Sentences with phrase «of global fossil fuel consumption»

By some estimates, a phase out of global fossil fuel consumption and production — particularly coal and oil — will need to be nearly complete within 50 years.

Not exact matches

The transition to an ecologically sustainable society requires reduced consumption of goods, the efficient recycling of materials, a move away from the use of fossil fuels to the use of renewable sources of energy, zero global population growth, a reduced standard of living for the rich, an increased standard of living for the poor and an appeal to quality of life instead of materialism.

The LCA examined the effects of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.

While China's consumption of fossil fuel emissions is relatively modest, its global manufacturing contributed 826 million tonnes of CO2 to Europe, the United States and Japan.

While the U.S. boom in shale gas helped push the fossil fuel's share of total global energy consumption from 23.8 to 23.9 percent, coal also increased its share, from 29.7 to 29.9 percent, as demand for coal - fired electricity remained strong across much of the developing world, including China and India, and parts of Europe.

Scientists knew that the oceans had absorbed some of the carbon dioxide released from the increased global consumption of fossil fuels.

Throughout Lost Planet 3, there are a number of pretty on - the - nose corollaries drawn between current fears of global warming and fossil fuel consumption and the game's background story of the Earth's slowly collapsing civilization.

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.

But the eventual recovery from this El Niño won't bring us back below 400 ppm, because its impact will be dwarfed by the global consumption of fossil fuels, pushing CO2 levels ever higher.

I reject the idea that it is somehow inappropriate to acknowledge that catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is not only possible but plausible if we continue with anything close to business as usual consumption of fossil fuels and the other activities that are contributing to ever - increasing GHG emissions.

I would note that Alex Trembath's useful intervention to this discussion provides insight into why we can expect global energy consumption will continue to grow, and tangentially why so much of that energy will be supplied by fossil fuels without an major breakthroughs in energy technology.

There are alternatives I don't think I convinced either of my two audiences that fossil fuels are going to disappear overnight, but once I drew their attention to recent declines in Chinese coal production and a stall in global carbon emissions they did appear to concede that basing future investment decisions simply on past patterns of consumption might not be the wisest of strategies.

As indicated in an earlier intervention, low carbon energy has not made any inroads into the 86.5 - 87 % dominant share of fossil fuels in global energy consumption since 2000.

The failure to address the Hoffert et al energy technology question is reflected in the fact that since 2000 (and including 2013) the share of global energy consumption accounted for by fossil fuels has remained essentially constant at 86.5 - 87.0 %.

That is because global warming, driven in part by the colossal fossil fuel consumption of today's massive global jetliner fleet, is expected to generate stronger wind shear within the stratospheric jetstreams.

Here are recent statements by vocal media impressarios and think tanks who spend their time, not in a laboratory, but in the popular media trying to convince the public that global warming is either not happening, or is not caused by our continued consumption of fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas etc).

the dramatic reduction in global fossil fuel consumption and GHG emissions of the built environment by changing the way cities, communities, infrastructure, and buildings, are planned, designed, and constructed and;

The global average temperature is continuing to rise as a consequence of warming driven by ever higher greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, in response to the profligate global consumption of fossil fuels.

The value of global fossil - fuel consumption subsidies in 2016 is estimated at around USD 260 billion, lower than the estimate for 2015, which was close to USD 310 billion.

Empirically, as of 2015, low fossil fuel prices are due mostly to market manipulation, and will end when the Saudis decide to quit subsidizing global consumption (esp of oil).

Internationally, the energy consumption of China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico will lead to a major global demand increase, which is likely to be met in large part from fossil fuels,» warning that the capacity to deal with these very substantial potential emissions «must urgently be developed.»

WASHINGTON / OSLO, March 15 (Reuters)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has bashed international efforts to combat climate change and questioned the scientific consensus that global warming is dangerous and driven by human consumption of fossil fuels.

In contrast, fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal are not renewable and their consumption is the leading cause of global warming.

From the war in Iraq to rising fuel prices, to global warming attributed to the burning of fossil fuels, energy consumption has been a central theme.

To keep global warming «well below» 2 °C the world must phase down the production — not just the consumption — of fossil fuels.

Proposed reductions in the consumption of fossil fuels will do nothing about controlling global climate change.

