Sentences with phrase «warming by burning fossil fuels»

The fossil fuel industry seems to be moving on to their last public relations stand: «Yes, human beings are causing global warming by burning fossil fuels — but that will be a good thing!».

He also defended the research — reviewed by some 2,500 scientists — that shows man has fueled global warming by burning fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

In her first major environmental proposal, Nixon called on New York State to commit to 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2050 — a benchmark that has been something of a Holy Grail for activists concerned about the warming of the planet as a result of the burning of fossil fuels.

The study also concludes that, over a 15 - year period, cutting the black carbon produced by burning fossil fuels, vegetation, dung and other sources could reduce the warming the Earth has experienced since the Industrial Revolution — about 0.8 degrees Celsius — by 17 to 23 percent.

Cutting the black carbon, or soot, produced by burning fossil fuels, vegetation, dung and other sources could reduce global warming

The soot produced by burning fossil fuels has a stronger warming effect because it contains a higher ratio of black carbon to sulfate, which reflects sunlight to produce a cooling effect.

Land - use changes over the past 250 years in Europe have been huge, yet, they only caused a relatively small temperature increase, equal to roughly 6 % of the warming produced by global fossil fuel burning, Naudts noted.

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels will rise to a record 36 billion metric tons (39.683 billion tons) this year, a report by 49 researchers from 10 countries said, showing the failure of governments to rein in the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.

Produced by the burning of fossil fuels in power plants and car engines, carbon dioxide continues to accumulate in the atmosphere, warming the planet.

FACT: Seventy percent of our electricity is produced by burning coal and other fossil fuels, sources linked to global warming.

Since levels of greenhouse gases have continued to rise throughout the period, some skeptics have argued that the recent pattern undercuts the theory that global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by human - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

The study, published online April 6 in the journal Climate Dynamics, represents a new approach to the question of whether global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by man - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

Critics argue that albedo modification and other «geoengineering» schemes are risky and would discourage nations from trying to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas that comes from the burning of fossil fuels and that is causing global warming by absorbing increasing amounts of energy from sunlight.

The latest version, more than a year in the making, reiterates findings that global warming is unequivocal and primarily caused by humans from the burning of fossil fuels, the clearing of forests, and the disruption of agricultural activities.

Kyoto regulates all sources of carbon dioxide as well as other greenhouse gases, but reliable long - term data by country are available only for carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels (which accounts for about two - thirds of the human contribution to global warming).

That molecule — released by the gigaton from human activities like fossil fuel burning and clearing forests — causes the bulk of global warming.

Leaving politics aside, for the people around the world who inhabit as much as 71 % of the world's coastlines and are surrounded by oceans, this is not just a statement on a piece of paper, but a commitment of world leaders to take the wellbeing of our further generations to heart, to tackle the burning of fossil fuels and global warming collectively.

The world is warming due to the release of CO2 by fossil fuel burning This will change the climate unless we reduce CO2 emissions.

Because of the climate record is still short, more work needs to be done to determine how much of the warming results from natural climate swings and how much from the warming effects of carbon dioxide released by the burning of fossil fuels, Dr. Steig said.

98 % of actual climate scientists (a distinction Dr. Willie Soon does not earn) agree that global warming is real and primarily drive by humans burning fossil fuels like coal and oil.

The ocean absorbs a third of carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by the burning of fossil fuels — a priceless «service» reducing global warming.

Scientists say the accumulation of heat in the oceans is the strongest evidence of how fast Earth is warming due to heat - trapping gases released by the burning of fossil fuels.

The simulations confirm that aerosol injection does brighten clouds, but the amount of solar radiation reflected may not be enough to balance the global warming caused by burning fossil fuels.

The CO2 pumped into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels today will hang around for centuries, building up over time and continuing to warm the planet.

The gasses, released by burning of fossil fuels and land clearing among other factors, trap heat in the atmosphere and warm Earth's surface.

The global warming gases derived from human activity are produced by fossil fuels used in cars, in industry and in power plants, the agricultural production and the burning forests.

