Sentences with phrase «use of fossil fuel»

Climate change, driven by use of fossil fuels like tar sands, is causing extreme weather events around the globe.

Increasing use of fossil fuels means more carbon dioxide is going into the air.

The alternative, and more realistic, approach is that the continued use of fossil fuels over the period of concern is going to happen anyway.

Reducing end use of fossil fuels has a much broader affect on net emissions.

Everyone has heard — especially after last summer — how human use of fossil fuels to produce energy will increase the frequency and severity of killer heat waves.

Meeting emissions targets requires limiting use of fossil fuel reserves.

If one really believes that the burning of fossil fuels is bad then they should stop making use of all goods and services that make use of fossil fuels.

That's despite the world's growing use of fossil fuels.

Thus countries that have been reducing their reliance on fossil fuels for some time will probably have eliminated the least efficient uses of fossil fuels first.

This is especially enhanced by the model of development based on the intensive use of fossil fuels, which is at the center of the global energy system.

Most people understand that the widespread use of fossil fuels contributes to the presence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The emergence of this new technology was truly innovative and provided alternatives to the heavy use of fossil fuels.

This will increase in the future at a rate that depends largely on global use of fossil fuels.

The groups say it is imperative that the state immediately halt any investments in the future use of fossil fuels, including natural gas.

Especially because we probably won't live to see any negative consequences of our current use of fossil fuels — only our children and grandchildren will.

In our lifetime, we could see use of fossil fuels significantly reduced by replacing them with renewables.

It means the more rapid use of fossil fuels, the more rapid exploitation of forests, soils, and oceans, the greater pollution of the atmosphere.

The actual energy saving for the country is not likely to be huge since heating residences is a relatively low percentage use of fossil fuels.

Like it or not, that largely means fossil fuels, and increased use of fossil fuels will mean further increases in carbon - dioxide emissions.

Therefore, it is the use of CCS after 2050 that really impacts the total use of fossil fuels this century.

It is known that the acidity of the planet's waters have been increasing since the industrial revolution and will continue to do so with sustained use of fossil fuels.

Humans existed for a very long time prior to making consistent use of fossil fuels.

Mostly, they recommended diligent research, since there was not yet quantitative evidence or sophisticated models of how continuing use of fossil fuels would impact the climate.

Buying locally creates jobs, reduces use of fossil fuels and helps the environment.

Because of our heavy use of fossil fuels, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been increasing since the industrial revolution.

The amount of available agricultural land is entirely insufficient for growing enough biomass to replace our current use of fossil fuels, but there is scope for more efficient use of existing biomass.

In April, the alliance responded directly to news of the upcoming encyclical with an open letter to Pope Francis outlining why «it is both unwise and unjust to adopt policies requiring reduced use of fossil fuels for energy» and encouraging the pope to «advise the world's leaders to reject them.»

The suit also debuts a new legal framework to fight climate change, one that portrays federal support for the development and use of fossil fuels as a violation of the Fifth and Ninth Amendments, as well as the public trust doctrine.

After failing to convince Congress to enact a «cap and trade» system to limit carbon emissions, Obama has increasingly relied on a regulatory approach such as his recently - announced limits on use of fossil fuels by power plants.

(Reuters)- Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday that efforts to address climate change should focus on engineering methods to adapt to shifting weather patterns and rising sea levels rather than trying to eliminate use of fossil fuels.

The United States is in fact headed in the completely wrong direction on fossil fuels — pledging to revive the coal industry and pursuing multiple strategies to expand use of fossil fuels at home and abroad.

Republican Millennials are less inclined than their elders in the GOP to support increased use of fossil fuel energy sources through such methods as offshore drilling, hydraulic fracturing and coal mining.

Yet governments and industry are rushing into expanded use of fossil fuels, including unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, shale gas extracted by hydrofracking, and methane hydrates.

The CIC is thus the enemy of economic progress by attempting to decrease use of fossil fuels, the critical input to improved living standards in recent centuries.

Is the climate challenge — which would require moving away from conventional use of fossil fuels even as the world's energy appetite grows threefold or more in the next few decades — fundamentally a bad fit for Washington?

I would not object if the so - called «environmentalists» swept away all the trappings of modern civilization in their own lives that involve use of fossil fuels, including cars, airplanes, washing machines, trucks and the rest and went to live as their ancestors did.