Sentences with phrase «fuel energy use»

What would motivate the world's richest corporations to make a policy change to cut fossil fuel energy use in their company to under 10 % by 2050 or else?

Compared with the normal population, we would expect the overweight population to have higher transportation fuel energy use because of the additional fuel energy needed to transport heavier people.

The largest majority of real cuts in fossil fuel energy use need to come from the world's richest people and largest corporations to solve the problem faster.

It's more likely that nothing will be done to rapidly and permanently reduce fossil fuel energy use and carbon pollution in the next 20 years.

All climate change authorities place this event occurring at current business as usual fossil fuel energy use forecasts (or RCP 8.5) by ~ 2040 or 25 years from now.

(In 2014, for example, fossil - fuel energy used for transportation was twice as large as all end - use electricity consumption combined.)

The author is a seasoned academic with authoritative facts at his fingertips, a fistful of memorable models (to quote just one: the amount of solar energy heating the roads of the US in one day is double the fossil fuel energy used by the entire world during the same period), and a gift for marshalling his material into an easily assimilated narrative.

There are a host of other factors surrounding wood - fuel energy use in sub-Saharan Africa that remain poorly understood, Mendum said.

When you state «On current fossil fuel energy use forecasts we run out of the remaining 250 GtC Carbon Budget to remain under a 2 C rise around 2033 or in 20 years.»

On current fossil fuel energy use forecasts we run out of the remaining 250 GtC Carbon Budget to remain under a 2 C rise around 2033 or in 20 years.

Top priorities of the Trump transition team and cabinet nominees — many who disregard the connection between global warming and fossil fuel energy use — include rolling back eight years of Obama administration climate regulations and restrictions on coal, oil and gas development.

The IPCC RCP 8.5 Carbon emission assumptions for fossil fuel energy use may be (or are) significantly less than real world BAU figures would suggest from the available Energy data reports and their forecasts to 2030 and 2040 (the IEA / EIA and others).

Ultimately, such work will help reduce the impacts that nuclear and fossil fuel energy use have on the environment.

«On the heels of the Vatican's announcement that the Pope intends to urge support for an international agreement to fight global warming by reducing human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil - fuel energy use, a new peer - reviewed scientific paper reveals powerful evidence that CO2 emissions contribute far less to global warming than widely thought.

Energy efficiency retrofits for homes have been identified as a key growth area for the U.S. economy, providing jobs for Americans while decreasing fossil fuel energy use.

For example, natural gas (methane) used to manufacture fertilizer accounts for roughly 40 % of the fossil fuel energy used to produce ethanol from corn.

They report in Environmental Research Letters that they examined 740 different production systems for 90 different foods, to calculate levels of land use, greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), fossil fuel energy use, the nutrient runoff that leads to eutrophication or «dead zones» in lakes and rivers, and the potential for acidification of the waters.

The talk, originally entitled «Why Divest from Fossil Fuels When a Future with Low Emission Fossil Fuel Energy Use is Already a Reality?

The proportionate increase in fuel energy use (and thus GHG emissions) due to a person's weight per kilometre is estimated as car weight plus half the mass of the person, divided by car weight (Leonard Evans, personal communication)-LSB-...] we assumed that all individuals with BMI < 30 kg / m2 use an average small car (e.g. Ford Fiesta) and that individuals with BMI 30 kg / m2 use a car with more internal space (e.g. Ford Galaxy).

So, «Business As Usual Fossil Fuel Energy Use» is a disaster in the making

So in a world where there is little to no agreement to cut overall energy demand, no capacity to supply an extra 500 Mtoe Non-Carbon energy per year, and where Fossil Fuel energy use is forecast to rise 150 % to 19,000 Mtoe in 2050 what kind of a climate would one likely expect then?

The safe climate middle - ground number from Hansen, Anderson, McGibbon, Alley, IPCC, IEA, AIE, UNFCCC, NAS, Nature, PLOSone et al to remain below 2 C increase means cutting Fossil Fuel Energy use to 10 % (1400 Mtoe) of 2011 levels by 2050.

Result: much more fertilizer used; more fossil fuel energy used than obtained from ethanol.