Sentences with phrase «posed by fossil fuels»

Instead of acting to reduce harm, the cities charge, companies attempted to undermine climate science and mislead the public by downplaying the risk posed by fossil fuels.

They are necessary to mitigate the twin problems posed by fossil fuels, carbon emissions and peak energy impact.

In my opinion, these are negative externalities just as serious as those posed by fossil fuel usage.

Not exact matches

The reasons for the continuing support for nuclear energy by political parties of all colours is simple: our dependence on fossil fuels poses real risks to the country's energy security, the environment and energy prices.

Anyone who denies climate change, and the dangers posed by non-renewal fossil fuels, is not in touch with reality.

«We're doing this research for commonsense reasons — as a potential solution to the challenges posed by the exhaustion of fossil fuels and global warming,» says Hiroaki Suzuki of JAXA's Advanced Mission Research Center, one of about 180 scientists at major Japanese research institutes working on the scheme.

Fossil fuels have been a great gift — but as the greenhouse gases produced by burning them accumulate in the atmosphere, our continued dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas poses a grave threat to the climate on which all life depends.

Here's a story we all now know well: A small number of groups backed by the fossil fuel industry have for decades shed doubt on the science of climate change, even as the actual scientific community consensus on the issue — that greenhouse gas pollution posed a significant threat to our climate — remained strong and continued to grow stronger.

A study issued Tuesday by an energy watchdog group offers important new insights into the fossil fuel industry's extensive early understanding of climate change and the risks it poses.

Carbon Tracker recognises many fossil fuel companies acknowledge both the threat posed by climate change and the energy transition needed to mitigate that threat.

«The article serves as a sobering wakeup call to those who still dispute the threat posed by our ongoing burning of fossil fuels,» he said.

(Dunlap and McCright, 2011:144) The mainstream conservative movement, embodied in conservative foundations and think tanks, quickly joined forces with the fossil fuel industry (which recognized very early the threat posed by recognition of global warming and the role of carbon emissions) and wider sectors of corporate America to oppose the threat of global warming not as an ecological problem but as a problem for unbridled economic growth.

Climate change caused by fossil fuels and other human activities poses an existential threat to Homo sapiens and contributes to mass extinction of species.

How the country responds to the threats to global energy security and climate posed by rising fossil - fuel use will have far - reaching consequences for the rest of the world», Mr Tanaka added.

All in all, a number of U.S. fossil - fuel development and export policy positions suggest an administration that is attempting to straddle climate and energy policy in such a way that it wins support on the progressive side for having a proactive domestic climate policy while, in effect, failing to challenge the obstacle to climate change mitigation posed by corporate energy interests and their global ambitions.

«Climate change caused by fossil fuels and other human activities poses an existential threat to Homo sapiens and contributes to mass extinction of species,» the Vatican text states.

Other experts say there is no time for nuance, given the general lack of public response to the threat posed particularly by carbon dioxide, a by - product of fossil fuels and forests that persists for a century or more in the air and is accumulating rapidly in the atmosphere and changing the pH of the oceans.

WASHINGTON (June 22, 2015)-- The Lancet Commission on Health and Climate released a report today warning that climate change poses both the greatest threat to health in the 21st Century and the greatest opportunity to protect public health by pursuing a reduction of fossil fuels and an expansion of clean energy.

President Obama — whose energy policies are certainly worthy of scrutiny — has just spent much of his visit to Alaska raising awareness of the risks of climate change posed by fossil - fuel use.

Fossil fuels have been a great gift — but as the greenhouse gases produced by burning them accumulate in the atmosphere, our continued dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas poses a grave threat to the climate on which all life depends.

In a notable development, the G20 powers recently launched a joint probe into the global financial risks posed by the potential for fossil fuel companies» so - called «stranded assets» — investments in costly ventures that may never be viable in light of emerging international climate agreements.

The Pope's 184 - page Encyclical highlights the looming crisis posed by climate change and places most of the blame on human activity and fossil fuels.

The case against the fossil fuel industry largely relies on proving that these companies deceived the American public about the threats posed by consuming their products.

Most recently, Greenpeace exposed deniers for hire in academia by posing as fossil fuel representatives willing to pay for publications promoting false benefits of fossil fuel production.

Utt acknowledged the challenge posed by the loss of the PTC but insisted that even in Virginia, wind power can be competitive so long as there is some mechanism that levels the playing field with fossil fuels.

The year the world turned, primarily because the market woke up to the economic threat posed by climate change and the economic opportunity in the inevitable decline of fossil fuels.

The problems posed by carbon dioxide do not reflect these natural processes, but rather human activities, of which the most notable are fossil fuel burning and deforestation.

The report warns that continued burning of fossil fuels to increase living standards while expecting humanity to adapt to climate change and mitigate its effects through better technologies «fails to appreciate the nature of the threat posed by ice sheet instability and sea level rise.

The motion was brought by members of the BMA's Retired Members Forum as well as several local committees and follows an editorial published in the British Medical Journal in March that called for divestment from fossil fuels because of the «scale and immediacy of the threat to human survival, health and wellbeing» posed by unmitigated climate change.

The Colorado communities contend that ExxonMobil and Suncor were aware that their products caused global warming as early as 1968, when a report commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API), the US oil and gas industry's premier trade association, warned of the threat burning fossil fuels posed to the climate.

«New Canadian oil - sands development is increasingly economically questionable without the additional export capacity that pipelines such as Keystone XL would bring», says Mark Lewis, external research advisor to a report from Carbon Tracker, a think - tank focused on the investment risks posed by excessive fossil fuel extraction.

In his latest book, «The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back — and How We Can Still Save Humanity» (Perseus, 2006), Dr. Lovelock says that any risks posed by nuclear power are small when compared with the «fever» of heat - trapping carbon dioxide produced by burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels.