Agriculture and land use change contributed about 1/3 of
total human greenhouse gas emissions in the past decade, through crop cultivation, animal production, and deforestation.
By comparison,
total human greenhouse gas emissions (including CO2) since 1750 amount to some 350 billion tons.
Not exact matches
Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the
human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing
total greenhouse gas emissions.»
Researchers accounted for
human influence on climate by estimating the present - day chances of Harvey's rainfall
totals and then comparing them with 1950s
greenhouse gas levels.
Currently, agriculture accounts for 10 - 12 percent of the
total human - caused
greenhouse gas emissions globally.
The researchers looked at a
total of 34 different global climate model outputs, encompassing different degrees of atmospheric sensitivity to
greenhouse gases and different levels of
human emissions of
greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
«Many datasets, for example, the data for the
total concentration of atmospheric
greenhouse gases, show that
human population has been a strong driver of the
total impact of
humans on our planet Earth.
Putting it all together, Figure 2 compares the warming from
human caused
greenhouse gases to the
total radiative forcing from all
human sources.
Black — Observed Warming, Green —
greenhouse gases, Orange —
total Influence from
human factors, Yellow — other
human factors, Blue — Natural Factors (volcanos and solar forcing).
To better determine the fate of the species in the face of climate change, the researchers analyzed a
total of 34 different global climate models, taking into account atmospheric sensitivity to
greenhouse gases and different levels of
human greenhouse gas emissions.
Yet according to official climate models, even if the U.S. enacted an immediate and
total ban on all
human emissions of
greenhouse gases, the difference in global temperature by the year 2050 would be a mere five one - hundredths of a degree Celsius.
The region locks up more than 100 billion tons of carbon — more than 11 years» worth of
total greenhouse gas emissions from
human activities; plays an important role in global weather circulation patterns, including delivering rainfall to Central America, the United States, and southern South America; supports perhaps a third of terrestrial biodiversity; and is home to the bulk of the world's remaining indigenous people still living in traditional ways.
This year's temperatures now appear set to exceed 1998's values by around 0.35 C — or about one - third of the entire warming
total seen since large - scale
human greenhouse gas emissions began during the late 19th century.
(04/23/2009) Fire accounts for roughly half of
greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and about twenty percent of
total emissions from
human activities, report researchers writing in the journal Science.
However, long - term climate change over many decades will depend mainly on the
total amount of CO2 and other
greenhouse gases emitted as a result of
human activities.
CO2 is listed as a
greenhouse gas, but it is less than 4 percent of the
total, and the
human portion is a fraction of that.
Currently global livestock production, increasingly intesified under factory farming, is responsible for (conservatively) 18 % of
total human - caused
greenhouse gas emissions.