Sentences with phrase «involve use of fossil fuels»

I would like to add that Conventional transportation technologies usually involve the use of fossil fuels for vehicle propulsion.

All those who make use of goods and services that involve the use of fossil fuels are helping to keep the fossil fuel companies in business Without their money the fossil fuel companies would go out of business.

The State should demand that all state agencies refrain from using any goods or services that involve the use of fossil fuels.

Even the exchange of money involves the use of fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

The message: Cuomo is fully on board with those environmentalists who seek to block any project involving any use or expanded access to fossil fuels of any kind, at any time, in any place in New York State.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

The Index is comprised U.S. - listed companies that are significantly involved in transitional energy bridge technologies, with an emphasis on improving the use of fossil fuels.

Since global fossil fuel use is dominated by the G8, and since much deforestation involves raw material export to G8 countries, the failure to plainly address these issues is an abdication of responsibility.

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being entirely off fossil fuels: The idea is to take two kinds of algae which are brought in attached to ships, Sargassum muticum and Undaria pinnafitida, and use it in a new 40 MW power plant.

Certainly a clear methodology was required, and while several efforts have been made, I'm very pleased to have been involved in one effort that built on some exceptionally good prior work, and which delivered a clear message that using life - cycle techniques, comparisons across different fuels — both fossil - and bio-fuels — made a great deal of sense.

Unfortunately, the only proven routes up from poverty involve an expanded use of energy and, consequently, a seemingly inevitable increase in fossil fuel use and thus carbon emissions.

«Chiefly the burning of fossil fuels», not CO2, just burning of fossil fuels, so black carbon, indirect aerosol effects, land use anything that involves the burning of fossil fuels.

In my experience, the vast majority of the scientists and politicians involved in the IPCC process appear to really believe they are doing what is right for humanity by supporting restrictions on fossil fuel use.»

It's pretty clear from the 1940s onwards cooling that pollution from the expanding use of fossil fuels was temporarily overwhelming the global warming from their use until we started cleaning up the smoke stacks - not that I'm suggesting that a solution to global warming should involve us choking ourselves with a lot of smoke again!

The primary case against expansion of current fossil fuel use involves the risk from anthropogenic climate change.

In 1989 Maurice Strong was appointed Secretary General of the Earth Summit and in 1992, addressing Earth Summit II in Rio, he told the thousands of climate change delegates: It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class — involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work place air - conditioning, and suburbanhousing — are not sustainable.

One of the biggest users of energy is heating (which is currently mostly done by burning fossil fuels on site, as using electricity for resistive heating is very wasteful as involves needlessly paying Carnot).

«Being involved with this case is one step to tell the Alaska state government that we need to act on climate change and stop the use of fossil fuels,» Esau Sinnok, one of the plaintiffs, told Earther.

The original impetus for the use of global warming for a political agenda involved the claim that the world was overpopulated and while everybody was using resources at an increasing rate, the industrialized nations using fossil fuels were doing it more rapidly than others.

One way or another, there is no long term future whatsoever for humanity that does not involve the complete eradication of widespread, industrial scale, use of fossil fuels.

In order to estimate the revenues of the industries that were involved in fossil fuel production, transportation, refining, and electricity generation, I used the Fortune Global 500 list of the largest publicly - traded companies in 2008 (published in 2009).

In the keynote speech at the Conference he organized, he said: «Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class — involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work - place air - conditioning, and suburban housing — are not sustainable.»