Sentences with phrase «world fossil fuel production»

World fossil fuel production has grown continuously, albeit irregularly, since 1950.

World fossil fuel production per capita will thus begin an irreversible decline between 2020 and 2030.

These peaks are only 18, 35 and 54 per cent above the 2005 levels of world fossil fuel production.

The first link: «Projection of world fossil fuel production with supply and demand interactions (paper excerpt)» http://ogma.newcastle.edu.au:8080/vital/access/services/Download/uon:6530/SOURCE4

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David Rutledge, an engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology who studies world coal production, said the IPCC's «business as usual» scenario is unrealistic because it essentially assumes that growth of fossil fuels like coal will continue apace, which is unlikely.

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.

By piecing together the annual production of every major fossil fuel company since the Industrial Revolution, geographer Richard Heede has shown that nearly two - thirds of the major industrial greenhouse gas emissions have originated in just 90 companies around the world, which either emitted the carbon themselves or supplied carbon ultimately released by consumers and industry.

Coming back to the problems with the study's methodology, perhaps the study's biggest failing is that it considers only the dollar value of subsidies to fossil fuel producers — not their real - world impact on fossil fuel production and investment decision - making.

«Aerocene is an invitation to shape a post fossil - fuel epoch, in a cloudscape of interconnected spheres of practices that include open, participatory platforms of knowledge production and distribution; models; data; and sensitivity to the more - than - human world.

But I suspect the larger significance — at this stage of the game — is that the largest motor company in the world (ranked by production volume) is now committed to all but eliminating fossil fuels from both its manufacturing plants and its vehicle drivetrains in the next 35 years.

Entitled «The Sky's Limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals Require a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production,» the report says that just burning fossil fuels from projects presently in operation will produce enough greenhouse gas emissions to push the world well past 2 °C of warming this ceFossil Fuel Production,» the report says that just burning fossil fuels from projects presently in operation will produce enough greenhouse gas emissions to push the world well past 2 °C of warming this cefossil fuels from projects presently in operation will produce enough greenhouse gas emissions to push the world well past 2 °C of warming this century.

Indeed, not only are fossil fuels a necessary condition of prosperous societies, their byproduct, carbon dioxide, is beneficial for world agricultural production and has been «greening» Earth for decades.»

The entire world production of the greenhouse gas from all the world's working fossil fuel power stations in 2012 was 14 billion tonnes.

Carbon Tracker compared demand for fossil fuels in a 1.75 C world — the mid-point of the Paris Agreement — with demand in a 2.7 C world, looking at oil, gas and coal production to 2035 and capital investment to 2025.

Total fossil fuel demand was calculated globally, based on world population and per capita demand; while production was calculated on a country by - country basis and summed to obtain global production.

To keep global warming «well below» 2 °C the world must phase down the production — not just the consumption — of fossil fuels.

The point is this: As the peak of oil production comes and goes, and as natural gas does the same sometime later, people are going to become ever more desperate in a fossil - fuel constrained world.

Moreover, in a world where fossil fuel resources are shrinking every year, and where the extraction of «residual» sources such as deepwater oil, tar sands and shale gas come with great environmental and safety risks, bioenergy production can also contribute to national energy security.

BlueFire's goal is to develop and operate high - value carbohydrate - based transportation fuel production facilities to provide a viable alternative to fossil fuels on a world - wide basis.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

«Human - Generated Ozone Will Damage Crops, Reduce Production... MIT, 2007... A novel MIT study concludes that increasing levels of ozone due to the growing use of fossil fuels will damage global vegetation, resulting in serious costs to the world's economy.

According to the World Bank, fossil fuel energy supplies about 80 % of the world's energy production — a value which has been pretty much constant for the past 40 yWorld Bank, fossil fuel energy supplies about 80 % of the world's energy production — a value which has been pretty much constant for the past 40 yworld's energy production — a value which has been pretty much constant for the past 40 years.

Despite rapid / exponential growth in renewables in recent decades, fossil fuel production and consumption has NOT been DISPLACED or SUPPLANTED; instead, as a percentage of world energy supplied, fossil fuel energies have risen 3 times faster than renewables have since 1980.

Providing tens of billions of dollars every year to new fossil fuel projects, including the exploration and production of new fossil fuels, will catapult the world's global warming past the 2 degree Celsius ceiling of the Paris Agreement.

I had never worked with fossil fuel interests until I became incensed with the lies being spread about my country's oil production in the capitals of our allies around the world.

Oil Change International issued a 2015 report that G20 governments provided more than $ 400 billion (360 billion euros) per year to fossil fuel production, including some of the world's most carbon - intensive and polluting ones.

Civil society is not alone in making this point, just last week, 100 economists from around the world signed the Declaration on Climate Finance, calling for an immediate end to investment in fossil fuel production and infrastructure.

No fossil fuel company is going to voluntarily stop production to save the planet from self - destructing; it is up to the world's citizens, and our elected officials, to do so.

Most food production is fossil fuel based, so get ready for a total world food supply collapse... it is only a matter of time.

With or without the embattled production tax credit (PTC)-- which is currently allowing American wind producers to compete with fossil fuels and expand their market share — wind power will be integral to the world's future energy mix.

During the past century, fossil fuels — petroleum liquids, natural gas and coal — were the dominant source of world energy production.

However, the reality is that fossil fuels — petroleum liquids, coal and natural gas — have been the overwhelmingly dominant source of energy production for the world economy in the past century (table 1).

Since 1950, the share of world energy production provided by fossil fuels has varied only slightly between 85 and 93 per cent.

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Moreover, from 2000 to 2005 — the 5 - year period with the largest absolute increase ever in world energy production — fossil fuels accounted for nearly 92 per cent of that increase.

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From 1950 — 1980, the growth in fossil fuel production and all energy production exceeded world population growth (table 2).

Ironically, it was environmentalists that shut down this effort, and power industries around the world replaced capacity that would have gone nuclear mostly with coal, the worst fossil fuel in terms of CO2 production (per BTU of power, Nuclear and hydrogen produce no CO2, natural gas produces some, gasoline produces more, and coal produces the most).

Depleting fossil fuel reserves, depleting mineral reserves, widespread devastation of eco systems, depletion of biodiversity, acidification of oceans, dwindling fresh water resources, food production to food demand ratio becoming more acute, and of course the primary driver for all of the above continued increase in the world's population.

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.»

The nations of the world are taking on sulfate and particulate production, and will likely substantially reduce this production long before CO2 production is reduced (mainly because it is possible with current technology to burn fossil fuels with greatly reduced sulfate output, but it is not possible to burn fossil fuels with greatly reduced CO2 output).

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).

Fossil fuels externalize the costs of energy production and thats why we have a climate change issue (which I'm sure you think is a socialist scam designed to reorient the worlds wealth even in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence)