We will gradually reduce carbon use (hopefully more quickly than CERES suggests) through a combination of
fossil fuel substitution, increased carbon / energy efficiency and lifestyle changes.
So, GO renewables and
fossil fuel substitution!
Earlier academic studies analyzed
fossil fuel substitution, largely between natural gas and petroleum, during the period of the 1980s and 1990s.
Not exact matches
Furthermore, some
substitution of human labor for
fossil fuels absorbs unemployed workers.
Biological options - Biological options for mitigation of climate change involve one or more of the three strategies: conservation - conserving an existing carbon pool, thereby preventing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere; sequestration — increasing the size of existing carbon pools, thereby extracting CO2 from the atmosphere;
substitution - substituting biomass for
fossil fuels or energy - intensive products, thereby reducing CO2 emissions.
Cost advantages of hydropower based electricity generation and the
substitution of
fossil fuel based power production in an attempt to reduce carbon emission is expected to drive global hydropower market demand.
A review of other studies shows that PRB specific policies will result in net savings to CO2 emissions despite some
substitution with
fossil fuels from other sources.
Policies to increase the
substitution of
fossil fuels with bioenergy have also had a large positive impact on net emissions.
Cost advantages of hydropower based electricity generation and the
substitution of
fossil fuel based power production in an attempt to reduce carbon emission is expected to drive market demand.
Besides the EPA regulations attempting to impose the
substitution of «green» energy for
fossil fuels, the one constant has been the demand for government and ratepayer subsidies for all these schemes.
These changes make the very costly policy changes pushed by the environmental left to force
substitution of wind and solar power for
fossil fuels even more ridiculous than they already were and doom their movement sooner or later.
That doesn't happen so much if people reduce
fossil -
fuel demand over the next few decades via efficiency and
substitution of other energy sources, which doesn't happen overnight.
Specifically, the ECA results confirm the
substitution effect between the installed capacity of solar PV and
fossil fuels.
The introduction of supply side technologies can not provide the emissions reductions required to avoid the climate Apocalypse; severe personal restrictions on
fossil fuel use over and above the emissions reductions provided by the technology
substitutions are required.