Climate Change Coal Future Statistics 
Green Car Congress
JUNE 11, 2012
The gap, noted the researchers in their open-access paper in Nature Climate Change , is equivalent to Japan’s annual CO 2 emissions, the world’s fourth largest emitter, with 5% of the global total. The dashed line represents the aggregated CO2 emissions calculated from the provincial energy statistics 1997–2010.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 27, 2020
It increases future risk for heart disease, diabetes, and respiratory disease for today’s children when they become adults. These increases in deaths from ambient air pollution reflect increasing emissions from cars, trucks, and buses, as well as the widespread use of coal to generate electricity in India. It is reducing children’s IQ.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 18, 2014
The report is based on recent results from the joint JRC/PBL Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), the latest statistics on energy use and various other activities. According to national statistics, in 2013 total oil consumption in transport increased somewhat by 0.5%, relative to 2012 levels. billion tonnes (Gt).
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 18, 2011
The base results from a study by a team at the Center for Transportation Research, Argonne National Laboratory indicate that shale gas life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are 6% lower than conventional natural gas, 23% lower than gasoline, and 33% lower than coal. However, the environmental impacts (e.g., —Burnham et al.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Selin and Friedman use the global 3-D chemical transport model GEOS-Chem to track the day-to-day transport of PAHs—toxic byproducts of burning wood, coal, oil and other forms of energy that remain in the atmosphere for less time than other persistent organic pollutants regulated by global standards.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 13, 2014
Decomposition of the decadal change in total global CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion by four driving factors; population, income (GDP) per capita, energy intensity of GDP and carbon intensity of energy. Increased use of coal relative to other energy sources has reversed the long?standing WG III Summary for Policymakers.
Green Car Congress
MAY 5, 2014
These gases come from human activities such as combustion of coal and oil as well as natural sources such as emissions from plants. Warmer temperatures and other changes in the atmosphere related to a changing climate, including higher atmospheric levels of methane, spur the chemical reactions that lead to ozone.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
218 
Let's personalize your content