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This analytical document demonstrates that the current global energy system raises a wide array of concerns ranging from resource depletion and technological development to environmental impacts.
For consistency, we approximate cumulative emissions through 2015 as 560 GtC based on historical values and forecasts under RCP 8.5 (21, 22); for a special case we add 199 GtC to this total to represent the future expectation of emissions already implicit in the current global energy infrastructure (23).
He scoffed at how unambitious we humans were, pointing out that we could meet all our current global energy needs by harvesting the sunlight striking an area smaller than 0.5 percent of the Sahara desert.
But in Japan the seemingly far - fetched scheme has received renewed attention amid the current global energy crisis and concerns about the environment.
According to some estimates, the available energy in the jet streams is about 100 times the current global energy demand.

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With these and other changes afoot, it's worth taking a look at current global rankings to see how China, the US, and other countries stack up when it comes to air quality, total energy use, and renewable contributions to power production.
Releasing a report responding to Ceres — a group made up of institutional investors which has for years been pushing resource companies to disclose their carbon bubble risks — Exxon vice-president of corporate strategic planning William Colton said, «All of ExxonMobil's current hydrocarbon reserves will be needed, along with substantial future industry investments, to address global energy needs.»
Those countries represent 80 percent of current global clean energy R&D.
«While the current economic climate has driven a relentless focus on costs, that focus is paying dividends, with the global cost of electricity from renewable sources falling year - on - year,» said Ben Warren, chief editor of the Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI).
«Clearly, the current regime is not fit for the government's purpose of gaining a social licence to frack,» Michael Bradshaw, professor of global energy at Warwich Business School, wrote in an email.
I'm somewhat disinclined to believe that the current gold price is due strictly to excess supply with discussion of price manipulation always looming, but the general thesis remains that until these global excesses are mopped up, successful commodity investing will involve focus on a narrow subset of raw materials — in our case the Energy Metals.
However, should slowing global economic growth or recession result in a long - term reduction (three to five years) in energy prices, then U.S. Silica and its peers will face the prospect of their current lucrative contracts expiring and themselves sitting atop literal mountains of frac sand, while demand may have fallen off a cliff.
Building on current programs and efficiencies that reduce water and energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, the new Bacardi Limited global platform, Good Spirited: Building a Sustainable Future, reinforces the Company's leadership in corporate social responsibility (CSR).
As long as nuclear technology remains important for keeping America in its current position of global leadership, the U.S. government will keep pumping research's life - blood (money) into nuclear - energy - related science.
But current methods to desalinate water come at a very high cost in terms of energy, which means more greenhouse gases and more global warming.
Simulations by Cristina Archer at the University of Delaware in Newark and Ken Caldeira of Stanford University in California suggest that extracting enough energy from high - level winds to meet all our current energy demands would have no significant impact on global climate.
A new analysis of global energy use, economics and the climate shows that without new climate policies, expanding the current bounty of inexpensive natural gas alone would not slow the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide over the long term, according to a study appearing today in Nature.
«Given the current climate — I mean, political situation — in Washington, I'm wondering whether highlighting [clean energy] is something we still want to do,» board member G. P. (Bud) Peterson asked today during the board's review of the next edition of Science & Engineering Indicators, a biennial compendium of global trends in science and technology.
With oil prices soaring and concerns about global warming and climate change growing, the pressure is on to find new ways of managing the current and future energy supply.
But current methods of mobilizing civilization's energy are more disruptive of local, regional and global environmental conditions and processes than anything else that humans do.
«Sustaining current and projected rates of Arctic oil and gas could transform local economies and global energy dynamics.»
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On its current course, global energy consumption would be 40 percent higher in 2030 than it is today.
Nevertheless, the results described here provide key evidence of the reliability of water vapor feedback predicted by current climate models in response to a global perturbation in the radiative energy balance.»
We use measured global temperature and Earth's measured energy imbalance to determine the atmospheric CO2 level required to stabilize climate at today's global temperature, which is near the upper end of the global temperature range in the current interglacial period (the Holocene).
Estimates of reserves (profitable to extract at current prices) and resources (potentially recoverable with advanced technology and / or at higher prices) are the mean of estimates of Energy Information Administration (EIA)[7], German Advisory Council (GAC)[8], and Global Energy Assessment (GEA)[9].
Facts and anecdotes examine the historic, scientific, economic, political, cultural, and literary aspects of coal, as well as the current debates about energy consumption, developing nations, and global warming.
Prior to assuming his current position, Ashley worked as a global energy analyst for Fidelity International Limited (FIL) in London.
By analogy, a warmer world wouldn't be rainier (or cloudier); it's an imperfect analogy, because rain isn't absolutely correlated with cloudiness, and lateral transport of energy by ocean, air, and latent heat currents in and out of the E & W Pacific Ocean areas won't scale to global warming
I am watching the current congressional hearings on the recently proposed Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP).
