Sentences with phrase «remaining known fossil fuel»

A recent estimate indicates that if we burn all the remaining known fossil fuel reserves the Antarctic ice sheet will essentially melt raising the oceans by 60 meters.

Not exact matches

If you've got it, flaunt it — and your hair will remain perfect until the excess energy you used powering two hair dryers will hasten the world's expenditure of fossil fuels to the point where we can no longer afford the electricity to power hair dryers, and instead resort into walking into darkened caves full of bats and allowing the collective heat of their tiny nocturnal bodies to hasten the evaporation of our surplus hair water.

As you probably know, a prime focus of mine for years now has been this question — how to propel a global energy transformation even as fossil fuels remain relatively plentiful and cheap and populations (and appetites) crest.

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.

The next major step is to continue to motivate and engage the movement in order to achieve a large - scale victory against the fossil fuel interests that are still trying to cling to their remaining power base no matter what the ultimate costs to our communities, our economy, and the planet.

Contrary to what Peter Taylor says in his book, it is well known that sulphate aerosols created in the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion were a major influence on the small cooling trend from 1940, although uncertainties remain over the scale of the effect.

The emissions are known (calculated from fossil fuel sales) The increase in the atmosphere is measured I never said or assumed that 50 % of the human CO2 remains active.

of the world's known remaining fossil fuel reserves in the ground to prevent runaway climate change.

In fact, a 2015 study in the journal Nature revealed that we need to leave at least 80 percent of the world's known remaining fossil fuel reserves in the ground to prevent runaway climate change.

While natural gas is one of the cleanest burning fossil fuels, this statistic alone offers a bracing reminder that Canada remains a long way from the day when our housing stock is no longer responsible for a formidable share of the country's overall greenhouse gas emissions.