Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel production»

However climate change is prompting renewed interest in the role of fossil fuel production for our energy needs.

From 1950 — 1980, the growth in fossil fuel production and all energy production exceeded world population growth (table 2).

They primarily come from fossil fuel production and combustion.

Some depend on fossil fuel production, and others perceive fossil fuel development as the only route out of extreme poverty, even as others have begun to pursue a more sustainable future.

Reducing fossil fuel use has many additional benefits including reducing air pollution (and greenhouse gases) and decreasing the environmental impacts associated with fossil fuel production and use.

The poll showed a shift in favor of domestic fossil fuel production among a variety of voters.

How do the institutions, investments and infrastructure that support fossil fuel production lock - in dependence on fossil fuels?

He supports offshore oil drilling as a way of expanding fossil fuel production.

World fossil fuel production per capita will thus begin an irreversible decline between 2020 and 2030.

Bringing evidence and systems thinking to the debate over fossil fuel production, the renewable energy transition, and the role of energy in modern life.

The primary forecasting problems are thus how much, at what rate and even whether fossil fuel production will continue to increase.

Each scenario also exhibits the same pattern of change in the composition of fossil fuel production by fuel.

A decrease in overall fossil fuel emissions is not inconsistent with continued or increased fossil fuel production by the most efficient producers.

Total fossil fuel production will continue to grow, but only slowly for the next 15 — 30 years.

Climate change is an important issue confronting society, and it is hoped that the work contained in this thesis will aid climate change modeling by focusing attention to realistic fossil fuel production projections.

The primary problem for forecasting fossil fuel production over the first half of the twenty - first century is that none of these commonplace assumptions still apply.

Because fossil fuel production peaks and subsequently declines, production per capita will also decline.

This choice of model drivers accurately reflected the basic fact of the time that fossil fuel production capacity exceeded fossil fuel demand.

If fossil fuel production is not responsible for increasing concentrations of atmospheric methane, than what is?

It comes from a variety of sources, including fossil fuel production and even farming.

All the income collected from the fees on fossil fuel production would be returned in equal per capita amounts to all legal residents to compensate for rising energy costs.

During the past half century, growth in fossil fuel production was essentially limited by energy demand.

These peaks are only 18, 35 and 54 per cent above the 2005 levels of world fossil fuel production.

2018 must be the year that a managed decline of fossil fuel production is agreed to and begun.

The cost of annual federal fossil fuel production subsidies is equivalent to the projected 2018 budget cuts from Trump's proposals to slash 10 public programs and services that benefit some of the nation's most vulnerable children and families.

Here we use a single integrated assessment model that contains estimates of the quantities, locations and nature of the world's oil, gas and coal reserves and resources, and which is shown to be consistent with a wide variety of modelling approaches with different assumptions, to explore the implications of this emissions limit for fossil fuel production in different regions.

Limiting fossil fuel production on U.S. federal lands would reduce both global oil consumption and overall carbon emissions, according to a new study by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), a research organization focused on sustainable development.

The only windfall from federal fossil fuel production is enjoyed by oil, gas, and coal executives.

Today, Oil Change International released a comprehensive report on fossil fuel exploration and production subsidies in the U.S. — Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama — which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, and coal.

A constant fossil fuel production rate requires increasing energy input, but also use of more land, water, and diluents, with the production of more waste [142].

They have taxed their residents to fund emission reduction efforts, limited their own fossil fuel use, and tried to prohibit or reduce the environmental impacts of fossil fuel production within their borders.»

In plain terms, we are choosing to penalize our own energy industry with severe financial measures, when other jurisdictions like the U.S. are slashing taxes and red tape, rejecting carbon taxes, and calling for expanded fossil fuel production due to growing global demand.

Clinton further outlined her proposals in a four - page document, including a plan to expand renewable energy production on public lands, as well as continuing to allow fossil fuel production on federal lands.

Thanks to growing population and dwindling supplies, fossil fuel production per capita may peak by mid-century — ending the two centuries of unlimited growth in energy production that is at the root of modern civilization, consultant Richard Nehring writes in the journal.

Their continued support for fossil fuel production marries bad economics with potentially disastrous consequences for the climate.

A constant fossil fuel production rate requires increasing energy input, but also use of more land, water, and diluents, with the production of more waste [142].

When I see the «church of environmentalism» and «(believers / hypists / faithful) want to shut down not only fossil fuel production, but also all other energy production methods in the United States and other developed countries?»

Anyway that said, I came across this study when I was looking at volcanic activity around the Antarctic Peninsula, billed as a «pristine» site for measuring carbon dioxide, it is surrounded by volcanic production of carbon dioxide which can't be for all practical purposes told apart from «man made fossil fuel production».

Immediately repeal existing tax breaks for fossil fuel exploration and production, and halt efforts to extend and expand tax credits for unconventional fossil fuel production technologies, like carbon capture and storage and enhanced oil recovery.

When asked if reducing fossil fuel production on federal lands would simply shift production to private land or foreign sources, Merkley said:

Thinking twice about fossil fuel production.

First, it acts as a «negative carbon price» that helps to subsidize and incentivize more fossil fuel production.

Fossil fuel production grew almost as rapidly, rising 521 per cent from 63.9 to 396.8 quads.

We can not continue to allow governments and industry to expand and finance new fossil fuel production that only digs us deeper into the hole we are trying to get out of.

Jennifer Metzger, co-founder of Rosendale - based Citizens for Local Power (CLP), says it has vociferously opposed the NCZ not only because it raises rates but also because it incentivizes fossil fuel production, in direct opposition to the NYSERDA programs.