Sentences with phrase «power than climate change»

The left is more scared of nuclear power than climate change, despite improved technologies.

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In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the goveClimate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the goverChange, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the goveclimate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the goverchange film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the government.

«On his watch we have an environment secretary who doesn't believe in climate change, our carbon emissions are rising rather than falling and the government has failed to set a target a clean up our power system by 2030.»

«Together, we have won more than just a ban — today, we have a strong movement that must now use our people power to win the transition to 100 % renewable energy for New York by 2030 in order to fight climate change.»

Since RGGI was launched seven years ago, the program has collected more than $ 925 million from power plant owners to cover greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change.

Climate change experts want more certain actions than are called for in the new proposed rule to cut carbon dioxide from power plants

Seniors (31 %) are less likely than those under age 30 (60 %) to say the Earth is warming due to human activity, and are less inclined to favor stricter power plant emission limits in order to address climate change.

To the authors of a new study, the two power companies are more alike than their positions on global warming indicate, and they reflect a trend of corporate lobbying on climate change.

It's less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

President Barack Obama came empty - handed to the Copenhagen climate change negotiations, and the U.S., China and other powers settled for a nonbinding declaration of sentiments and goals rather than an operational strategy and process of implementation.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that by 2100, the need for electricity to power cooling will have surged to more than 30 times what it was in 2000.

Though burning natural gas produces much less greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal, a new study indicates switching over coal - fired power plants to natural gas would have a negligible effect on the changing climate.

Take a look at nuclear power, best safety record of any form of energy (even safer than wind), and even in the face of CO2 induced «climate change», they still are going to phase it out.

The researchers looked at more than 800 U.S. cases involving climate change or coal - fired power plants between 1990 and 2016, and found a dramatic rise in both the number of climate cases and the proportion that relied on scientific evidence, according to first author Sabrina McCormick, a sociologist at George Washington University in Washington.

The power to regulate carbon dioxide is nothing less than the power to determine climate change policy and restructure America's energy supply system.

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power: More than 10 years after Al Gore stated his case for man - made climate change in the documentary «An Inconvenient Truth,» the former vice president returns to insist that all is not lost.

It does this by changing the accelerator mapping so that the same pedal travel delivers less power than in the standard mode; the transmission control strategy for the automatic gearbox is modified to bring forward upshifts and delay downshifts, while intelligent energy and climate management reduces mechanical power consumption and also the energy consumption of electrical systems - such as heated mirrors and seats.

There is no denying that the arctic is melting at a record - setting pace and that this is related to global warming and climate change, but Box is pursuing a theory that soot from wildfires and burning coal in power plants is making Greenland's glaciers melt even faster than they would because of global warming alone.

It's worth providing one example to illustrate the power of factors other than climate change to boost exposure to climate and coastal hazards.

At this point, five years in, Obama should also be judged by his actions (tightened car emission standards; delayed power plant rules) rather than his words on climate change.

The avoidance of the C word in the bill's title, «Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act,» seems at odds with the urgent arguments put forward by backers of the legislation that emissions are climbing and climate is changing more drastically than previously predicted.

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Rather than preempting the power of states to deal with climate change, as some climate bills in the Senate would do, the national roadmap should show how the federal government can help states be even better go - getters.

A new 1,000 - page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report appears to ignore both nuclear power and shale gas — even though both these energy sources emit far less CO2 than does coal.

In particular his conclusion that the debate around climate change is fundamentally about power and politics rather than the environment seems undeniable.

With many renewable sources of power, like wind, now cheaper than fossil fuels, it has become clear that preventing global climate change is green in all definitions of the word.

As Trump's team takes over, however, they may find it more difficult than it might seem to change the power plan and other climate regulations that have already gone through lengthy review and release processes.

Moreover, they drive climate change by encouraging the consumption of polluting fuels while tilting the playing field against renewable power and energy efficiency: Fossil - fuel subsidies are five times greater than renewable energy subsidies, and they inflate domestic demand and discourage energy efficiency through artificially low energy prices, undermining the energy security of fossil - fuel importing countries.

