Sentences with phrase «upon fossil fuel based»

Biofuels based upon further expansion of unsustainable, industrial agriculture policies will intensify deforestation, toxic pollution and dependence upon fossil fuel based fertilizers worldwide.

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Naked Gun 2 1/2, which is a perversely, though funny, movie really about environmental regulation; and it's a Leslie Nielsen movie, and he is a cop who is basically been called upon to protect, in a fictional Bush administration, the president has decided we're going to have a whole new fuel system which isn't going to be nuclear or kind of fossil fuels, coal and oil — it is going to be based on alternatives.

The KLD400 ex Fossil Fuels Index stocks are weighted based upon float - adjusted market capitalization.

To prove a scientific theory, like evolution or global climate change due to fossil fuel combustion, one collects evidence from the real world and makes a case based upon probability.

Based on this source list, future CH4 emission trajectories depend upon such variables as volumes of fossil fuels used in the scenarios, regional demographic and affluence developments, and assumptions on preferred diets and agricultural practices.

At today's rate of economic growth based upon fossil fuels that would take more than 400 years to achieve.

I believe that our presence here, on earth, in the numbers that we have managed to achieve, coupled with the fact that we have destroyed millions upon millions of oxygen producers (Trees) and have a penchant for asphalt and tarmac, which are very heat absorbing, and purposely keep reflective surfaces to a minimum (they're blinding) AND have created a civilization based on burning fossil fuels and using other things which are detrimental to our ecology, that, yes, we are probably responsible in large for the exelerated melting of the global ice... but, we have been in a state of warming since the last ice age ended... we just speeded up the process.

Perhaps someone with paleo - biological knowledge has an answer based upon fossil fuels» formation rate.

@John Coochey You can prove that Monckton has a case by presenting a list of his most central claims that bring down the foundations of climate science as it concerns the specific issue of enhanced greenhouse effect due to fossil fuel greenhouse gas emissions, and an accompanying list of evidence directly relevant to these central claims, and an accompanying logical argument based upon the current state of scientific knowledge.

Fossil fuels not only provide the energy required for our manufacturing processes that alternatives will be hard - pressed (if even possible) to replace (including those needed to create the alternatives) but have been used to underpin much of the world's food production (while not particularly wise over the long - term, the world's population depends upon fossil fuel - based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers to remainFossil fuels not only provide the energy required for our manufacturing processes that alternatives will be hard - pressed (if even possible) to replace (including those needed to create the alternatives) but have been used to underpin much of the world's food production (while not particularly wise over the long - term, the world's population depends upon fossil fuel - based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers to remainfossil fuel - based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers to remain fed).

For the vast majority of that time period, the commerce and industry of the north (powered to a great extent by hydro power prior to the widespread adoption of coal as a fossil fuel) produced much higher GDP per capita than the agricultural economies of the South, particularly because the infamous «three - fifths compromise» that gave the South Congressional representation based in part upon the number of slaves who lived there (30 % or more of the population of many states) did not apply to capitation taxes.