Sentences with phrase «reasoning about fossil fuel»

This prediction of cooling appears to me to be largely dependent on reasoning about fossil fuel particulates increasing.

Not exact matches

«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.

The burning of fossil fuels has been one reason for an increase of CO2 levels in the atmosphere to around 395 ppm (or parts per million), up from preindustrial levels of about 280 ppm.

And he also talked a bit about solar and wind power, but there was no reference at all to the underlying climate problem that is the primary reason we need to transition from fossil fuels.

There is no mystery about the reason — it's global warming, caused by the fossil fuels we burn.

I fear that the «spin» is a juggernaut that can't be stopped few know or care about the details of this subject I live in a highly affluent urban area, cheek to jowl with a major science oriented university I know no one who doubts the «consensus» the «man as scourge of nature» religion rules few are a aware of the hiatus, those that are consider it Koch and fossil fuel industry propaganda sigh... the voices here are, for me, a glimpse of light and reason I guess we are about to endure a media barrage thanks Dr. Curry, I'll re-read this post once in awhile during the blitz

In fact it may be a reason not to be overly concerned about China - they must be well aware that at the rate they keep using up more and more fossil fuels, they are going to get to a point where they're not longer cheap and easily available very quickly.

For decades, the fossil fuel industry has used its influence to spread false or misleading information about climate change — a strong motivation for choosing low - carbon energy sources like wind or solar (in addition to the economic reasons).

The reason goes back to the original point of the PR campaign by the fossil fuel lobby — to create a sense of doubt in the public mind about this issue.

Steve, I agree that there are still plenty of questions left about what is really going to happen: — RRB - IMO, there are plenty of ethical, economic, political and environmental reasons for trying to minimise our overall environmental footprint, including fossil fuel consumption as a significant component of that.

Example research papers on the impact of fossil fuel emissions on tropical cyclones, on sea level rise, and on the carbon cycle demonstrate that the conclusions drawn by researchers about their anthropogenic cause derive from circular reasoning.

Some Mitigationists (of all degrees of urgency) are also «no regrets» proponents of shifting away from fossil fuels for other reasons — peak - oil types, environmentalists worried about conventional air pollution, anti - automobile / anti-suburb activists, and so on.