Sentences with phrase «china over fossil fuels»

Similarly, we hope you will take steps to transform our energy economy so the otherwise nearly inevitable eventual war with China over fossil fuels can be avoided.

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As a result of this annual cycle, together with the continual emissions from fossil fuel burning (particularly over China, Europe, and the southeast United States), carbon levels reach a maximum in the Northern Hemisphere in April, just before terrestrial plants begin to soak up more carbon.

Eliminating clouds from the dimming equation now leaves little doubt that human activity, in the form of a nine-fold increase in fossil fuel emissions over the same half - century period, has entrenched China in a foggy haze that absorbs and deflects the sun's rays.

Though China leads, many other countries also are building small - scale structures, as the economics of generation increasingly favor renewable sources over fossil fuels.

«China, the world's biggest investor in fossil - fuel generation, began construction on over 70 gigawatts of new coal projects last year (2015) while it still had 200 gigawatts under construction.»

In 2019, as the Arctic sea ice melts, the Arctic nations — polarized between Russia and NATO in a «Colder War» — squabble over fossil fuel resources, as a militarily powerful China struggles to deal with the internal chaos of massive agricultural failures due to persistent drought.

With China's coal consumption falling and financial experts fretting over unburnable fossil fuels, lenders and investors everywhere are starting to ask some tough questions of companies who make their living producing or burning fossil fuels.