Sentences with phrase «energy crisis points»

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Long before today's perceived energy crisis, PowerLight was perfecting its patented system — an array of panels that sit on top of a roof, thereby protecting and insulating it — to the point where the company now offers a 20 - year warranty.

In a recent Compas Inc. poll, Canadian CEOs said the crisis in Japan is bad news for new nuclear energy installations in the short term, until safety reviews are completed, and ranked the statement a 5.6 on a 7 - point scale, where 1 means strongly disagree and 7 means strongly agree.

We're in an energy crisis, stupid religions are fighting each other, men are so afraid of women in other countries having any kind of personal freedom, people are starving, the world is becoming over-populated to the point where it simply can not support itself, and you prefer to sit around and argue this stuff instead.

A combination of growing populations and food, energy and water shortages will reach crisis point by 2030, the government's chief scientific advisor will say later today.

We learn pretty quickly that this is a planet in crisis, to the point where people are stealing energy and the governments of the world are sending an international team up to space to smash protons into each other in order to avert the end of the world.

Inspired by growing up in Denmark and Iceland, Eliasson's use of natural elements evokes an awareness of the sublime world around us and how we interact with it; his projects often point toward global environmental crises and consider art's power to offer solutions to issues like climate change and renewable energy.

Tom Yulsman at the University of Colorado makes this point bitingly at CEJournal, noting the ridiculousness of rehashing basic climate science in the face of clear evidence that the lack of a forward - looking American energy policy --- particularly one aimed at weaning the country from at least the liquid fossil fuel — is a real - time crisis.

You pointed out that the amount of federal research funding for energy hasn't changed much since the oil crisis of the 1970s.

Which brings me to my final point: I have no tolerance for the dismissal of «climate science» and the crisis at hand, and will not waste my energy attempting to convince those unable to open their minds.

I've been pointing out for some time now that if one follows the money, the US Energy industry is arguably the single greatest recipient of money public and private that has been generated by this «crisis» from day one.

The WEO is considered to be the annual reference point for the global energy industry, and has been since the IEA was first created in the 1970s in response to the global oil crisis.

But even more interesting was that, in a discussion with one of our guests who had welcomed the news, I learned - to my astonishment - that he was Chair of a local «Environmental Network» - whose website asserts, for example, that there is a «widespread consensus» that more CO2 will make the Earth «too hot for us», that «we are approaching crisis point» and «disaster» and that the opinions of sceptics are derived from media promotion «by those who stand to lose financially if energy consumption is reduced».

The Democratic platform now contains language that brings shape to the enormity of the climate crisis, and thanks to Sander's Policy Director Warren Gunnels, climate leader Bill McKibben, filmmaker Josh Fox and many others begins to point towards policy that we must implement if we are to transition away from fossil fuels and begin to draw down carbon sharply on the path to 100 % clean, renewable energy and zero net greenhouse gas emissions.

Global warming is reaching a crisis point with all the impossible - to - achieve emission constraints being hashed over and with the lack of awareness of the major causes of GW namely the soot and the energy overloads.