Sentences with phrase «unfettered fossil»

People who are worried about climate change are right that unfettered fossil fuel consumption is unacceptable.

Inhofe Pulls Out: Senator James M. Inhofe, the Republican of Oklahoma who is the leading defender of unfettered fossil fuel combustion in the Senate, sent his regrets for having to skip giving the keynote talk at the sixth climate conference organized by the Heartland Institute.

Carol M. Browner, the new White House coordinator for climate and energy, is a seasoned environmental regulator and campaigner who has focused on cap - and - trade legislation, which would steadily raise the cost of unfettered fossil - fuel use, and rule - making as driving the necessary change (as they did with the 20th - century basket of air pollutants).

This pathway would need to be taken soon, as the magnitude of such carbon extractions is likely limited and thus not a solution to unfettered fossil fuel use.

Not exact matches

Trump's energy plan reads like a wish list from the fossil fuel industry: it envisions unfettered oil, gas and coal development as a path to national prosperity and energy independence.

A card - carrying unfettered capitalist, Trump will likely do a range of things — from approving the Keystone pipeline to eliminating regulations to promoting fossil fuel development to cutting corporate taxes — that will lead to higher corporate profits.

But it does move everyone a little further down the decades - long road to diverting from unfettered burning of fossil fuels and forests.

Oil will be needed for decades to come, even if the world chooses to intensify efforts to shift from unfettered burning of fossil fuels.

[Andy Revkin — They «recognize» and «promote» the importance of energy sources other than fossil fuels, but don't specify any steps to accelerate a transition to a renewable energy and away from unfettered combustion of coal and oil.

But many experts bemoan the loss of years in which scientists were pressing for a push to advance non-polluting energy sources and encourage a shift away from unfettered burning of fossil fuels and forests.

Are these portraits, perhaps, of the end of the age of unfettered consumption, simply a short pause before human communities resume their 150 - years - and - counting fossil - fueled sprint, or a foretaste of Alan Weisman «s 2007 thought experiment, «The World Without Us»?

A growing body of scientific evidence indicates that the world's climate is warming, primarily as a result of unfettered burning of fossil fuels and the razing of tropical forests.

That's a pretty clearcut need given the risks attending the unfettered use of fossil fuels and the reality that 2 billion people today cook on guttering fires using fuelwood or dung harvested mainly by girls who are not going to school as a result.

So what does all of this mean to world leaders or the public as the planet and the United States ponder substantial steps to move away from unfettered burning of fossil fuels?

There is no «unfettered» or «unrestrained» or «business as usual» use of fossil fuels.

Or in other words, the author takes the stand that «unfettered» fossil fuel consumption is unacceptable.

«- continued unfettered burning of all fossil fuels will cause the climate system to pass tipping points such that we hand our children and grandchildren a dynamic situation that is out of control.

James Hansen, the director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies who first warned the world about the dangers of climate change in the 1980s, has joined other scientists in submitting statements to be considered by a judge at the Information Rights Tribunal on Friday... James Hansen told the Guardian: «Our children and grandchildren will judge those who have misled the public, allowing fossil fuel emissions to continue almost unfettered, as guilty of crimes against humanity and nature... If successful, the FOI request may, by exposing one link in a devious manipulation of public opinion, start a process that allows the public to be aware of what is happening, what is at stake, and where the public interest lies.»»