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But most importantly, the impact of the agreement is clear — governments have signaled an end to the fossil fuel era by committing for the first time to cut GHG emissions and avoid the most egregious impacts of climate change.

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«The modern era is marked by a push for ever - positive thinking, and the self - help market fueled by a reliance on such positive thinking is a 9.6 billion industry that continues to grow,» she commented.

The context here is that we're currently in the «Moving to Opportunity» era, which is fueled by the theory that low - income families improve their lots when they're able to live in wealthier neighborhoods with better economic prospects.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry implored energy industry leaders on Wednesday to embrace a new era of innovation enabled by fewer regulations, fossil - fuel development and Trump tax cuts.

By Doug Stephens If the web is the gasoline fuelling a new era of retail, then mobile is the flame that is set to completely ignite it!

Kennedy's 1962 missive was borne out of national pride, fueled in large part by latent Cold War - era tensions between national governments.

Mainstream speculators — fueled by the rubbish economics that passes for theory in our modern monetary era — believe that the Fed can create wealth.

If the body of divinely revealed knowledge contained in the Bible and guarded by the church was the basis of the Christian era, so the body of knowledge being accumulated by science was seen to be the foundation of modernity, fueling human confidence in an ever better future.

Pitting for fuel in F1 wasn't a new concept, but by 1982 it had been more or less forgotten about - until the Brabham team realised it might suit the thirsty turbo engines of the era, anyway.

During the refuelling era, pit stop times were limited by the speed at which the fuel could get into the car.

Since levels of greenhouse gases have continued to rise throughout the period, some skeptics have argued that the recent pattern undercuts the theory that global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by human - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

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.

The study, published online April 6 in the journal Climate Dynamics, represents a new approach to the question of whether global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by man - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

«We live in an era during which it has become clear that we can not burn all of the fossil fuels without causing dangerous climate change,» the letter, seen by Reuters, said.

Across cultures, countries and eras, people have built fires by piling wood or other fuel in pyramid - or cone - shaped structures that are about as tall as they are wide at the base, Bejan says.

Gone are Obama - era overtures to address climate change by modernizing fossil fuel use and development, and embracing ambitious renewable energy goals.

The graphics and music are delightfully retro, and Sonic Mania's exhilarating sense of speed channels a bygone era fueled by blast processing and antagonistic marketing between Sonic and his long - time rival, Mario.

Peopled by flapper - era caricatures partaking in white - collar social orgies fuelled by selfish hedonism, Luhrmann's interpretation of Fitzgerald's oft - debated novel emerges as grotesque melodrama that plays more like a Mexican telenovela than a respectful reinterpretation of 1920's New York high society.

But the Obama administration - era Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for 2025, assuming the Trump administration doesn't dismantle it, favor larger vehicles by setting a specific fuel economy number by vehicle «footprint.&raFuel Economy standards for 2025, assuming the Trump administration doesn't dismantle it, favor larger vehicles by setting a specific fuel economy number by vehicle «footprint.&rafuel economy number by vehicle «footprint.»

This year, auto makers begin stepping toward a fleet - wide fuel economy of 35.5 mpg (6.6 L / 100 km) by 2016, a standard handed down in 2009 as auto makers limped through the worst sales year in the post-war era.

Ushering in a new dynamic era for Kia Motors, the all - new 2018 Stinger is the culmination of a years - long journey fueled by the company's bold and adventurous spirit.

The 2019 Ram 1500 represents the continuing effort by United States automakers to keep their cash cows relevant in an era of stricter fuel - efficiency standards and technology.

Adams's life story encapsulates the history of the founding era, for she defined herself in relation to the people she loved or hated (she was never neutral): her mother, whom she considered terribly overprotective; Benjamin Franklin, who schemed to clip her husband's wings; her sisters, whose dependence upon Abigail's charity strained the family bond; James Lovell, her husband's bawdy congressional colleague, who peppered her with innuendo about John's «rigid patriotism»; her financially naïve husband (Abigail earned money in ways the president considered unsavory, took risks that he wished to avoid — and made him a rich man); Phoebe Abdee, her father's former slave, who lived free in an Adams property but defied Abigail's prohibition against sheltering others even more desperate than herself; and her son John Quincy, who worried her with his tendency to «study out of spight» but who fueled her pride by following his father into public service, rising to the presidency after her death.

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / «Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s,» the Whitney's trenchant exhibition of American work, immediately recalls the Reagan era, when bluffness trumped irony and a turbocharged version of squareness — razor - sharp creases and collar bars, coke - fueled hostile takeovers, money in the service of comfort and status, strategic peremptoriness — shoved aside the counterculture.

In an era when the art industrial complex is fueled by mega galleries, Wakefield and Scarry — chic nomads who roll with a posse that includes the artists Matthew Barney and Richard Prince and the Russian patron Dasha Zhukova — are thinking outside the white box, preferring the magnificent white backdrop of Gstaad's winter landscape.

