Climate change, driven
by use of fossil fuels like tar sands, is causing extreme weather events around the globe.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It means the more
rapid use of fossil fuels, the more rapid exploitation of forests, soils, and oceans, the greater pollution of the atmosphere.
Like it or not, that largely means fossil fuels, and increased
use of fossil fuels will mean further increases in carbon - dioxide emissions.
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.
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.
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.
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