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.
His main point is the astounding decline in government revenues from
fossil fuel production due to criminally low royalties and corporate taxation.
Not exact matches
Particularly daunting is the
production or acquisition of large volumes of organic compost for fertilizer; synthetic fertilizers are not allowed
due to high
fossil fuel use in their manufacture and their limited use in promoting healthy soil.
The editors respond: We thought the numbers in Dukes's study were fascinating for what they reveal about the amount of raw biomass needed to create a gallon of gasoline; however,
due to space constraints, we could not go into greater detail about
fossil -
fuel production and energy usage.
The rapid rate of climate change since the Industrial Revolution has resulted from changes in atmospheric chemistry, specifically increases in greenhouse gases
due to increased combustion of
fossil fuels, land - use change (e.g., deforestation), and fertilizer
production (Forster et al. 2007).
If it's from corn in the US, emissions are basically the same as if it was pure gasoline (
due to the
fossil fuel use during
production), if it's from sugarcane in Brazil, net emissions are significantly lower.
It restores degraded soils, enhances biomass
production, purifies surface and ground waters, and reduces the rate of enrichment of atmospheric CO2 by offsetting emissions
due to
fossil fuel.
[citation needed] Nevertheless,
due to very capital intensive
production, it is generally not thought that first generation cells will be able to provide energy more cost effective than
fossil fuel sources.»
There was some bad news for Drax recently as the UK government decided that biomass subsidies would not keep climbing as the «carbon price floor» — levied on
fossil fuel production (and
due to rise further)-- on electricity consumption has caused a backlash from manufacturers, consumer groups and energy suppliers who are concerned that the «tax will push up prices, make the UK uncompetitive and force the premature closure of coal - fired power plants, increasing the risk of blackouts.»
«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human
production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be
due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of
fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.
«Human - Generated Ozone Will Damage Crops, Reduce
Production... MIT, 2007... A novel MIT study concludes that increasing levels of ozone
due to the growing use of
fossil fuels will damage global vegetation, resulting in serious costs to the world's economy.
The red numbers and arrows show the additional fluxes caused by human activities averaged over 2000 - 2009, which include emissions
due to the burning of
fossil fuels, cement
production and land use change (in total about 9 PgC / year).
In each of these regions, solar energy
production is emerging as a competitive means to generate electricity
due to the gradual decline in solar electricity generation costs and the rising costs of traditional
fossil fuel.
Deforestation a Much Larger Issue Than
Fossil Fuels in Many Places And it would be even more poignant had he been speaking about production of palm oil in Indonesia and Malaysia, where due to greenhouse gas emissions associated with land conversion from rainforest to plantations, the emissions from the fuel made from these crops can be nearly 10 times as much as from conventional fossil
Fossil Fuels in Many Places And it would be even more poignant had he been speaking about production of palm oil in Indonesia and Malaysia, where due to greenhouse gas emissions associated with land conversion from rainforest to plantations, the emissions from the fuel made from these crops can be nearly 10 times as much as from conventional fossil f
Fuels in Many Places And it would be even more poignant had he been speaking about
production of palm oil in Indonesia and Malaysia, where
due to greenhouse gas emissions associated with land conversion from rainforest to plantations, the emissions from the
fuel made from these crops can be nearly 10 times as much as from conventional
fossil fossil fuelsfuels.
A recent study conducted by climate scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) found that as much as 40 percent of the recent increase in methane could be
due to
fossil fuel production.