Sentences with phrase «one's burning of fossil fuels»

There is no doubt whatsoever that the planet is warming and it is primarily due to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from burning of fossil fuels.

Perhaps no surplus carbon sink exists at all to absorb the emissions caused by burning of fossil fuels accumulated in the earth over millions of years.

Some greenhouse gases occur naturally in the atmosphere, while others result from human activities such as burning of fossil fuels such as coal.

These researchers wanted to know more about the role of pollution from traffic and the industrial burning of fossil fuels in these deaths.

Our continued burning of fossil fuels is the culprit.

These funds will not only bring us increased solar power which means reduced burning of fossil fuels from local power plants but also increased green jobs in manufacturing and installation of solar units.

The massive burning of fossil fuels is increasing the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, raising the earth's temperature and disrupting climate.

In a sane world which was running out of petroleum and had dire climate change problems due to excessive burning of fossil fuels highway speed limits would be greatly reduced.

Both incorporate transportation within the city, stationary burning of fossil fuels, consumption of electricity, and emissions related to waste.

Data show atmospheric CO2 continuing to climb with the rampant burning of fossil fuels and continued deforestation.

It occurs due to rise in global warming which occurs due to increase in temperature of atmosphere by burning of fossil fuels and release of harmful gases by industries.

Global warming, blamed mainly on human burning of fossil fuels that produce heat - trapping carbon dioxide, is projected to bring more floods, droughts and to raise world sea levels.

But the Industrial Revolution led to widespread burning of fossil fuels for energy, which released a deluge of carbon into the atmosphere.

«The most coherent explanation is that climate is changing because of burning of fossil fuels and felling forests.

Human activities — primarily burning of fossil fuels and changes in land cover — are modifying the concentration of atmospheric constituents or properties of the surface that absorb or scatter radiant energy.

The increased burning of fossils fuels such as coal and oil in the last few decades has injected more and more carbon dioxide into the Earth's atmosphere.

A growing body of scientific evidence indicates that the world's climate is warming, primarily as a result of unfettered burning of fossil fuels and the razing of tropical forests.

We — the undersigned medical societies — support the international scientific consensus, as established in multiple national and international assessments, that the Earth is rapidly warming, and that human actions (especially burning of fossil fuels) are the primary causes.

«We live in an era during which it has become clear that we can not burn all of the fossil fuels without causing dangerous climate change,» the letter, seen by Reuters, said.

The 1840s gallery was chosen for the protest because it houses many paintings from the time of the industrial revolution, when the large - scale burning of fossil fuels began in the west.

Although global warming is driven by human behaviour — and in particular the prodigal burning of fossil fuels at an ever - accelerating rate to dump ever - greater quantities of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — it is also influenced by natural climate rhythms.

In a letter published in Science the researchers compare the recent furore around the so - called «climate-gate» stolen emails to the Communist witch hunts of the 50s led by Joseph McCarthy «We urge our policy - makers and the public to move forward immediately to address the causes of climate change, including the un-restrained burning of fossil fuels,» they... Read more

New York, London, Beijing, Tokyo and Sydney are just among the major cities worldwide that could drown with unrestrained burning of fossil fuels as carbon emissions result in the warming of global temperatures and rise in sea levels.

«Climate change is happening, and as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, national scientific academies and scientific organisations across the world have all concluded [that] human activities, particularly burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, are primarily responsible.»

And it's no mystery why this has been happening: the profligate burning of fossil fuels, the very thing that US Airways was bound and determined to do despite the inconvenience presented by a melting tarmac.

«The article serves as a sobering wakeup call to those who still dispute the threat posed by our ongoing burning of fossil fuels,» he said.

Unless and until fresh and more reliable data and science show continuing global warming, and point at CO2 as the cause, there will not be any further serious action on the part of the government (Labor or Liberal) to curb burning of fossil fuels.

Industrial burning of the fossil fuels laid down in the Carboniferous period, in the form of decaying plant - matter, is the main reason why there is now more carbon in the atmosphere than there has been for 4m years.

But centuries of rising temperatures and seas lie ahead if the untrammeled burning of fossil fuels and deforestation continue unabated, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

In the two years since Sandy ravaged the East Coast and almost a year after Haiyan left millions homeless, communities worldwide have continued to suffer the effects of climate change — more frequent and intense droughts, storms, wildfires, and flooding — driven in part by the unlimited burning of fossil fuels.

Now this is not to say that irresponsible burning of fossil fuels is good for the world, there are all sorts of real problems there, and one bad thing about the climate hysteria is it distracted people from real problems.

The suggestions that solar radiation management might cool the planet at least a little to buy time to deal with the problems caused by humanity's over eager burning of fossil fuels, raise all sorts of questions about who should act how and where.