Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel usage»

The scenario on the left assumes drastic and immediate global reductions in fossil fuel usage; the right assumes «business as usual» just continues.

And this will change over time — CO2 emissions should keep getting lower just from reducing fossil fuel usage in proportion to total energy use.

How do I know that I'm decreasing fossil fuel usage and encouraging the creation of wind farms?

The cap and dividend does not in the review provided emphasize moving companies via economic forcing toward less fossil fuel usage in a positive fashion.

With the effort you put into making a homemade solar panel, you can help prevent environmental pollution by reducing fossil fuel usage.

How do i know that i'm decreasing fossil fuel usage and encouraging the creation of wind farms?

The majority of increased fossil fuel usage will come from here, alongside an associated escalation in emissions, unless there are fundamental changes in approach.

Do you care, in any way shape of form, about the massive subsidies for fossil fuel usage due to externalities not within the contracted prices?

The amount of CO2 emitted from fires in the US is equivalent to 4 — 6 % of anthropogenic emissions at the continental scale and, at the state - level, fire emissions of CO2 can, in some cases, exceed annual emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel usage...

This is in direct opposition to the IPCC's contention that global warming is accelerating, and supports arguments that the amount of warming that will occur over the remainder of the 21st century as a result of human fossil fuel usage will be at the low end of the IPCC projections, or even lower.

Since solar effects, both direct and indirect, are more than sufficient to account for net estimated temperature change over the period of significant fossil fuel usage, have humans been warming or cooling the planet?

Cicerone said that if we want to stabilize the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere instead of allowing it to continue to increase, we will have to cut back on fossil fuel usage as much as 50 to 75 percent.

Figures provided by the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative, the power company that ordered the project on the Hawaiian island, project fossil fuel usage will be reduced by 1.6 million gallons per year.

After winning a fracking ban, one of the most significant strikes against fossil fuel usage in the nation, New York's environmental groups are eager to score another victory such as a rejection of proposed natural gas pipelines by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

Fossil fuel usage also negatively affects the atmosphere.

The US is aware of this potential, and has instructed its delegates at multilateral development banks (MDBs) to promote access to and cleaner, more efficient fossil fuel usage in the world in a bid to reverse World Bank restrictions.

The cities alleged in their complaint, citing recent damning reports about secret industry research, that Exxon and the other companies have continued to promote oil and gas production «despite knowing — since at least the late 1970s and early 1980s if not earlier — that massive fossil fuel usage would cause dangerous global warming.»

In 2015, Sweden threw down the gauntlet with an ambitious goal: eliminating fossil fuel usage within its borders, and immediately ramping up investment in solar, wind, energy storage, smart grids, and clean transport.

My prediction is that if we do actually experience a slight cooling because of the Maunder Minimum in solar activity, the «experts» will twist and turn again and instead of attributing it to the solar cycle, once again fossil fuel usage will be the culprit.

Kevin Anderson, Tim Garrett, myself, and many others who have examined the economic consequences of the severe fossil fuel usage reductions required to give us any chance of avoiding the impending climate Apocalypse all come to that conclusion, with perhaps somewhat different views of «devastating».

However, they argue that the plans fail to take into account Germany's ambition to replace current fossil fuel usage with green power.

The IEA led in creating scenarios of reducing fossil fuel usage by developing targets that had a chance of getting all countries on board.

As the world's fastest growing economies expand fossil fuels usage, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading the opposite direction, heaping on taxes and regulations designed to reduce consumption of carbon - based energy along with the emissions and jobs it produces.

«This is in direct opposition to the IPCC's contention that global warming is accelerating, and supports arguments that the amount of warming that will occur over the remainder of the 21st century as a result of human fossil fuel usage will be at the low end of the IPCC projections, or even lower,» the two scientists added.

Tesla and the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative, the power company that ordered the project, believe the project will reduce fossil fuel usage by 1.6 million gallons per year.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits or the introduction of taxes or other restrictions on fossil fuel usage or emissions of GHGs and other pollutants.

The Army is in the midst of a significant transformation of its fleet of 70,000 nontactical vehicles (NTVs), including the current deployment of more than 500 hybrids and the acquisition of 4,000 low - speed electric vehicles at domestic installations to help cut fossil fuel usage.

I find it telling that someone who accuses those who use the word «pollution» to describe excess atmospheric CO2 of being «Orwellian» can also describe proposals for what is a form of «user - pays» in fossil fuel usage as «like listening to Marxist students of the 1960s.»