Sentences with phrase «huge coal and oil»

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For the time being, much of the analysis on the financial losses focuses on the plunge in oil and coal prices, and the potential that a huge portion of the global reserves of oil, gas, and coal will be «stranded» in the ground to curb climate change.

For instance, they have spent lavishly on debunking climate change and the need to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, which isn't surprising since they rely on oil and coal production for huge profits.

Insofar as it replaces carbon - intensive coal and oil power, natural gas is a huge gain in cutting the country's carbon footprint, all while creating new jobs and bringing power to isolated parts of the country.

Big changes will be necessary whatever happens, as oil and natural gas supplies dwindle, though coal is still available in huge quantities.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

The climate science also sure is subject to severe political pressures from varying lobbyist groups, first and foremost the oil an coal interests which are huge financial powerhouses especially in the US Senate — a body which in reality dictates the whole global «climate policy» or rather the absence of any such — serious climate politicans round the globe in reality have — as we now have seen — no chance at all against the denying forces and their huge media apparatus, as long as the public don't see some very serious consequences of climate change, fx.

Because make fuel from CO2 means to continue to dig coal and oil and use huge amount of energy from nuclear, these make this idea lose advantage much.

It would require a lot of cows to match the huge quantities of oil and coal extracted from the ground each day.

Even if you trim off the ends of the curve of squalor and overindulgence, you end up with a huge energy gap, which may already be what is helping drive up oil and coal prices (keep in mind most experts on fossil fuels I talk to see no signs of «peak coal» any time soon).

But there is still huge untapped potential for capturing emissions from gas wells, oil tanks, coal mines, landfills, livestock operations and other sources.

Mankind has been blessed with huge supplies of coal and oil, which made it possible to lift ourselves up from the cold, dark, 70 % child mortality rates and general squalor that typified the human condition 400 years ago.

Neilio, I'm with you on this.I just love the way you stand up to that guy's strange arguments.I too am extremely concerned at the way we are all being made to follow this crazy «science», to the detriment of most normal Humans» lives.I'm in England.We are living on a huge mass of fossil fuel, (coal, oil and now gas from Fracking), and we're being told that we must not use it to keep warm.Coal - fired power plants are being shut down.Useless windfarms are swamping our country.Nuclear stations are planned when Germany has banned them in favour of Coal.China and India are building and using more coal stations than we ever did.

The huge fall in CO2 from coal use in 2016 was partially offset by increased emissions from oil (up 1.6 %) and gas (up 12.5 %).

«The IPCC scenarios completely miss this point, and as a result their models are based on the assumption that everyone in the developing wrld will be consuming coal and oil at the same rate as today, scaled up by a huge degree of economic growth.»

Temperature increases in the Arctic of a just few degrees could unleash the huge storehouse of methane, which some have estimated would be comparable to burning all recoverable stocks of coal, oil, and natural gas.

«Big oil, gas, and coal have huge influence on politicians and governments and they get that influence the old fashioned way — they buy it,» said Kretzmann.

Operating cost for electric cars is $ 0.50 to $ 0.75 per mile versus $ 0.10 for gasoline powered cars once battery replacement costs are included By 2020, Chinese PER CAPITA emissions will be higher than America's Does not believe that the 0.6 degree temperature rise to date is the West's «fault,» but does believe that China is the future problem Whatever U.S. does about emissions reduction and what people do as individuals is totally trivial in face of the fact that China is adding huge amounts of coal fired generating capacity The most meaningful emissions reduction strategy today would be to convert China from coal to natural gas The claim that there are more frequent or more intense hurricanes and tornadoes as a result of AGW is not scientifically supported We can reduce emissions, but it is important that we do the RIGHT things (and NOT the WRONG ones) Not worried about «peak oil;» coal can be converted to liquid fuel

The mining industry has discovered that there are huge reserves of coal - seam gas and oil - shale that can be profitably exploited.

Finally, the refrigerator uses electricity which is probably either generated in a coal fired power station (and coal mining uses huge amounts of diesel powered machinery) or from an oil or gas fired power station.

Dressed as corporate lobbyists, they constructed a huge blockade of leaky oil barrels and bags of coal, to symbolise the dirty energy companies blocking action on climate change.

It has taken over a century and huge capital investment to develop the infrastructure of the planet's oil, gas and coal industries.

If we take the Politicians, Oil, Coal & Chemical companies out of the picture for a moment and just look at the people that they designed their Skeptical Anti-man induced Global Warming spins for... you clearly see a huge group of hateful and stupid people who don't care what the issue is about, as long as it deviates from what they consider a Liberal view... they're happy.

