Sentences with phrase «oil releases carbon»

Burning oil releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which contributes to global warming.

The mounting evidence for climate change, and all its tragic consequences, has provided a powerful argument against fossil fuel power stations: the burning of coal, gas and oil releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and this is almost certainly responsible for global warming.

Not exact matches

A similar wells - to - wheels study released in September by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates out of Massachusetts found fuels derived from oilsands to be just 6 % more carbon intensive than the average of all oil sources consumed in the U.S.

With CCS, instead of releasing carbon dioxide from oil and gas operations into the atmosphere, where the emissions contribute to global warming, that CO2 is converted into liquid and pumped underground to be sequestered indefinitely in porous rock formations.

The company, Canada's No. 2 pipeline operator, released a letter sent to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and other department officials saying that increased carbon levies for Alberta oil sands producers and new Canadian targets for greenhouse - gas emission cuts should serve to help assuage U.S. concerns that approving the C$ 8 billion ($ 6.41 billion) project would increase climate change.

Much of this energy still comes from the burning of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas, which release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and contribute to extreme weather patterns that imperil everyone on earth — especially our food producers.

«This will enable companies to pump carbon dioxide directly back downhole, where it's been for millions of years, or use it for enhanced oil recovery to further the release of oil and natural gas.

In a modeling study of coal, oil, and natural gas, Zhang and Caldeira compared the warming caused by combustion to the warming caused by the carbon dioxide released by a single instance of burning, such as one lump of coal, and by a power plant that is continuously burning fuel.

The steam pushes oil to the surface, but also picks up carbon from the oil and surrounding bedrock, which is then released into the atmosphere.

The DoS said Alberta's oil sands would be exploited, and their carbon released, whether or not Keystone is built.

The DoS argued that Alberta's oil sands would be exploited, and their carbon released, regardless of whether or not Keystone is built.

In September 2005, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations organization that includes scientists from nearly every country in the world, released a report estimating that 2 trillion tons of carbon dioxide could be stored in old coal mines, abandoned oil and gas fields, and in various other geologic formations around the world.

«I agree that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing as a result of human activities — primarily burning coal, oil, and natural gas — and that this means the global mean temperature is likely to rise,» Ebell said in the statement released by CEI yesterday.

LONDON — Power - generating stations worldwide release 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year as they burn coal, oil or natural gas; home and commercial heating plants release another 11 billion tons.

Every molecule of methane in the air has 25 times the effect on temperature rise compared to a molecule of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by burning coal, oil or gas.

As crude oil burns it releases many toxic chemicals, including lead, carbon monoxide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds, says Bin Jalaludin at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

Recently published research documents that nearly two - thirds of the industrial carbon pollution released into the atmosphere since 1854 can be directly traced to the carbon extracted from the Earth by just 90 entities — 83 producers of coal, oil and natural gas, and 7 cement manufacturers.

But for the biggest companies, the figures are quite exact: If you burned everything in the inventories of Russia's Lukoil and America's ExxonMobil, for instance, which lead the list of oil and gas companies, each would release more than 40 gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The fee for unconventional fossil fuels, such as oil from tar sands and gas from hydrofracking, should include carbon released in mining and refining processes, e.g., methane leakage in hydrofracking [245]--[249].

Biofuels can also cause a much smaller net release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than fossil fuels such as coal and oil.

Palm oil deforestation releases high levels of carbon dioxide and destroys the habitat of some of Southeast Asia's most valued wildlife.

You do realise that burning anything made of carbon (ie anything that ever lived from wood to oil to beehives) releases all the same chemical groups.

For the past four years almost nothing meaningful has been done to stop the rampant production and release into the atmosphere of ever greater amounts of carbon dioxide, and there have even been more frantic calls for more production of oil and expanded use of coal as a fuel.

The underlying motivation varies from buyer to buyer and usually involves one or more of these objectives: diminishing the demand for foreign oil, potentially releasing less pollution and carbon, saving money on cost per mile, driving solo in carpool lanes and / or irritating friends and strangers with an air of superiority.

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In a hundred years or so, we're releasing millions of years of carbon sequestered in oil, natural gas, coal, etc into the atmosphere.

The energy required to convert coal to liquid fuel doubles the amount of carbon dioxide released compared to fuels refined from oil.

When you're ready to loop back and think more about the carbon bubble in particular, see From «peak oil» to «unburnable carbon», which I wrote last year when Carbon Tracker's Carbon Bubble report was released.

Thirdly, let the Country bringing the oil into the economy pay an environmental deposit fee as part of the initial sale of the oil resource into the economy, based on the assumption that all 100 % of the carbon in the batch of oil will at some point be released into the environment.

However, if the companies are able to recapture and sequester the carbon without releasing it into the environment, they are able to retrieve the value of the deposit for the un-dispersed carbon in their original purchase of oil.

Let's suppose the country has oil wells that produce lots of oil, processed for various reasons, and which by doing so, releases carbon into the atmosphere.

Not only does Q fail to consider the carbon to be released by burning coal but he also totally ignores the tar sands, oil shales, and heavy oils that are being targeted to supplement remaining oil supplies.

Millions of tons of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere every year from burning fossil fuels, such as oil and gas.

Recently published research by Richard Heede of the Climate Accountability Institute documents that nearly two - thirds, 63 percent, of the industrial carbon pollution released into the atmosphere since 1854 can be directly traced to the carbon extracted from the Earth by just 90 entities — 83 producers of coal, oil, and natural gas, and seven cement manufacturers.

When we burn all that imported oil, we release nearly 2 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, heating up the planet.

Burning fossil fuels such as such as oil, coal and gas releases carbon dioxide, heat - trapping greenhouse gas that increases the overall temperatures on Earth.

I talk about how when we burn fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas for our energy, it releases carbon dioxide (CO2) into our air supply.

It's just a shame that, although it absorbs carbon dioxide, we can't release the energy it stores - in trees, coal or oil - without also releasing their carbon.

British Columbia inaugurated its carbon tax on July 1, 2008 at a rate of $ 10 (Canadian) per metric ton («tonne») of carbon dioxide released from coal, oil and natural gas burned in the province.

By driving cars, using electricity from coal - fired power plants, or heating our homes with oil or natural gas, we release carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases into the atmosphere.

When tropical forests are cut down for palm oil, large amounts of carbon are released into the atmosphere, accelerating global warming.

All the people who are active against the additional carbon release from the processing of oil sands, should be required to drive their propane or CNG fueled hydraulic hybrid automobiles at the most efficient speed for the miles traveled and to live in the smallest houses needed for shelter and eat the simplest food and never take aircraft trips. . .

Again, the amount by which carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced is uncertain because the oil that is recovered will release carbon when it is burned.

Humans burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) release carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas.

This report detailed organizations including oil companies and tech giants, entertainment companies and others that are holding themselves accountable for the carbon pollution released into the environment as a result of daily operations.

«The burning of fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal releases greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into the Earth's atmosphere, which has warmed to levels that can not be explained by natural variability, scientists say,» USA Today reports.

Burning a gallon of gas from tar sands releases as much as 37 percent more carbon pollution than burning a gallon of gas from conventional oil.

Company documents discovered during an eight - month investigation by InsideClimate News show that Exxon Research & Engineering estimated that producing and burning oil shales would release 1.4 to 3 times more carbon dioxide than conventional oil, and would accelerate the doubling of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by about five years.

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