Sentences with phrase «futures by burning fossil fuels»

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However, at least two of the state's nuclear reactors are in danger of closing within the next few years and would significantly increase air pollution because they would be replaced by fossil - fuel burning power plants in the near future.

But as we build that clean energy future, our modern lives are still powered by fossil fuels and the burning of those fuels is releasing tons of carbon dioxide into the air.

In 2010, Davis et al [background] quantified an important component of socio - economic inertia by estimating the future emissions expected from all existing fossil fuel - burning infrastructure worldwide, naming these «committed» emissions.

And depending on how much fossil fuels are burned in the future, «262 - 983 million people are likely to move into the water stressed - category» by 2050.

However, you can say roughly that for each Gt of carbon that I am off, the peak of the part of the temperature rise that is associated with future fossil - fuel burning will change by 0.0012 degrees Celsius.

Many believe the disconnection between popular belief and scientific analysis has been engineered by «deniers» explicitly opposed to the lifestyle changes — including restrictions on fossil fuel burning — that might be introduced in the near future.

So far, the world has heated up by at least one of those two degrees, and unless we stop burning fossil fuels in quantity soon, the 1.5 degree level will probably be reached in the not - too - distant future.

When the United States and Australia broke the promises they made at the 1997 Kyoto conference by declining subsequently to ratify the protocol they were refusing to discipline themselves and were keeping open their futures, the option to burn as much fossil fuel as they liked.

«We looked at the PETM because it is thought to be the best ancient analogue for future climate change caused by fossil fuel burning,» said Lee R. Kump, professor of geosciences at Penn State University.