Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel problem»

Although most people think of climate change as a fossil fuel problem, agriculture, forestry, land - use change, and other land uses, (the «land sector»), account for about 24 % of global greenhouse gas emission.

The frustration and squabbling you see regarding much smaller problems has to do with the organized corporate disinformation campaign regarding both the warming and fossil fuel problem.

While our political leaders are running around debating cap and trade, emissions treaties, fracking, or worse yet just ignoring the fossil fuel problem, Amory Lovins and his dedicated gang at the Rocky Mountain Institute have quietly put together the manifesto for achieving the era of sustainable energy.

You could also get hydrogen from natural gas (which would be more efficient than burning gasoline from a CO2 perspective, though that's assuming fuel cells are affordable), but you're back to having a fossil fuel problem (not to mention the national security problems this could cause to many countries, making them even more dependent on natural gas producers).

The solution to all of our fossil fuel problems is, in fact, at hand, with the technologies already in hand.

Not exact matches

These exchanges bring fresh ideas, new perspectives and different ways of approaching problems, which are all catalysts for the innovation which fuels the economy and help us meet global challenges, ranging from climate change to fossil fuel dependence and infectious diseases.

However, suppose that the countries can trade the rights to exploit fossil - fuel deposits: As soon as the market clears, the above - mentioned problems vanish and the first - best is implemented.

The remaining funds went towards two companies aimed at reducing humanity's dependence on fossil fuels and so counteracting the problem of climate change: Tesla Motors ($ 70m), a luxury electric car manufacturer that has since expanded to provide energy to homes and businesses through battery technology; and SolarCity ($ 10m) which seeks to offer a cleaner and more affordable energy solution.

The problem is aggravated by a model of development based on the intensive use of fossil fuels, which is at the heart of the worldwide energy system.

Some results of the automobile are obviously pernicious, such as highway deaths; but it remains to be seen whether the automobile's destruction of fossil fuels and its creation of pollutants turn out to be even worse problems.

«Retrograde actions by the Trump administration — backtracking on COP 21, deregulating Fossil Fuels, rolling back environmental protections — will lead to many Superstorms like Sandy, more contaminated water like Flint and Hoosick Falls, worsening Asthma and respiratory problems, further poisoning the lungs of our Bronx babies,» said Judy Sheridan - Gonzalez, the president of the New York State Nurses Associations.

Addressing the issue of excessive consumption of fossil fuel is one of many problems that have fallen victim of this need to self justify and hate, rather than solve a problem that affects everyone.

The signers of Monday's letter also argue that any of the fund's gains from such companies are zeroed out by the tens of billions of dollars spent each year to combat public health problems associated with fossil fuels.

«Divesting from fossil fuel stocks doesn't solve the problem, but it sends a huge message that government and its citizens should not be investing in the type of fuel that we know increase the problems we face rather than decrease and reverse the outcome of climate change.»

SCARRED landscapes, billowing smoke, seabirds writhing in liquorice gloop: there's no denying fossil fuels have an image problem.

Common problem but differing approaches Climate change is every country's problem, but the developed and developing worlds have very different challenges ahead of them in transitioning their energy systems away from fossil fuels, according to the IEA report.

Considering what is possible and what is desirable in our energy future, Smil argues that human dependence on fossil fuels must be reduced not because of impending resource shortages but because of the environmental, economic, and political problems caused by our current consumption.

«As long as fossil fuels are the cheapest fuel we will burn them and not solve the problem.»

The sun has been storing fossil fuels for hundreds of millions of years and we're using them up in hundreds of years, so that's a problem.

We achieved that by tapping the energy in fossil fuels, in the process turning a carrying capacity problem into a climate change problem.

That agriculture, rather than fossil fuels, is driving methane poses a new set of problems for governments trying to fight climate change, Schaefer says.

Which green problems catch your attention - pesticides in foods, new recycling possibilities, fossil fuel alternatives, causes of polar ice melt?

The problem arises when you alter this «natural» balance by pulling fossil fuels from underground, with no means of reabsorbing the carbon.

Wind power is one of the key sources of renewable energy expected to play an important role in helping to cut emissions and wean society from its dependence on fossil fuels, which means wind - power companies must be prepared to quickly fix mechanical problems that threaten to slow down renewable energy production.

