its endorsement of science pointing to big impacts from a building human influence on climate and commitment of money to pursue technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other new energy options.

I love Sailesh Rao's comment above, «Frankly, [our strange fetish for burning fossil fuels] doesn't reflect well on the intelligence of the human species, which probably accounts for why no intelligent life has contacted us yet.»

A great moment, reflecting the inevitability of diverse responses to climate risk on a variegated planet, came during a plenary panel focused on ways to satisfy fast - growing human energy needs while moving away from burning fossil fuels, which remain the world's dominant energy source.

I hope human being can act quickly, but still some countries pursuit their economy depending on fossil fuel.

Libby's article speaks volumes about the difficulty of moving a world that is more than 80 percent dependent on fossil fuels toward one largely free of carbon dioxide emissions from such fuels within two or three generations, even as the human population heads toward 9 billion (more or less).

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

I think they are very right, how to control human being greedy to develop economy depend on fossil fuel is very big issue for us now.

Anyone who reads the detailed scientific explanation of Mr. Gary Novak (/ / nov55.com/ntyg.html), can easily grasp that human use and abuse of fossil fuels do not have a significant impact on Earth climate; and that implementing the Kyoto Protocol would only harm the health of the economy — not only the profits of big corporations, but also the pockets of all consumers — even the poorest.

The ultimate rise of CO2 is driven by human decisions on levels of fossil fuel use, principally.

[J] ust as humanity confronted «revolutionary change» (Rerum Novarum) in the19th century at the time of Industrialization, today we have changed the natural environment so much that scientists, using a word coined by our Academy, tend to define our era as the Anthropocene, that is to say, a period of time in which human action is having a decisive impact on the planet due to the use of fossil fuels.

The trick is to use the chemicals without human or environmental exposures, thereby producing a material that is itself environmentally beneficial by breaking our reliance on fossil fuels.

Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of greenhouse gases have been, and continue to be, emitted by the massive fossil fuel consumption of a tiny percentage of the Earth's human population, most of them in countries with low rates of population growth — and that the overwhelming majority of human beings on the Earth, particularly those in countries with relatively high rates of population growth, generate only a small amount of greenhouse gases.

Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which scientists have repeatedly warned — again just yesterday — will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.

I'm still unclear on the timeframe to reach TEQ in this (highly simplified) scenario — even if humans eliminate fossil fuels in 7 years, even if the 1 % per year rate is exceeded, what are they really saying here?

While most of the CO2 emitted by far is the result of natural phenomena — namely respiration and decomposition, most attention has centered on the three to four percent related to human activities — burning of fossil fuels, deforestation.

Most of these perturbations, tied either directly or indirectly to human fossil fuel combustion, fertilizer use, and industrial activity, are projected to grow in coming decades, resulting in increasing negative impacts on ocean biota and marine resources.