Sentences with phrase «fueled the research behind»

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Behind the scenes, local letter writer Mitchell Langbert, a Brooklyn College professor and former Republican committee member who tried starting a Catskills chapter of the Tea Party last year, has been stirring the pot... by passing on information he's been researching and by fueling his local blog on a regular basis.

But there's some big money behind green fuel so far: UOP, a division of energy company Honeywell, is one company researching the new fuel.

That research suggests fossil fuels are behind at least 28 % of that increase — so, she adds, more work is needed to reduce uncertainties and reconcile the ethane - based and isotope - based conclusions.

The cost benefits and climate advantages are among the reasons that five countries run national research programs on the technique; is the United States falling behind on the next big fossil fuel technology?

I think that, particularly with presidential leadership, there could be more than 60 Democrats and Republicans in the Senate who could get behind the case for fueling an American energy quest this way, or with a directed 2 - cent - per - gallon nudge to the gasoline tax, which alone would triple our research budget compared to the pre-stimulus level.

Publicly, most automakers are ducking the issue and emphasizing potential pitfalls of building hybrid cars with plugs, but pressure is mounting behind the scenes to give the idea some life... «Such development should have the highest research and development priority because it promises to revolutionize transportation economics and to have a dramatic effect on the problems caused by oil dependence,» write George Shultz, former U.S. secretary of state, and James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in a June position paper on oil and U.S. national security... They argue that battery development for plug - in hybrids «should for the time being replace the current research and development emphasis on automotive hydrogen fuel cells.»

The research methodology manages to systematically ignore the most critical evidence surrounding the drivers undermining U.S. primacy: such as, the biophysical processes of climate, energy and food disruption behind the Arab Spring; the confluence of military violence, fossil fuel interests and geopolitical alliances behind the rise of ISIS; or the fundamental grievances that have driven a breakdown in trust with governments since the 2008 financial collapse and the ensuing ongoing period of neoliberal economic failure.

Published last week in the journal Science, researchers from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) found that the majority of methane released into the atmosphere since 2006 was produced by bacteria, pointing to sources like agriculture — rather than sources like fossil fuel production or the burning of organic material — as the culprit behind the increase in methane levels.

I think the Shindell paper (april issue Nature Geosciences) and the attempts to respin it by the fossil fuel lobby together demonstrate how media opinion is far behind the most recent scientific research into climate.

Recent research confirms that the above - average sea temperatures causing this bleaching across 38 countries are the result of human - induced global climate change, rather than from local pollution as was previously argued and the fossil - fuel industry is the main culprit behind these impacts.

Some fear that the firm may have offered the Trump campaign undue sway in the election, fueled by claims by Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie that it developed Trump's iconic, divisive, slogans long before he was even a declared candidate, and CEO Alexander Nix's boasts that Cambridge Analytica did «all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting,» behind Trump's successful campaign.