Sentence examples for emissions soar from inspiring English sources

This article was amended on 6 November 2014 to remove a picture of Singapore because the caption said: "Singapore shrouded by a haze as carbon emissions soar".

So this is what he has done since his climate change pledge: gone on a procurement spree that has seen his airlines' greenhouse gas emissions soar by around 40%.

We jabber on about Balloon Boy while carbon emissions soar; we yammer about American Idol while Afghanistan burns.

Worldwide, emissions soared by nearly 40% from 1990 to 2009, according to the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.

After a decline in 2009, which coincided with the harsh global recession, carbon emissions soared by six per cent in 2010 — the largest increase ever recorded.

Google, Gumtree and eBay have refused to ban adverts for a service which removes crucial pollution filters from the exhausts of diesel cars, sending toxic emissions soaring.

After a decline in 2009, which coincided with the harsh global recession, carbon emissions soared by six per cent in 2010 the largest increase ever recorded.

Remarkably, the earth's ability to keep socking away carbon has for decades kept up with human activity, with the proportion that disappears from the atmosphere remaining close to 50 percent even as our emissions soared.

Between 1990 and 2010 their emissions soared by 36%, and EU officials see little chance of a decline without policy action, which they have pledged to bring forward before the end of 2017.

With the world's greenhouse gas emissions soaring, however, the odds of dodging a civilization-altering climate catastrophe are shrinking daily.

For sixteen years, beginning in 1992 when the U.S. signed the Rio Convention on Climate Change, this country displayed a remarkable lack of success at addressing climate issues -- international agreements were dismissed, domestic legislation was stalled, and greenhouse gas emissions soared.