Sentences with phrase «known fossil fuels»

In order to stand a chance of surviving climate change, we need to keep 80 percent of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground.

Up to 80 % of known fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground to stay within safe climate levels.

The accepted need to keep 80 % of known fossil fuels in the ground is not compatible with a fracking boom, however tough the regulations.

«Our headline finding is that the combustion of currently known fossil fuels would increase global average temperatures by 10 degrees F to 15 degrees F,» the economists say.

Burning known fossil fuel reserves would release nearly 3000 gigatonnes, and energy companies are currently spending $ 600 billion trying to find more.

This budget would be far exceeded if known fossil fuels were burnt, meaning that some fossil fuels will need to be left undeveloped if it is to be achieved.

Everyone knows fossil fuels come from long - dead plants, but Jeffrey Dukes wanted real numbers: How much plant matter does it take to make a gallon of gasoline?

From the trustable and well known fossil fuel lobbying to something totally new and odd.

The Woods Hole report says there is 40 % more carbon stored in forested lands than in known fossil fuel deposits worldwide — almost five times more carbon than can be added to the atmosphere without exceeding the less challenging Paris goal of 2 °C, the authors say.

The problem is, the total known fossil fuel reserves being held would release 2,860 GtCO2 into the atmosphere if burned.

A recent estimate indicates that if we burn all the remaining known fossil fuel reserves the Antarctic ice sheet will essentially melt raising the oceans by 60 meters.

There have been several studies of this strategy, and the ones I've seen show the world blowing well past 2 - or 3 - degree - C temperature increases, unless the major energy companies leave most of their currently known fossil fuel reserves in the ground along with any new discoveries.

The Paris Agreement does not call out against «fossil fuels» but allows room for greenwashing of mainstream fuel sources (remember we need to keep at least 80 percent of known fossil fuels in the ground if we want to be in line with what science tells us is safe to burn before runaway climate change becomes a reality).

They too argued that the world can consume no more than 20 % of known fossil fuel reserves if mankind is to survive which meant the reserves being carried on the books of Big Fossil were dangerously sub-prime.

«Fossil fuels are the single biggest driver of climate change; if the world is to avoid exceeding dangerous global warming of 2 °C, up to 80 per cent of known fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground.»

«We know fossil fuels are not a good solution.

Indeed, «the vast majority of known fossil fuel reserves must be left undeveloped.»

And if we allow all known fossil fuels to be extracted from the ground and burned, the Arctic would warm an unimaginable 17 °F and push global temperatures up 8 °C.

Here is the background on 3 of the known fossil fuel friendlies that will appear as «experts» on Beck's show.

Yet we know that if we were to burn all known fossil fuel reserves and resources, we would go way beyond this 2C target, ushering in potentially irreversible damages from extreme weather events and rising sea levels.

If all known fossil fuel reserves are used up, average global temperatures will rise by at least 10 degrees Celsius, a new study revealed.

Bill McKibben says we need to «do the math,» which is to take the known fossil fuel reserves that oil and gas companies expect to tap and add that to the carbon already trapped in the atmosphere.

Today the International Energy Agency released its World Energy Outlook and confirmed estimates that the overwhelming majority of known fossil fuel reserves (75 - 80 %) will have to be kept in the ground to avoid 2 degrees Celsius temperature rise.

[2] The worldwide amounts of methane bound in gas hydrates is conservatively estimated to total twice the amount of carbon to be found in all known fossil fuels on Earth.

(Activist and writer Bill McKibben has calculated about four - fifths of the world's known fossil fuel reserves must stay in the soil.)

According to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, around 80 % of known fossil fuel reserves would need to stay in the ground for humanity to limit the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere to 450 parts per million.

Harvard's decision comes less than a week after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sounded the alarm for immediate action on climate change and the necessity for keeping much of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground, a reality that will affect investments in fossil fuels.

Given that the IEA and even oil companies such as BP and Shell have confirmed that burning all known fossil fuels would result in more than 2 °C of warming, we feel there is reasonable consensus around this issue.