Sentences with phrase «decades more fossil»

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Fossil fuels and nuclear power have received eight times more government subsidies than wind and solar over the past six decades.

Cuomo, meanwhile, is pushing the state toward transitioning away from fossil fuels and toward using more renewable energies in the coming decade.

«Does he recognise that while other countries have spent the last decade diversifying their supplies of energy, Britain has become even more dependent on imported fossil fuels - threatening our energy security, our economic competitiveness, and our climate change objectives?»

Investments in fossil fuel infrastructure locks us into decades more reliance on energy that is heating the planet and more expensive than clean renewables.

Over subsequent decades, various species were named as more and more fossils were found and identified.

Palaeontologists have worked for decades to interpret these fossils, and looked for new ways to extract more information from teeth,» Dr Evans said.

MORE than a decade after the furore over a Martian meteorite that some claimed contained fossil microbes, a new analysis suggests the rock's environment on Mars was conducive to life.

For decades, fragmentary fossils had hinted that extinct birds once had wingspans of 6 metres, more than twice that of the wandering albatross, which now holds the record.

Despite decades of improvements to solar cells, the electricity they produce still costs up to 10 times more than that from fossil fuels.

Excavated from Sterkfontein Cave over more than a decade, Little Foot is the oldest hominin fossil — and one of the most complete — ever found in South Africa.

Our remounting took more than a dozen dedicated scientists and fossil preparators almost two years to complete, but Brown's masterpiece will glower menacingly at new generations of entranced visitors for decades to come.

As more and more hominin fossils were discovered over the next few decades in Africa, China, and Indonesia, however, Piltdown Man lost its significance as a singular missing link.

More fossils, such as a toothed jawbone fragment (left), unearthed in the following decades forced a reclassification of the fossil into an already existing genus, dooming the joke to oblivion.

For more than a decade, researchers from the United States and Tanzania have been combing Tanzania's Rukwa Rift Basin, searching for fossils of all kinds.

AP3 Principal Investigator Julia Clarke has been conducting research on fossil birds from Antarctica for more than a decade.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is discussing how we can still burn more fossil fuels, peak in a decade or two, and gradually come down, with quite survivable impacts.

The ability to find and study the remains of animals, plants and other organisms that lived millions of years ago is extraordinary, and as technology has improved over the past few decades, scientists have realized that fossils contain more information about the stories of extinct life forms than even Charles Darwin could have imagined.

He has accepted more than $ 1.2 million in money from the fossil - fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers.

More than 2,200 fossils were collected across Tanzania and Zambia over the last decade of fieldwork.

People have been digging up human fossils for more than 150 years, and yet the past decade alone has seen a string of spectacular discoveries, from fossils that push back hominin origins millions of years to a separate species of Hobbit - sized hominins who were alive just 17,000 years ago.

I just go to the section where they get into discussing Arctic seabed methane in more detail, and the conclusion of that section is actually: «In summary, the ocean methane hydrate pool has strong potential to amplify the human CO2 release from fossil fuel combustion over time scales of decades to centuries.»

Even as the push for new energy options intensifies, it's clear that the fossil - fuel era is likely to last quite a few more decades.

One is that the dangers of fossil fuels will be ever more abundantly clear over coming decades.

More broadly, well aware of the strategic importance of secure energy supplies, not to mention being on the front lines of what have been energy wars as much as anything else over the past few decades, the military has been a big supporter of energy not derived from fossil fuels.

The path forward would of necessity require a mix of social, financial and scientific innovation that can help societies, here and abroad, use fossil fuels more sparingly and less harmfully; diffuse current cleaner energy technology faster and more broadly; and advance understanding on the frontiers of chemistry, biology and other sciences to give the best chance of breakthroughs that, in a decade or two, can provide a sustainable energy menu for generations to come.

Is the climate challenge — which would require moving away from conventional use of fossil fuels even as the world's energy appetite grows threefold or more in the next few decades — fundamentally a bad fit for Washington?

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

21 years ago, environmental guru Bill McKibben said we'd «burn up» in «a few more decades» if we didn't stop using fossil fuels.

