Sentences with phrase «of fossil fuels on»

Briefly, much of the original research on the effects of fossil fuels on human health used confidential health records of thousands of people, for obvious and legitimate reasons, and Pruitt is trying to attack the science on the basis that the science was «hidden» because the records are «confidential», which is of course absurd, but shows the astonishing extent he is prepared to go.

We track the subsidies the industry receives; we analyze industry - friendly arguments around extreme fossil fuel extraction; and we show the impact of fossil fuels on the economy, energy security and climate change.

The startling conclusion is that continued exploitation of all fossil fuels on Earth threatens not only the other millions of species on the planet but also the survival of humanity itself — and the timetable is shorter than we thought.

Mark Fulton, advisor to Carbon Tracker, former head of research at Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors, and co-author of the report, said: «Our work shows thermal coal has the most significant overhang of unneeded supply in terms of carbon of all fossil fuels on any scenario.

Never had I so fully grasped the immense versatility of fossil fuels on a personal level and their greater relevance in the economy at large.

A clear illustration of direct effects of fossil fuels on human health was provided by an inadvertent experiment in China during the 1950 — 1980 period of central planning, when free coal for winter heating was provided to North China but not to the rest of the country.

Mark Fulton, a CTI adviser and co-author of the report, says the group had found that coal had «the most significant overhang of unneeded supply in terms of carbon of all fossil fuels on any scenario.

But the implication is that the current drought may be worse than normal because of the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by the combustion of fossil fuels on a colossal scale: the researchers make the link only tentatively.

In 1995, in what is thought to be the first conference promoting climate science denial in Britain, the CEI's then president Fred Smith joined another US guest from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation for a series of talks that undermined warnings about the impacts of fossil fuels on the climate.

The clear path required to address the climate crisis is one that breaks humanity free from the current stranglehold of fossil fuels on our lives and the planet.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says that taxes in major economies are far below the cost of pollution from the use of fossil fuels on climate and the environment, urging governments to do more to make polluters pay.

i'm sad to see that andy has not asked the most fundamental (and terrifying) question: can technology alone substitute for the cheap and abundant energy of fossil fuels on which advanced industrial civilization has become utterly dependent?

Given the stasis in the Senate, even with the «external» costs of fossil fuels on glaring display in the Gulf of Mexico, it may be time to start listening more to those proposing this more stepwise route forward.

In order to come to the RIGHT solution as we develop a new energy infrastructure, we need to acknowledge the reality of the effect of fossil fuels on climate.

A clear illustration of direct effects of fossil fuels on human health was provided by an inadvertent experiment in China during the 1950 — 1980 period of central planning, when free coal for winter heating was provided to North China but not to the rest of the country.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says that taxes in major economies are far below the cost of pollution from the use of fossil fuels on climate and the environment, urging governments to do more to make polluters pay.

It not only has yet to produce charges, but he has abandoned the #ExxonKnew conspiracy advanced by Oreskes and Supran, who claim the company had covered up the effects of fossil fuel on the environment for decades.

The unique health harms, including the neurocognitive, pulmonary and cardiac effects of fossil fuel on infant and child development, particularly for children of color and of low - income families who have fewer options

That's because U.S. coal companies including Peabody Energy Corp. won't be looking to secure new reserves of the fossil fuel on federal land for years, especially as mining slows amid the sector's worst downturn in generations.

Accessing fracking fuel does not mean we must give carte blanche to burning every last molecule of fossil fuel on the planet.

We have discovered, to our considerable astonishment, that most of the fossil fuel on the books of our largest corporations is «unburnable» — in the precise sense that, if we burn it, we are doomed.

Not exact matches

Environmentalists have long scrutinized Exxon Mobil for giving money «to dozens of right - leaning interest groups whose main purpose was to cast doubt on that very science» despite understanding the link between global warming and the burning of fossil fuels as early as the 1970s, according to the New York Times.

Jenkins wrote on Twitter that Germany's shift in energy policy was misguided and resulted effectively in fossil fuels replacing much of the missing nuclear power — a pattern that's playing out at home, as well.

