Sentences with phrase «fossil fuels use as»

All energy use and climate change authorities place the trajectory for fossil fuels use as doubling between now and 2050.

Scientists need to explain to the public that while they continue to study the details of anthropogentic global warming and consequent climate change, that we already know enough to be certain that continued unmitigated warming will be a disaster for all humanity, and that we urgently need to phase out all fossil fuel use as quickly as possible.

Mind you, they all think that there is good reason to reduce fossil fuel use as early as possible in any case... but more for climate, geopolitical, and other environmental reasons...

Projects being delivered for the University of Hawaii will allow various campus buildings to eliminate 70 % to 100 % of fossil fuel use as the state races towards its 100 % renewables by 2045 target.

Scientists need to explain to the public that while they continue to study the details of anthropogentic global warming and consequent climate change, that we already know enough to be certain that continued unmitigated warming will be a disaster for all humanity, and that we urgently need to phase out all fossil fuel use as quickly as possible.

Very few politicians supporting any meaningful legislation on climate change, limited discussion in the Press and political debates, projections for increasing fossil fuel use as far out as the eye can see, etc..»

Not exact matches

As I wrote for NOVA Next, Germany stabilized its grid and electricity supply by dialing up its fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power, while also asking four energy - hogging aluminum smelters to dial down their power use temporarily.

Even though it's considered the dirtiest of fossil fuels and as a result is being burned less in many developed countries, there's no way that it would suddenly stop being used.

Nearly 15 % of the electricity consumed in the United States each year is used to keep people cool, meaning America uses as much fossil fuel for air conditioning as Africa uses for all its energy needs.

«Canadians support a shift in our energy use from fossil fuels to cleaner energy as quickly as possible.

Since then, divestment has become a grassroots movement to urge ordinary consumers to invest their retirement savings in ethical ways, and even to use them as vehicles for political change, such as with the divestment movement targeting fossil fuels.

After all, the latter would entail divesting from the modern economy as a whole, since so many companies gain a distinct advantage from using gas - powered trucks rather than horse - drawn wagons, thus profiting from the production of fossil fuels.

Even in what I am sketching as an ecological civilization there would, thus, be some use of fossil fuels.

In addition to carbon dioxide there are other disruptive products from the use of fossil fuels such as the nitrogen oxides that have already been referred to.

Why does the carbon dioxide increase as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, yet the oxygen which is used up in this burning is not significantly depleted?

Small increases per person can have an enormous effect when multiplied by huge numbers of people, as for example in China and India, if, as they propose, they increase their use of fossil fuels in the near future.

A team of chemists at the University of Bristol have made significant steps towards developing a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels having produced a petrol using beer as a key ingredient.

Groups such as Friends of the Earth warn the UK can not «plant its way out» of climate change but instead must reduce its use of fossil fuels.

The University at Buffalo Foundation used an offshore fund to invest in fracking and fossil fuels, even as university officials sought to portray UB as a national leader in climate - change and sustainability research.

We think we can do a much cleaner alternative, and if the governor is serious about moving away from burning fossil fuels that he should be using the Empire State Plaza as a model.»

As fossil fuels have a finite quantity, the costs of using it tend to increase as we get to the point where it is no longer easily availablAs fossil fuels have a finite quantity, the costs of using it tend to increase as we get to the point where it is no longer easily availablas we get to the point where it is no longer easily available.

As we use more and more, fossil fuel prices will go up, making other technologies cost competitive.

The process of moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy will advance as the costs of using renewable energy starts to matches the costs of using fossil fuels...

«This is about «bridge energy»,» Fahy said, referring to the transitional or intermittent use of fossil fuels such as natural gas to reach renewable energy goals.

While fossil fuel opponents hail the decision as a step toward using more renewables, the pipeline company may appeal to the federal government which could have the final say.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

As the planet has continued to expand its use of fossil fuel and bring a Western lifestyle to all, the collateral damage has accumulated.

