Sentences with phrase «warming pollution out»

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Global warming, the ozone hole, overpopulation, starvation and malnutrition, war, unemployment, the destruction of species and the rain forests, pollution of water and air, pesticide and herbicide poisoning, errors in genetic engineering, erosion of topsoil, overfishing, anarchy and crime, the possibility of a nuclear mishap, chemical warfare or all - out nuclear war: together, or in some cases singly, these dangers threaten to «catch us unexpectedly, like a trap.»

Pointing out that it can be difficult for people to make a link between what they eat and our warming world, he told the Global Food Innovation Summit in Milan: «I think people naturally understand that big smokestacks have pollution in them and they understand air pollution, so they can easily make the connection between energy production and the idea of greenhouse gases.

The U.N. says that even countries that vowed to cut pollution that causes global warming are churning out more of it

Polar bears are likely to have survived periods of warming before, but Axel Janke at the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, Germany, points out that this time the warming is more rapid and is happening in tandem with human - driven habitat destruction, illegal hunting and pollution.

Without any action, the world is on track to achieve at least 4 degrees C warming of global average temperatures by 2100, as the world hits 450 parts - per - million of greenhouse gases in 2030 and goes on to put out enough greenhouse gas pollution to achieve as much as 1300 ppm by 2100.

It's going to take cutting out most further greenhouse gas pollution to restrain further global warming.

The jury is still out on whether hydrogen will ultimately be our environmental savior, replacing the fossil fuels responsible for global warming and various nagging forms of pollution.

In the end, natural gas will always be a fossil fuel that would need to be phased out (or its global warming pollution captured and stored) in the next few decades to avoid even worse climate change.

The causes are all human: overfishing wiping out key species, warmer waters from a warming world, dying coral which supported millions of species, pollution like fertilizers causing deadly algae blooms and dead zones,...

As it turned out, the world's temperature has risen about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F) and mainstream scientists continue to predict, with increasing urgency, that if emissions are not curtailed, carbon pollution would lock in warming of as much as 3 to 6 °C (or 5 to 11 °F) over the next several decades.

The study, out this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, is the first to explore how this interaction between warming temperatures and air pollution affects staple crops.

Using carbon dioxide emissions data from 2006 and 1750 - for an estimate of preindustrial levels - Jacobson found that each extra degree of warming accounted for roughly 1,000 out of every 50,000 - 100,000 air pollution - related deaths.

The point being that w / out ongoing decimation from soot, wind, ozone (surface ozone pollution that warms from UV), the AO and greenhouse gases, the ice would have been more likely to recover from the impact of such an event.

It may be abundant, but if we want to prevent catastrophic global warming we need to do more than just make sure minimal pollution controls are in place, we need to phase out the burning of coal.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

His model showed a slight warming from CO2 and a slight cooling from human pollution, not enough to really matter, and when combined they essentially cancelled each other out.

It's one of the most polluting energy sources out there, the single largest contributor to global warming, and makes us sick by polluting our air and water with toxic pollution like mercury.

The pollution performance for other automakers has been less consistent, with Nissan taking over second place from Toyota due to reduced contributions to smog and global warming, Ford holding its position after making gains in MY01, and DaimlerChrysler moving out of last place for the first time in our rankings.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I - VT) spoke this morning at the release of a Greenpeace Energy [R] evolution report that lays out, using quite conservative estimates, how «the United States can meet the energy needs of a growing economy and achieve science - based cuts in global warming pollution — without nuclear power or coal.»

Under the worst - case scenario investigated, if pollution continues unabated, and if seas respond to ongoing warming by rising at the fastest rates considered likely, sea levels could rise more than 4 feet this century alone, wiping out coastal infrastructure and driving communities inland.

The danger of allowing such extreme air pollution to get out of control affects health especially, but also global warming and all the ecological dangers against which we all stand.

While Palin set up a sub-Cabinet office to map out the state's response to global warming as governor, and sought federal dollars to help coastal communities threatened by erosion, she has been steadfast in saying human beings are not responsible for climate change and that proposals to limit pollution threaten the economy.

No, the point of this bill is to cap global warming pollution, put Americans back to work building out our clean energy future, and free us from our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.

What «repeatable verifiable quantitative measurements to assess material facts» have you that the CO2 I breath out is pollution and that you have a right to penalise me for keeping warm, mobile and fed by emitting CO2?

The agreement grew out of the new fuel efficiency standards passed by Congress in 2007, the Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, which precipitated global warming pollution standards for vehicles under the Clean Air Act, and global warming pollution standards enacted in California and subsequently adopted by 13 other states and the District of Columbia.

The experts say our pollution has created an strong and increasing greenhouse effect and a rapid, out of control global warming is underway that will sky rocket temperatures, destroy agriculture, melt the ice caps, flood the coastlines and end life as we know it.

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 qualiOut 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 qualiout 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.

Exxon Mobil Corp., a favorite target of global warming activists, said Wednesday that it's hopeful for a deal out of the climate - change talks in Paris and still thinks the best solution is a tax on carbon pollution.

However, two recent papers published in Science, including the one we discussed in our post, have pointed out that when you take into account land use changes, the global warming pollution benefit of corn ethanol is negligible or not a benefit at all but a negative (researcher Joseph Fargione's team found that most biofuels «create a «biofuel carbon debt» by releasing 17 to 420 times more CO2 than the annual greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions that these biofuels would provide by displacing fossil fuels.»)

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.