Sentences with phrase «unrelenting demand for fossil fuels»
In an interview at The Times last week, Fox said his focus on human - driven climate change emerged as he grappled, after that small fracking success, with the unrelenting demand for fossil fuels and emerging impacts of warming temperatures, made emblematic by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
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And yet, despite some encouraging developments in renewable energy and some breakthroughs in international leadership, carbon emissions continue to rise at a steady rate, and for their pains the scientists themselves — the cruelest blow of all — have been the targets of an unrelenting and well - organized attack that includes death threats, summonses from a hostile Congress, attempts to get them fired, legal harassment, and intrusive discovery demands so severe they had to start their own legal - defense fund, all amplified by a relentless propaganda campaign nakedly financed by the fossil - fuel companies.