Sentence examples for emitted today from inspiring English sources
Carbon emitted today will continue to warm the planet for millennia, unless active measures to remove it from the atmosphere are undertaken at some later date.
Around 20%% of an impulse of CO2 emitted today would continue causing global warming even after 500 years (Hansen et al. 2013).
It's so good in fact, that according to research published by the Rodale institute, if we shifted the world's farms tomorrow to organic farming practices we could sequester all the carbon being emitted today.
The central estimate for the SCC is now around $35 per ton of carbon dioxide pollution emitted today.
The assumption is that because forests absorb carbon as they grow, eventually any carbon emissions emitted today will be removed from the atmosphere by future tree growth.
The increase is particularly alarming because carbon dioxide emitted today has effects decades later, meaning that even if countries completely halted emissions, the world would continue to warm for years to come.
The UK emitted 571.6 Mt of CO2-e last year.
"We have seen more carbon dioxide emitted this year".
By comparison, the UK emitted 549.3 million tonnes of CO2 from all sources in 2011.
The heaviest polluters were the 27 power plants in Ohio, which emitted 113.9 million pounds of toxic chemicals in 1998.
