Sentences with phrase «fuel of the next century»

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Spread the cost of reducing fossil - fuel consumption over the next century, and it turns out that the world would reach the same level of prosperity in 102 years that it is now projected to reach in 100.

Realistic large - scale solar panel coverage could cause less than half a degree of local warming, far less than the several degrees in global temperature rise predicted over the next century if we keep burning fossil fuels.

Forget the Prius, the Tesla Model S and the BMW i3, Toyota executives say; the Mirai and its hydrogen fuel - cell technology is the first step in the next century of the automobile.

«Lead your Z: Steel Soldiers into the next century rebooted for the rocket fueled fans of the classic hard - core strategy game.In the bloody aftermath of «Z» comes Z: Steel Soldiers.

The overrepresentation of male artists owes to a contingent of 19th — and 20th - century photography dealers, whose stock and trade is passing classical B&W photography from one hand to the next like a money - fueled game of hot potato.

The House in the summer of 2009 passed a bill outlining a cap - and - trade system that could, over the next few decades, lead to an early end to conventional use of coal and oil, fuels that have underpinned prosperity and growth for more than a century.

If present rates of fossil - fuel consumption continue, the doubling of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels will occur sometime within the next century or two.

By burning fossil fuels, we are likely to emit the same amount over the next three centuries,» said James Zachos, professor of Earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

What we are talking about is more like, How much fuel will be burned by how many airplanes reaching their airstrips over the next half - century, given various projections for population growth and economic development, imponderables about changing patterns of mobility and technological breakthroughs, and market reactions to unpredictable events like terrorist hijackings?

There are many reasons to shift away from fossil fuels, and we will do so in the next century without legislation, financial incentives, carbon - conservation programs, or the interminable yammering of fearmongers.

If fossil fuel consumption is to blame, and if it continues to track the exponential growth rate of the past century, it stands to reason that the temperature increase over the next century will be considerably more than over the previous one.

(2) We're going to be running out of fossil fuels anyway in the next few centuries; without alternatives, global economic prosperity will be endangered much sooner than that.

On the other hand, if by some chance and what ends up happening is totally independent of human activity, because it turns out after all that CO2 from fossil fuels is magically transparent to infrared and has no effect on ocean pH, unlike regular CO2, say, but coincidentally big pieces of the ice sheets melt and temperature goes up 7 C in the next couple of centuries and weather patterns change and large unprecedented extreme events happen with incerasing frequency, and coincidentally all the reefs and shellfish die and the ocean becomes a rancid puddle, that could be unfortunate.

The implication is that even though other teams have repeatedly warned that the world's reefs are in peril as the world warms because of ever - greater ratios of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, as a consequence of human combustion of fossil fuels at a profligate rate, the world's great reefs may survive for perhaps another century, rather than perish within the next 50 years.

«Whatever global climate agreement is made in Paris next month, it will have to be enacted through real energy choices and investment decisions to move countries away from fossil fuels well before the middle of the century.

The article ends: «We shall be able to test the carbon dioxide theory against other theories of climatic change quite conclusively during the next half - century... if carbon dioxide is the most important factor, long - term temperature records will rise continuously as long as man consumes the earth's reserves of fossil fuels».

The central political power of the rich countries of the world may take on a greater role and food and heat the global population in next century with the amount of fuel and fóssies that are currently available wakes world

By examining past ice shelf collapse and projecting the next century of temperature change onto current ice shelves, Trusel and his fellow researchers found a huge difference between a business - as - usual fossil fuel emission scenario, in which ice melt may increase eight-fold, and a scenario where emissions are stabilized relatively rapidly and ice melt remains relatively linear.

Then, perhaps in the early years of the next century, the climate could warm up a little as a result of human activity, especially the greater amount of carbon dioxide that will be released from the burning of fossil fuels.

Most people talk as if Miami and Bangladesh still have a chance of surviving; most of the scientists I spoke with assume we'll lose them within the century, even if we stop burning fossil fuel in the next decade.

This is probably similar to the CO2 increase that will occur in the next few centuries if we burn most of the fossil fuels in the ground.

During the next half century, fossil fuel production will be limited primarily by the amount and characteristics of remaining fossil fuel resources.

The «A1B» scenario assumes that 50 % of energy over the next century will come from fossil fuels, resulting in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations causing drastic climatic consequences.

Next week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the main international body tasked with studying climate change, is expected to release the first section of a four - part report that is expected to be the strongest statement yet by scientists that the burning of fossil fuels by humans over the past half century is warming the planet.