Sentences with phrase «greater than fossil fuel»

It's true that if you discard all the data on paleo CO2 from ice cores, and you discard modern direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere, then you could assume the existence of a natural increase in atmospheric CO2 greater than the fossil fuel emissions.

Not exact matches

And with clean energy investment globally hitting a record - breaking US$ 367 billion last year — nearly 50 per cent more than was invested in fossil - fuelled electricity — it's a great time to buy into this particular market.

It is no coincidence that the citizens of Arab countries with limited fossil fuel reserves have enjoyed greater freedom over the years than their oil - rich neighbours.

It's that the costs of using renewable energy are still far greater than the cost of using fossil fuel in the vast majority of applications...

There is now adequate empirical evidence available around the world: Wherever people have brought about more efficient use of energy and greater use of renewable energy, you generate many more jobs than if you were to continue with conventional technologies and fossil fuels.

For more than 50 years fossil fuels and fertilizers have been the key ingredients in much greater global food production and distribution.

Whilst methane - burning is cleaner that other fossil fuels, any methane not burnt and released in the emissions from the engine has a much greater warming effect than oil - based fuel.

A Columbia University study linked greater proximity to fossil - fuel exhaust with greater learning disabilities in children — making them better candidates for jail than higher education.

Moreover, in those cases, the gap between the leading - edge technologies and the competitors trying to catch up is on aggregate twice as great for the fossil - fuel firms than the clean - technology firms; that is, the dirty energy companies are generally farther ahead of the other firms in their fields.

«Our work shows that the terrestrial biosphere might have greater potential than previously thought to mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon emissions from fossil fuels.

«This will release an estimated 87 to 130 billion tonnes of carbon by 2100, which is greater than the amount of carbon that would be released by 13 years of global fossil fuel combustion.

According to the International Energy Agency, fossil fuel subsidies from the government are 12 times greater than renewable energy.

Methane emissions from fossil fuel industry and natural geological leakage are up to 110 per cent greater than current estimates, according to a detailed analysis of methane sources published in Nature this week.

These results imply a greater potential than previously thought for fossil fuel industry efficiency improvements to mitigate the effects of human activity on the climate.

The diesel technology thus makes a greater contribution than any other type of engine to reducing the consumption of fossil fuels.

The increasing demand from India, the world's second most populous country, is expected to be greater than China's for steel and fossil fuels.

To intentionally misquote Mr. McGuire in the»67 film The Graduate, «There's a great future in bioplastics,» but the problem is that some bioplastics can contain petro - based plastics as well, which might reduce the overall amount of fossil fuel - based plastics, while inadvertently creating more waste by allowing consumers to treat these bioplastics more casually than they do traditional plastics.

Once lauded as the future of clean transportation and energy storage in a variety of other applications, hydrogen - based fuel cell systems have a great many barriers to adoption, one of which is lack of hydrogen infrastructure, and the other is the need to develop hydrogen production sources that aren't fossil fuel - based or that require more energy to produce than can be released in the fuel cell.

Am I correct in calculating that the present rate of growth in the anthropenic forcing from CO2 from fossil fuel consumption is currently somewaht greater than a milliwatt / year, or about 4 microwatts per day?

And while it's easy to fill 100 «name here» slots on an ad questioning climate clarity, my guess is it'd be hard to find more than a handful of scientists working on the intertwined climate and energy challenges who would say that fossil - fueled business as usual is the best approach to getting humanity through its 21st - century growth spurt in great shape.

This would serve multiple purposes, of (a) weaning us from dependence on foreign oil and simultaneously depleting terror - exporting countries of their revenue stream, (b) reducing other pollutants besides CO2, (c) encouraging a more gradual and less economically disastrous transition from an economony based on a finite resource, (d) slow global warming, (e) move us in the direction of a VAT tax rather than an income tax (actually, personally I don't think e is such a great thing, but as many conversative groups favor it, I don't see why they would oppose a revenue - neutral tax on fossil fuels.

That's the conclusion of a Carnegie Institution for Science study... that shows two things: Emissions from burning a lump of coal or a gallon of gas has an effect on the climate 100,000 times greater than the heat given off by burning the fossil fuel itself.

the climate effect of burning fossil fuels is 100,000 times greater than the amount of heat given off while burning the fuel.

According to the summary for policymakers, there is now even greater certainty, 95 per cent, up from 90 per cent in its 4th assessment of 2007, that more than half the warming since 1950 was caused by fossil fuel carbon dioxide.

Nader said, «We do not need nuclear power... We have a far greater amount of fossil fuels in this country than we're owning up to... the tar sands... oil out of shale... methane in coal beds...» Sierra Club consultant Amory Lovins said, «Coal can fill the real gaps in our fuel economy with only a temporary and modest (less than twofold at peak) expansion of mining.»