Solid oxide fuel cells that can use conventional fossil fuels as well as hydrogen are set to take a larger role in the energy game

Cars running on hydrogen fuel cells produce zero emissions, but currently, factories must use fossil fuels, such as natural gas, or precious metals, such as platinum, to...

Using historical data, they included carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and changes in land use — such as deforestation.

Walter sees the benefits of using methane as an energy source as twofold: «Not only does it prevent a potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere by converting it to weaker greenhouse gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — but using it on - site would also reduce the demand for other fossil - fuel sources.»

By harnessing energy from the sun — «this handy fusion reactor in the sky,» he called it last night — getting enough renewable energy on the power grid and smoothing out energy generation and use between peak and off - peak hours, the nation and planet can shift away from fossil fuels» dominance as a power source, he told the crowd.

Reducing the amount of fossil fuels (such as gasoline for cars and coal burned for electricity) that we use can help slow how quickly the ice is melting (by slowing the rise in average temperatures).

Succinic acid is a colorless, crystalline compound used in lacquers, dyes and perfumes and as an ingredient in many consumer products, such as packaging, which might otherwise be produced with fossil fuels, and medicines.

«We found that nearly a billion metric tons of above - ground carbon stocks in Peru are at imminent risk for emission into the atmosphere due to land uses such as fossil fuel oil exploration, cattle ranching, oil palm plantations and gold mining,» Asner said.

Since we extract and refine copious amounts of crude oil these days for fossil fuels, it makes sense to use the nonfuel portions as well.

Aggressive measures to curtail the use of fossil fuels and emissions of so - called short - lived climate pollutants such as soot, methane and HFCs would need to be accompanied by active efforts to extract CO2 from the air and sequester it before it can be emitted.

And even as the developed nations of the world cut back on fossil fuel use, there will be no justifiable way to prevent the Third World from expanding its use of coal and oil.

Scientists expect this doubling to occur later this century if nations continue to burn fossil fuels as they do now — the «business as usual» scenario — instead of curtailing fossil - fuel use.

The use of alcohol as a fuel for internal combustion engines, either alone or in combination with other fuels, has been given much attention mostly because of its possible environmental and long - term economical advantages over fossil fuel.

For the industrial era, Lovejoy's analysis uses carbon - dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels as a proxy for all man - made climate influences - a simplification justified by the tight relationship between global economic activity and the emission of greenhouse gases and particulate pollution, he says.

One of the strongest greenhouse gases, methane comes from agriculture and fossil fuel use, as well as natural sources such as microbes in saturated wetland soils.

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

But every person in Britain uses more than 80 times as much fossil fuel as a Bangladeshi, so Britain's population growth effectively contributes 3.5 times as much carbon dioxide to the global atmosphere as Bangladesh's.

There are several reasons for this: the contraction of energy - intensive heavy industries, such as iron and steel; the long - term malaise in the national economy; the modest move away from burning fossil fuels that produce carbon dioxide towards nuclear energy; and the increasingly efficient use of energy evident in most of the economies of the rich world.

«The model we developed and applied couples biospheric feedbacks from oceans, atmosphere, and land with human activities, such as fossil fuel emissions, agriculture, and land use, which eliminates important sources of uncertainty from projected climate outcomes,» said Thornton, leader of the Terrestrial Systems Modeling group in ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division and deputy director of ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute.

And, if it were found in large enough quantities, some experts speculate that it could be used as a clean - burning substitute for fossil fuels today because it gives off high amounts of energy when burned but emits only water, not carbon.

«Using fossil fuels as an energy source as opposed to sunlight is not very environmentally sound,» says Bob Rees at Scotland's Rural College in Edinburgh, UK.

«It takes 77 million years to make fossil fuels and 45 minutes to use as a coffee cup,» says Cereplast's Scheer, noting that his industry can use the residue of government - mandated production of biofuels, such as ethanol from corn.

Marcos Buckeridge supports the use of biofuels as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuel, stating that because sugar cane does...