When other huge oil fields or coal mines were opened in the past, we knew much less about the damage that the carbon they contained would do to the Earth's climate system and to its oceans.

The Bank of England has also recognised that a collapse in the value of oil, gas and coal assets as nations tackle global warming is a potential systemic risk to the economy, with London being particularly at risk owing to its huge listings of coal.

And here's the kicker: even if humanity is reckless and immoral enough to blow past the 2 °C roadblock and cook the planet by 3 °C or 4 °C, there are still huge amounts of known oil, coal and natural gas resources that will have to stay in the grouAnd here's the kicker: even if humanity is reckless and immoral enough to blow past the 2 °C roadblock and cook the planet by 3 °C or 4 °C, there are still huge amounts of known oil, coal and natural gas resources that will have to stay in the grouand immoral enough to blow past the 2 °C roadblock and cook the planet by 3 °C or 4 °C, there are still huge amounts of known oil, coal and natural gas resources that will have to stay in the grouand cook the planet by 3 °C or 4 °C, there are still huge amounts of known oil, coal and natural gas resources that will have to stay in the grouand natural gas resources that will have to stay in the ground.

By moving rapidly to a zero - carbon energy system — replacing coal, oil, and gas with wind, solar, geothermal and other zero - carbon energy sources, drastically reducing emissions of all other climate - altering pollutants and by adopting sustainable land use practices, humanity can prevent catastrophic climate change, while cutting the huge disease burden caused by air pollution and climate change.

b. Big Oil and Big Coal are not different from «Big Insurance» (e.g. «prediction» of more hurricanes as tool to increase insurance primes) and «Big Banking» (huge investments with tax money, via Government).

In the fight against climate change, coal is a huge culprit, but oil and gas are often forgotten.

Two huge «wind farms» recently announced in Texas demonstrate clearly that wind energy is a niche technology that will do little to offset the need for the people of the US to depend on coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear energy and hydropower for their electricity for years to come.

Once again, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson touted the supposedly huge benefits of controlling emissions of mercury (Hg) and other air toxics from U.S. coal - and oil - fired power plants (or electric generating units, EGUs).

The preceding analysis of the two huge «wind farms» recently announced in Texas demonstrate clearly that wind energy is a niche technology that will do little to offset the need for the people of the United States to depend on coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear energy and hydropower for their electricity for years to come.

Today, Oil Change International released a comprehensive report on fossil fuel exploration and production subsidies in the U.S. — Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama — which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, and coOil Change International released a comprehensive report on fossil fuel exploration and production subsidies in the U.S. — Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama — which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, and cooil, gas, and coal.

The money going into politics from the oil, gas and coal industries gets huge returns in the form of subsidies back to fossil fuels.

As the Northwest and the rest of the world are increasingly feeling the effects of climate change from more frequent and extreme droughts, wildfires, and flooding, proposed coal export and oil transport infrastructure in the region would lock - in for decades huge amount more carbon pollution.

When other huge oil fields or coal mines were opened in the past, we knew much less about the damage that the carbon they contained would do to the earth's climate and its oceans.

Methane has also been seeping from marshes, bubbling out of oceans, leaking from coal seams and oil seeps and being released in huge quantities from volcanoes.

The bottom line is that Keystone is a gateway to a huge pool of carbon - intensive fuel most of which must be left in the ground — along with most of the world's coal and unconventional oil and gas — if humanity is to avoid multiple devastating impacts that may be beyond adaptation.

- Australia has huge reserves of coal and gas, but only 0.3 % of the world's oil.

Some — especially the huge coal, oil, and natural gas industries — stand to lose a lot in such a transition.

# 2 Al Gore (his father too)- «W» (his father too)- Clinton (s)- Obama - Barney Frank - Most all Democrats and Republicans (et al) have voted for Patriot Act, Big Factory Famer Subsidies, Big Oil Subdization, Big Chemical (Monsanto) Subsidization, Big GMO Seed Production (Monsanto), Big Coal Production, Foreign Military Construction (Expansionism), Big Mining, HUGE Gov» t Contracts (Blackwater - et al).

This matters because there is a huge amount of carbon currently locked up in permafrost, and the methane hydrates alone contain more carbon than all of Earth's proven reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas combined.

Russia exports huge quantities of oil, gas and coal (they are the world's sixth largest exporter of coal)-- but they're relatively clean inside their borders.