Sentences with phrase «consumption of fossil fuels»

And I don't like the fact that the people that constantly present this issue never discuss any solution except reducing consumption of fossil fuels.

Scientists knew that the oceans had absorbed some of the carbon dioxide released from the increased global consumption of fossil fuels.

The motivation is the ongoing and escalating climate change primarily caused by excessive human consumption of fossil fuels — coal, oil and gas.

Of course, in the long run, «all of the above» just leads to lower energy prices which leads to greater consumption of fossil fuels.

In fact, it is the basis of his energy policy: All along, he has supported increased production of fossil fuels while implementing policies to reduce consumption of fossil fuels.

By focusing on generating clean electricity, the Kingdom can move away from a reliance on domestic consumption of fossil fuels for electricity and use the saved resources to strengthen its exports.

This can occur through (1) relocation of energy - intensive production in non-constrained regions; (2) increased consumption of fossil fuels in these regions through decline in the international price of oil and gas triggered by lower demand for these energies; and (3) changes in incomes (thus in energy demand) because of better terms of trade.

That is because heat waves and drought could become the new normal for southern Spain in a world in which climate change follows global warming driven by profligate consumption of fossil fuels.

But given that we have every reason to expect AGW - driven catastrophes to esacalate in both severity and frequency, it doesn't take much «imagination» to expect that to occur, particularly if business - as - usual consumption of fossil fuels continues for many more years.

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

With the recent steep fall in oil prices and associated declines in other energy prices, the stars are aligned for adopting a carbon tax on consumption of fossil fuels, Lawrence Summers, a former treasury secretary and presidential adviser, says in the Washington Post.

One particularly unecological feature of our current world is its rapid consumption of fossil fuels.

But the United States Senate has not yet agreed to that treaty provision, which could require deep reductions in American consumption of fossil fuels.

People in the West have benefited from an increase in living standards, which has largely been driven by a large consumption of fossil fuels.

The changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration resulting from human consumption of fossil fuels cause most of both the temperature increase and the changes in the seasonal cycle.»

I reject the idea that it is somehow inappropriate to acknowledge that catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is not only possible but plausible if we continue with anything close to business as usual consumption of fossil fuels and the other activities that are contributing to ever - increasing GHG emissions.

This means that total consumption of fossil fuel energies grew more than 3 times faster (9.6 GWh to 3 GWh) than renewables did between 1980 and 2012.

Francis said that wealthy nations and multinational corporations that use foreign debt as a way to control poorer countries, while exploiting their natural resources and polluting their land and water, owe them an «ecological debt» by limiting consumption of fossil fuels and assisting them in more sustainable development.

While China's consumption of fossil fuel emissions is relatively modest, its global manufacturing contributed 826 million tonnes of CO2 to Europe, the United States and Japan.

«The use of waste heat for power production would allow additional electricity generation without any added consumption of fossil fuels,» said Bruce E. Logan, Evan Pugh Professor and Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering.

But our rapidly increasing consumption of fossil fuels suggests that an optimistic scenario is unwarranted.

So while it's clearly not worried about the millions of people killed by our conspicuous consumption of fossil fuels (the last line of the film is a sickening, «Man, have you ever seen the air so clear?»)

There are also concerns that pumping sequestered CO2 into oil and gas wells to help make the fuels easier to pump out of the ground will lead to further consumption of fossil fuels, and CO2 emissions, thus adding to global warming.

We, as a society, have discovered that the uncontrolled consumption of fossil fuel can lead to problems: coal smoke, petrochemical smog, accumulation of greenhouse gases, etc..

One of the key benefits associated with energy efficiency and renewable energy programs (clean energy) is that they reduce consumption of fossil fuel resources, and in doing so reduce fossil fuel - related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

The study analyzed over 20 packaging options and found that shipping items in bags resulted in the smallest environmental impact, including lower consumption of fossil fuels, less solid waste, and lower emissions. Corrugated boxes were found to have a much larger impact.

«In our less stringent New Policies Scenario, there is higher consumption of fossil fuels but at the price of failing to achieve the 2 °C trajectory.

Like Still Light, Olla helps demonstrate the green power needed to replace consumption of fossil fuels for electricity — and what it takes to produce it.

Living in dense cities spares the surrounding countryside, and better technology can permit more efficient consumption of fossil fuels and therefore less pollution and global warming.

Addressing the issue of excessive consumption of fossil fuel is one of many problems that have fallen victim of this need to self justify and hate, rather than solve a problem that affects everyone.

Reduce CO 2 emissions by reducing consumption of fossil fuel.

Consumption of fossil fuels continues to rise, meanwhile, despite heavy investments from both developed and developing countries into renewables and energy efficiency.

The global average temperature is continuing to rise as a consequence of warming driven by ever higher greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, in response to the profligate global consumption of fossil fuels.

For instance, by 2080, if we assume continuing growth rates in consumption of fossil fuels, the numbers of additional people exposed to frequent flooding in the river delta areas of the world would be counted in hundreds of millions assuming no adaptation measures were implemented.»

«Forget that the outsized American consumption of fossil fuels has directly contributed to climate change through greenhouse gas pollution, and impacted the lives of the world's most vulnerable people.