Sentences with phrase «if fossil fuel production»

If fossil fuel production is not responsible for increasing concentrations of atmospheric methane, than what is?

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If we could pull carbon out of the air and use it to wean cars off fossil fuels, that would go a long way toward reducing humankind's production of greenhouse gases without impeding technological progress.

Analysts believe OPEC could boost production later this year, but only if prices rise above $ 70 or $ 75 a barrel, a level deemed appropriate by OPEC states whose national budgets depend on fossil fuel exports.

Fracking is part of a nationwide boom in the production of natural gas, which is a ready replacement for home heating oil and could lessen dependence on foreign fossil fuels if vast underground shales could be hydraulically fractured.

If production continues as planned, over the next couple of decades natural gas could supplant coal as the leading domestic fossil fuel, serving as a cleaner way to heat our homes and fire our electric plants.

If production ultimately began, that would add another fossil fuel to the world's energy mix when humanity is already baking the planet beyond its capacity to cope.

Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.

And I will say to the fossil fuel industries if you're out there, think about making your mission energy production rather than fossil fuel extraction and burning.

If it's from corn in the US, emissions are basically the same as if it was pure gasoline (due to the fossil fuel use during production), if it's from sugarcane in Brazil, net emissions are significantly loweIf it's from corn in the US, emissions are basically the same as if it was pure gasoline (due to the fossil fuel use during production), if it's from sugarcane in Brazil, net emissions are significantly loweif it was pure gasoline (due to the fossil fuel use during production), if it's from sugarcane in Brazil, net emissions are significantly loweif it's from sugarcane in Brazil, net emissions are significantly lower.

There's a fantastic paper by the authors of the Beyond Zero Emissions Land Use Report explaining how there's an opportunity to reduce land sector emissions (especially methane) to temporarily halt global warming buying us time to get off fossils fuels if we reduced livestock production by say 50 % even.

Ignoring the billions (if not trillions) of dollars needed to create a station infrastructure, consider hydrogen production complexity and cost, a process that still relies entirely on fossil fuels.

DETROIT — Tour the North American International Auto Show here — you have until tomorrow, if you're one of those last - minute types — and you can find lots of touted environmentally friendly technology on concept and production vehicles designed to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels.

If it were maintained, the country would be prevented in the future for fossil fuels in energy production.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

If this forecast is correct, it will take a long time or big technological innovations on the production side to induce large - scale fossil - fuel production from high - cost areas such as the Arctic Ocean, regardless of sea - ice conditions.

Methane released from animals and their wastes can be reduced by altered diets and methane capture systems, and nitrous oxide production can be reduced by judicious fertilizer use27 and improved waste handling.24 In addition, if biofuel crops are grown sustainably, 28 they offer emissions reduction opportunities by substituting for fossil fuel - based energy (Ch.

There's no credible pathway to achieving the Paris goals if Canada expands fossil fuel production to the levels that are forecasted.

CO2 production will decline as fossil fuels decline, solving the problem, if any, of anthropogenically induced climate change.

If low carbon electricity production were used to generate the remaining electricity needed, and fossil fuel plants were closed, then a reduction of 60 % of all emissions from buildings would be possible by 2030, CAT says.

Common IPCC scenarios rely on an increasing supply of fossil fuels, yet we know that this is not possible and that production will soon peak (if not already) while prices rise in response, as they are doing already.

Climate projections calculated in this paper indicate that the future atmospheric CO2 concentration will not exceed 610 ppm in this century; and that the increase in global surface temperature will be lower than 2.6 DegC compared to pre-industrial level even if there is a significant increase in the production of non-conventional fossil fuels.

If the industry is in fact incentivized to maximize near - term profits, a large conflict of interest exists, since (as you know) investments in fossil fuel resources are typically (until recently) made years, if not decades before production, and often in different political, economic, and social contextIf the industry is in fact incentivized to maximize near - term profits, a large conflict of interest exists, since (as you know) investments in fossil fuel resources are typically (until recently) made years, if not decades before production, and often in different political, economic, and social contextif not decades before production, and often in different political, economic, and social contexts.

