Sentences with phrase «causes fueled his interest»

Throughout his career, Gonzalez - Torres's involvement in social and political causes fueled his interest in the overlap of private and public life.

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The rising prices of fuel will increasingly cause care for the earth and self - interest to coincide.

If you have any interest in talking about how our early addiction to caffeine fueled international trade and caused the Boston Tea Party, please let me know.

I'll get in a second to why this could be important for you if you're trying to boost your sports performance or to figure out what you're supposed to eat you know, during endurance but the other thing that was interesting was that there was another study that looked at basically how your body taps into this intramuscular triglyceride and it was found that the, when your body is tapping into intramuscular triglyceride sources, your intramuscular triglyceride pool to use that stuff as an energy source during exercise, it can actually cause a little bit of an insulin response and cause your pancreas to have to work a little bit, to churn out insulin in order for you to be able to effectively tap into this adipose tissue and so it's one of those things where there is a little bit of stress on the pancreas when you're tapping into these intramuscular triglycerides even though they're used as a really really potent source of fuel for you when you're out there performing specifically endurance exercise and in this case, for this fasted, male endurance athletes, 60 - 70 % intensity.

To be honest, I, too, have on occasion found comfort in such facile explanations for the nation's abject failure to deal with so many glaring problems, including several of interest to readers of car magazines: the pervasive failure to address global warming and finite supplies of fossil fuels; tens of thousands of road fatalities year in and year out; the burgeoning safety risk caused by in - car communications and telematics; the failure to maintain the roads we've got while creating better ones and efficient alternatives; and, of course, our continued inability to buy new Peugeots in the United States.

With that said, the Federal Reserve's willingness to «push investors out on the risk curve» by perpetuating near - zero interest rates has caused inflation to show up in risk assets, if not anywhere else, and fueled a strong complacency trend.

Throughout his career, Felix Gonzalez - Torres's involvement in social and political causes as an openly gay man fueled his interest in the overlap of private and public life.

Throughout his career, Gonzalez - Torres's involvement in social and political causes as an openly gay man fueled his interest in the overlap of private and public life.

It all sounds so reasonable, until you realize that this is the same guy that says human - caused global warming theory is all bunk and then find that his efforts have been funded by fossil fuel interests.

It seems to me that the most likely explanation for the NYT «correction» was that the paper's editors were worried about creating a legal basis for global - warming lawsuits against fossil fuel interests, as «prior knowledge of harm caused» played a central role in the tobacco lawsuits — and the head of the American Petroleum Institute PR push is Edelman, previously of «second - hand tobacco smoke is not a problem» fame.

There is a small but interesting literature looking for amplifiers that might allow tiny changes in the sun to cause larger changes in climate... However, the few tenths of a degree from such influences are very small compared to the possible warming if we burn most of the fossil fuels».

As we also have the climate problems caused by the use of fossil fuels to contend with, it would seem to be in our common interest to get the use of those fuels reduced as fast as possible.

During that time he was oblivious to the attacks on Ben Santer being waged by S. Fred Singer, Frederick Seitz, Patrick Michaels, Global Climate Coalition (a group of fossil fuel interests) and others because Santer's (and others) research showed that humans were in fact causing climate to change (IPCC 2nd Assessment, 1995).

If you give the public the impression that fossil fuel burning might not be the cause of climate change, then the vested interests think this waters down their concern and protects the viability of their product.

As to the intermittency of fossil fueled plants, an interesting event happened in Texas a few years ago in which a hard frost caused a bunch of coal and gas - fired plants to fail simultaneously while the wind turbines continued to generate electricity.

Documents posted online by Common Cause, a public advocacy organization, show that Dominion executives sit on ALEC's energy, environment, and agriculture task force, along with Joseph Bast of the climate - denying Heartland Foundation and representatives of major carbon polluters and fossil - fuel interests including Koch Industries - related entities and Exxon - Mobil.

Rising fuel prices are causing mainstream awareness and interest in alternative transportation technology.

* The video essentially suggests denial about catastrophic man - caused global warming is bankrolled and orchestrated by fossil fuel industry interests.

It will be interesting (and sad) to see when fossil fuels no longer have the value they do today (because of their unintended damage to the earth's climate), and when at the same time they turn out to be the cause of Texas» downfall as a wealthy and powerful state, i.e. when unrelenting water resource issues (and here and here) drive half the population away, and leave the state a shell of its once arrogant self.

(12) the establishment of such a vehicle fleet and distribution system would provide a large market that would mobilize private resources to substantially advance the technology and expand the production of alcohol fuels in the United States and abroad; (13) the United States has an urgent national security interest to develop alcohol fuels technology, production, and distribution systems as rapidly as possible; (14) new cars sold in the United States that are equipped with an internal combustion engine should allow for fuel competition by being flexible fuel vehicles, and new diesel cars should be capable of operating on biodiesel; and (15) such an open fuel standard would help to protect the United States economy from high and volatile oil prices and from the threats caused by global instability, terrorism, and natural disaster.

A network composed largely of corporate lobbyists, front groups and free - market organizations whose immediate economic interests favor warming - causing fossil - fuel industries insist — despite all the evidence to the contrary — that current climate change hasn't been «proven» to be mainly caused by humans.

Once again, we possibly have more personal fuel for attachment theory and his later interest in institutionalized children and child grief caused by stressful separation from primary caregivers.