Sentences with phrase «taking over from fossil»

Lest you have doubts that renewable energy won't be able to take over from fossil fuels: A new report from NRDC looks at future energy usage in Michigan and comes to the conclusion that through a combination of renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements, the state can easily meet future power needs: Energy Efficiency Could Save State $ 3 Billion by 2030 The report, A Green Energy Alternative for Michigan, was written by Synapse Energy Economic for NRDC and shows that simply making energy efficiency improvements to offset fossil fuel usage the state could save $ 3 billion over the next 20 years.

Not exact matches

BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.

«These include the sharp mud - over-peat contacts that are laterally continuous over 5 kilometers, changes in fossil foraminifera assemblages across the buried peat contacts, long - lasting submergence also derived from fossil foraminifera records, and radiocarbon ages of plant macrofossils taken from buried peat deposits that are consistent with other southern Cascadia earthquake chronologies derived from buried peat and tsunami deposits.»

First, the researchers found that a regional upwelling pattern alone couldn't explain the destruction: Core samples taken from fossil corals showed that the reefs had thrived through even more massive upwelling events over the last 7000 years.

Over the past decade and a half, countries around the world have taken unprecedented steps to shift their energy dependence from fossil fuels to alternative resources.

So, if Inhofe lets money dictate his policies, what does it mean that the top three contributors to his campaign are dirty energy companies (Koch industries being # 1), or that he has taken well over $ 1 million from the fossil fuel industry since 1999?

After Greenpeace revealed that Willie Soon has taken over $ 1 million in payments from fossil fuel interests on «research» intended to undermine climate science, his credibility has evaporated.

When trees in vast forests died during a time called the Carboniferous and the Permian, the carbon dioxide (CO2) they took up from the atmosphere while growing got buried; the plants» debris over time formed most of the coal that today is used as fossil fuel.

In addition, in Table 1 of the referenced source, only about 50 % of the estimated emissions from fossil fuels over the nearly 200 year period from 1800 to 1994 (given in petragrams Pg) is taken up by the oceans, disregarding estimated and highly uncertain source emissions from land use.

You can see this pioneer effect in the growth of CO2 mixing ratios from a bit earlier than 1800 to maybe 1900 when fossil fuel burning takes over.

The transition away from fossil fuels will take some time, but over the last year and a half, we have already taken unprecedented action to jumpstart the clean energy industry.

Recently, there has been a renewed focus on how much money Willie Soon has taken from fossil fuel companies for his «research» (over a $ 1 million dollars).

So, if Inhofe lets money dictate his policies, what does it mean that the top three contributors to his campaign are dirty energy companies (Koch industries being # 1), or that he has taken well over $ 1 million from the fossil fuel industry since 1999?

Among those who have taken some interest in addressing climate change, there have over the last decade or so been discussions about whether a focus on curtailing the activities of the fossil fuel industries or a focus on reducing demand for fossil fuels is the right single or leading method to move society into a transition away from fossil energy.

Biomass is a renewable energy source not only because the energy in it comes from the sun, but also because biomass can re-grow over a relatively short period of time compared with the hundreds of millions of years that it took for fossil fuels to form.

They are increasingly facing resistance from governments concerned about pollution and climate change; the United Nations is taking the position that fossil fuels must be put out of business over the next thirty years or so, which will reduce their revenues by hundreds of billions of dollars every year, and the simultaneous loss in stranded assets is calculated to be up to $ 100 trillion.

We have repeatedly heard claims from tech sector companies over the years about efforts to reign in business associations from the inside, to counter their fossil fuel patrons and get them to take a more reasonable position.

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.»

ELPC has fought to halt construction, and close down, Illinois nuclear reactors, for over 20 years, and takes money from fossil and renewable energy companies that stand to benefit from the closure of Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear plants.

«It is certain that GHG emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and from land use change lead to a warming of climate, and it is very likely that these GHGs are the dominant cause of the global warming that has been taking place over the last 50 years.»

«It is certain that GHG emissions from the burning fossil fuels and land use change lead to a warming of climate, and it is very likely that these GHGs are the dominant cause of the global warming that has taken place over the last 50 years»

[There are] fossils of unfathomable age, and fantastical trees such as Cedar of Lebanon, the Phoenix Palm, and the Methuselah tree, thought to be one of the oldest trees in the World at 4,847 years of age, as well as a railroad tie taken from the Panama Canal Railway, which claimed the lives of between 5,000 to 10,000 workers over its 50 year construction, and wood is salvaged from the remnants of the iconic Atlantic City boardwalk devastated by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

All told, 155 elected representatives in the 113th Congress have taken over $ 51 million from the fossil fuel industry that's driving the carbon emissions which cause climate change.

«All over Europe and the world people have taken to the streets to call for the real solutions we need — and will carry on putting pressure on governments to shift our economies away from fossil fuels.»

Over 800 Canadians, organized by Greenpeace and 350.org, took action outside a Kinder Morgan facility in Burnaby, B.C. as part of the international Break Free from Fossil Fuel movement.