Sentences with phrase «see fossil fuel industries»

I expect to see fossil fuel industries funding some of the geo engineering advocates.

That, and somehow seeing the fossil fuel industries end.

Not exact matches

A: They're doing a not - bad job of it if that's your goal, to find that big mushy middle where the Liberal party likes to live, where most Canadians or at least a lot of Canadians see themselves: we see the benefits of this industry and want it do continue to prop up our economic success, while we also see that we need to move away from fossil fuels.

But that's irrelevant to the spirit of the question, since (1) Democratic politicians in fossil fuel states pretty much do the same thing (See West Virginia's Democrat Manchin); and (2) Such behavior is really industry agnostic, and every politician of every party whose constituents are over-represented in a particular industry will of course behave the same way about competing disruptive industry; and (3) The main opposition is not on alternative energy per se, but on measures to tax / disrupt fossil fuel one.

A quick look at the proposed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change carbon budget to keep global warming below 2 °C, alongside the fossil fuel reserves held by the industry, is enough to see that the two aren't compatible.

It was clear that climate change is an energy problem — burning fossil fuels to generate energy accounts for 74 per cent of human - made greenhouse gas emissions — but I could see that it was very difficult to change the energy industry from the outside and very little was happening on the inside.

«We won't see a significant shift away from fossil fuels in the energy industry until an honest price is imposed on carbon - dioxide emissions.»

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

The current U.S. media coverage on the fossil fuel industry and global warming can be seen in this article — a long interview with Chevron's CEO that doesn't even mention global warming — apparently, it's not a question the reporter thinks is relevant:

I yet have to see efficiency numbers of converting the energy in fossil fuel into the actual energy used in industries and homes.

His administration — with help from Republicans in Congress — has often targeted environmental rules it sees as overly burdensome to the fossil fuel industry, including major Obama - era policies aimed at fighting climate change.»

His conclusion, which I see as robustly supported by peer - reviewed work (including the new paper), is that California could get roughly halfway to that goal in a perfect world — one without impediments such as higher costs, nimby fights and resistance from consumers and industries wedded to fossil fuels.

Corporate Knights had a chance to sit down with Kortenhorst to talk about the new RMI - CWR alliance, the rise of the «transactive» grid, the fall of the fossil fuel industry, and what we can expect to see along the path to December's Paris climate summit.

An anti-Kyoto, Anti-IPCC, anti-regulation lobby group founded and run by Frederick Singer, that has received $ 20,000 from ExxonMobil... as well as having received substantial funds from several other fossil - fuel industry sources including Shell, Unocal, Texaco, Arco, and the American Gas Association (see his sworn affidavit at http://tinyurl.com/2rrqz7; HeatIsOnline at: http://tinyurl.com/yqvozw; and Center for Media and Democracy: http://tinyurl.com/yloyf2).

And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.

Naturally, the fossil fuel industry sees an existential threat here and has its spokespeople and government supporters making the rounds to claim that any significant moves in this direction would only kill jobs and destroy the economy.

This glacial melt heat conveyor is the kind of process we are seeing more and more frequently near the great ice sheets as fossil fuel industry has continued its harmful emissions.

However, Kelly Sims Gallagher is not merely a coincidentally handy local Tufts University professor, she has direct connections with the same set of leaked industry memo phrases seen within the growing numbers of California global warming lawsuits — the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» strategy phrase and the «older, less - educated males» / «younger, lower - income women» targeting phrases — which are widely repeated elsewhere as proof that the fossil fuel industry «pays skeptic climate scientists to participate in misinformation campaigns» undermining the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming (despite those memos being worthless as evidence, but that is another matter).

I thought the threat of climate change might see the emergence of a reactionary backlash supported by the largest industrial combine in human history, the fossil fuel industry.

So does it not follow that the same invalidation happens to scientists who promote man - caused global warming when anything remotely associated with the fossil fuel industry is seen in their vicinity?

«It's powerful to see groups from across civil society coming to the same conclusion that in order to keep open any hope of an international climate treaty, we need to challenge the power of the fossil fuel industry.

In this graphic, you can see that according to Oil Change International analysis, governments around the world are spending perhaps more than $ 1 trillion USD combined per year subsidizing the fossil fuel industry.

«At the current rate of capital expenditure, the next decade will see over $ 6 trillion allocated to developing the fossil fuel industry.»

Emissions from fossil fuels and industry have seen a staggering increase in recent years — 63 percent since 1990.

Meanwhile, environmental groups see carbon capture as an industry figleaf to shield the EPA from pushback against its climate rules that will still allow the use of fossil fuels, albeit with lower emissions.

Governments and industry see the opening of the Arctic as yet another business opportunity to extract more fossil fuels and fish.

