Sentences with phrase «fossil fuels controlled»

Palm oil has become a competitor as biofuel not only with rapeseed products but also a real competitor to fossil fuels controlled by Western interests.

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At the same time, a number of Republican - controlled states throughout the United States have significantly reduced their greenhouse gas emissions due to the transition away from dirtier fossil fuels to wind, solar, and gas.

Marking the divestment movement's «undeniable success,» a new report shows the value of funds controlled by individuals and institutions who have vowed to dump their fossil fuels assets now surpasses $ 5 trillion.

One of the reasons, only one, that I favor local initiatives and control and a decentralized economy is that it can slow down the exhaustion of fossil fuels and survive the necessary transition to solar energy.

He said he is concerned with the control big corporations like Walmart, the National Rifle Association and those tied to fossil fuels seem to have.

It is time to democratize the utilities and fossil - fuel industries under public ownership and democratic control.

Since the NYC funds control about $ 175 billion, if they dump fossil fuels and pipelines, it will be a globally - significant victory.

The Bulletin acknowledges that the increased use of carbon - free nuclear energy could help mitigate global warming brought on by fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions but concludes that the possibility of misusing enriched uranium and separated plutonium to create bombs is a «terrible trade - off» for trying to control climate change.

While the project is focused on ethanol, the company says it is optimistic that its efforts will pave the way to try similar emission controls for fossil fuels like coal.

Carbon capture has never been proved at scale in the power sector but is considered the chief way to control heat - trapping emissions from coal, gas and other fossil fuels.

And that makes controlling O3 pollution from fossil fuel burning as important for climate change as it is for human and plant health.

For example, controlling fossil - fuel combustion could reduce atmospheric nitrogen deposition on both land and sea.

This strategy will be cheaper than installing the extra pollution - control equipment that will be needed when emission standards become more stringent in 2000, says James Davis, the company's senior vice-president for fossil fuel generation.

And if the coal plant lacks pollution controls — or fails to turn them on — it can amplify the extent of smog, acid rain, lung - damaging microscopic soot and other ills that arise from burning fossil fuels.

Here, we report on advances made in methane hydrate research and deep - ocean Raman spectroscopy, and on proposals for fossil fuel CO2 sequestration and on controlled ocean acidification studies.

Today, however, CO2 is under the control of humans as fossil fuel emissions overwhelm natural changes.

You and your fossil fuel shills are losing control and you don't like it.

The long - term goal is to reduce the world's reliance on energy generate from fossil fuels while creating regional networks of home batteries that could be controlled as if they were a power plant.

But in principle we can control how much fossil fuels are burned.

I think that Chinese goverment realize it is problem, too, but they could not control their greedy to develop economy depending oo fossil fuel.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

Now once this ratio (whatever it might be) has been established, I see no reason why more or less the same ratio can not be applied to all cases of fossil fuel burning prior to that period, especially since there were no controls over the emission of such aerosols during either period.

And keep in mind, two - thirds of the American people support mandatory controls on GHG emissions in spite of the relentless onslaught of fossil fuel industry propaganda, and the lies of commission and omission, that have dominated the public discourse for a generation.

Since CO2 is an absolutely necessary byproduct of combustion, and since in a fossil fuel economy, combustion is absolutely necessary, it follows that control of CO2 emissions is harmful to the economy.

I think they are very right, how to control human being greedy to develop economy depend on fossil fuel is very big issue for us now.

The solution to a sustainable future will always be walking a tightrope between a need for population control & free markets until geothermal strategies for base load power transplants fossil fuels and indeed until better water availability and a host of other finite resources become magically available.

If we do not control our greedy, we will suck up whole earth's fossil fuel and left an empty and full of green house gas's planet for our grandchildren.

Currently, the DOE is under the control of fossil fuel interests who don't want to see any competition in their energy markets.

The fossil fuel companies control (with leases or direct ownership) far more carbon than all the farmers, loggers, or plankton - fertilizers ever will.