Much of the harm these events cause in Europe comes from physical damage to its industrial life support system, as the global average temperature continues to rise as a consequence of warming driven by ever higher greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, in response to the profligate global consumption of fossil fuels.

Offshore oil and gas exploration have devastating impacts on the local environment and climate, and the continued extraction and consumption of fossil fuels is incompatible with the Paris agreement and limiting global warming below 1.5 °C.

Carbon emissions from the global consumption of fossil fuels are currently above 8 GtC per year and rising faster than the most pessimistic economic model considered by the IPCC.

We must make sure that a minimum of 1 % of global product, annually $ 1.1 trillion, raised through ecological assessments on pollution and high energy consumption is targeted for investment to helping the poorest pursue ecological paths and not fossil fuels.

There are also concerns that pumping sequestered CO2 into oil and gas wells to help make the fuels easier to pump out of the ground will lead to further consumption of fossil fuels, and CO2 emissions, thus adding to global warming.

Projections of total global energy consumption show that between 2004 and 2030, fossil fuels will provide the bulk of the increase, with nuclear and other sources providing relatively minor contributions in absolute terms (Figure 3 and Table 1).

Close correlation between atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global consumption of fossil fuel and deforestation.

«Heat accounts for more than half of global final energy consumption and is still primarily supplied by fossil fuels,» it notes, adding that growth over the next five years will likely be slow.

In the latest in radical climate doomsaying, a new report warns that fossil fuel consumption will need to be reduced «below a quarter of primary energy supply by 2100» to avoid possibly disastrous effects on global temperatures.

But if every country moved up the energy ladder — from wood and dung to fossil fuels and from fossil fuels to uranium — all humans could achieve, or even surpass, Western levels of energy consumption while reducing global environmental damage below today's levels.

Analysis in the new WEO - 2017 showed that for the first time the largest share of global subsidies that benefit fossil fuel consumption went to keep electricity prices artificially low (41 % of the global total), ahead of oil (40 %) and natural gas.

It will be the impact of sea level rise, as a consequence of global warming driven by ever higher greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, in response to the profligate global consumption of fossil fuels.

Depending how it's tallied, fossil fuels account for between 85 - 88 % of global energy consumption and more than 95 % of energy for the transport of people and goods, including our food.

The estimated value of global fossil - fuel consumption subsidies decreased by 15 % to $ 260 billion in 2016, the lowest level since the International Energy Agency started tracking these subsidies in the World Energy Outlook (WEO) ten years ago.

We focus on the fossil fuel industry because we view the production and consumption of oil, gas and coal as sources of global warming, human rights abuses, war, national security concerns, corporate globalization, and increased inequality.

Global consumption of fossil fuels is causing atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to rise to levels that threaten human and environmental sustainability.

Despite stating that «the physical facts agree» that large effects of global climate change will be realized in 50 years and that a 2 % decrease in fossil fuel consumption would «considerably ease» the «immediate problem,» the committee still focuses on the «large probable error» of the data.

There are good reasons to slow down the rate of fossil fuel consumption but those all have to do with conservation of a finite resource and not a damn thing to do with global warming because global warming and more CO2 is a hugely positive thing for the primary producers in food chain — green plants.

As discussed earlier, the explanation of trends in global surface temperature since that time is not as simple, when both the positive and negative impacts of fossil fuel consumption are added to the picture.

Of course, planting an vegetable garden and installing solar panels on your roof is a great idea, but that alone will do nothing at all to change global fossil fuel consumption — someone else will burn your share.

Despite the potential to reduce fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and to provide the convenience of home charging, electrified vehicles will continue to be a niche market in the global transportation industry, the report finds.

Global Environmental Change General Contributions II, starting at 1:40 pm, I'll be examining the null hypothesis that humans are not the cause of the rise in temperature that happens to merely correlate by pure accident so perfectly with the rise in population and the CDIAC's 250 years of fossil fuel consumption records.

There is still no realistic global effort to address the basic problem, which is that our economic system is based on consumption of the resources of the Earth, especially fossil fuels.

Tragically, the net effect on the global atmospheric commons will be negligible, because if enough consumers respond to non-price incentives to reduce their consumption, the direct price of fossil fuels will decline, making it economic for others to increase their consumption.