Sentences with phrase «if coal usage»

If coal usage is never constrained by environmental policy nor limited by emergence of less expensive energy sources, the resulting climate disruption can be expected to reach catastrophic levels.

Not exact matches

It is possible that the creation of cement will not be as bad as the pollution from coal - mining; however, in regards to «With the elimination of fly - ash alternatives, cement creation will quickly be the leading cause of green house gases» — If it is a top creator now, and we increase the usage, would you not expect it to climb the list?

For each sector, they then analyzed the current amount and source of the fuel consumed — coal, oil, gas, nuclear, renewables — and calculated the fuel demands if all fuel usage were replaced with electricity.

He backed the climate change bill aftersecuring amendments to make sure that coal usage would continue to grow between now and 2020 even if the bill became law.

your link cites rising pollution from burning coal, which if anything bolsters the case for increased solar usage.

Jim D: I wonder if they mention that China's life expectancy was reduced by 5 years in some areas due to increased coal usage.

I wonder if they mention that China's life expectancy was reduced by 5 years in some areas due to increased coal usage.

Then if ensuing events failed to meet our assumptions, we could end up with a large increase in coal usage and a large net increase in CO2 emissions.

Too bad, as the New York Times point out, that even though natural gas does have a far less impact on global warming than does coal, if we're going to reduce carbon emissions by 2050 enough to prevent the worst of climate change, the increase in natural gas usage won't cut it.