So it would be a good idea to get to the bottom of the discrepancies, especially since the countdown to dangerous climate change may be shorter than the lifetime of a new coal - fired power plant.

By contrast, despite spending over $ 2 trillion in 5 decades, aid programs have much less to show in terms of poverty reduction — or its ancillary benefits, e.g., reductions in hunger, disease, better health care and education, and greater adaptive capacity to deal with climate change and natural disasters — than does fossil fuel - powered economic development.

Rather than replacing this energy source with fossil fuels, thus boosting carbon emissions and encouraging runaway climate change, the world can use this opportunity to pursue a much safer electricity sector powered largely by wind, solar, and geothermal energy.

And the greenhouse gas emissions from coal have contributed significantly to climate change, a risk that is unfathomably worse than the worst case dangers of nuclear power.

Carbon emissions from fossil fuel fired power stations are one of the main causes of climate change and ocean acidification and these are far greater threats to the Australian environment than are wind farms.

It would be more honest to blame the power outages on climate change than on renewable energy.

The group just hired Paul Bailey, a former operative for the oil and electric power industries, as its top lobbyist and will soon fill three more upper - level positions, bolstering a fleet of fixers who spent more money than anyone else — nearly $ 10 million last year — lobbying on climate change - related legislation, according to the Center for Public Integrity.

The likelihood of Australia being invaded by a foreign power this century is probably less than 30 per cent, yet we spend and will go on spending more on defence than on any conceivable climate change mitigation policy.

Emissions from coal - fired power plants and other industrial concerns in China have made it the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, putting more climate - changing gases into the atmosphere each year than the US and the European Union combined.

Similarly, today natural climate - change is being blamed on human activity by politicians, rather than the scientific illiteracy that's CAUSED by the politicization of the scientific process as a tool for power rather than knowledge.

By helping to finance the construction of the reactors — the first new U.S. nuclear power units in more than 30 years — Obama is hoping to jump - start his efforts to pass comprehensive climate - change legislation, which has stalled in Congress in the face of GOP opposition.

Your belief in our power to cause abrupt climate change is stronger than mine.

a) «America is closer to energy independence than we've been in decades» b) «natural gas — if extracted safely, it's the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change.»

According to calculations by Climate Analytics, a Berlin - based think tank, U.S. emissions in 2025 would be about 1 percent higher than the 2014 level if Trump dumps the Clean Power Plan, excluding land use change and forestry emissions.

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Climate change product liability may affect related industries sooner rather than later, as shown by the recent case of a number of US States taking power generation companies to court over climate Climate change product liability may affect related industries sooner rather than later, as shown by the recent case of a number of US States taking power generation companies to court over climate climate change.

In 2030, the pollution from current coal power plants will be 150 percent higher than levels that would allow us to prevent catastrophic climate change.

It is quite plain to me that stopping nuclear power has a higher priority than avoiding dangerous climate change for some people.

But the upside is three-fold: (i) your tax reduction or dividend check will offset much, perhaps more than 100 %, of those price increases; (ii) you'll be able to minimize your tax bite by cutting down on fuel usage (e.g., shortening those country drives, buying locally - grown produce, purchasing «green power» from wind and solar cells); and (iii) Americans» combined behavior changes in response to the carbon tax will go a long way toward protecting the climate and averting the cataclysmic consequences of unchecked global warming.

Even though the Protocol has prevented a reduction of 220 Gt CO2e since the 1990s, which is more than the approximate emissions 60,000 coal powered plants would release in a year, the Montreal Protocol risks negating its contribution to combating climate change through its unintentional commercialization of the super greenhouse gases, HFCs.

Climate change is a far greater threat to Australia's native vegetation than is the growth of the wind power industry.

Employing a political ecology framework, I endeavor to articulate the multiple levels at which this issue unfolds, describing the correlation between the circulation of climate change discourse and the resurgence of hydroelectric power at the global level; how this situation has been engaged at the national level within contemporary Costa Rica; and how all of this plays out in contestation concerning dam construction within specific sites in the country, particularly the controversial Río Pacuare in the eastern highlands, where the merits of a major dam proposal have been questioned for more than two decades.