Sentences with phrase «burning tar»

Again, it's not just that burning tar sands oil produces a lot of emissions; it's that long - term capital investments like Keystone (and coal plants, and coal export facilities) «lock in» those dangerous emissions for decades and make catastrophic climate disruption inevitable.

Third, stack up the impacts of the climate disruption that burning tar sands oil leads to.

Of course, Keystone XL might not be used at full capacity at all times and industry estimates of the greenhouse gases associated with producing and burning tar sands oil can be as low as 482 kilograms per barrel, depending on whether the tar sands were mined or not.

Just how bad are the emissions from burning tar sand oil?

My review of the Fort McMurray fires, asking what happens if they burn the tar sands operations — follows that.

«In this context and with these terrible imperatives,» Ward said, «my actions of walking across a field and cutting a fence chain are inconsequential and excusable compared to the ghastly effect of continuing to burn tar sands oil.»

If we also burn the tar sands and tar shale, I believe the Venus syndrome [the runaway greenhouse] is a dead certainty».

James Hansen, NASA's leading climate scientist, has said this about the Keystone pipeline: that if the pipeline goes through and we burn tar sands in Canada, it's «game over» for the planet.

Not exact matches

The paper, published in the journal Addictive Behaviors, looks at how patterns of quitting smoking have changed across America since e-cigarettes — devices that vaporize liquid nicotine rather than burning tobacco and creating tar — were introduced in 2010.

Smokers inhale burned tobacco and tar along with toxic metals like cadmium and beryllium, and elements like nickel and chromium — all of which accumulate naturally in the leaves of the tobacco plant.

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

All things considered, the energy you can get from burning a barrel of tar sands oil only

According to DeSmogBlog, the emissions difference between burning oil from conventional wells and tar sands is about the same as trading in your Honda Accord for a Chevy Suburban.

The will to overlook accelerated climate change caused by the extraction of tar sands oil, the destruction of the carbon sink that is / was the boreal forest, and the continued burning of fossil fuels to power trips to the corner store for a creamy, etc..

100 years ago being an atheist would get you tarred and feathered; 500 years ago it would have gotten you burned alive at the stake.

That woman should be tarred, feathered, burned, and shot several times.

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.

Also: the Canadian super fire at Fort McMurray: can the tar sands burn?

Here is a new question for you: can the tar sands operations burn, and what happens if they do?

She was horrified about the potential blow up of the storage facilities and the toxic cloud if the tar sands burned for months etc, etc..

We'll talk about the the climate connection, and ask the question: «can the tar sands burn?»

Some dyes are created by burning coal tar and others are derived from petroleum byproducts like tartrazine and erythrosine.

The dreaded tar, for example, is formed when the burning of tobacco creates numerous particulates, which enter your body and stick to your lungs in a steadily growing, black, sticky mass.

Tar traps slow and magma tiles burn, spike traps impale and archers perforate, and when conducted properly the trap symphony comes together in a comical crescendo of devilishly delivered death.

The massive supercharged V8 engine turns this Camaro into a tar - burning machine that still comes packed with luxury and convenience features.

Over half a century Burri experimented with different techniques and supports to create paintings almost without paintbrushes — smearing tar, stitching burlap, burning plastic, welding iron, drying a mix of paint and glue and carving celotex boards.

Burri innovatively used the discarded debris of everyday life and utilitarian materials such as tar, sheet metal, plastic, and wood which he transformed by tearing and stitching, burning and pulling, giving the appearance that his only intervention was to bring out the natural colors, textures, and shapes already inherent in the material.

Philip Morris» iQOS device heats tobacco but stops short of burning it, an approach the company says reduces exposure to tar and other toxic byproducts of burning cigarettes.

Although if every last drop of tar sand oil is burned I suspect we are looking at more than 10 degrees celsius easily enough.

This is a practical impossibility due to increased amounts of greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere from the growing global production and burning of coal, tar / oil sands, heavy oil and bitumen.

The statement estimates, and then dismisses, the pipeline's massive carbon footprint and other environmental impacts, because, it asserts, the mining and burning of the tar sands is unstoppable.

Not only does Q fail to consider the carbon to be released by burning coal but he also totally ignores the tar sands, oil shales, and heavy oils that are being targeted to supplement remaining oil supplies.

The landmark decision, affirming a challenge brought by the Sierra Club and allies at Earthjustice, WildEarth Guardians, and High Country Conservation Advocates, could have far - reaching implications for protecting our climate from the threat of mining and burning of coal, natural gas, tar sands, and other fossil fuels.

We can not burn all of the fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal and unconventional fossil fuels such as tar shale and tar sands) and release the CO2 into the air without creating a different planet.

«Green» wood makes creosote that doesn't burn good and eventually can cause chimney fires from a buildup of tars.

People are no longer ignorantly burning dirty fuels, and are questioning the wisdom of future dirty sources like tar sands while looking seriously at alternatives.

Without fairly immediate action, someone (either the U.S. or China) is going to be burning a lot of tar sands oil in the next 20 years.

But tar sands are between 12 and 20 percent more carbon intensive than even regular oil, especially when burning of the, worse than coal, coke bi-product is taken into account.

Figure 1 helps make clear why the tar sands and other unconventional fossil fuels ought not to be developed and burned.

Now, I'll illustrate the emissions scenario from potential burning of tar sands oil and other unconventional fossil fuels (UFF) as contrasted with conventional fossil fuels (oil, gas, and coal).

Burning a gallon of gas from tar sands releases as much as 37 percent more carbon pollution than burning a gallon of gas from conventionBurning a gallon of gas from tar sands releases as much as 37 percent more carbon pollution than burning a gallon of gas from conventionburning a gallon of gas from conventional oil.

That means that the environmental benefit of raising fuel efficiency from 20 to 27 MPG would be wiped out if that vehicle is now burning oil from tar sands.

Second is the short term, dissipative or «burn off» (TAR, ¶ 6.7.8, p. 374) effect of solar activity on clouds for the amplification.

He said: «If we mean to burn all the coal and any appreciable percentage of the tar sands, or other unconventional oil and gas then we're cooked.

It is difficult to see how developing, transporting, and refining the tar sands would be anywhere near the most economical (let alone environmentally acceptable) option for burning a strictly limited quantity of fossil fuel while expediting a phase - out.

The two are far from the same, and making burning coal and tar expensive will very likely drive down the long term cost of energy as Moore's Law takes over in solar, wind, ocean and geothermal.

According to research, oil burned from the tar sands emits significantly more carbon than conventional oil.

Of course even if CSS worked perfectly at the tar sands without evaporating profitability, it would do nothing about the enormous downstream emissions from burning all that refined oil in cars — four times the production emissions.

-- CREDO calls State Dept's EIS on Keystone XL «coward's logic» in statement: «The State Department's environmental assessment is a vehicle for the White House to test the waters to see if the public will buy its false and cynical argument that the Canadian Tar Sands are going to get burned anyway, and so the government's chief climate scientist's assertion that Keystone XL will spell «game over» for the climate may be true but is essentially irrelevant,» said Becky Bond, political director at CREDO.

These innovations ensure that majority of environmentally harmful gases; compounds and tars are burned in the firebox, creating heat not pollution.