... these uncertainties is the undeniable fact that the Earth's temperature is rising. What is most urgently needed is research and development, especially multi-government-sponsored R&D. Research should focus on alternatives to fossil fuels; how to capture and sequester carbon dioxide from stationary plants; and how...

... regions. In 1988, testifying before Congress, Hansen insisted that greenhouse gases rather than a natural variation had caused the observed warming trend. This chapter looks at how humans contribute to global warming by burning fossil fuels, which has increased ancient carbon dioxide levels...

... that enabled scientists to establish human-caused climate change, from the increase in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide to the burning of fossil fuels, to the use of climate models to reproduce the observed global warming. It also outlines the “six stages of denial” by climate change contrarians...

... an estimated 400 million people out of poverty. However, alongside these developments is the rapid rise in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fossil fuels and land use—the main causes of climate change. China's increased emissions have been driven primarily by demand from its booming industrial sector...

... on earth by users of fossil fuels and certain other groups. Climate change is already having a wide range of profoundly harmful consequences for humans and for the natural world, causing droughts, floods, heat waves and food shortages and damaging ecosystems and threatening the vitality of many species...

..., the leaders still refused to accept that what lay behind the increasing destructiveness of disasters was the burning of fossil fuels. Penumbral Period Western civilization Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change greenhouse gas emissions climate change denial fossil fuels climate change...

...This chapter details the increase in fossil fuel production and consumption that led to climate change. In 2005, the U.S. Energy Policy Act exempted shale gas drilling from regulatory oversight under the Safe Drinking Water Act, leading to massive increases in shale gas production. Also...

...This chapter discusses wind power, which is a relatively new energy source. Like solar power, wind power relies on natural forces to produce electricity. Unlike fossil fuels, wind does not produce air pollution or carbon dioxide emissions. Technological advances, together with a growing demand...

... in conjunction with the increase in industrialization and the use of fossil fuels. Here was an easy-to-understand graph that, in a glance, posed a threat to major corporate energy interests and those who do their political bidding. The stakes were simply too high to ignore the hockey stick—and so began...