Sentences with phrase «out of fossil fuels as»

There is a crying need for some place, preferably a place that is reasonably large, to demonstrate an energy & climate approach with the potential to go global, an approach designed to allow amplifying feedbacks that lead to rapid phase - out of fossil fuels as the price of fossil fuels becomes honest.

Not exact matches

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.

Britain's last coal power station will be forced to close in 2025, as part of a government plan to phase out the fossil fuel to meet its climate change commitments.

Democrats and environmental groups latched onto Keystone as emblematic of the type of dirty fossil fuels that must be phased out.

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 regioAs 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 regioas 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.

Some results of the automobile are obviously pernicious, such as highway deaths; but it remains to be seen whether the automobile's destruction of fossil fuels and its creation of pollutants turn out to be even worse problems.

Turns out, $ 750 million worth of State money is going to SolarCity to build solar panels, which will presumably be in high demand as the nation transfers away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy sources.

Groups such as Friends of the Earth warn the UK can not «plant its way out» of climate change but instead must reduce its use of fossil fuels.

When people talk about this, they tend to talk as if we would suddenly run out of fossil fuels.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

And giving a helping hand to all these other crises as a result of all the fossil fuel burning needed to power our lives and lift billions out of poverty: anthropogenic climate change.

But fossil - fuelled politicians and the right - wing media serving as their megaphones will continue to wring every ounce of faux controversy they can out of this episode.

But, as Hansen wrote in an additional assessment of his new analysis, «Environmentalists need to recognize that attempts to force all - renewable policies on all of the world will only assure that fossil fuels continue to reign for base - load electric power, making it unlikely that abundant affordable power will exist and implausible that fossil fuels will be phased out.»

VOCs come out of tailpipes and smokestacks as a by - product of burning fossil fuels; the trees emit them in part to repel insects and to attract pollinators.

«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.

But as Kurt E. Yeager, former president of the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., points out, such standards «aren't worth the paper they're written on until we have a power system, a grid, that is capable of assimilating that intermittent energy without having to build large quantities of backup power, fossil - fueled, to enable it.»

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.

It turns out that there's such a double - win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had «NoMix» toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels).

In April, researchers, led by New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, published a paper in Science, ruling out fossil fuels as the primary driver of worldwide methane over the past decade.

Today, photosynthesis is considered «the most important chemical reaction on earth», providing food for humans and animals, releasing oxygen for them to breathe — and millions of years later, this process provides fossil fuel in the form of oil, coal and natural gas, as Michel likes to point out.

Importantly, he pointed out that human beings were now carrying out a large - scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past or be reproduced in the future - an allusion, perhaps, to the growing realisation of the finite, one - off nature of the fossil fuels, being as they are a non-renewable resource over human timescales.

Scientists need to explain to the public that while they continue to study the details of anthropogentic global warming and consequent climate change, that we already know enough to be certain that continued unmitigated warming will be a disaster for all humanity, and that we urgently need to phase out all fossil fuel use as quickly as possible.

In 1997, Tickell set out on the road with a biodiesel powered «Veggie Van» and a video camera and began filming what would eventually become known as FUEL, the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winning documentary film that investigates the possible replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy.

Honda Accord Sport Hybrid v Toyota Camry Hybrid Hybrid cars mightn't be as exciting as the latest supercar, but as the world's fossil fuels begin to run out it's important to look ahead and see which manufacturer is at the forefront of the technology available to us right now.

Let me try to be more explicit: if you want to assume (or, if you prefer, conclude) that aerosols produced by the increased burning of fossil fuels after WWII had a cooling effect that essentially cancelled out the warming that would be expected as a result of the release of CO2 produced by that burning, then it's only logical to conclude that there exists a certain ratio between the warming and cooling effects produced by that same burning.

Advocates say the carbon footprint of bioplastics is better than fossil fuel - derived alternatives, which is true, but as «Life Without Plastic» points out, there's the added issue of supporting genetically modified corn production, which currently provides most material for bioplastics.

