Sentences with phrase «known fossil fuels in»

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

Not exact matches

Fossils fuels are no longer the largest recipient of investment in the energy sector, the latest report from the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.

«The oil companies knew from 1959 on, they did their own study that there would be global warming happening because of fossil fuels, and on top of it that it would be risky for people's lives, that it would kill,» Schwarzenegger said in the podcast.

The initiative, known as Yasuní - ITT, failed to raise the necessary funds as northern Annex 1 countries balked at contributing to keeping fossil fuels in the ground — a strategy that is now a scientific imperative if the world is to meet its declared goal of avoiding a 2 °C rise in temperature.

If we know we need to set out on a path towards fossil fuel wind - down, then now is not the time to be investing in new infrastructure that aims towards ramp - up.

The geologists know exactly what rocks to look for fossil fuels in, because they know how to date the rocks to tens or hundreds of millions of years ago.

GWE combine specialized know - how in generating biogas with our extensive range of anaerobic reactors, and in supply and installation of biogas re-use and handling systems for fossil fuel replacement or power generation.

Reducing carbon pollution 80 percent by 2050 means that in just 34 years there will be no more fossil fuels burned in New York.

«Divesting from fossil fuel stocks doesn't solve the problem, but it sends a huge message that government and its citizens should not be investing in the type of fuel that we know increase the problems we face rather than decrease and reverse the outcome of climate change.»

Reducing carbon pollution 80 percent by 2050 means that in just 34 years there will be no more fossil fuels burned in New York,» stated Bambrick.

It's not known how much of that is invested in fossil fuel companies.

What in effect, we would be doing is displacing 300 oil - fired power plants and another 300 coal - fired power plants; so the land required for 600 fossil fuel power plants — if you are going to think that way, if you consider the whole system, which includes mining coal, which includes drilling for oil, the refining of all that, it's not just the power plant — that the land tradeoff actually gets to be fairly close, you know, the solar power plant is the footprint of the solar power and that's it.

There is always going to be some local need for fossil - based fuels, you know, in industrial processing or some things you just can't do with electricity, but by and large, right, if you wanted to try to replace those sorts of applications with biofuels and things like that, then you could be off oil altogether.

The cities allege that, for decades, the companies sold fossil fuels they knew were contributing to climate change, while engaging in a multimillion - dollar campaign to sow doubt about global warming.

«We know that fossil - fuel use is not sustainable in the long run,» Dukes says.

«Agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human - caused climate change,» he said in an email.

The letters said Exxon Mobil, the world's largest fossil fuel company, had told the committee in 2007 that it was no longer funding Soon.

«It's very mysterious at this point in time, we don't really know what's contemplated there,» Fulton says, «If you piece together the different things that have been said by the president - elect about fossil fuels, and encouraging fossil fuel development, you'd expect this would have something to do with that.»

McKibben: No, exactly, and so the question becomes in effect, my sense is that all of this will happen more or less logically; that it flows from the physics and chemistry of the world that we're moving into, just like the centralized world floating logically from the physics and chemistry of fossil fuel.

And so I think that the logic, you know, the logic of fossil fuel was a centralizing one, it occurred in a few places, it was highly efficient to take it to other centers, easy to transport, you can take it some centralized place, and burn it in mass quantities, produce power that you then distributed widely.

It is widely known that the terrestrial biosphere (the collective term for all the world's land vegetation, soil, etc.) is an important factor in mitigating climate change, as it absorbs around 20 % of all fossil fuel CO2 emissions.

If Exxon could pinpoint the answer, it would know how long it had before CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere could force a transition away from fossil fuels.

Knisely even concluded that the fossil fuel industry might need to leave 80 percent of its recoverable reserves in the ground to avoid doubling CO2 concentrations, a notion now known as the carbon budget.

CURWOOD: So, if I hear you correctly, Pat, you're saying perhaps the strong if not the strongest strategy here would be to be suing the federal government for selling off fossil fuels from public lands and waters at a time when the government knows that the combustion of those fuels is in the process of destroying the planet?

We also know the atmospheric increase is from burning fossil fuels because of the isotopic signature of the carbon in the atmosphere.

These researchers wanted to know more about the role of pollution from traffic and the industrial burning of fossil fuels in these deaths.

