Sentences with phrase «says human carbon»
The Carbon Law says human carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions must be reduced by half each decade starting in 2020.
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A joint statement from the National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society in Britain said «human - induced increases in CO2 (carbon dioxide) concentrations have been the dominant influence on the long - term global surface temperature increase.»
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.»
Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing that we all ought to be carbon copies of one another but fundamentally I think we want to say that there is ONE PARTICULAR way to be fully human and fully alive and that ONE PARTICULAR way is unique to Jesus, not unique to us.
Rick Perry, the U.S. Secretary of Energy who infamously once said he would do away with the Department of Energy, told CNBC that he didn't believe that carbon dioxide emissions from humans are the main cause for climate change.
Simone said he wanted to promote the fact that vegetables and pulses are more climate - and human - friendly than animal proteins, which are bad for the health and the production of which leads to environmental degradation and an increased carbon footprint.
«The results show unequivocally that most of the increase in CO2 between 7000 and 500 years ago is due to release of carbon from the ocean, not to axe - wielding humans,» says Eric Steig, an isotope geochemist at the University of Washington in Seattle.
«Many scientists, including us, had focused mostly on the mosquito antennae» for sensing human odors outside of exhaled carbon dioxide, says senior study author Anandasankar Ray, an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside.
«By extracting wood from unmanaged forest and bringing these forests under production, humans released carbon into the atmosphere that would otherwise be stored in the biomass, litter, dead wood, and soil of the forest,» Naudts said.
Marine biodiversity is in jeopardy from human activities such as acidification from carbon emissions, posing an existential threat to many marine animals, Wiens said.
«If the natural concentration had been a factor of two or more lower, the climate impacts of fossil fuel carbon dioxide release would have occurred about 50 or more years sooner, making it much more challenging for the developing human society to scientifically understand the phenomenon of humanmade climate change in time to prevent it,» he says.
«Today, we are facing rising carbon dioxide contents in the atmosphere through human activities, and the amount of oxygen in the ocean may drop correspondingly in the face of rising seawater temperatures,» Lyons said.
According to one of its lead authors, the report will say that to limit global warming to 2 °C, we must keep CO2 emissions from all human sources since the start of the Industrial Revolution to below about a trillion tonnes of carbon.
Industrial black carbon — particularly in the period around 1900 — left a dirty, harmful human smudge on the Arctic, researchers say.
While the team's research showed no significant difference in bacterial degradation of organic matter from cleared or forested watersheds, Canuel says it did show that «organic carbon in runoff from watersheds affected by human activity is less susceptible to solar degradation than that from forested watersheds.»
«This breakthrough depended on the ability of Carnegie's NanoSIMS ion probe to measure incredibly low levels of carbon, on objects that are the diameter of a human hair,» said Hauri.
«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human history to date,» says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
«I agree that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing as a result of human activities — primarily burning coal, oil, and natural gas — and that this means the global mean temperature is likely to rise,» Ebell said in the statement released by CEI yesterday.
Understanding the role rivers play in the carbon cycle can help researchers model non-natural (or human - caused) carbon emissions and more accurately assess the impact these emissions have on the atmosphere, he said.
Joe Reiss, vice president of marketing at manufacturer American Science and Engineering (AS&E) in Billerica, Mass., says low - atomic - number elements such as carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen — common constituents of explosives — create a strong scattering effect visible in images that operators monitor on a screen yet discernible from the organic molecules in the human body.
«Of the carbon dioxide human beings put into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation,» Berry says, «roughly a third remains in the atmosphere, a third goes into terrestrial ecosystems, and a third goes into the ocean.»
«Our study is about how a whole forest ecosystem consumes and produces carbon dioxide, or CO2, the main greenhouse gas linked to human - induced climate change,» says Wehr, a research associate in Saleska's lab in the UA's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
«Thanks to forests that sequester some of the carbon we are emitting by burning fossil fuels, human - induced climate change is happening more slowly than it otherwise would,» says Saleska.
«The evidence suggests that human activities in coastal zones will continue to have an important impact on global carbon cycling,» Bauer said.
Over a long enough period of time, the increased carbon burial could help offset a small fraction of carbon emitted by human activities such as fossil fuel burning, says study coauthor Antje
«Deforestation in the tropics accounts for nearly 20 per cent of carbon emissions due to human activities,» Dr Canadell says.
