Sentences with phrase «reserves than climate scientists»
Fossil fuel corporations have five times more oil and coal and gas in known reserves than climate scientists think is safe to burn.
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The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.
As the International Energy Agency warned, â $ œno more than one - third of proven reserves of fossil fuels can be consumed prior to 2050â $ â $» unless carbon capture and storage technology is widely deployed â $» otherwise weâ $ ™ ll bust through the limit of a 2 degree Celsius rise in average temperature that climate scientists believe will unleash truly disruptive ice melt, sea level rise and weather extremes.
The research underlying that concept showed that the carbon embedded in proven fossil fuel reserves on the books of fossil fuel companies is many times greater than what climate scientists have determined the atmosphere can withstand in a safe climate scenario.