Sentences with phrase «research about fossil»

Exxon Mobil, a massive fossil fuel corporation, has a lot of money to invest in scientific research about fossil fuels.

I implore you to do the research about fossil fuels.

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Our office has spent the last eight years hosting the Climate Justice Project, a research and public engagement network that has produced a large volume of work about how to transition off fossil fuels in a just and equitable manner — an alliance that brings together a wide range of NGOs and academics.

The research also predicts that in 30 million years from now, when Australia has moved about 1500 km northwards, the fossil slab will be located below the Southern Ocean and, as a consequence, the Lake Eyre Basin and Murray Darling Basin will cease to exist.

Currently, about 95 percent of hydrogen production worldwide comes from converting fossil fuels such as natural gas into hydrogen — a process that releases large quantities of carbon dioxide into the air, said Maher El - Kady, a UCLA postdoctoral researcher and a co-author of the research.

«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 theresearch 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 theResearch Center, one of about 180 scientists at major Japanese research institutes working on theresearch institutes working on the scheme.

«We described a fossil sea turtle from Colombia that is about 25 million years older,» said Dr. Edwin Cadena, a scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation at the Senckenberg Research Institute.

There is a great deal of talk today about archaeological sites being finite, rather like fossil fuels, but most research involves extensive excavation.

Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University recently rocked the world of dinosaur research with twin discoveries: preserved soft vascular features in a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil and bone tissue indicating that the animal was about to lay eggs.

In 1996, when climate research was more certain about the link between fossil fuel combustion and climate change than during the time of Shaw's memo, Exxon's new chairman and chief executive Lee Raymond said in a speech in Detroit: «Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.»

Here you will find a key to identifying fossil wood, images of fossil leaves from McAbee, British Columbia and other information about paleobotanical research in the Pacific Northwest.

Research about the evolution of modern humans has historically focused on the fossil records of Europe and Africa as well as the Levantine corridor connecting them.

A mass extinction about 200 million years ago, which destroyed at least half of the species on Earth, happened very quickly and is demonstrated in the fossil record by the collapse of one - celled organisms called protists, according to new research led by a University of Washington paleontologist.

Toronto About Blog Milan Ilnyckyj is conducting research on pipeline resistance in the United States and Canada and writing his PhD dissertation on campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns in Canada.

Paleontologists usually perform two things - either they opt to make it their profession and teach the students about fossils, or they can do the basic or applied research on fossils.

Toronto About Blog Milan Ilnyckyj is conducting research on pipeline resistance in the United States and Canada and writing his PhD dissertation on campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns in Canada.

Updates below InsideClimate News, showing the value of focused and sustained investigative reporting, has published the first piece in an illuminating review of what Exxon Mobil Corp. (and its earlier incarnations) learned through its own research from the 1970s onward about the potential climate impacts of rising emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel use.

The problem is that building momentum for the level of technological, financial and social innovation required to speed the move away from fossil fuels requires far more than a short - term shot of offerings for breakthrough research and rebates for attic insulation and fireplace inserts (one of which we are about to utilize).

Hales» pioneering research in ocean carbon chemistry underlies much of what we know about the role carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions plays in changing the chemistry of Northwest seas.

Here's the reaction from Burton Richter, who is an emeritus professor of physics at Stanford University and author of a valuable book on energy, to my query about how society can best balance its research investments and hedge its bets in trying to move beyond fossil fuels:

«Researching Don't Even Think About It, which I see as the most important book published on climate change in the past few years, George Marshall discovered that there has not been a single proposal, debate or even position paper on limiting fossil fuel production put forward during international climate negotiations.

Justin Gillis has written a news article putting the paper in context with other recent research on Antarctic dynamics and sea level, as well as with policy debates about the current value of fossil fuels against the momentous costs that could attend greatly expanded use:

The grant to Columbia Journalism School was directed at «public interest research into what the fossil fuel industry understood about the science of climate change and how they acted given that understanding both internally and regarding the public,» but it did not target Exxon Mobil specifically, Wasserman said.»

In 1995, in what is thought to be the first conference promoting climate science denial in Britain, the CEI's then president Fred Smith joined another US guest from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation for a series of talks that undermined warnings about the impacts of fossil fuels on the climate.

Currently, about 95 percent of hydrogen production worldwide comes from converting fossil fuels such as natural gas into hydrogen — a process that releases large quantities of carbon dioxide into the air, said Maher El - Kady, a UCLA postdoctoral researcher and a co-author of the research.

The point here is not that Gelbspan appears to have put out misinformation about his collective work back in 2004, it is that his words have huge influence right up to the present time, such as the only months - old «fossil fuel industry misinformation» research paper written by an impressionable young college student, or the days - old suggestion by one of his Facebook Friends that he should get a guest appearance on CNBC's Rachel Maddow show.

Neither Cook nor Nuccitelli have any serious physical sciences research experience (though Dana's experience in the fossil fuel industry may qualify as applied research — oddly it's something he doesn't like to talk about on blog).

The research concludes  that taken together, fossil - fueled facilities are about 17 times more dangerous per gigawatt hour of electricity produced to birds than wind and nuclear power stations.

This study, identifies and assesses system approaches in order to prioritize research needs for the capture and non-atmospheric sequestering of a significant portion of the carbon dioxide (CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB--RRB- emitted from fossil fuel - fired electric power plants (US power plants presently produce about 7 % of the world «s CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- emissions).

There is a US fossil fuel research program but it is not about AGW, mostly pollution control and carbon sequestration (ironically, a part of CAGW).

25 years ago, Exxon could have publicly shared their research about the connection between fossil fuels and climate change.

They talk about American exceptionalism even as they protect fossil - fuel incumbents and fight research and infrastructure investments.

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.

The most water - efficient energy sources are natural gas (though we may be just about out of it) and synthetic fuels produced by coal gasification; the least efficient are ethanol and biodiesel — the biofuels just can't catch a break these days, can they?Water use winners and losers The research pair analyzed 11 types of energy sources, including coal, fuel ethanol, natural gas, and oil; and five power generating methods, including hydroelectric, fossil fuel thermoelectric, and nuclear methods; in terms of power generation, Younos and Hill have found that geothermal and hydroelectric energy types use the least amount of water, while nuclear plants use the most.

Skeptics don't have to rely on vested fossil fuel interests to do research, nor do fossil fuel interests have to fund their research to learn about alternatives to the consensus position.

In this short book, David Archer gives us the latest on climate change research, and skillfully tells the climate story that he helped to discover: generations beyond our grandchildren's grandchildren will inherit atmospheric changes and an altered climate as a result of our current decisions about fossil - fuel burning.

James Leaton, research director at think tank Carbon Tracker, which has led the analysis of stranded fossil fuel assets, said: «It is disappointing that Oil and Gas UK seems confused about how to rationalise tackling climate change and developing more oil and gas.

The usual approach is to find some connection (even an imagined one) between any researcher who raises the smallest doubts about AGW theory and an oil or power company and then declare that the research is tainted by the bias of these companies that have a strong economic reliance on fossil fuel combustion (and thus the production of CO2).

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Toronto About Blog Milan Ilnyckyj is conducting research on pipeline resistance in the United States and Canada and writing his PhD dissertation on campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns in Canada.