The world's great forests are part of the climate machinery, and more than 195 nations agreed in Paris in 2015 to take steps to contain climate change, both by managing the way they used land and by switching from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.

RGGI covers fossil - fueled electric power plants greater than 25 megawatts (MW) located in any of the nine participating states.

A CO2 emissions peak by 2016 and complete phaseout of conventional fossil fuels by around 2050 will be necessary for a greater than 85 % chance of holding global warming below 2 °C

This was very bad news because «The increase alone is greater than the whole German economy emits annually from fossil fuels.»

Moreover, they drive climate change by encouraging the consumption of polluting fuels while tilting the playing field against renewable power and energy efficiency: Fossil - fuel subsidies are five times greater than renewable energy subsidies, and they inflate domestic demand and discourage energy efficiency through artificially low energy prices, undermining the energy security of fossil - fuel importing counFossil - fuel subsidies are five times greater than renewable energy subsidies, and they inflate domestic demand and discourage energy efficiency through artificially low energy prices, undermining the energy security of fossil - fuel importing counfossil - fuel importing countries.

The authors contend the world's economies are heavily dependent on fossil fuels because such fuels are and will continue to be safer, less expensive, more reliable, and of vastly greater supply than alternative fuels such as wind and solar.

By contrast, despite spending over $ 2 trillion in 5 decades, aid programs have much less to show in terms of poverty reduction — or its ancillary benefits, e.g., reductions in hunger, disease, better health care and education, and greater adaptive capacity to deal with climate change and natural disasters — than does fossil fuel - powered economic development.

So while I agree that the global risks of nuclear are far less than fossil fuels, the local specific risks of nuclear seem far greater.

In scientific literature a few comparisons between the SRES projections and reality exist, like a 2007 PNAS study, which stated «The emissions growth rate since 2000 was greater than for the most fossil - fuel intensive of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emissions scenarios developed in the late 1990s.»

Carbon emissions from fossil fuel fired power stations are one of the main causes of climate change and ocean acidification and these are far greater threats to the Australian environment than are wind farms.

When mitigating anthropogenic global warming is projected to require greater than 80 % lower fossil energy use, how do we provide the transport fuel and energy for rapid growth by developing countries while sustaining OECD economic growth when the Available Net Exports of crude oil — after China and India's imports — have already declined 13 % since 2005, and Saudi Arabia may need to import oil by 2030?

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.

Although it is well established that there are greater amounts of fossil fuels available than can safely be burned, it does not necessarily follow that there are material valuation implications for most listed companies at present.

In delaying action on climate, some people have had a much greater role than others in prolonging our addiction to fossil fuels.

Focusing on the carbon emissions associated with tropical deforestation, it showed that converting rainforests or grasslands to corn, soybean, or palm oil biofuel production led to a carbon emissions increase — a «biofuel carbon debt» — that was at least 37 times greater than the annual reduction in greenhouse gases resulting from the shift from fossil fuels to biofuels.

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.

Carbon dioxide emissions from people burning fossil fuels are the driving force behind climate change and have risen to greater than 400 ppm — more than 120 ppm above pre-industrial levels.

As I pointed out to Gary, solar is subsidized more per unit than fossil fuels are, so if removing subsidies for both were to happen, solar would be impacted to a greater degree.

The tax extenders allow states to meet pending CO2 regulations almost exclusively with zero - emitting renewables, leaving the country well positioned for deeper cuts down the road rather than a greater reliance on fossil fuel — fired power.

For more than two decades, meteorologists and oceanographers have repeatedly warned that runaway global warming, as a consequence of ever - greater combustion of fossil fuels, could bring about an ice - free polar ocean by about 2050.

One of the problems I have with AGW is that as far as I am aware, the c02 we are releasing now from burning fossil fuels and the like must have existed in the atmosphere previously (and in far greater concentrations than it does now).

Fossil Fuels kill 320 times more people per unit power produced than solar + / Egyptians... There is something satisfying about visualizing oil company executives conscripted to toil under the hothouse conditions on 21 st Century Earth building the Great Carbon Pyramids - pyramids of calcium carbonate (or calcium bicarbonate, as the case may be) miles high, /

This analysis comes on the heels of reports from scientific bodies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and International Energy Agency that suggest the world has far greater reserves of fossil fuels already than can be burned while staying within agreed climate limits.

«You're pushing a huge amount of capital into a different sector that requires an enormous amount of growth, so you would actually see a great deal more growth from putting it into renewables than providing it for fossil fuels.»

«Fossil fuels have been one of the greatest anti-poverty programs in history, improving the human condition more than all of the trillions of dollars of government welfare programs and foreign aid programs combined.