Sentences with phrase «sustained use of fossil fuels»

It is known that the acidity of the planet's waters have been increasing since the industrial revolution and will continue to do so with sustained use of fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

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.

[ANDY REVKIN says: As I said in my talk, the main benefits of local actions on energy and related issues (transportation, sprawl) would be economic or social, with the grand challenge of climate stability requiring generations of sustained effort to accelerate the inevitable eventual shift away from traditional uses of finite fossil fuels.

We're not going to be able to sustain this kind of fossil fuel use.

When mitigating anthropogenic global warming is projected to require greater than 80 % lower fossil energy use, how do we provide the transport fuel and energy for rapid growth by developing countries while sustaining OECD economic growth when the Available Net Exports of crude oil — after China and India's imports — have already declined 13 % since 2005, and Saudi Arabia may need to import oil by 2030?

The fossil fuel companies use «political payola» (bribes) to influence a majority in Congress to create and sustain pollution practices... while also sustaining inefficient, «dirty energy» policies that help optimize the profits of these corrupt, wealthy corporations.

As Jeanette Longfield, Co-ordinator of the food and farming non-profit group, Sustain, puts it: «Intensive agriculture is currently entirely dependent on fossil fuels, from its use of nitrogen - based fertilisers to mechanical equipment, transport and refrigeration — and so urban agriculture really makes a lot of sense».

Generically, what is required to head off the disaster is to phase out fossil fuel use ASAP, reforest / afforest ASAP, and perhaps take extraordinary measures to both remove carbon from the atmosphere and reduce solar influx to quench the self - sustaining feedback mechanisms before they get further out of control.

As it is a basic principle of morality «to do unto others as we would have them do unto us», it becomes unethical to use fossil fuels into the future at rates which can not be sustained globally.