Sentences with phrase «debate over fossil fuel»

Bringing evidence and systems thinking to the debate over fossil fuel production, the renewable energy transition, and the role of energy in modern life.

'' As he sees it, there are three groups with a common cause in the debate over fossil fuels and they are wasting time arguing unnecessarily with one another.

Not exact matches

Over the past legislative session, the issue of divesting state pension funds of fossil fuel investments received considerable debate both in the State House and around Vermont.

Yet at this forum, an on - campus debate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology over whether the university should divest the fossil fuel holdings within its $ 11 billion endowment, might not have happened if market forces properly priced the economic and environmental costs of climate change, a theme that Anthony Cortese, the event moderator, alluded to at the outset.

There is no real debate in the peer - reviewed scientific literature over the fact that the unusual, accelerating global warming seen since the 19th Century is attributable to the increase of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere due to burning fossil fuels.

Another gem is mentioning that not a word has come up in the presidential debates about global warming and in the last debate Romney and Obama were competing over who could increase domestic fossil fuel production faster and cheaper.

This strategy could help policy makers overcome a fundamental conflict in the debate over global warming: carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping gas in the air, is an unavoidable byproduct of burning fossil fuels like coal and oil — and combustion of fossil fuels is the foundation of industrial societies.

In fact there is a massive debate over the main issue, which is what effect on climate will an increase in CO2 caused by burning fossil fuels have.

While there is overwhelming scientific consensus that heat - trapping gases released by burning fossil fuels are warming the planet (in particular at the poles), the debate shows there is still a fracas over the finer ways in which Earth's climate will change.

The debate over global warming centers on the extent to which gases released from the burning of fossil fuels — mainly carbon dioxide — are trapping the sun's heat in the Earth's atmosphere, creating a greenhouse effect.

Over the course of 2 1/2 days, 150 participants from over 40 countries listened and debated on issues in renewables, ranging from fossil fuel subsidies, to the impact of the media and public relations, and vision for the next decade of renewabOver the course of 2 1/2 days, 150 participants from over 40 countries listened and debated on issues in renewables, ranging from fossil fuel subsidies, to the impact of the media and public relations, and vision for the next decade of renewabover 40 countries listened and debated on issues in renewables, ranging from fossil fuel subsidies, to the impact of the media and public relations, and vision for the next decade of renewables.

He called his proposal «a kissing cousin» of a carbon tax because it would effectively put a price on fossil fuel burning while sidestepping the «debate» over whether CO2 emissions are causing global warming.

It is true that fossil fuel interests have had a generally toxic effect on the debate over climate change in the US, corrupting the Republican party in particular into a reckless refusal to acknowledge climate science and its implications.