With global GHG emissions and concentrations continuing to increase; with climate change intensifying changes in ecosystems, ice sheet deterioration, and sea level rise; and with fossil fuels providing more than 80 % of the world's energy, the likelihood seems low that cooperative actions will prevent increasingly disruptive climate change over the next several decades.

The IEA has been measuring fossil - fuel subsidies in a systematic way for more than a decade.

Nuclear defenders are calling for keeping things in perspective — fossil fuels, they point out, have many more costs and risks associated with them than nuclear power; and newer generation reactor designs are far safer than those built in Japan many decades ago (a number of US plants from the same era have the same or similar designs).

The first is climate inertia — on very many levels, from fossil lock - in emissions (decades), ocean - atmospheric temperature inertia (yet more decades), Earth system temperature inertia (centuries to millennia) to ecological climate impact inertia (impacts becoming worse over time under a constant stress)-- all this to illustrate anthropogenic climate change, although already manifesting itself, is still very much an escalating problem for the future.

The answer is: almost nothing for more than 10 years... The lack of any statistically significant warming for over a decade has made it more difficult for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its supporters to demonize the atmospheric gas CO2 which is released when fossil fuels are burned.»

The lack of any statistically significant warming for over a decade has made it more difficult for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its supporters to demonize the atmospheric gas CO2 which is released when fossil fuels are burned.

This report is one of dozens of internal documents unearthed by journalist Jelmer Molmers of De Correspondent and posted this week on Climate Files that shed more light on what Shell knew decades ago about the risks of burning fossil fuels.

Financial Times Phasing out fossil fuel by end of next decade forecast to eliminate $ 22bn of losses More than half of...

The New York Times writes «He has accepted more than $ 1.2 million in money from the fossil - fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers.»

For decades, climate scientists have predicted that rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases from the human combustion of fossil fuel could lead to global warming, and that warming would be accompanied by more frequent or more violent storms.

For decades the climate alarm movement has been pushing «solutions» that would handicap fossil fuels rather than make alternative energy more competitive — that is, cheaper without costly subsidies.

A link between climate change and the burning of fossil fuels had been mooted but debate would not move into the political sphere for more than a decade.

The administration supports development of natural gas export terminals and the development of natural gas infrastructure abroad, which would lock in more decades of continued fossil fueled electricity.

«The overall share of fossil fuels in global energy demand in 2017 remained at 81 %, a level that has remained stable for more than three decades despite strong growth in renewables.»

For more than a decade, researchers have struggled and failed to balance global carbon budgets, which must balance carbon emissions to the atmosphere from fossil fuels (6.3 Pg per year; numbers here from Skee Houghton at Woods Hole Research Center) and land use change (2.2 Pg; deforestation, agriculture etc.) with carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere (3.2 Pg) and the carbon sinks taking carbon out of the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide dissolving in Ocean surface waters (2.4 Pg).

For many decades the economic health of the nation and access to fossil fuels were more or less synonymous.

All the arguments are perfectly correct and accurate and by themselves enough to justify stopping many of these plans, but a far more important argument always lurks in the background: each of these new infrastructure projects is a way to extend the life of the fossil fuel era a few more disastrous decades.

Senators Kaine, Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI), and others have banded together to attack the alleged «web of denial» that appears to be made up only of conservative organizations that they claim are funded by ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel corporations that they consider immoral — even though the energy they provide has been indispensable to lifting and keeping billions of people out of poverty, and even though ExxonMobil has not given any of these groups a dime for a decade or more.

While Trump's rolling back a policy that may have loomed over coal producers in coming decades, it's going to take more to overcome market forces and raise demand for the fossil fuel to a level that'll put miners back to work, coal executives and analysts say.

A lot of people in a lot of places are making the same decision to use more renewable energy generation vs traditional fossil fuel, when to use your own words within a few decades storage hits the price point for wide adoption then that is when there will be massive disruption.

We recognize that a full transition away from fossil fuels will take decades, but also, that this shift is an opportunity more than a burden.

This means that, while the world has been consuming more fossil fuels in the last couple of decades, the ratio of reserves - to - consumption has remained more or less constant.