Sentences with phrase «unchecked fossil»

some words of wisdom from Dr James Hansen Feb 2014 — regarding Nuclear power and «merchants of doubt» — eg «Climate scientists have long warned of potential catastrophic effects of unchecked fossil fuel use.»

Since the 1960s, unchecked fossil fuel combustion has caused an unprecedentedly rapid rise in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere.»

Researchers warn that unchecked fossil fuel emissions would raise global temperatures to catastrophic levels.

Not exact matches

Via our society's use of fossil fuels we are, if our combustion of these fuels remains unchecked and in addition we further destroy the carbon fixing capacity of natural systems, destroying almost all wealth, the likelihood of their being future civilizations, and even the possibility for existence for future generations.

The unchecked use of fossil fuels will produce a climate not seen since the Triassic period about 200 million years ago, researchers warn in a new report.

In the other scenario, fossil fuel emissions continue at current rates unchecked and the global temperature increases 3.4 degrees Celsius.

When an oil production platform caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico near the Louisiana coast last week, a collective gasp would have been appropriate — from the residents of coastal Louisiana, who are no strangers to offshore oil rig disasters, from the fossil fuel industry, which is priming itself for a golden age under the incoming Trump Administration, and from the American public, whose oil reliance remains unchecked despite increasing awareness of both the massive downside of fossil fuel use and the increasing availability of clean, renewable energy sources.

«The World Council of Churches reminds us that morality demands thinking as much about the future as about ourselves — and that there's no threat to the future greater than the unchecked burning of fossil fuels.

It's that unchecked expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure undermines the credibility of solutions.