Let me try to be more explicit: if you want to assume (or, if you prefer, conclude) that aerosols produced by the increased burning of fossil fuels after WWII had a cooling effect that essentially cancelled out the warming that would be expected as a result of the release of CO2 produced by that burning, then it's only logical to conclude that there exists a certain ratio between the warming and cooling effects produced by that same burning.

If you want to assume that aerosols resulting from pollution produced by the burning of fossil fuels were responsible for the cooling evident from 1940 through the late 70's, then you have no reason to claim ANY degree of warming due to CO2 forcing during any earlier period.

If global warming is only caused by burning of fossil fuels then it may be possible for humans to do something about global warming.

V: The logic behind the claim that lowered temperatures mid-century were due largely to the emission of industrial aerosols from the unconstrained burning of fossil fuels depends on the assumption that the warming to be expected from the release of CO2 was somehow neutralized by the release of those aerosols.

The drought - induced decline of carbon - dense tropical forests and their replacement by lower - carbon savannas would release enormous amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere, amplifying global warming far beyond the effects of just the CO2 released by burning fossil fuels.

The Skeptical Science site refers to a paper by Flanner in 2009, a summary of which can be found here http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/tss/ahf/, that shows the direct heat from burning fossil fuels is just 1 % of the effect of the CO2 produced by this burning on the absorption of heat by the atmosphere from the sun, i.e. global warming.

[UPDATED 6/23, 9:30 a.m.] Twenty years ago today, James E. Hansen testified before the Senate Energy Committee — in a room kept intentionally warm by committee staff — that the atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels and forests was already perceptibly influencing Earth's climate.

We've been adding GHGs by burning fossil fuels, and as a result, the Earth has gotten warmer.

Greenhouse gases produced mainly by the burning of fossil fuels are altering the atmosphere in ways that affect earth's climate, and it is likely that they have «contributed substantially to the observed warming over the last 50 years,» an international panel of climate scientists has concluded.

In this way, he claims, «one can produce a degree of cooling in a controlled way, to try and balance the warming produced by the burning of fossil fuels».

The very next year the same magazine reported that «The world may be inching into a prolonged warming trend that is the direct result of burning more and more fossil fuels...» The ice - age theories, said the article, «are being convincingly opposed by growing evidence of human impact.»

* Our burning of fossil fuels» That's a total lie, proven by the fact that you can't cite a single peer reviewed paper that empirically shows that anthropogenic CO2 has been the primary cause of the climate warming over the past century.

Recent studies including an assessment by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization indicate that it's possible to slow the pace of warming and melting in the Arctic in the near term by reducing emissions of two common climate pollutants: black carbon and methane, both of which are emitted from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.

For example, atmospheric carbon dioxide grew by approximately 30 % during the transition from the most recent cold glacial period, about 20,000 years ago, to the current warm interglacial period; the corresponding rate of decrease in surface ocean pH, driven by geological processes, was approximately 50 times slower than the current rate driven largely by fossil fuel burning.

It's the kind of abnormal event we've now come to expect in a world driven 1 C + warmer than 1880s levels by a merciless burning of fossil fuels that just won't quit.

U.S. National Academy of Sciences founded by Abraham Lincoln back in the 19th century, all the national academies of all of the major industrial nations around the world have all gone on record as stating clearly that humans are warming the planet and changing the climate through our continued burning of fossil fuels.

However, their effects are pretty tiny when compared to the warming caused by people burning fossil fuels.

The IPCC has not only asserted that global warming is occurring, but that to a large degree it is caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels rather than being a natural phenomenon.

He has published scores of articles insisting that global warming isn't caused by humans, and suggesting that we can carry on burning fossil fuels without regard for the climate.

Assuming (a) global warming is really happening, and (b) it is caused by humans burning fossil fuels, then we have to get to

An overwhelming majority of scientists agree that the Earth is getting warmer and that humans have contributed directly to the change by burning fossil fuels for energy.

3) If global warming is taking place, but is not caused by the burning of fossil fuels, what is causing it?

As long as humans continue to increase the greenhouse effect by burning massive quantities of fossil fuels, the planet will continue to warm, as is clear from the acceleration of global warming since 2000.

There is no mystery about the reason — it's global warming, caused by the fossil fuels we burn.