If we have some time to prepare, the combination of lowering all the discussed emissions, utilizing current technology to implement alternative energy sources, and engineering new twists on said technology to both continue lowering emissions and adapting to global climate changes as well, we may be able to guide our response sets to outside, artificial selective pressures in conjunction with natural ones; natural, internal variability and external forcings / feedbacks.
-- Climate impacts: global temperatures, ice cap melting, ocean currents, ENSO, volcanic impacts, tipping points, severe weather events — Environment impacts: ecosystem changes, disease vectors, coastal flooding, marine ecosystem, agricultural system — Government actions: US political views, world - wide political views, carbon tax / cap - and - trade restrictions, state and city efforts — Reducing GHGs: + electric power systems: fossil fuel use, conservation, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, tidal, other + transportation sector: conservation, mass transit, high speed rail, air travel, auto / truck (mileage issues, PHEVs, EVs, biofuels, hydrogen) + architectural structure design: home / office energy use, home / office conservation, passive solar, other
«The global mean latent heat flux is required to exceed 80 W m — 2 to close the surface energy balance in Figure 2.11, and comes close to the 85 W m — 2 considered as upper limit by Trenberth and Fasullo (2012b) in view of current uncertainties in precipitation retrieval in the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP, Adler et al., 2012)(the latent heat flux corresponds to the energy equivalent of evaporation, which globally equals precipitation; thus its magnitude may be constrained by global precipitation estimglobal mean latent heat flux is required to exceed 80 W m — 2 to close the surface energy balance in Figure 2.11, and comes close to the 85 W m — 2 considered as upper limit by Trenberth and Fasullo (2012b) in view of current uncertainties in precipitation retrieval in the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP, Adler et al., 2012)(the latent heat flux corresponds to the energy equivalent of evaporation, which globally equals precipitation; thus its magnitude may be constrained by global precipitation estimGlobal Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP, Adler et al., 2012)(the latent heat flux corresponds to the energy equivalent of evaporation, which globally equals precipitation; thus its magnitude may be constrained by global precipitation estimglobal precipitation estimates).
The current paper is similar to several papers that the authors previously published regarding the use of wind and solar resources to meet global energy demands (Delucchi and Jacobson, 2011; Jacobson and Delucchi, 2011).
The reason for this seems to be that they are convinced that the costs and risks of expanding their business operations outweigh the potential revenue given the current global situation in regards to energy.
It is estimated, for example, that none of the [Millennium Development Goals] targets will be met in sub-Saharan Africa if current trends continue, and this is before account is taken of the real effects of the recent crises in food and energy, the rapid increase in impacts of climate change, and the major implications of a global economic slowdown.»
BUT Reversing the Atlantic ocean current due to fresh water ice melt, is a local phenomenon, not global AND it does little to reduce the slow steady heat / energy buildup globally — so warming will continue.
It seems to me, in my lay understanding, that climate change is likely to be expressed as increased average global temperature plus increased mechanical energy in oceanic and atmospheric currents.
Current technology can not come close to generating the global energy requirements without emitting significant quantities of CO2.
At the current global economic, population & energy - cost growth rates I estimate the consciousness SNAP will occur within 2 decades UNLESS:
[29] At the current global total energy consumption of 15 terawatt, [30] there is enough coal to provide the entire planet with all of its energy for 57 years.
If we accept that energy use has to double or triple (just to offer comfortable life for developing nations) then all the calculation before (e.g. Socolow and Pacala's wedges) fall apart that assumed a reduction of the current 15TW global energy use by improved energy efficiency.
Current technology includes nuclear fission, which is more than capable of dealing with global energy needs, and at costs lower than fossil — IF it were only deployed.
Even with a cutback in wasteful energy spending, our current technologies can not support both a decline in carbon dioxide emissions and an expanding global economy.
The current debate will soon be rendered moot as global energy supplies enter a new phase of terminal decline and take the industrialized worlds grossly disproportionate levels of affluence down with them.
In contrast, current global warming is occuring in both hemispheres and particularly throughout the world's oceans, indicating a significant energy imbalance.
He told producers that if current policies remain in place global energy demand will grow by 25 % by 2015, and by that time oil demand will reach 99.5 mb / d.
Data presented at the event demonstrated how if global energy efficiency improvements were doubled from the current 1.5 % to 3 % per year, significant benefits could be unlocked; household energy bills could be reduced by a third, 6 million new jobs could be created by 2020, and $ 2,300 billion (US$ 2,458 billion) saved by 2030 in reduced fuel costs.
Has Europe's largest economy embarked on a rational path to an energy future that will make it the bellwether for global acceptance of renewables, or will the complex array of current challenges encumber its grand transformation?
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