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

An even shorter version is: It is getting warmer; CO2 is a greenhouse gas and so an increase in it will drive warming (logarithmically without feedbacks); we are taking many gigatons of C out of the earth and dumping it into the biosphere as CO2; the increase in CO2 and the change of isotopes in the C are consistent with the source being the fossil fuels we are burning.

If they play along with the clean coal charade, they just outed themselves as hopeless tools of fossil fuels.

The graph above, from the Dutch report, shows clearly how relentless overall emissions growth in countries climbing out of poverty (as electrification, manufacturing and mobility expand fossil fuel demand) was not blunted by the recession and is sending them and the rich world (which is getting ever more efficient and exporting manufacturing) toward some kind of carbon common ground.

As news spread over the weekend of the death of George P. Mitchell, the 94 - year - old Texas oil man widely credited with playing a pivotal role in unlocking the shale energy era, I reached out for a reaction from Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer - winning chronicler of humanity's fossil fuel era.

The kind of climate we wind up with is largely determined by the total amount of carbon we emit into the atmosphere as CO2 in the time before we finally kick the fossil fuel habit (by choice or by virtue of simply running out).

Do we choose materials that take a lot of energy and fossil fuels to make and put out tons of CO2 in a massive hit right now, or do we strive to generate as little as possible and treat it as a loan we pay back?

If Mr. KIA were writing back in the early 1900s, he'd be decrying those same fossil fuel companies as having put all the whalers and blacksmiths out of business.

If my math and physiology is correct, breathing puts out way more, about 200 times, CO2 than Mark's 4 cans of soda per week — and it is a net add from long sequestered carbon (though most not near as long as fossil fuel).

Conservatives dislike elites, and together with the elites of the fossil fuel industry, they have defined the scientists as out of control elites who need to be brought under control of the people and their work subject to the democratic process.

As one commenter pointed out, the real role of solar feed - in tariffs is not to cut the maximum amount of CO2 per dollar spent, but rather to keep pushing and pushing technology forward until we reach a tipping point where solar, and other clean tech, can out compete fossil fuels.

What do you suppose will happen when we run out of fossil fuels, as we are likely to do in the near future (decades for oil and perhaps a century for coal)?

They have done honorable work — largely figuring out how to cushion coal - state consumers and carbon - intensive industries from rising fossil fuel costs in a carbon constrained world — but the fruits of their labor have been demonized by the opposition as «cap and tax,» Rube Goldberg, etc..

If only the alternative were to be seen as a cheap way out of a terribly expensive fossil fuels adventure which we are seeing today, and which has been scientifically proven, time and time again, to be exceptionally risky.

Since when did any part of the scientific community rule out GEOTERHMAL energy as the main replacement for fossil fuels?

In the new study, Hansen writes, «there is no morally defensible excuse to delay phase - out of fossil fuel emissions as rapidly as possible.»

«Our findings show that if we do not want to melt Antarctica, we can't keep taking fossil fuel carbon out of the ground and just dumping it into the atmosphere as CO2, like we've been doing,» says one of the report's authors, Ken Caldeira, an atmospheric scientist at Stanford University's Carnegie Institution for Science, California.

A Lacis: by the time we have to worry about oxygen levels we will be out of fossil fuels and unless we invent a battery we will be worrying about nuclear waste and learning Tibetan as sea level rises.

Reality: Whilst hominids originated in Africa, they migrated and colonised many latitudes - including temperate and cool zones, well before the fossil fuels were widely used - as fake - sceptics are fond of pointing out, they even colonised southern Greenland on a temporary basis during Medieval times.

And, so long as burning fossil fuels is the cheapest and easiest way of achieving that, they'll continue to burn fossil fuels — and, in the process, they'll continue to lift millions of people out of poverty.

Indeed, out of the three prime drivers, the only one that has seen major changes in the past few decades is the chemistry of the atmosphere, as a consequence of the emissions from burning fossil fuels.

The other is to capture fossil fuel emissions before they enter the atmosphere, or to suck them directly out of the air — a technique known as carbon dioxide removal.

Bloomberg points out that the Obama Administration is «facing mounting calls from conservationists to thwart new fossil fuel development as part of the «keep it in the ground» movement» — which Murkowski says is a «misguided» effort that «will harm local economies and threaten future energy supplies.»