Sentences with phrase «result of burning fossil fuels»

Human activities are emitting around 10.5 billion tonnes of carbon annually and rising, mostly as a result of burning fossil fuels.

That's nearly 20 percent of current CO2 emissions as a result of burning fossil fuels.

After six years of running such simulations, the verdict is in: Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations as a result of burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests increased the risks of flooding in two out of three model runs by more than 90 percent.

«When you get to numbers that are that large, it really shows how much risk has increased as a result of burning fossil fuels,» she said.

We have the general idea that bad things may come from doubling the amount of heat - trapping gases in the air as a result of burning fossil fuels.

Scientists measure more heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, a result of burning fossil fuels such as coal and oil.

The planet is already likely to warm by 2 degrees Celsius as a result of burning fossil fuels and destroying forests and farmlands over the last century.

Since most global warming concern (including that behind regulatory action) stems from the projections of climate models as to how the earth's temperature will evolve as we emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere (as a result of burning fossil fuels to produce energy), it is important to keep a tab on how the model projections are faring when compared with reality.

If climate change is primarily the result of burning fossil fuels isn't offsetting with trees simply a distraction?