Read this book (or see the movie) to learn how the fossil fuel industry plays the game, and get motivated to deny the deniers their day and win the most important battle for sound science in all of history.

In the issue of finding resources to implement sustainable development, we see countries using the economic crisis as an excuse, while at the same time spending 100s of billions of dollars subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, the most profitable industry in the world.

Another is that they are in the pay of the fossil fuel industry, e.g., see Ross Gelbspan's «Boiling Point» or Hoggan and Littlemore's «Climate Cover - up» books.

This could be seen as a tribute to the relative political power of the fossil fuel industries and high - consumers of fossil energy (large corporations and the affluent) versus the power of the unemployed and youth; the former are treated, if at all, with gentle «nudges» while the latter are viewed as «clay to be molded» by elites.

As they walked in the record heat from the Capitol to the White House, Jayden and two young plaintiff friends, Jaime Butler and Aji Piper, held a large white banner with a message for President Trump and the fossil fuel industry: «See you in court.»

In any case, given the amazing benefits provided by solar power, efforts made to slow this transition by Trump and others in his administration should be seen as a protectionist, nonsensical, and amoral top - down defense of the harmful fossil fuel industry.

«Grant aid is always seen as benefit and will give a boost to the heat pump industry on the whole, mainly due to the government's stamp of approval to say «this is the future — replacing fossil fuel with a renewable source like heat pumps is the way forward,»» said Brian Cooley.

Therefore, speaking as a layman trying to understand what to believe or not to believe, seeing a term like «fossil fuel industry», one so broad as to defy specific facts and data, I can't help but to wonder about motive and objectives.

We saw it with smoking and the tobacco companies, it's still there with evolution and some religious sects, and we're seeing it now with climate change and the fossil fuel industry.

«Over the past 15 years my co-authors and I have been subject to a crescendo of by politicians, typically aligned closely with fossil fuel interests or front groups advocating for the fossil fuel industry, that see the need to discredit this iconic graphic.»

On the bright side, you've probably given your new company a boost, so at least you'll profit from from those in the fossil fuel industry who might now be more inclined to use your services, seeing as you are an ally.

According to a recent private report seen by Newsweek from the multinational banking and financial firm HSBC, «The speed of the collapse in energy prices over the past three quarters has taken the fossil fuel industry by surprise.»

Instead what I see is a sustained & impassioned & strategic effort to expose the lies systematically propagated by the fossil fuel industry & their ideological allies.

On May 29, 2015, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, attended a Big Green - funded League of Conservation Voters event where he called for using RICO against climate skeptics and fossil fuel companies (see the YouTube here), then in a Washington Post op - ed, «The fossil - fuel industry's campaign to mislead the American people,» prompting a backlash asserting that the charge was false, and defending the right to dissent.

But it remains to be seen what action Congress might take to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for delaying policy solutions and confusing the public on this critical issue.

«Ken Lay, the head of Enron, a large Texas - based national gas supplier with annual sales of $ 20 billion that is fast becoming a worldwide energy firm, sees his company, and more broadly the natural gas industry, playing a central role in the conversion from a fossil - fuel - based energy economy to a solar / hydrogen energy economy.»

So, let's see, when we (those defending the AGW theory) note that, of the small minority of scientists on the skeptic side making discredited arguments, many if not most seem to have quite direct connections to right - wing or libertarian organizations like the Cato Institute or the George C. Marshall Fund or with the fossil fuel (especially coal) industry, we are derided as engaging in «ad hominem» attacks and so forth.

When people who dislike the «petroleum / fossil fuel» industry try and see how much «dark money» rolls through from them and into political or research efforts, they only find a comparatively small trickle.

This newly released evidence demonstrates that our movements are clearly seen as a threat to the fossil fuel industry (and the governments that support them).

And, $ billions are what the fossil fuel industries have available and $ billions in profits are what they see as at risk.

Yet, we see politicians block reform on climate change on a regular basis and the reason why is simple — the fossil fuel industry is spending millions of dollars on politicians who will support their bottom line on Capitol Hill.

From seeing the cabinet stacked with friends of the fossil fuel industry to listening to the president announce US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement to watching the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency try to roll back the Clean Power Plan, we took some big hits in the past 12 months.

Over the past decade, 22 countries have seen GDP growth while CO22 emissions from fossil fuel and industry declined significantly (95 % confidence level): Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States (Le Quéré et al 2017).

Just as we have seen a resurgence in popularity of Zombie movies, whose origins are in the now classic 1968 thriller «Night of the Living Dead» (photo above), so do we see a return of the fossil fuel industry's desperate attempts to animate certain still - living (we believe) bodies in Congress to repeal Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA 2007) at this critical time in history.