Sentences with phrase «intensive use of fossil fuels»

He will likely repeat a challenge first issued in his June encyclical, which called for humanity to «recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming,» which he believes is «aggravated by a model of development based on the intensive use of fossil fuels.»

An update in The Times refers to a sentence linking the human impact on climate to a «development model based on the intensive use of fossil fuels.»

Moreover, anthropogenic forcing from increased greenhouse gases might outweigh orbital forcing for as long as intensive use of fossil fuels continues [9].

The problem is aggravated by a model of development based on the intensive use of fossil fuels, which is at the heart of the worldwide energy system.

Not exact matches

Of course they will continue to use equipment that consumes fossil fuels; but on small, diversified, labor - intensive farms, the quantity used will be greatly reduced.

Today most ethanol in the United States is made from corn, using an energy - intensive process that may not actually save a lot of fossil fuel, and in any case America can not produce enough ethanol from corn to really matter.

There are several reasons for this: the contraction of energy - intensive heavy industries, such as iron and steel; the long - term malaise in the national economy; the modest move away from burning fossil fuels that produce carbon dioxide towards nuclear energy; and the increasingly efficient use of energy evident in most of the economies of the rich world.

Coal, the most carbon - intensive of the fossil fuels, accounts for 70 percent of energy used in China today and is responsible for about three quarters of electricity generation.

As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.

The story of humans and energy is a remarkable one: how fossil fuels were laid down over millions upon millions of years, what life was like before we were able to access them — then how we began to use them faster and faster, and how this led to the excess that resulted in today's consumer - focused, energy - intensive lifestyle.

It's quite okay to buy those carbon - intensive fuels, which speaks volumes about what's the real agenda here: protecting the interests of the fossil fuel industry, even though producing synthetic fuels using Nazi - era technology actually produces more carbon dioxide than burning petroleum itself.

Yes, desalinating sea water and pumping it overland to replace the water from the acquifers would be energy intensive and expensive, but the point is we could do it, and the cooling effect of irrigation claimed in the study above would far more than off set the emissions from fossil fuel used to accomplish the task.

Looking at the energy sector, we have one of the most carbon - intensive systems in the world, relying on fossil fuels for about 90 % of our energy use.

A carbon tax is likely to increase the use of natural gas in the electricity sector because natural gas is the less carbon - intensive fossil fuel.

In the absence of this project, the tendency shows that fossil fuel - intensive energy generation sources would be used instead.

irrigation was a big part of the paper a colleague and I have pending publication called «Burning Water - The Energy Return on Water Invested» - using irrigated water numbers, the best biofuels required 10 times the water input as the most water intensive fossil fuel.

Again, fact is that thinfilm PV modules do not use energy intensive manufacturing methods and if one produces lots of them, the fossil fuel portion in the electricity grid will obviously be reduced, because most people actually install PV modules on roofs to produce electricity and not in their basements for fun.

As Jeanette Longfield, Co-ordinator of the food and farming non-profit group, Sustain, puts it: «Intensive agriculture is currently entirely dependent on fossil fuels, from its use of nitrogen - based fertilisers to mechanical equipment, transport and refrigeration — and so urban agriculture really makes a lot of sense».