Sentences with phrase «warming pollution comes»

About a third of global warming pollution comes from transportation, largely private automobiles.

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Federal transportation dollars might come with a requirement to reduce global warming pollution

This time the warming is more rapid, though, and comes with the added challenge of human - driven habitat destruction, illegal hunting and pollution.

With more than 70 percent of China's energy coming from coal, a power source that contributes heavily to air pollution and global warming, the nation's bad or good energy practices in buildings will be reflected in the color of the sky and the temperature of the Earth.

«A warming planet doesn't just mean rising temperatures, it also means risking more summertime pollution and the health impacts that come with it.»

Unfortunately, only 6 % of these reefs are healthy; Destruction comes mainly from human activity: dynamite and cyanide fishing, pollution, global warming, over exploitation and environmentally - unfriendly tourism, and more...

It appears to me that the family of humanity is beginning to come face to face with a myriad of growing global challenges — air pollution, sea and land contamination, global warming, peak oil, diminishing global supplies of grain, overfishing, the dissipation of Earth's scarce resources, desertification, deforestation, urban sprawl and autoban congestion are examples — the sum of which could soon become unsustainable, given a finite planet with the relatively small size and make - up of Earth.

On a more tractable level, part of the impasse has also come from the longstanding effort to cast human - driven global warming as a conventional pollution problem instead of looking more to the root causes.

«The major cause of the substantial reduction in rainfall for Sydney is air pollution coming from as far away as Melbourne's Latrobe Valley power stations,» said Mr Gingis, adding that global warming was not to blame.

In the first image for each pair, we show projections of post-2100 sea level rise that could be locked in following 4 °C (7.2 °F) of warming from carbon pollution in the coming decades.

Air pollution problems like acid rain have come up during the drafting process, but global warming has not figured prominently.

«In searching for the new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.

No good can come from increasing any pollution to no end, but there is clearly room for honest debate before we create more havoc based on the current evidence or propaganda for CO2 caused global warming.

... when it comes to the real - world consequences of those scientific findings, specifically the kind of deep changes required not just to our energy consumption but to the underlying logic of our economic system, the crowd gathered at the Marriott Hotel may be in considerably less denial than a lot of professional environmentalists, the ones who paint a picture of global warming Armageddon, then assure us that we can avert catastrophe by buying «green» products and creating clever markets in pollution.

They explain, «in searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.»

But while the international community struggles with this challenge in the coming decades, scientists widely agree that we must do what we can now to limit harmful human activities, like overfishing and pollution, to build the ocean's resilience to warmer and more acidic waters.

That lack of immediate concern may in part stem from a lack of understanding that today's pollution will heat the planet for centuries to come, as explained in this Denial101x lecture: So far humans have caused about 1 °C warming of global surface temperatures, but if we were to freeze the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide at today's levels, the planet would continue warming.

«The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now, and even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come,» Obama went on to say, «the seas will slowly keep rising; the storms will get more severe, based on the science.

The United States and China announced new goals for reducing their global warming pollution in the coming decades, with the U.S. ramping up its rate of decarbonization in five to 10 years and China promising that its carbon emissions will peak in the next 15 years.

By the end of the 1970s, most scientists were coming to the conclusion that the world would indeed warm because of carbon pollution.

Not counting the 0.9 degrees Ramanathan and Feng have pointed to waiting in the form of hidden deferred warming from aerosols that will be «unmasked» when fossil air pollution or fossil energy production stops and the likelihood of another 1.0 degrees C coming in the least time it will take to actually stabilize greenhouse emissions.

With that comes more black carbon air pollution from ships — soot to you and me — and, that means already disproportionately high levels of warming will increase and with those, more ice melting.

In doing so we'll also prevent some 1.5 million premature deaths annually due to improved air quality.Soot Comes Out of the Atmosphere in Weeks, Not Decades Since soot — which in this context comes from older diesel engines and burning other fossil fuels, industrial sources, inefficient biomass cookstoves used in many developing nations — comes out of the atmosphere in a matter of weeks, not decades or centuries like carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, removing the source of pollution is highly effective in both stopping the warming effects as well as improving air quaComes Out of the Atmosphere in Weeks, Not Decades Since soot — which in this context comes from older diesel engines and burning other fossil fuels, industrial sources, inefficient biomass cookstoves used in many developing nations — comes out of the atmosphere in a matter of weeks, not decades or centuries like carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, removing the source of pollution is highly effective in both stopping the warming effects as well as improving air quacomes from older diesel engines and burning other fossil fuels, industrial sources, inefficient biomass cookstoves used in many developing nations — comes out of the atmosphere in a matter of weeks, not decades or centuries like carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, removing the source of pollution is highly effective in both stopping the warming effects as well as improving air quacomes out of the atmosphere in a matter of weeks, not decades or centuries like carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, removing the source of pollution is highly effective in both stopping the warming effects as well as improving air quality.

It's that second part which really as implications for reducing warming from soot.Effects of Black Carbon Pollution Stop Quickly Once Source is Removed The good news about black carbon and global warming is this: Unlike greenhouse gases which can remain in the atmosphere for decades or even centuries, black carbon particles come out of the atmosphere very quickly once the source of pollution is removed.

This is bound to ruffle a few feathers, so here are Professor Jacobson's comments on how he came to this conclusions: Jacobson Considered a Wide Range of Environmental Impacts Jacobson says he has conducted to first quantitative, scientific evaluation of the proposed, major, energy - related solutions by assessing not only their potential for delivering energy for electricity and vehicles, but also their impacts on global warming, human health, energy security, water supply, space requirements, wildlife, water pollution, reliability and sustainability.

One of the big surprises that came out of the Paris Agreement was the explicit recognition of the key role that forests (and land use, including agriculture) could play in reducing global warming pollution.

Of course, how much global warming we see in the coming decades depends on how much carbon pollution we dump into the atmosphere.