Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel industry sources»

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Viewed in one dimension, the standoff over construction of a 1,172 - mile, $ US 3.8 billion oil pipeline pits thousands of protesters massed on the prairie to safeguard a sole source of tribal drinking water from the fossil fuel industry and its allies in government and finance.

Casarino will present «Perspectives on Partially Bio-Based Materials,» which focuses on bio-content sources, coupling agents and compatabilizers, on Wednesday, Feb. 2, at 2:30 p.m. DuPont led the industry with the first families of high - performance renewably sourced materials to help reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

The wind energy industry, where Britain could be a world leader, has been thrown into disarray by a published letter to Cameron calling on him to withdraw subsidies to renewable sources of energy and stick with nuclear and fossil fuels,

Domestic industries can make it from a range of chemical feedstocks and energy sources (for instance, from renewable, nuclear and fossil - fuel sources), and the nontoxic gas could serve as a virtually pollution - free energy carrier for machines of many kinds.

Transportation and fossil fuel industries typically come to mind as major sources of pollution.

Its real function is to distract us from investing in alternative power sources and thus helps to keep the fossil fuel industry in business.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

Methane emissions from fossil fuel industry and natural geological leakage are up to 110 per cent greater than current estimates, according to a detailed analysis of methane sources published in Nature this week.

The government says that completely banning fossil fuels from local industry will be a «titanic and beautiful task,» even though the country already generates more than 99 percent of its electricity using renewable energy sources.

Even though the country already generates over 99 percent of its electricity from renewable sources and ran entirely on alternative energy for 250 days in 2016, completely banning fossil fuels across all industries will likely prove difficult.

Today, clean energy is responsible for more jobs than the fossil fuel industry (source: Impact Alpha).

As to transportation or industry the truth is there is no other portable energy source that offers quite the concentration of energy or the abundance found of the original bounty found in liquid fossil fuels.

These include ending subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, boosting energy efficiency, advancing renewable sources like wind and solar power and moving away from the idea that «drill baby, drill» is a solution.

The electric utility industry is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for one - third of total US greenhouse gas emissions and about 40 percent of all carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning.

Modern biomass - to - energy technology means that locally - sourced biomass can be a clean, reliable and renewable energy source for the future, replacing fossil fuels in local industries and reducing their reliance on electricity grids.

An anti-Kyoto, Anti-IPCC, anti-regulation lobby group founded and run by Frederick Singer, that has received $ 20,000 from ExxonMobil... as well as having received substantial funds from several other fossil - fuel industry sources including Shell, Unocal, Texaco, Arco, and the American Gas Association (see his sworn affidavit at http://tinyurl.com/2rrqz7; HeatIsOnline at: http://tinyurl.com/yqvozw; and Center for Media and Democracy: http://tinyurl.com/yloyf2).

A low - cost emissions - free source of electricity generation, wind energy will be essential if the province is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent in 2050 as clean electricity will be needed to substitute for fossil fuels in transportation, industries and buildings.

But let's get one thing straight, Oreskes is little more than yet another «cog in the wheel» when it comes to accusing skeptic climate scientists of being paid shills of the fossil fuel industry, enslaved just like all the other cogs to the same single source for the accusation, Ross Gelbspan.

The first is a cap - and - trade system, which would place progressively stricter limits on fossil fuel use; require power plants, industries, and other major sources of greenhouse gases, to purchase permits to discharge carbon dioxide; and establish a market in those permits.

The main sources of anthropogenic methane are agriculture (such as cattle farming) and waste (such as landfills), and methane derived from the fossil fuel industry.

Just about nothing else would cost so much and do so little, so the bunnies have asked Eli why Roger and the Breakers are doubling down CO2 capture at the source (fossil fuel power plants, cement kilns) imposes a cost on the fossil fuel industry.

So we spend # 13.84 per household (per year) on clean new sources of energy, nearly three times as much more to clean up the mess the nuclear industry has already made and up to eight times as much to subsidise fossil fuels.

In the Q & A session after a 2012 presentation, a question was posed to him about fossil fuel industry leaders balking at alternative energy sources, and he offered the following at the 42:14 point about wind energy:

And get this: molten salt reactors run at much higher temperatures than today's reactors, so heavy industry can use them as a clean source of industrial heat, replacing the fossil fuel furnaces they use today.

If the propaganda and articles generated by the industry are any indication there is serious concern by fossil fuel users over any attempts to impose limits on mercury emissions from coal burning sources.

Figueres has become more outspoken in criticising the fossil fuel industry in recent months as part of efforts to promote renewable sources such as solar or wind power.

Seventy percent of our energy sources (all industry) are supplied by fossil fuels.

I am under the (possibly mistaken) impression that energy companies (which I'll suggest is a more accurate descriptor than fossil fuel industries) are putting resources into alternate energy sources.

«Grant aid is always seen as benefit and will give a boost to the heat pump industry on the whole, mainly due to the government's stamp of approval to say «this is the future — replacing fossil fuel with a renewable source like heat pumps is the way forward,»» said Brian Cooley.

For decades, the fossil fuel industry has used its influence to spread false or misleading information about climate change — a strong motivation for choosing low - carbon energy sources like wind or solar (in addition to the economic reasons).

