Sentences with phrase «burning oil and coal»

On learning of the White House revisions, representatives of some environmental groups said the effort to amplify uncertainties in the science was clearly intended to delay consideration of curbs on the gases, which remain an unavoidable byproduct of burning oil and coal.

Climate variations were normal, Salinger said, but this did not weaken conclusions about the dangers of burning oil and coal.

• This challenge has supposedly been «solved» by the CO2 isotope difference between fossilized biomass (oil, coal)(C12) vs. living biomass (C13), and by a reduction of O2 in the atmosphere that parallels the growth of industrial CO2 emissions (O2 eaten up in burning oil and coal and gas).

Altough, I see your point, if there's CO2 up there from burning oil and coal, it may hit that and make it warmer.

He cautioned, however, that burning oil and coal to drive our cars and heat our homes — which releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — is not to blame for an increase in the damage done by hurricanes.

Brown's allies at the California Energy Commission (CEC) argued that future demand should instead be met by burning oil and coal.

If that electricity comes from burning oil and coal, it might mean that green alternatives aren't that green after all.

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.

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.

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.

As a result, methane emissions have distinct isotopic values: Methane emitted from any microbially driven source such as wetlands or agriculture have values of about -60 ‰ (signifying a relatively low ratio of carbon - 13 to carbon - 12); oil, gas, and coal emissions have an average carbon isotopic value of -37 ‰; and tree and crop burning averages about -22 ‰.

There are over 100 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) found in oil, coal and tar, which are readily released into the environment when fossil fuels are burned.

And if all our oil, natural gas, and coal resources are burned, «that could raise CO2 levels by a factor of ten,» says TaAnd if all our oil, natural gas, and coal resources are burned, «that could raise CO2 levels by a factor of ten,» says Taand coal resources are burned, «that could raise CO2 levels by a factor of ten,» says Tans.

About 80 percent comes from burning coal, oil and natural gas; most of the rest comes from deforestation in the tropics.

And if all the known reserves of coal, oil and gas are burnt, the figure will eventually rise to more than 4 trillion tonnAnd if all the known reserves of coal, oil and gas are burnt, the figure will eventually rise to more than 4 trillion tonnand gas are burnt, the figure will eventually rise to more than 4 trillion tonnes.

Permits can be issued to companies that emit carbon dioxide or to those that supply it for burning — oil, coal and natural gas firms.

When we burn coal or oil to make electricity, for example, our society accepts the detrimental health effects and the environmental costs they entail.

Only since 1986 and the current oil glut, said Masse, has there been a resurgence in oil use and coal burning.

But when existing trees are burned for bioenergy, bioenergy takes carbon that would otherwise be stored and puts it into the air, just like burning coal or oil.

Sulfates - Particulate pollutants emitted from burning coal and oil.

Mercury is a neurotoxin that settles into the ocean in large concentrations after we spew it out of industrial smokestacks when burning fossil fuels like coal and oil.

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.

Keeping in mind the enormous stake that panel members ExxonMobil and Shell have in the oil, natural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during the panel.

«I agree that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing as a result of human activities — primarily burning coal, oil, and natural gas — and that this means the global mean temperature is likely to rise,» Ebell said in the statement released by CEI yesterday.

Burning fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil to heat and cool our buildings and run our vehicles takes a heavy toll on the environment, contributing significantly to both local problems like elevated particulate levels and global ones like a warming climate.

Natural gas is often touted as more sustainable than coal and oil because it releases fewer pollutants when it burns.

LONDON — Power - generating stations worldwide release 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year as they burn coal, oil or natural gas; home and commercial heating plants release another 11 billion tons.

«That increase is not a surprise to scientists,» said NOAA senior scientist Pieter Tans, with the Global Monitoring Division of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. «The evidence is conclusive that the strong growth of global CO2 emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas is driving the acceleration.»