The main reason the US ranks so poorly on carbon dioxide emissions is because its per - person consumption rate of electricity is so high; all of that energy comes primarily from fossil fuels.

It has been based on the production of lies developed by the fossil fuel industry through industry - funded conservative think - tanks, laundered through conservative foundations, spun and repeated by right - wing media outlets, and adopted as ideology by the Republican Party.

The Movement said that the Bank für Kirche und Caritas eG — which translates as Bank for the Church and Caritas — was one of the first Catholic banks to turn its back on fossil fuels.

Similarly, as the price of fossil fuels goes up, the country will lean more and more on sources of clean, renewable energy.

A coalition of 40 Catholic institutions on Tuesday announced a decision to pull their money from — or block future investment in — fossil fuels.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

A campaign by the Guardian has called on the Gates foundation and the Wellcome Trust, the world's largest medical research charity, to divest their large endowments of fossil fuels.

One school of thought says she should just plow ahead with her environmental agenda; history will be on her side in the end, since no one today (outside of maybe a few U.S. Republicans) doubts that the question of phasing out fossil fuels is not a matter of if but when.

That's equivalent to burning just 20 % of the fossil fuel reserves already on the books of companies and nations that disclose them.

The final agreement involves several legally binding clauses, with trillions of dollars dedicated to reducing the dependence on fossil fuels within many countries, and to rolling out a huge expansion of renewable energy.

On Tuesday, a Twitter account for Badlands National Park, in South Dakota, posted a series of tweets about climate change, an issue that President Trump has called a hoax while promising to promote the drilling and use of fossil fuels.

As much as his approach puts him at odds with conventional economic wisdom, Keller can also seem at odds with himself — a registered Republican who calls for more regulation of industry; a plastics maker who speaks out against U.S. reliance on fossil fuels; a nonunion employer whose wages and benefits are a model for the region.

Further, Delkus wrote, Canada's federal government also has joined other members of the Group of Seven industrial nations to reduce reliance on fossil fuels by between 40 percent and 70 percent by 2050.

In Cloud Peak's view, staying in the agreement and trying to encourage «a more balanced, reasonable and appropriate path forward» on fossil fuel technologies among signatories to the accord seems like a reasonable stance, said Cloud Peak's vice president of government affairs, Richard Reavey.

In a recent press release, CPUC stated that consumer cooperation would mean CPUC wouldn't have to rely on inefficient, expensive, and often fossil fuel — dependent peakers (or «last resort» power plants) to make up for the imbalance of supply and demand.

A solar array and storage batteries on the island of Kauai is producing renewable energy for less per kilowatt hour than fossil fuel power stations.

His entire speech hinged on the simple observation that the addition of carbon to the atmosphere was effectively a worldwide subsidy that had contributed to global warming and prevented humanity from freeing itself from the fossil - fuel era.

«Dominion's proposal to lock Virginians into decades of further dependence on harmful fossil fuels looks better suited for 1998 than 2018,» Kate Addleson, director of the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, said in a statement.

Along the way, we've electrified most of the things that currently run on fossil fuels.

We lock ourselves into bad carbon behavior every time we replace one retiring piece of infrastructure with another that runs on fossil fuels.

In the U.S., the cost of solar energy is now about on par with — and in some cases, cheaper than — energy from fossil fuels.

BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.

However, environmentalists have highlighted the fact that Malcolm Turnbull's Liberal Party government remains very keen on burning fossil fuels — a primary cause of global warming.

On the blackboard, fusing hydrogen atoms produces enormous amounts of heat which can be captured and developed into an energy source, energy that is safe, cheap, does not burn fossil fuels or consume non-renewable resources.

With shade grown coffee and a limited reliance on fossil fuels Dukale's farm (they use methane gas harvested from the livestock manure to power their homes) provides an example of what farming can be like.

In addition to tax changes (more on that below), Trump's plan to grow the economy focuses largely on generating more jobs in the fossil fuel economy (in coal and onshore and offshore drilling for oil and gas) and as a result of new infrastructure projects.

Einstein wanted to find a simple harmonious truth about how the universe works and Musk wants to save our species by weaning us off of fossil fuels and establishing a colony on Mars,» she says.