Sentences with phrase «unconventional fossil fuels burned»
Not exact matches
«The amount of carbon released during this time was vast — more than 30 times larger than all the fossil fuels burned to date and equivalent to all the current conventional and unconventional fossil fuel reserves we could feasibly ever extract.»
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We can not burn all of the fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal and unconventional fossil fuels such as tar shale and tar sands) and release the CO2 into the air without creating a different planet.
Figure 1 helps make clear why the tar sands and other unconventional fossil fuels ought not to be developed and burned.
Now, I'll illustrate the emissions scenario from potential burning of tar sands oil and other unconventional fossil fuels (UFF) as contrasted with conventional fossil fuels (oil, gas, and coal).
Gilles wrote: «Dangerous GW is supposed to occur above some relatively high amount of burnt fossil fuels... this high amount is reachable only if we extract unconventional resources, ok?»
I concluded that the world would recognize that it had to phase out coal without burning it all, and not develop unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands.
It warns that the targets will remain far out of reach so long with continued exploitation of fossil fuels, such as coal burning for electricity and continued exploitation of unconventional oil and gas.