Sentences with phrase «about fossil fuel consumption»

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The GWE technology involved in the latest installation at CCN is represented in Australia and New Zealand by CST Wastewater Solutions, which installed similar technology at the Bluetongue Brewery in NSW, where it is saving fossil fuel and cutting the brewery's overall energy consumption by about 15 per cent.

Saudi Arabia gave a taste of the «carbon wars» to come if the world becomes serious about cutting consumption of fossil fuels.

Am I correct in calculating that the present rate of growth in the anthropenic forcing from CO2 from fossil fuel consumption is currently somewaht greater than a milliwatt / year, or about 4 microwatts per day?

It seems to me that we will not be in a position to complain about the Chinese until we have reduced our own fossil fuel consumption to the point of suffering our own societal problems, pain, and sacrifice.

To waste time talking about the «two sides» of this distracting argument, as the total consumption of fossil fuels goes up as fast as it can be removed from the ground is a shame.

At our present rate of fossil fuel consumption, it is estimated that we will have emitted one trillion tons of industrial era carbon by about 2040.

Actual world electricity consumption is about 1/3 of that again, or 13,000 TWh per year, right now (the remaining energy consumption is primarily transportation and home and industrial direct use of fossil fuels).

August 18, 1981 memo from Exxon's Roger Cohen to Exxon's Werner Glass with comments about Glass» draft report on possible consequences of fossil fuel consumption out to 2030.

About one - quarter of the total emissions are related to fossil fuel extraction (CH4 emissions from coal mines, CH4 venting from oil extraction), transport and distribution (e.g., leakage from pipelines), and consumption (incomplete combustion).

Proposed reductions in the consumption of fossil fuels will do nothing about controlling global climate change.

According to the IEA, global fossil fuel consumption subsidies are over twice as large as subsidies for renewable energy in 2015, which amounted to $ 150 billion globally — $ 120 billion for non-hydro renewables for power generation and about $ 30 billion for renewables in other sectors, primarily biofuels.

Simply improving messaging in accordance with recommendations of psychologists or following the recommendations of economists to create economic incentives to engage in less GHG producing behavior will not likely create strong citizen support for climate change policies unless citizens better understand that the narrative created by opponents of climate change policies about high levels of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable harm to the economy from the adoption of climate policies is not only false but has been manufactured by fossil fuel companies and other entities which have economic interests in continuing high levels of fossil fuel consumption.

Total fossil fuel consumption in the period 1910 to 1945 was about 1/4 to 1/5 the consumption rate from 1970 to 2000, but it was pretty dirty.

Our representatives in Washington are certainly sharply divided in their views on which of these trends we should back and which ones we should try to stop — with a big block only excited about fossil fuels and another wanting to bet pretty much everything on cutting consumption and promoting new energy sources.

People who are worried about climate change are right that unfettered fossil fuel consumption is unacceptable.

The Mercer (1978) ``... a threat of disaster» paper introduced above was fraught with presumptions, guesswork, and spectacularly wrong predictions about the connections between fossil fuel consumption by humans and future carbon dioxide (CO2) parts per million (ppm) concentrations, the melting of polar ice sheets, and an impeding sea level rise disaster.

But during the former period, the CO2 concentration was about 20 % lower than during the later one, and fossil fuels consumption was about 5 times lower... This falsifies the hypothesis that CO2 is the main driver of temperature variations.

Steve, I agree that there are still plenty of questions left about what is really going to happen: — RRB - IMO, there are plenty of ethical, economic, political and environmental reasons for trying to minimise our overall environmental footprint, including fossil fuel consumption as a significant component of that.

Yes, it would certainly be better for corporations like ExxonMobil, which alone makes about ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS PER DAY IN PROFIT from fossil fuels, if climate scientists who understand that a rapid phaseout of fossil fuel consumption is urgently needed if we are to have any hope of averting the most catastrophic outcomes of AGW, would just stick to the science and keep their mouths shut about that so as not to «spur political action» to save civilization from destruction.

So energy consumption accounts for about 10 % of the world's GDP, and about 75 % of that is fossil fuel based.