Sentences with phrase «talking about fossil»

«When you're talking about fossil fuels, you have to factor in the land used for exploration, extraction, processing, and then transportation,» he said.

We can not talk about climate finance without talking about fossil fuel investment.

And there are a great deal, the reason you've not heard them is because we have only talked about the fossil record for the most part, and nothing else.

But when most people talk about fossils, they mean a specific subsection of this group — fossils in which the shape of the animal or plant has been preserved, while the actual organic matter of its body is gone.

I don't know if you remember, but we talked about Fossil's Android Wear - powered smartwatch back in August, and now we have some new info when it comes to that, read on.

Not exact matches

But with the global economy making a rapid shift from fossil to clean energy, there's now a huge opportunity to talk about.

About Fossil of the Day awards: The Fossil of the Day is a long - standing tradition in the UN climate talks and is voted on and awarded by Climate Action Network International, an international network of over 850 civil society organizations.

They talk about free markets while at the same time subsidizing fossil fuels.

and 2) nearly all the fossils you talk about are scattered haphazardly in the Cambrian.

This is true whether we're talking about Lenski's E.coli, the progressive fossil record, the Coconino sandstones, etc, etc..

When people talk about this, they tend to talk as if we would suddenly run out of fossil fuels.

Moderator's Remarks from Al Appleton, former Commissioner of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection and Senior Fellow at the Cooper Union: When we talk about addressing global warming, we're talking about disentangling 21st century society from fossil fuel.

«Until recently scientists were able to talk about the characteristics of ants fossils, but it is only thanks to new informatics tools that we are able to combine and quantify a huge amount of data» continues Economo.

And it gave us an opportunity to talk about how the planet changes and evolves and [how] what is the driest place on Earth today hasn't always been the driest place on Earth and that those high desert lakes were remnants of when the sea is used to be there, marine fossils and coral in that high desert.

This relates to the whole area of development for people talking about biofuels, which is this idea of trying to develop replacements for the conventional sorts of fossil fuels that we have to at least — if we are going to be burning some sort of hydrocarbons of some kind — to try to get them [so] that they are being derived from a different source, and potentially or ideally, ones that would actually burn without delivering as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere too; that's great if you can get that.

«We started talking about making a predictive model of where one might find fossils.»

He had been amazed by a fossil he had seen in a museum and, being an incurable model builder, had talked the producers of a movie being made about natural and artificial flight into funding his robotic pterodactyl.

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

So whenever one talks about aerosols, one needs to put a caveat noting that greenhouse gases also come from fossil fuels and are the dominant effect.

just something to decorate my house with but I had no money but found out I could sell fruit to him for money and while I was doing this I was thinking (They could have just made it how you can have jobs instead of this crap) and I finally was able to buy his furniture and I bought a wobblina but I thought it was ceramic, not a doll so I sold it back and got a shovel instead and used it to dig up stuff and tried to sell that stuff and did and then bought some clothing and more tools and got some more fossils and turned them in to the museum and went to the cafe and when I bought some coffee I was like whaaaat!?! I paid 200 bells just to hear a generic term about how my avatar liked some coffee, I thought you would be able to have a conversation with him about life or something (You know that stuff people talk about on movies when they're in bars and stuff) and then after that I went straight to the city and went to the marquee to get some emotions.

And bringing things like Fossil Fighters here, and certainly some of the lineup that we talked about today from things like Sin and Punishment, and also from a third party, bringing Dragon Quest IX, which we're going to publish here in the U.S., Monster Hunter Tri, coming in a big partnership with Capcom to make sure that we really expose that content, which Japanese audiences love, to American audiences.

But when I talk to students and others about forging a smooth path toward roughly 9 billion people seeking decent lives, and the underlying need for an aggressive and sustained energy quest, I always say don't look to those hallways full of gray suits — the fossils, as activists call them — for the breakthroughs.

That's all fine, but this also means that the climate talks, which head to Durban, South Africa, next year, are not the place to watch for the breakthroughs — social, financial or technological — that will be required if the world is serious about providing some 9 billion people mid-century with the suite of services that come with abundant energy (mobility, communication, illumination, desalinated water and more) while also greatly cutting emissions from burning fossil fuels, which still dominate the global energy mix.

