Sentences with phrase «digging up coal»

Yes, carbon capture can make a difference, but it's pointless to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and turn it into coal when others are digging up coal and burning it.

But if Donald Trump really wants to create jobs, then he's going to be pro-solar, because there are a lot more jobs installing solar panels on people's roofs than there are in digging up coal or burning it.

Each year the people keep digging up coal and drilling up oil and gas and burning it, and each year, on average, the world, since 1907, has warmed by half more than a hundredth degree Fahrenheit.

«A handful of companies just want to keep digging up coal without any regard to the consequences.»

We are getting close to world peak production on resources like oil and natural gas, and we shouldn't be using them to dig up coal and make even more pollution delivering WY coal to Georgia.

After all, it's perfectly legal to dig up coal, transport it thousands of miles by rail and ship, and burn it for electricity.

Not exact matches

Now that might not be the technical term but basically we dug a pit, had a huge Bon fire, used the coals in the pit, used a whole box of foil, & cooked us an Amazing turkey that had No clean up!

And that means the country digs up a lot of coal.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

«For us, as an environmental organization, it is important that coal remains below the Earth, it is not dug up and it is not burnt,» Pillai said.

It can be used to convert CO2, or carbon dioxide, into useful items like biodegradable plastic products, medications, or fuel sources; as such, this would essentially eliminate the need of having to travel to various locations to dig up fossil fuels, like oil or coal.

In this town, you either dig coal, manage coal, are married to coal, or will grow up to be one of three, there are no other options.

I grew up in the steam age and as a boy was thunderstruck by the implication of E = mc ^ 2: a limitless abundance of energy for next to nothing and an end to needing to dig dirty coal out of the ground.

But how much more can be accomplished administratively is unclear, which is why the prese ce of a clear and present signal that raises the cost of emitting carbon (starting from where oil, gas, and coal are dug up) is so important to cover all the bases.

The idea is to supply fuel by recycling the carbon already in the air in CO2 molecules instead of adding more to the atmosphere (and greenhouse effect) by digging up or pumping more ancient deposits of coal and oil.

In Wyoming's Powder River Basin, BLM has approved four mine expansions that alone would dig up 2.3 billion tons of coal.

All of the coal that is dug up will be shipped overseas for electricity generation.

Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones dug up a copy of a presentation presented to coal insiders that documented ways environmental activist groups are winning by highlighting the dangers of coal:

We've already mined out much of the coal that's really easy to dig up (Britain had massive reserves in the nineteenth century), and oil is increasingly being sought in expensive locations like the deep sea and Arctic.

Australian coal producers — in particular the billionaire miners Gina Rinehart and Clive Palmer — face another major roadblock to their dreams of digging up the Galilee Basin and other coal - rich resources: The likely new prime minister of India is not a big fan of coal.

Mitigating the environmental costs of digging up and burning coal thus means digging up and burning even more coal.»

If humans dig up and burn coal, oil and gas, they returning much of this carbon back to the atmosphere, causing the level of CO2 to rise.

Once public anxiety rose, activists demanded that the ash be dug up and moved «somewhere else,» regardless of the cost, which could be in the billions — and regardless of the fact that detected levels of chromium - 6 (and other metals) do not pose health risks and come from natural rock formations, as well as from coal.

That implies not looking for new resources like in the Arctic Ocean or methane hydrates, or fully exploiting things like tar sands, let alone not digging up most of the coal left.

If we keep digging up more coal, gas and oil, it will get burned, if not here, then somewhere else.

China can't dig up and ship coal quick enough to feed the coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity for its growing economy.

(1) Putting aside actual so - called fossil carbon (i.e. shales, coal, oil, gas tar sands) which are all relatively unreactive geologically overall (unless those pesky humans dig them up and burn them) there are in fact (today) substantial pools of potentially more reactive «fixed» carbon other than the active biosphere's biomass.

Or do you have a magic plan where Asian nations leave their coal in the ground forever if we dig ours up and sell it to them for profit?

At every opportunity, Roberts, a former coal face miner, has claimed there is «no empirical evidence» to show that carbon dioxide from burning the coal that he used to dig up affects the climate.

Given all that I've dug up on the origins of the «industry - corrupted skeptic climate scientists» accusation, I'd call it a can't - lose wager if you bet that the «e-mail message circulated at a U.S. climate research lab» which Myanna Lahsen referred to owes its «funded by the oil and coal industry» accusation against skeptic climate scientists to Gelbspan / Ozone Action.

An example of this nuance is that there is so much coal out there it dominates the measure, but how fast is it being dug up and extracted?

«In truth only one component of the CO2 budget is known with any certainty, human emissions, implicitly through records of extraction - how much coal and oil are dug up»

As the Trump Administration continues to dig up legal maneuvers in an attempt to keep failing coal and nuclear plants online, cities across the United States are increasingly committing to source 100 % of their electricity from renewables.

Well, except to dig up and sell as much coal as we can before the world wakes up to our game.

But there are some who say it is, especially if we are bound and determined to dig up all the coal and release its carbon into the atomsphere.

Compared to a big, industrial power plant burning coal dug up from the ground, solar power systems seem like magic — but how do they actually work with your home electrical system?