If NG production can keep up, US electricity generation will remain independent of imported fossil fuels.

It doesn't matter how many windmills or solar panels or nuclear plants you build if you are not simultaneously retiring fossil fuel production.

When asked if reducing fossil fuel production on federal lands would simply shift production to private land or foreign sources, Merkley said:

The cost / benefit analysis of actions taken to limit CO2 levels depends on the discount rate used and allowances made, if any, for the positive future positive economic effects of CO2 production on agriculture and of fossil fuel based energy production.

The black line is the trajectory oil and gas production would follow if we stopped exploring for and developing new fossil fuel reserves today.

Even the renewable energy optimists (among which we count ourselves) recognize that leaps and bounds in clean energy aren't enough if there is a failure to limit fossil fuel production.

There are more emissions from the total Corn Ethanol production sequence and use as an alternative and additive to fossil fuels than if ordinary fossil originated fuels were just used to do the job.

California could continue to utilize fossil fuel for electricity production if we capture the resulting emissions and pump them underground, and the state has many decades of underground storage capacity for carbon dioxide.

And even if this Court were to issue a nationwide injunction against all fossil fuel production, such an order would not abate the alleged nuisance — though it would devastate the U.S. economy — because global warming is caused by global emissions that this Court has no power to enjoin.»

That is especially important if we continue to divert millions of acres of farmland from food crops, and convert millions of acres of rainforest and other wildlife habitat to cropland, for biofuel production to replace fossil fuels that we again have in abundance.

In addition to being used to simply produce cyclic carbonates, North believes it could also be retrofitted on coal - fired plants: «If our catalyst could be employed at the source of high - concentration CO2 production, for example in the exhaust stream of a fossil - fuel power station, we could take out the carbon dioxide, turn it into a commercially - valuable product and at the same time eliminate the need to store waste CO2.»

If the poorer nations are forced to accelerate the burning of fossil fuels, to feed and house and employ their expanding populations, then their carbon dioxide production will soon dwarf that of the rich industrialized countries.

If the goal is less pollution, it might be a better strategy to fund methodologies that serve to make fossil fuels far less polluting and to fund the production of alternative fuels.

The basic problems with using wind energy to replace fossil fuels are the following: — Low and erratic availability (22 - 26 %)-- No practical means of storing the energy on the scale required if wind energy becomes more than the minute portion of our energy production it is now.

But obviously this is not the case as you can clearly see based on the fact that greenhouse emissions from other sources are many orders of magnitudes higher than from PV, even if you take old data and produce PV in large number on old inefficient equipment and do ignore the simple fact that PV electricity production replaces fossil fuel based electricity production!

If the landfill owners wanted to use the natural gas to generate electricity instead, thereby preventing the methane from entering the atmosphere and displacing the fossil - fueled production of electricity, they would have to go through a costly and lengthy process of obtaining permits from regional, state, and federal officials as well as producing environmental impact reports.

Simply feeding all those people will require doubling agricultural production if their diets are improved with a bit more meat as the fish in the oceans will be long gone and that's all supposed to happen without tractors powered by fossil fuels and nitrogen fertilizers from NatGas.

It stands to reason that fossil fuel exploration, and eventually production, must come to an end if we are to fulfil the commitments of the Paris Agreement which almost all countries in the world have now ratified.»

Fossil fuels not only provide the energy required for our manufacturing processes that alternatives will be hard - pressed (if even possible) to replace (including those needed to create the alternatives) but have been used to underpin much of the world's food production (while not particularly wise over the long - term, the world's population depends upon fossil fuel - based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers to remainFossil fuels not only provide the energy required for our manufacturing processes that alternatives will be hard - pressed (if even possible) to replace (including those needed to create the alternatives) but have been used to underpin much of the world's food production (while not particularly wise over the long - term, the world's population depends upon fossil fuel - based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers to remainfossil fuel - based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers to remain fed).