Sentences with phrase «toward use of natural gas»

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And while expanded use of natural gas can provided a valuable bridge toward non-polluting energy choices, according to many experts, those darned pipelines have found strident opposition, backyard by backyard, particularly in crowded regions of the country.

On the question of hurricanes, the theoretical arguments that more energy and water vapor in the atmosphere should lead to stronger storms are really sound (after all, storm intensity increases going from pole toward equator), but determining precisely how human influences (so including GHGs [greenhouse gases] and aerosols, and land cover change) should be changing hurricanes in a system where there are natural external (solar and volcanoes) and internal (e.g., ENSO, NAO [El Nino - Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation]-RRB- influences is quite problematic — our climate models are just not good enough yet to carry out the types of sensitivity tests that have been done using limited area hurricane models run for relatively short times.

And the transition toward greater use of natural gas has been particularly dramatic in a number of states.