Sentences with phrase «more fossil fuel burning»

For about 80 % or more of the Earth's human population the overwhelming move is toward more fossil fuel burning and extraction.

Leasing opens the door for oil and gas drilling and fracking, and more fossil fuel burning.

Even when it's recycled it needs energy which means more fossil fuel burning.

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

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.

And the more fossil fuels we burned, the more carbon pollution we put in the atmosphere.

The more fossil fuels we burn, the more the balance of these carbon isotopes shifts.

Not exact matches

Crabtree estimates lithium ion can get 50 % cheaper and more powerful, but that's still not suitable to widely displace fossil fuel — burning engines.

While Peabody was only down about 10 % at the end of May 2014, the stock got crushed as the government proposed to reduce carbon emissions (stemming from fossil fuels like coal), which would burn up even more of Peabody's bottom line.

And it could mean a future viable source of energy that emits no pollution or radioactivity, burns no fossil fuels, and could be no more expensive to run than conventional coal or electric power plants.

«While more remains to be done to optimize our electricity system — building transmission lines to carry more clean power to those jurisdictions still burning fossil fuels, investing in smarter grids in our towns and cities, bringing more clean power online — these regulations create a foundation as we transition to clean energy and an economy built to last.»

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

She also said that citizens should realize that whether they are cutting down trees or burning fossil fuels, they are putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than plants can remove.

In a provocative appearance on the video blog Ted Talks, biologist Allan Savory said desertification of the world's grasslands may be releasing more carbon into the atmosphere than burning fossil fuels.

Human beings began burning fossil fuels more than 300 years ago, marking the beginnings of industrialization.

Most studies have concluded that sea animals with calcified shells or skeletons, such as starfish, will suffer as carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels dissolves in the sea, making the water more acidic and destroying the calcium carbonate on which the creatures depend.

Global warming due to mankind's greenhouse - gas emissions from burning fossil fuels already affects the Indian monsoon and — if unabated — is expected to do even more so in the future.

It and other countries may need to burn more fossil fuels to compensate, exacerbating the warming trend.

Since the industrial revolution, human beings burning fossil fuels have boosted concentrations of atmospheric carbon more than 30 percent, disrupting the ancient cycle.

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

What we see is that if we continue in our current trends in burning fossil fuels, the ocean will become more acidic than it has been at any time in the past 65 million years.

Burning coal produces more than 100 million metric tons of coal ash per yearthe gray or black sooty aftermath of our fossil fuel habit.

The more coal and oil burned, the more black spheres formed, making such soot the perfect record of a swelling fossil - fuel pyromania.

When it's not horrific mining accidents like the one in Soma, Turkey, on May 13 that killed more than 300 miners, it's the 13,000 Americans who die early each year because of air pollution from burning the dirtiest fossil fuel.

In the worst - case scenario, more carbon could be released from the bogs and permafrost in northern areas than have been released by the burning of fossil fuels to date.

Or is minimizing alterations to the global environment introduced by human activity — rising levels of CO2 from fossil - fuel burning, widespread extinction, dams that impound water — more important to our success?

If not, such so - called offsets aren't displacing the emissions from fossil fuel burning, they're simply adding more electricity to the overall system.

Some, including New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, have suggested that a national carbon tax — an extra cost per amount of fossil fuel burned — would be simpler and more effective than any cap - and - trade system.

Using carbon dioxide to pump out more fossil fuels — and permanently storing the gas in the process — might sound counterproductive to limiting climate change because those fuels, when burned, put more CO2 into the atmosphere.

«The amount of carbon released during this time was vast — more than 30 times larger than all the fossil fuels burned to date and equivalent to all the current conventional and unconventional fossil fuel reserves we could feasibly ever extract.»

Over the past 250 years, human activities such as fossil fuel burning have raised the atmospheric CO2 concentration by more than 40 % over its preindustrial level of 280 ppm (parts per million).

Emerging economies like Saudi Arabia and China, the world's top emitter, want rich countries to commit to doing more to cut greenhouse gas output while allowing poorer nations to burn more fossil fuels to build their economies and end poverty.

Dutch scientists have a use for all the carbon dioxide that pours from the chimneys of fossil fuel - burning power stations: Harvest it for even more electricity

Future warming from fossil fuel burning could be more intense and longer - lasting than previously thought.

Emerging economies such as China and India have not joined the Coalition, arguing that its membership of mostly developed nations including Japan, Canada and Australia should focus more on curbing carbon dioxide, released from burning fossil fuels.

The authors said the study underlines the increasing vulnerability of calcified animals to ocean acidification, which occurs as the ocean absorbs more atmospheric carbon emitted through the burning of fossil fuels.

«More than anything else this requires rapid and strong reductions of burning fossil fuels such as coal; but some emissions, for instance from industrial processes, will be difficult to reduce — therefore getting CO2 out of the air and storing it safely is a rather hot topic.

The latest version, more than a year in the making, reiterates findings that global warming is unequivocal and primarily caused by humans from the burning of fossil fuels, the clearing of forests, and the disruption of agricultural activities.

More farming, however, usually means more environmental harm as a result of clearing land, burning fossil fuels, consuming water for irrigation and spreading fertiliMore farming, however, usually means more environmental harm as a result of clearing land, burning fossil fuels, consuming water for irrigation and spreading fertilimore environmental harm as a result of clearing land, burning fossil fuels, consuming water for irrigation and spreading fertilizer.

As atmospheric CO2 levels increase from burning fossil fuels, this carbon dioxide is soaked up by seawater and makes the oceans more acidic.

Since the air that comes from the chimneys of fossil fuel - burning power stations contains up to 20 percent of CO2, even the emissions represent a potential for more power.

The local electric company performs that service far more efficiently when it burns fossil fuels in its big generators; the car stores only the residual electrical energy in its rechargeable batteries.

Our activities, such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation, are pushing the cycle out of its natural balance, adding more and more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

After six years of running such simulations, the verdict is in: Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations as a result of burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests increased the risks of flooding in two out of three model runs by more than 90 percent.

As a result of this annual cycle, together with the continual emissions from fossil fuel burning (particularly over China, Europe, and the southeast United States), carbon levels reach a maximum in the Northern Hemisphere in April, just before terrestrial plants begin to soak up more carbon.

Caldeira said the study's most significant finding is that the carbon released from burning a gallon of gas — or any fossil fuel — heats the climate dramatically more than the heat given off during burning.

But fossil fuel burning will keep pumping out more CO2 year after year, pushing concentrations of the greenhouse gas higher and higher.

The Stanford scientists suggested roofs covered in photovoltaic panels would do a better job, by producing electricity that then obviates the need for more fossil fuel — burning power plants.

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McKibben: Yeah, it could be and [they] are very interrelated because the thing that's allowed that complexity [and] that size is the access to endless amounts of cheap fossil fuel, which we no longer are going to have, a) because we're starting to run out, b) more powerfully because we can no longer safely burn it.