We know with certainty that the increase in CO2 concentrations since the industrial revolution is caused by human activities because the isotopes of carbon show that it comes from fossil fuel burning and the clearing of forests.

Last week, students in Wisconsin and Michigan stepped up to such an opportunity when CFACT Campus, the student arm of a well - known cabal of fossil fuel apologists, hosted climate change denier Willie Soon at several campus events around the country.

By the sixties, it was well - established science that CO2 concentration is rising due to fossil fuel emissions, and in the nineties we certainly knew that the observed rise represents only 57 % of what we have emitted.

You have of course solar energy, which we know today, but also through photosynthesis all of the fossil fuels depend on the power of the sun being trapped in these plants.

As a result one long - standing criticism of renewable energy may no longer apply, namely that mandating increased use of renewable energy for electricity generation will be more costly in the long run than sticking with fossil fuel energy.

We bookkeep fossil fuel and deforestation carbon separately, because the larger fossil fuel term is known more accurately and this carbon stays in the climate system for hundreds of thousands of years.

In 1997, Tickell set out on the road with a biodiesel powered «Veggie Van» and a video camera and began filming what would eventually become known as FUEL, the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winning documentary film that investigates the possible replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy.

Keanu Reeves (A Walk in the Clouds, Speed) stars as Eddie Kasalivich, a machinist working on an experiment to rid the world of petroleum products and introduce hydrogen - based power into the world through an ever abundant and clean «fossil fuel» known as water.

And after Rick Perry's first policy speech as Energy Secretary we now know which energy stocks will keep on going in today's new reality - fracking, mining and exporting fossil fuels overseas.

In Final Fantasy VII, a giant energy manufacturing company known as Shinra Inc. attempts to harvest the sheer life energy of the Planet as a simple fossil fuel.

Known for her extensive projects examining the intersections of modern civilization, geology, industry, and the natural environment, in Nexus the artist investigates the crossroads of the petrochemical and industrial cargo trade, and alludes to the expansion of global markets and the intensification of fossil fuel consumption worldwide.

What is more important is that the fossil - fuel industry knew about the danger in the 1970s, perhaps even the 1960s, and what they did about it was to fund a massive campaign of denial.

Take just one misunderstanding from your blog — we know the increase in CO2 is from fossil fuel use; that's been known for decades, and Spencer Weart among others explains it well in his book; the link's in the right sidebar.

Oh and also, long term fossil fuel reductions and the investments in alternative energy sources will be very economically rewarding, I know this because I calculated it myself... I will post this up later this month.

It's clear this is already happening and we can expect more op - eds in major newspapers from the likes of George Will, more full - page adverts from industry - funded propaganda mills masquerading as «conservative» think tanks, and more comments posted on every blog where global warming is discussed, denouncing the «vast liberal hoax» of anthropogenic global warming, because, you know, it's been proved that the earth isn't warming, and if it is, it has nothing to do with fossil fuels.

No matter where in the world fossil fuels are being used as the prime source of energy, it is «greatly complicating efforts to curb carbon dioxide emissions.»

In the future, when fossil fuels are no longer the leading source of energy around the world and oil platforms aren't pumping oil from beneath the ocean floor, we won't have to worry about oil spills, but unfortunately, ocean pollution from spills, leaks and other sources is still a reality.

However, it is also well - known that vested interests in fossil fuels have used their wealth and political connections to lock out competition from renewable energy.

Hales» pioneering research in ocean carbon chemistry underlies much of what we know about the role carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions plays in changing the chemistry of Northwest seas.

All four organisations actively lobby against any measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, all four are well known for publishing disinformation concerning science in order to achieve this objective; and all four are funded by sections of the fossil fuel industry.

Secondly, the amount of the concentration rise is in line with the amount we know we are putting into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels.

Original post In 2011, a Cornell research team led by the environmental scientist Robert Howarth published «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» a widely discussed paper positing that gas escaping from drilling operations using hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking, made natural gas a bigger climate threat than the most infamous fossil fuel, coal.

A cheap, capacious battery is widely seen as a linchpin to a new clean - energy economy in which mobility and electricity are no longer reliant on fossil fuels.

Even for those of you who are interested in seeing a reduction in our dependence on fossil fuels — and I know how passionate young people are about issues like climate change — the fact of the matter is, is that for quite some time, America is going to be still dependent on oil in making its economy work.