Sentences with phrase «burning coal and oil»

The question of a new tax or fee being included in a climate bill has been a controversial issue because many Republicans have long dismissed climate control legislation as nothing more than a new tax on consumers, who would face higher energy prices when more expensive alternative energy like wind and solar power replace dirty - burning coal and oil.

And the industrial countries became wealthy largely by burning the coal and oil that produced most of the heat - trapping carbon dioxide that is now in the air.

This rise — as large as the CO2 rise from the depths of a glacial to the peak of an interglacial — rapidly brought CO2 concentrations to a level never seen in at least the past 800,000 years, and it happened at exactly the time when humans started burning coal and oil.

Burning coal and oil simply won't be able to compete, economically.

The publicâ $ ™ s waning interest in global warming poses a challenge for Mr. Obama, who emphasized climate change throughout his campaign and pledged to seek a cap on emissions in the United States of heat - trapping gases, led by carbon dioxide, which come mainly from burning coal and oil.

Put forth by otherwise sober and respected scientists, the schemes are intended to basically allow us to continue burning coal and oil.

I would say it isn't an option anyway since China and India won't stop burning coal and oil.

well not really climate change officially now means human caused climate change due to the extra CO2 put in the air from among other things humans burning coal and oil in order to stay alive and live effectively.

You think that before we started burning coal and oil that [CO2] was in equilibrium?

Climate scientists know the world is warming and human activity — particularly burning coal and oil — is the primary driver.

George is convinced that by adding iron sulphate to the oceans, he can stimulate plankton blooms and so suck enough carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to offset human emissions from burning coal and oil.

Human activities, such as burning coal and oil and cutting down tropical forests, have increased atmospheric concentrations of heat - trapping gases and caused the planet to warm by 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880.

The nation has also become concerned about global warming, which has been linked to carbon dioxide emissions from burning coal and oil.

By burning coal and oil and gas and hence injecting carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, we have materially changed its heat - trapping properties; indeed, those man - made greenhouse gases trap the daily heat equivalent of 400,000 Hiroshima - size explosions.

One grand, overarching myth not discussed by Plumer is that the kind of solar technology produced by companies like Solyndra can play a substantial role in blunting the buildup of greenhouse gases driven largely by burning coal and oil.

«That's an amount that exceeds the most dire outlook for emissions from burning coal and oil and related activities as projected by [IPCC]... in 2007.

The central challenge is that the world's powers, both the established ones and the emerging giants, China and India, face ballooning energy appetites, a finite atmosphere, and no menu of affordable energy sources — yet — that can substitute on a large scale for burning coal and oil.

The outcome depends on how much more carbon dioxide, a main greenhouse gas, human activities (such as burning coal and oil) dump into the atmosphere.

David Slater told electricity industry executives that the cleanest option for burning coal and oil is a system called integrated gasification and combined cycle.

CO2 is expected to reach double its pre-industrial levels within a century if we carry on burning coal and oil in what economists call a «business - as - usual» scenario.

Sulfates - Particulate pollutants emitted from burning coal and oil.

Fracking and natural gas are better choices for power generation then burning coal and oil and until we have cleaner sources of energy will do.

The Kyoto Protocols to the FCCC, and the Clean Development Mechanism (which allows rich countries to burn coal and oil if they pay poor countries to plant trees, and so is neither clean nor results in development), only made things worse, CDM only gives credit for planting trees, which are only at best a temporary reservoir and not a real stink, while they ignore ALL the real long term carbon sinks.

Burn coal and oil and sacrifice the glaciers and ice caps while watching our coastal cities slowly submerge.

After all, governments currently spend about half a trillion dollars a year on subsidies, mostly hidden and economically unsound, for fossil fuels... yes, our taxes are paying industries to burn coal and oil.

About 300 years ago, humans began to burn coal and oil to produce energy and goods.

Not exact matches

Most of the senators who signed are from states that depend on the continued burning of coal, oil and gas.

Burning gas emits just 40 % of the CO2 as deriving the same unit of energy from coal, and between 65 % and 75 % the emissions of oil.

So you reduce coal emissions and you reduce burning oil.

Quite simply, the world will be burning less oil, less coal, and maybe even less natural gas.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

The mounting evidence for climate change, and all its tragic consequences, has provided a powerful argument against fossil fuel power stations: the burning of coal, gas and oil releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and this is almost certainly responsible for global warming.

Much of this energy still comes from the burning of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas, which release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and contribute to extreme weather patterns that imperil everyone on earth — especially our food producers.

When the coals have burned down to a medium heat, rub the fillets with olive oil and grill for four or five minutes per side, turning once.

Prepare a charcoal grill and when the coals are medium hot, brush the onions with the oil and place over the coals to roast, turning frequently so they don't burn.

To give Smoky Flavour to kabab, Burn 2 pieces of charcoal and keep on a roti / bread on the cooked kabab.Pour 1 tbsp oil / ghee / butter on the burned coal and cover tightly for 2 - 3 minutes.

New York must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 38 percent by 2030 and the emissions - free power produced by Indian Point won't easily be replaced by plants that burn coal, natural gas or oil.

The Tompkins County installation has two units that burn coal, and one that uses natural gas or oil depending on the market.

It's the type of litigation that legal experts say may become more common as coastal cities and waterlogged counties draw the connection between rising waters and the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.

Maxwell Ball, manager for clean coal technologies at SaskPower in Regina, which owns the plant, says that the company was surprised to learn that it would be cheaper in the long term to keep burning coal at Boundary Dam and sell the carbon dioxide to oil companies to boost production in the oil field than to build a new natural - gas plant.

Recently, he said: «I don't propose that we immediately stop burning coal, oil, and natural gas to address climate change or other environmental issues.

Put another way, only one quarter of the world's remaining known coal, oil and natural gas reserves can be burned.

In a modeling study of coal, oil, and natural gas, Zhang and Caldeira compared the warming caused by combustion to the warming caused by the carbon dioxide released by a single instance of burning, such as one lump of coal, and by a power plant that is continuously burning fuel.

Natural gas, which is mainly methane, may generate less carbon dioxide than oil and coal when burned, but as recent research has found, there's more to greenhouse gas emissions than just combustion.

But despite some commercial demonstrations of such carbon sequestration technology, largely to help recover more oil from depleted fields, none have approached anywhere near the scale necessary to significantly impact the 9.3 billion metric tons of CO2 — and rising — emitted every year from burning coal.

Even all the oil reservoirs in the world could not handle the more than 13 billion metric tons of CO2 that come from burning coal each year, even if pipelines and the rest could be built.

The more coal and oil burned, the more black spheres formed, making such soot the perfect record of a swelling fossil - fuel pyromania.

An overwhelming majority of scientists say the burning of oil, gas and coal is a driver of global climate change, causing sea level rise and more frequent violent storms.

Now the residue from all the oil and coal burned to power modern civilization may provide the best marker for the start of a new geologic epoch that highlights Homo sapiens's world - changing impact, known as the Anthropocene, or «new age of humans.»

ROBERT LAUGHLIN, a Nobel laureate for his work in quantum physics, starts his study of our energy futures with an absurd proposition — that it doesn't matter much whether we burn all our coal and oil or leave it underground.