A problem is that markets for trading carbon dioxide focus on cuts in emissions at power plants and factories burning fossil fuels, not renewable energies which are viewed as green.

Cities in the United States are taking oil companies to court, arguing that they should pay for climate - related problems caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

«There is a danger in believing that land carbon sinks can solve the problem of atmospheric carbon emissions because this legitimises the ongoing use of fossil fuels,» Professor Mackey said.

Supporting his «moral obligation» to step up to the fight now, Hansen adds in the Times article that burning a substantial fraction of Earth's fossil fuels guarantees «unstoppable changes» in the planet's climate, leaving an unfixable problem for future generations.

It was clear that climate change is an energy problem — burning fossil fuels to generate energy accounts for 74 per cent of human - made greenhouse gas emissions — but I could see that it was very difficult to change the energy industry from the outside and very little was happening on the inside.

Burning fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil to heat and cool our buildings and run our vehicles takes a heavy toll on the environment, contributing significantly to both local problems like elevated particulate levels and global ones like a warming climate.

The problem is that it's twice the price of conventional fossil fuel.»

Is the «business as usual» approach — subsidizing fossil - fuel supply and nuclear energy and large hydro projects, maintaining low energy prices to consumers by keeping environmental and political costs «external,» propping up oil supply by every available means — part of the solution or part of the problem?

Our current problems — especially climate change caused by burning fossil fuels — are real.

If the researchers succeed in creating their synthetic bacteria, they will be closer to conceiving artificial creatures that could be used to mitigate some of society's greatest problems, among them climate change and overdependence on fossil fuels.

The study adds to earlier evidence that mothers» exposures to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are emitted by the burning of fossil fuels and other organic materials, are linked to children's behavioral problems associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

«Although these results are «good news» in the sense that the underlying physiology of plants is not going to make the warming of the planet radically worse, the problem we have created in the first place with our greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning still exists,» he says.

Fossil fuels, which are technically forms of stored energy, pose plenty of problems in their extraction, refining, distribution and delivery.

Isn't the main problem that, even if we stopped adding any fossil - fuel - derived CO2 to the atmosphere, the ocean circulations haven't yet reached «steady state» — i.e., a stable thermocline and deep ocean temperature — and therefore THAT is the source of the Hansen et al. «heat in the pipeline»?

Increasing the efficiency of photosynthesis — a revolution in «green manufacturing» — might offer a biological solution to many of the current problems facing Earth and our dependency on fossil fuels.

But even this paper qualifies its predictions (whether or not aerosols would so increase was unknown) and speculates that nuclear power may have largely replaced fossil fuels as a means of energy production (thereby, presumably, removing the aerosol problem).

[Response: For climate purposes, the problem is coal (and maybe methane hydrates)-- there is more than enough fossil fuel reserves for the IPCC scenarios.

I guess «clean coal» (that reduces aerosol aspects, but not the CO2) is not a good solution to environmental problems, even though it would reduce acid rain; better to reduce fossil fuels altogether.

The problem of global warming has resulted from human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels and clearing of forests.

Coming back to the problems with the study's methodology, perhaps the study's biggest failing is that it considers only the dollar value of subsidies to fossil fuel producers — not their real - world impact on fossil fuel production and investment decision - making.

Michigan State students note how Willie Soon now refutes research indicating adverse impacts from ocean acidification, a global crisis that is married to climate change (both problems stem from humans burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere).

«But our work can be a catalyst for showing people that things like fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions are a problem and that we need to switch to greener sources.

[Response: Fossil fuels are the main problem but land use changes are a non trival part of it (something like 20 %).

Fossil fuels have run dry, global warming is in full effect, there are widespread social problems stemming from a collapsing global economy.

the problem is that the stoichiometric ratio (efficiency ratio) for (fossil) gasoline is 14.7 parts air to 1 part fuel.

To be honest, I, too, have on occasion found comfort in such facile explanations for the nation's abject failure to deal with so many glaring problems, including several of interest to readers of car magazines: the pervasive failure to address global warming and finite supplies of fossil fuels; tens of thousands of road fatalities year in and year out; the burgeoning safety risk caused by in - car communications and telematics; the failure to maintain the roads we've got while creating better ones and efficient alternatives; and, of course, our continued inability to buy new Peugeots in the United States.