Sentences with phrase «of coal burning»

In the long term, the committee argues that environmental regulations will squeeze the quantities of coal burnt in power stations.

This could easily explain the warming, and overwhelm any effect of coal burning during the same period.

It doesn't matter if levels of coal burning were comparatively small prior to 1940.

The world is still warming as a result of coal burned in power stations that closed decades ago, and no one suggests that we should not worry about this.

Forget CO2, the toxic aftermath of coal burning might be responsible for the worst mass extinction event the world has ever known.

Although the exact chemical composition depends on the type of coal burned, all coal ash contains concentrated amounts of toxic elements, including arsenic, lead, and mercury.

Coal ash, the toxic remains of coal burning in power plants, is full of chemicals that cause cancer, developmental disorders and reproductive problems.

They recognize the health threat of coal burning, having banned new coal plants in key regions and reduced coal production by nearly 3 % over the last year.

Patrick Michaels was one of several expert witnesses who testified on behalf of the Western Fuels Assocaition in St. Paul, Minnesota, to determine the environmental cost of coal burning by state power plants.

We know the vast amount of coal burned by China to produce manufactured goods (that could have been produced user cleaner energy if not for Kyoto) produces huge amounts of carbon soot that can change the albedo.

In coming months, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), which has 27 members representing medical doctors in EU countries, will be raising awareness of the risks of coal burning as part of its work underlining the importance of cleaner air.

If we can get another megawatt - hour of electricity out of every tonne of coal we burn, that means we need burn less coal to get the same amount of electricity.

They were met with success on April 4th, when the Miami University of Ohio announced they would immediately begin reducing the amount of coal burned on campus and eventually eliminate it altogether.

Perhaps we should be more like China - build lots of coal burning plants and then just go all electric with our cars.

Due to its rapid modernization, and the doubling of its coal burning between 1998 and 2008, China recently surpassed the U.S. to become the world's largest emitter.

Due to its rapid modernization, and the doubling of its coal burning between 1998 and 2008, China recently surpassed the U.S. to become the world's largest emitter.

«Tens of thousands of kilogrammes of toxic metals such as mercury, lead, arsenic and cadmium are spewed out of the stacks, contributing to cancer risk and harming children's development,» says the Greenpeace report, which does not emphasise the impact of coal burning on climate change.

Coal consumption: The quantity of coal burned for the generation of electric power (in short tons), including fuel used for maintenance of standby service.

Environmental costs of coal combustion: health; agriculture; industry, transportation, materials, buildings and infrastructure; water pollution; pollution of heavy metal to soil; solid waste of coal burning and electricity generation.

He had a little charcoal grill, and there was something about the smell of those coals burning.

The fine particles it measures, mostly residues of coal burning and vehicle emissions, are linked to respiratory and heart disease.

And there has been plenty of coal burning in countries such as China, which now burns some 3 billion metric tons of the fuel rock per year, largely without the pollution controls that would scrub out the SO2, as is sometimes done in the U.S..

From the North Sea to Texas, this slide show looks at existing technology to take the carbon dioxide out of coal burning and other fossil fuel use

To reduce use on Portland cement, the material responsible for 7 percent of global CO2 emissions, Bullitt uses fly ash (a waste product of coal burning) to create cement.

Since 2002, Australia has provided the lion's share of coal burned in Japanese power and steel plants, with the balance coming mostly from Indonesia and China.

The linen is boiled with soap and soda and then washed in hollow wheels, rinsed, partly dried by centrifugal machines, and for the rest in hot - air ovens, which carry off nearly three pounds of moisture per pound of coal burnt, and is finally ironed between polished rollers, and then packed ready for return to Paris.»

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

Yes, a major concern is that a scheme to take the co2 out of the air will just encourage the proliferation of coal burning.

The report quotes public health experts who express concerns that carbon emissions associated with coal use will contribute to climate change and add to future public health problems - on top of the serious consequences of coal burning we are already seeing today.

When we pull back to consider the larger picture we see that pollution due to sulfate aerosols continued unabated in the great majority of coal burning plants worldwide, regardless of constraints imposed in the US and Europe.

Most of the coal we burn still in these waning years of fossil fuel use derives from trees that died and could not rot, because the organisms evolved to eat the strong, tough cell walls of trees did not yet exist.

While Australia's Abbott Government is increasing its support for coal in hopes of exporting more and more, the rest of the world is seeing that the end of coal burning is inevitable if we are not to destroy our environment.

Ironically, the rise of coal burning saved the situation»

China's move to halt or eliminate 170 gigawatts of coal burning follows a larger plan to keep total coal capacity below 1,100 gigawatts by 2020.

A large portion of the coal burned in Vietnam is imported, increasing the country's reliance on expensive imports.

Those attribution studies, such as Foster & Rahmstorf 2011 and others have aptly noted this, and, though they might not admit it, McKitrick & Tole 2012 are saying something similar... include the change in the amount of coal burned along with some of the GCM's and you can be much better at having a better model of the surface climate trends.

Much of the coal burned in Europe is lignite or hard coal — the most polluting kind.

I think you could make the case that consistently breathing PM from wood burning fires would be much worse for those individuals than the longer term ill effects of global warming, etc.... just as it would be worse for individuals to be in the path of coal burning smoke as opposed to suffering the long term consequences.