The Global Carbon Emissions graphic in the second source shows that the increase coincides precisely with the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the fossil fuel industry.

The «big money» that the fossil fuel industry spends is to provide a low - cost source of energy to supply the needs of the population of the world.

Maryland generates more than half of its electricity from fossil fuel sources and we continue to lack adequate industry in our state.

As we diversify our sources for fuel and energy, the fossil fuel industry is betting on cracking to continue expanding its petrochemicals business.

short answer A bad idea, since (i) they produce CO2 (partly responsible for the rise in global warming), (ii) there is a limited amount of fossil fuel from which we make valuable materials such as lubricants and plastics, (iii) fossil fuel resources are finite, so burning them means we are consuming a resource we can never replace, and (iv) we can actually build new industries and create many new jobs developing renewable sources of energy instead of burning fossil fuels.

His probe follows revelations that Wei - Hock (Willie) Soon of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who disputes the scientific consensus that human activities are the main driver of global warming, failed to disclose research funding from Exxon, Southern Company, and other fossil - fuel industry sources.

[30] Epstein states his main sources of revenue vary «depending on what [he's] working on,» but in the «last year it's been a combination of public - facing (e.g., getting paid to write the book [The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels]-RRB- and giving speeches, a lot of which are to industry groups,» noting that he'd be willing to «work with anyone fighting for freedom — but not for subsidies.»

In response to a Reddit user's question regarding Epstein's sources of funding, Epstein wrote he was «proud to work with the fossil fuel industry,» which he believes has «historically done a horrible job of educating the public,» and thinks his ideas «will help [the fossil fuel industry] make a better case for freedom.»

«Within the fossil fuel industry itself... some companies such as Enron, British Petroleum, and Royal Dutch Shell are already looking to the future, and beginning to invest in alternative energy sources.

16 Major greenhouse gases Carbon Dioxide (CO 2) Carbon Dioxide (CO 2) Source: Fossil fuel burning, deforestationSource: Fossil fuel burning, deforestation Anthropogenic increase: 30 % Anthropogenic increase: 30 % Average atmospheric residence time: 500 yearsAverage atmospheric residence time: 500 years Methane (CH 4) Methane (CH 4) Source: Rice cultivation, cattle & sheep ranching, decay from landfills, miningSource: Rice cultivation, cattle & sheep ranching, decay from landfills, mining Anthropogenic increase: 145 % Anthropogenic increase: 145 % Average atmospheric residence time: 7 - 10 yearsAverage atmospheric residence time: 7 - 10 years Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) Source: Industry and agriculture (fertilizers) Source: Industry and agriculture (fertilizers) Anthropogenic increase: 15 % Anthropogenic increase: 15 % Average atmospheric residence time: 140 - 190 yearsAverage atmospheric residence time: 140 - 190 years

So, once again, it is ever more obvious that the collective lot of enviro - activists have only one source for their unsupportable accusation about a fossil fuel industry denial mating, the worthless set of «reposition global warming» memos, and the one guy responsible for gaining media traction for them, Ross Gelbspan.

Authoritative sources such as EarthTrack have placed the fossil fuel industry's tax and fiscal subsidies at around $ 25 billion a year, a figure that pales beside the roughly $ 1,000 billion (one trillion dollars) paid annually for coal, oil and natural gas burned in the U.S. Do the math: withdrawing those subsidies would lead to at most a 2 - 3 percent rise in the market prices of fossil fuels — scant incentive to reduce their use and concomitant emissions of CO2.

We focus on the fossil fuel industry because we view the production and consumption of oil, gas and coal as sources of global warming, human rights abuses, war, national security concerns, corporate globalization, and increased inequality.

But I simply can't dissemble with my ex-colleagues; the fossil fuels that we had so much fun (and profit) finding are the source of a major global problem and the industry we work (or worked) in has to close down over the next two or three decades.

I found that these news sources have historical, material connections to American think tanks, Australian conservative political parties and economic interests in the fossil fuel, mining and energy industries — all of which oppose policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

But even in the gas industry, McGowan said, the «energy transition is a big topic,» and there is wide recognition that sustainable sources will increasingly replace fossil fuels.

Yet on the ground, significant momentum has been building to tackle fossil fuels at their source, by trying to block new production and exports, and change the economics of the industry.

page 10's Conclusion: The student's «climate change misinformation campaign is a multi-faceted scheme» statement is technically true, but regarding the assertion about «almost everything leads back to the fossil fuel industry,» this student's paper inadvertently becomes a case study of how scrutiny of every angle of such accusations does not actually reveal the appearance of a disinformation campaign created by the fossil fuel industry, but instead one apparently created and promulgated by enviro - activists, supported in a major way to this very day by character assassination accusations from a single source — Ross Gelbspan and the clique of enviro - activists surrounding him.

Richards said that the fossil fuel industry is also to be held responsible because it is the source of roughly 70 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.

The real truth was too painful for the fossilised brains of fossil fuel industry and thus the full message from the science was watered down - that was the source of dissent amongst scientists of ability and honesty i.e. that the IPCC FAR in its final version understated the probable outcomes.