Sentences with phrase «fuel reserves still»

The estimated fossil fuel reserves still in the ground represent more than 3 trillion tons of carbon emissions.

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But most investors and oil companies are betting on business as usual, with Shell still trying to find new fossil fuel reserves.

Which means, you can drive from Los Angeles, California to Flagstaff, Arizona without stopping for gas and still have some fuel in reserve.

Their vision: a smaller, more fuel - efficient car that could maneuver easily in congested urban areas and compact parking spaces, yet still provide driver and passengers with levels of luxury and comfort usually reserved for larger sedans.

It gets less tedious once you upgrade your fuel reserves, but you're still forced to watch the same space flight animation over and over.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

I propose we begin implementing the viable technologies now, transfer some of the money that is being used to subsidize fossil fuel consumption into research for more technology, and begin the process of weaning our economy now while we still have oil reserves left.

This rather optimistic estimate tells us that end - 2008 we still had 85 % of ALL the fossil fuel reserves that were EVER on our planet.

Compare that to oil, which at 29 % of global fossil fuel reserves, adjusted for energy content, still has no full - scale, mass - market alternative in its primary market of transportation energy.

The analysis concludes that even a less ambitious climate goal, like a 3 °C rise in average global temperature or more, which would pose significantly greater risks for our society and economy, would still imply significant constraints on our use of fossil fuel reserves between now and 2050.

Methane and co2 levels have been many times higher in the past and even if the entirety of the Worlds know fossil fuel reserves where released into the atmosphere we still would not get back to those levels.

Fuel Fix Blog: The Marcellus region is now the biggest natural gas shale play in the world, and there's still about $ 90 billion to be made by tapping the area's reserves, according to a study by energy analyst group Wood Mackenzie.

And the third issue is that fossil fuel companies still invest, on the order of half a trillion dollars a year in developing new reserves.

We have an agreement between every country in the world to have a dramatic shift away from the use of fossil fuels, and yet still fossil fuel companies dominate our stock exchanges, and on the basis that they're going to utilise all of the assets, all of those oil and gas reserves, which we absolutely can't burn.