The general point made when talking about people like Singer and so on is that they recieved major funding from fossil fuel interests — but isn't that also true of the New York Times, and doesn't it raise similar questions about the quality of their coverage?

The discussion talks explicitly about how diminishing terrestrial and ocean carbon sinks over time require reduced CO2 emissions from fossil fuels / land use to achieve stabilization goals at various levels (e.g. 550 ppmv of CO2 in the atmosphere).

I am talking about greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.

Factor in the «carbon light» CO2 from coal seam gas projects in the East (and other LNG expansion in the north and west) and you're talking about Australia's fossil fuel emission exports equating to TWO Saudi Arabias by 2020, not one as I've been saying to many disbelieving ears.

It comes from grass that removed the CO2 from the atmosphere for growth (I am not talking about CO2 from the use of fertilizer derived from fossil fuels).

What i» am talking about is that when we use fossil fuels we release GHG's but also generate heat which escapes to the atmosphere, think of a car engine or an airconditioner for example.

Your estimates of climate sensitivity come from the IPCC, which assumes that aerosols will continue to provide a very strong cooling effect that offsets about half of the warming from CO2, but you are talking about time frames in which we have stopped burning fossil fuels, so is it appropriate to continue to assume the presence of cooling aerosols at these future times?

Though most of the time when TreeHugger covers electric cars, we're talking about hybrids, plug - in electric concept vehicles — basically substitutes for vehicles now powered by fossil fuels — some of which even putting the Porsche

I believe he's talking about burning out all reachable fossil fuels.

Furthermore, if you are talking about a 70 % reduction in CO2 emissions over 1990 levels (a reasonable target, but I do look forward to seeing the new IPCC outcomes for different emissions scenarios) then you can still use fossil fuels to meet that 30 % demand.

Greenpeace unleashed a press release that began with two words: «Greenpeace demands...» It talked about «climate chaos,» tipping points, and stoking «the fires of climate change by burning fossil fuels.»

2) The amounts you talk about PALE in comparison to the ANNUAL amounts spent globally on fossil fuel subsidies

Did you know that many states are talking about putting a price on carbon emissions from 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.

So, when we talk about «more expensive energy» like wind and solar, what we are actually saying is that far more energy is consumed in making that energy to the supplier than for fossil fuels.

To waste time talking about the «two sides» of this distracting argument, as the total consumption of fossil fuels goes up as fast as it can be removed from the ground is a shame.

Retired Major Gen. Anthony L. Jackson of the US Marine Corp talked about the Defense Department initiatives to use more energy from clean, renewable sources and less from fossil fuels.

I talk about how when we burn fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas for our energy, it releases carbon dioxide (CO2) into our air supply.

And he also talked a bit about solar and wind power, but there was no reference at all to the underlying climate problem that is the primary reason we need to transition from fossil fuels.

When we talk about climate change, we're talking about the scientifically observable — and increasingly severe — changes in global climate patterns that became apparent in the mid-to-late twentieth century and can be attributed to the rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, in particular) produced by human activities like burning fossil fuels.

German policy leaders have talked about a transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy — an Energiewende — since the 1980s.

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.

Unfortunately, CO2 also moves from the oceans and biosphere (and sequestered fossil fuels, due to our actions) into the atmosphere, which means you are talking about measuring a single interchange rate between various climate compartments, not total concentration changes in any one compartment.

«Politicians play a blame game and talk about safety, but new terminals keep getting rubber stamped and built,» said LaPoint, «If elected officials won't stop the fossil fuel takeover, we'll have to do it for them.»

No matter where you go with the «public is reluctant to accept catastrophic man - caused global warming» talking point, there is the «industry - corrupted skeptics» accusation — Gelbspan's accusation about leaked fossil fuel industry memos.

It is easy to talk about the bad side of fossil fuel, but if we park CO2, fossil fuel is usually built with a relatively small physical foot print relative to hydro, wind or solar.

For years, environmentalists talked about gas as a «bridge fuel» that could carry us from a fossil fuel past to a future powered by renewable energy.