April will be the first time in human history where levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide were higher than 400 parts per million for an entire month, one scientist who monitors the levels said.
«We need to wrap this earth system problem inside an understanding of the human system as well,» said Schimel, describing the human dimension of the carbon cycle questions.
«Our results expose a specific regional hot spot where climate change, in the absence of significant [carbon cuts], is likely to severely impact human habitability in the future,» said Jeremy Pal and Elfatih Eltahir of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writing in the journal Nature Climate Change.
«Methanogens are critical players in the global carbon cycle and have potential uses for addressing human problems,» says William W. Metcalf, a microbiologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, and a member of the research team.
About 18 percent of all human - made carbon dioxide emissions — or nearly 8.5 billion tons each year — comes from the burning of forests, savannahs and wood chips for fuel, said Mark Jacobson, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Stanford and the study's main author.
Armed with this information, scientists will be able to do a much better job forecasting atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in the future, he said, and in understanding the role of human activities on the carbon cycle.
By its placement in the film, it appears that I am saying that since carbon dioxide exists in the ocean in such large quantities, human influence must not be very important — diametrically opposite to the point I was making — which is that global warming is both real and threatening in many different ways, some unexpected.
«Climate change, as well as human - caused deforestation and biomass burning, can lead to ecological and climatic tipping points that could release massive pools of stored carbon,» said Scot Martin, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
«Ocean warming is occurring because of human carbon dioxide emissions, which warm the earth as a whole,» Weber says.
Nothing says «I'm the greenest cabbie around» quite like a human powered Rickshaw, which emits close to zero grams of carbon a year — depending on what you had for lunch.
Quick progress in curbing emissions of carbon dioxide, the main human - generated greenhouse gas, could be achieved by using capital from rich countries to help prevent the destruction of tropical forests (and resulting greenhouse - gas emissions), Mr. Gore said.
«What we are seeing is a decrease in the planet's ability to absorb carbon emissions due to human activity,» Dr Canadell says.
As there is currently no science beyond a failing conjecture which establishes that carbon can overcome natural cycles, or that even if it can the tiny amount humans emit relative to the whole is factually relevant and quite a lot of hard science that says carbon is materially irrelevant to natural cycles.
«We're in new territory for human beings — it's been millions of years since there's been this much carbon in the atmosphere,» said Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, which campaigns for the world to move the dial on carbon concentrations down to 350 ppm.
The second result also comes as little news to us, as we have been saying for years that the human carbon dioxide emissions are not the only player in the climate change game.
For example, in a recent hearing reviewing the UK 4th carbon budget, Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) Graham Stringer said of the expert consensus on human - caused global warming,
He quotes leading author David Douglass saying; «The inescapable conclusion is that the human contribution is not significant and that observed increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases make only a negligible contribution to climate warming.»
12/19/17 — Among registered Republicans nationwide, only about half say that climate change is happening and fewer than a third say humans are responsible, yet a majority in every congressional district say they support regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant, according to a new study.
He says «The ocean takes up roughly one quarter of human emissions to the atmosphere of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning and deforestation.»
Instead of trying to understand those, this new null ignores all natural causes (cosmic rays, volcanos, carbon black, land use changes, methane releases, etc. — and basically says humans caused whatever happens, by default).
But that's actually an understatement by Gallup, since more than 97 % of the world's climatologists say that those carbon gases, which are given off by humans» burning of carbon - based fuels, are causing this planet's temperatures to rise over the long term, as those carbon gases accumulate in the atmosphere and also block the heat from being radiated back into outer space.
Only a year ago, WND reported scientists and others on a team assembled by the Chicago - based Heartland Institute, which focuses on free - market solutions to today's problems, say the «scare» of global warming from the use of carbon fuels and other human activities «is over.»
«This marks the fact that humans burning fossil fuels have caused global carbon dioxide concentrations to rise more than 120ppm since pre-industrial times,» Pieter Tans, lead scientist of NOAA's greenhouse gas network, said in an interview to The Guardian Wednesday.
(through drastic slashing of manufacturing technologies, draconian cap and trade taxation, repossession of private property, and a whole host of other proceedures of questionable value), and on the other, you have the alternative medicine quack that says «The pain is all in your mind» (EG, the non-scientists that say that human released carbon dioxide has no impact on the environment whatsoever, in spite of the fact that this is not supported by even the slightest bit of chemical evidence.)