A new energy source could replace fossil fuels, governments could control emissions, or maybe a series of huge volcanoes will erupt.

While climate science promotes the narrative of cooperation for stopping the use of fossil fuels, one just need to look to how much money is spent in national defence budgets to see that the world is still fiercely competing to control the remaining economically viable resources of fossil fuels.

Our political system is currently controlled by fossil fuel, timber, and big ag (especially meat and cattle feed) corporations.

Conservatives dislike elites, and together with the elites of the fossil fuel industry, they have defined the scientists as out of control elites who need to be brought under control of the people and their work subject to the democratic process.

d) they believe that control of CO2 emissions will include governments making it more costly to use fossil fuels, punishing manufacturing and other commercial types of business for not moving to other forms of energy, even though there are no adequate replacements for fossil fuels available.

The «growing realization of late» that without an economic substitute for fossil fuels as an energy source, greenhouse gas control is doomed is a no brainer moment.

Otherwise it will become impractical to constrain atmospheric carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas produced in burning fossil fuels, to a level that prevents the climate system from passing tipping points that lead to disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.

(The fact that you could be running LNG, CNG or LPG for cooking, possible water heating, HVAC temperature control, and clothes drying could explain the way your electrical requirements maybe artificially low, all you would have done is swapped your electrical energy for a fossil fuel or possible renewable substitute.

I understand it is because in the last few years the temperature of the Earth has actually cooled so, rather than lose the momentum they had gained to make political inroads to underwrite global measures to control societies» behaviors when it comes to things like use of fossil fuels, proponents decided to cut their losses and change the term so they wouldn't be obviously wrong to the masses as it snowed on various global warming rallies.

Doesn't matter how big global estimated potential oil reserves are in total: when an oil company has diminishing access to state - controlled fossil fuels it may be experiencing its own peak - as a corporation.

and I'll show you that fossil fuel industry controls 6.5 % of the World's ENTIRE Gross Domestic Product... trillions of dollars and political raw power...... and

Current attempts by national governments worldwide to control industrial CO2 emissions following the recommendations of the IPCC could be viewed within the scientific paradigm as the projection of a large scale experiment on the earth's climate system to validate the hypothesis that anthropogenic CO2 emissions through the burning of fossil fuels and land use changes (inter alia) are a major factor driving climate change.

The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.

In this way, he claims, «one can produce a degree of cooling in a controlled way, to try and balance the warming produced by the burning of fossil fuels».

Companies that emit these gases, mainly when they burn fossil fuels, would be able to buy and sell emissions permits, an approach called «cap - and - trade» that reward those who find cheap ways to control pollution.

In essence, fossil fuels reinforce a consumerist mindset of prideful, greedy and gluttonous (yet, false) control over nature — that humanity can extract and consume fossil fuels on our own terms (some would say, «dispatchable generation»).

An APS press release from June 1, 2016 says it is requesting $ 3.6 billion in upgrades and maintenance for the grid; and then lists $ 500M for Ocotillo gas plant refurbishing, plus $ 400M for the 1,636 MW Four Corners coal plant, but rate case testimony by APS general manager of fossil fuel generation John Lucas states that APS will spend $ 435 million on pollution control (Selective Catalytic Reduction or SCR) for Four Corners.

10/18/16 — Setting a tax on carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion is considered by many experts, including two economic analysts writing in Issues, as a promising way to help control human - caused climate change, but US policy makers have resisted.

Francis said that wealthy nations and multinational corporations that use foreign debt as a way to control poorer countries, while exploiting their natural resources and polluting their land and water, owe them an «ecological debt» by limiting consumption of fossil fuels and assisting them in more sustainable development.

A key question for understanding future impacts of particles and for the development of cost - effective control policies is the extent to which atmospheric particulate matter can be controlled through regulation of fossil fuel combustion against a background of OSCs.

Workers in the car industry have the skills and expertise in logistics, production, engineering, designing for production and quality control that could be applied to help us break from a fossil fuel dependent economy.