Sentences with phrase «than all fossil fuels combined»

Not exact matches

Methane - laced ice crystals in the seafloor store more energy than all the world's fossil fuel reserves combined.

Given the vastness of the world's marine methane hydrate deposits — more than twice the carbon reserves of all other fossil fuels combined — it's not surprising that government agencies and the petroleum and natural gas industries have long been interested in harvesting this new energy supply.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

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.

That's more than fossil fuel use in Africa, Central and South America combined.

For its part, the Communist Chinese regime — which is the world's biggest emitter of CO2, emitting more than the United States and Canada combined — gets a free ride, essentially, burning fossils fuels to its heart's content, for the next 15 years.

«Fossil fuels have been one of the greatest anti-poverty programs in history, improving the human condition more than all of the trillions of dollars of government welfare programs and foreign aid programs combined.

This year, the oil, gas and coal industries combined have spent more than $ 153 million on ads promoting fossil fuels and attacking renewables, according to the New York Times.

The authors do not mention that the estimated CO2 / CH4 release that led to the PETM was several orders of magnitude greater than all the carbon in all the combined fossil fuel reserves of our planet today, yet the authors state:

America's booming clean energy economy already employs 3.3 million people — more than all U.S. fossil fuel jobs combined.

««The world is adding more renewable power capacity each year than it adds in new capacity from all fossil fuels combined.

The issue of the bubble arises because the combined proven oil, gas and coal reserves currently on the books of fossil fuel companies (and governments in the case of NOCs) will produce far more than this amount of CO2 when consumed.

Shell: «The issue of the bubble arises because the combined proven oil, gas and coal reserves currently on the books of fossil fuel companies (and governments in the case of NOCs) will produce far more than this amount of CO2 when consumed.»

The combined negative effects of hydraulic fracturing mean it's worse than other fossil fuels, the report finds.