But the exceptional creative ferment of the 1960s was partly fueled by an aesthetic sense of dull conformity, coupled with the social and political constraint of the era.

[J] ust as humanity confronted «revolutionary change» (Rerum Novarum) in the19th century at the time of Industrialization, today we have changed the natural environment so much that scientists, using a word coined by our Academy, tend to define our era as the Anthropocene, that is to say, a period of time in which human action is having a decisive impact on the planet due to the use of fossil fuels.

The adoption of this accord by more than 190 countries on December 12, 2015 marks the end of the era of fossil fuels.

That said, the idea that electric vehicle charging behavior and, by extension, electric vehicle charging economics will be anything like our «fueling» behavior for gas - or diesel - powered cars may prove to be a temporary holdover from the fossil fuel era.

I believe we are entering a similar era of expanding consumer choices, from higher mileage cars, to new electric entrants like GM's Volt, to flex fuel cars and trucks powered by biofuels and driven by Michigan innovation.

During the mission era fuels built up, exacerbated by the Spanish government's ban on the use of fire.

If they do, rather than calling for the unrealistic «end of the fossil fuel era,» they'd call on the «climate aid» to be spent on «improved public health, education and economic development,» as recommended by noted economist Bjorn Lomborg.

At our present rate of fossil fuel consumption, it is estimated that we will have emitted one trillion tons of industrial era carbon by about 2040.

And don't you find it at all interesting that this time span lines up quite closely with the modern era of greatly increased burning of fossil fuels by humans, first coal and peat, and later oil and gas?.

«By refusing to provide a map for success in tackling the climate crisis in the future, the IEA has refused to accept that the fossil fuel era must come to a close in coming decades.

The pact aims to end the fossil fuel era this century but has been weakened by U.S. President Donald Trump's plans to withdraw.

Consequently, the world appears to be on the threshold of an era which in terms of energy consumption will be at least an order of magnitude greater than that made possible by the fossil fuels.

All the arguments are perfectly correct and accurate and by themselves enough to justify stopping many of these plans, but a far more important argument always lurks in the background: each of these new infrastructure projects is a way to extend the life of the fossil fuel era a few more disastrous decades.

The youth of Texas will inherit a state plagued by drought, fire, and rising sea - levels if Texas does not act soon to lead the shift away from the antiquated era of fossil fuel consumption.

By acting together, we can end the era of fossil fuels and save the climate we all depend on.

By contrast, since the beginning of the Industrial Era (around 1750), fossil fuel extraction and its combustion have resulted in the transfer of a significant amount of fossil carbon from the slow domain into the fast domain, causing a major change to the carbon cycle.

Ensuring our survival means implementing actions that achieve the 1.5 ºC temperature limit by bringing an end to the fossil fuel era; addressing loss and damage; and fast tracking the flow of climate finance into the Pacific for adaptation.

Revising the Obama - era fuel economy standards which were estimated to increase new car prices by $ 3,800 per vehicle, while providing negligible climate benefits.

The fossil fuel era is coming to a close and the future will be powered by renewable energy.

«IMO member countries must now capitalize on this momentum by bringing forward concrete proposals in time for the May 2017 MEPC meeting, both to ensure the end of the HFO era, and that the shipping industry starts transitioning towards cleaner fuels as it expands its operations in the Arctic's fragile and sensitive environment,» continued Grabiel.

In a fundraising letter obtained by DeSmog before the conference, Fred Palmer had promoted the event as having the goal to «review the scientific and economic evidence that exposes the fraud inherent in the Obama - era regulation regime» while discussing «the overwhelming benefits of fossil fuels to us all.»

The Queensboro Bridge is a beautiful artifact of the industrial age and this project represents the transition that can and must be made from the industrial age, dependent on fossil fuels, to an industrial era that lives off of solar income... wind is solar energy too, and all sustainability is about getting the income to expense ratio on solar income to something that can be sustained by living systems.

This call to move away from fossil fuels was emphatically stressed by a 2015 statement of Catholic Bishops from all continents, whom asked to «put an end to the fossil fuel era... and provide affordable, reliable and safe renewable energy access for all»

Last month, in «We Won't See You in Court: The Era of Tort Lawsuits Is Waning,» the Wall Street Journal took a look at the decline in tort lawsuit filings and the reasons fueling the decline, citing «state restrictions on litigation, the increasing cost of bringing suits, improved auto safety, and a long campaign by businesses to turn public opinion against plaintiffs and their lawyers.»

Last month, in «We Won't See You in Court: The Era of Tort Lawsuits Is Waning,» the Wall Street Journal took a look at the decline in tort lawsuit filings and the reasons fueling the decline, citing «state restrictions on litigation, the increasing cost of bringing suits, improved auto safety, and a long campaign by...