Sentences with phrase «use of fossil fuels will»

To see how and why they got beyond that, read here: In 1900, shortly after Svante Arrhenius published his pathbreaking argument that our use of fossil fuels will eventually warm the planet, another scientist, Knut Ångström, asked an assistant, Herr J. Koch, to do a simple experiment.

While the present policy debate on climate change focuses on 2020, 2050 and 2100 targets, our present use of fossil fuels will continue to affect the atmosphere and the oceans for many, many thousands of years.

We know that, we've known it for decades, and we know that continued use of fossil fuels will cause enormous worldwide economic and social consequences.

The unchecked use of fossil fuels will produce a climate not seen since the Triassic period about 200 million years ago, researchers warn in a new report.

«Human - Generated Ozone Will Damage Crops, Reduce Production... MIT, 2007... A novel MIT study concludes that increasing levels of ozone due to the growing use of fossil fuels will damage global vegetation, resulting in serious costs to the world's economy.

Has it occurred to you that; Very slowly the use of fossil fuels will increase as we very slowly use up the easy to access stuff, and need to dig deeper to extract the not - so - easy stuff.

The myth that carbon dioxide generated by the use of fossil fuels will result in higher global temperatures.

While the computer climate models exaggerate the warming effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide, they plausibly simulate that greater economic development driven by growing use of fossil fuels will add more carbon dioxide to 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.

Use of fossil fuels will still be * possible * — may even still exist in some niches where volumes are low enough to render emissions safely negligible — but probably won't make any sense on a wide scale, much as, say, hand weaving doesn't today.

Nibbling around the edges of our profligate use of fossil fuels will yield few short - term results.

Any effort to restrict the use of fossil fuels will therefore have a quantifiable impact on the ability of the poorest people on the planet to lift themselves out of poverty.

Human emissions are the majority source of warming in this current climate change and that continued use of fossil fuels will lead to catastrophic change too quickly for us to adapt to.

Using these much smaller, observationally based climate sensitivities, the projected warming from continued use of fossil fuels will be moderate and benign for the foreseeable future.

Not exact matches

But fossil fuels still account for the majority of both electricity use and primary energy use overall, and at no time in the near future will that change.

Rive argues that it should stay underground, that the oil majors look at the world through petroleum - coated lenses, and that the benefits of solar are so obvious that once the price becomes more competitive, fossil - fuel use will plunge.

Why also is eco-friendly British Columbia, home of a provincial carbon tax designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels, being such a willing conduit for transporting US coal to Asian markets?

«We are working closely with the CleanTech Alliance Fund team to build U.S. infrastructure that will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, expand the use of renewable energy and recycled materials, and improve the efficiency of our economy,» said Scott Brown, Managing Partner of the Fund.

A target of $ 250 million in reduced fossil fuel subsidies is our starting point, and a first step will be to allow for the use of the Canadian Exploration Expenses tax deduction only in cases of unsuccessful exploration.

Of course they will continue to use equipment that consumes fossil fuels; but on small, diversified, labor - intensive farms, the quantity used will be greatly reduced.

Consumer products companies interested in increasing the sustainability of their beverages and using less fossil fuel for shipping will want to consider adding this powder - filled beverage option.

If you've got it, flaunt it — and your hair will remain perfect until the excess energy you used powering two hair dryers will hasten the world's expenditure of fossil fuels to the point where we can no longer afford the electricity to power hair dryers, and instead resort into walking into darkened caves full of bats and allowing the collective heat of their tiny nocturnal bodies to hasten the evaporation of our surplus hair water.

This will help reduce fossil fuel use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improving the overall health and happiness of the planet.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

The process of moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy will advance as the costs of using renewable energy starts to matches the costs of using fossil fuels...

Even the most optimistic estimates of the effects of contemporary fossil fuel use suggest that mean global temperature will rise by a minimum of 2 °C before the end of this century and that CO2 emissions will affect climate for tens of thousands of years.

Development of cost - effective means to separate carbon dioxide during the production process will improve this advantage over other fossil fuels and enable the economic production of gas resources with higher carbon dioxide content that would be too costly to recover using current carbon capture technologies, Tour said.

«It's clear to me that no technology will do more than nuclear to reduce our use of fossil fuels.»

By adopting lighting technologies that use less energy the nations of the world will cut down on the fossil fuels, often coal, burned to produce that light.

Starting with the premise that we'll eventually stop using fossil fuels, Robert Laughlin imagines the energy sources of tomorrow

You can't turn an ocean liner on a dime, and in their view, it will take a complete about - face in society's profligate use of fossil fuels to avert a catastrophe.

And even as the developed nations of the world cut back on fossil fuel use, there will be no justifiable way to prevent the Third World from expanding its use of coal and oil.

Standing before a 40 - foot - wide photorealist painting of a cloud - studded skyscape, prime ministers Brian Mulroney of Canada and Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway pledged that their countries will slow fossil fuel use and forgive some Third World debt, allowing developing countries to grow in a sustainable way.

To sustainably support grid - scale storage will require continued reductions in the amount of fossil fuel used to manufacture photovoltaic cells.»

The «realism» of fossil fuels In time, successful demonstrations will drive down the cost and energy use now stifling full development.

The new study suggests that some of these current uses will be affected over this century, depending on how much fossil fuel emissions increase or decrease.

A U.N. panel of climate scientists predicts that a build - up of planet - warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, mainly from human use of fossil fuels, will cause ever more droughts, floods, heatwaves and rising sea levels.

If the researchers succeed in creating their synthetic bacteria, they will be closer to conceiving artificial creatures that could be used to mitigate some of society's greatest problems, among them climate change and overdependence on fossil fuels.

But Steve Cohen, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, said the increases in use of fossil fuels in China and India — which show few signs of abating — will push emissions in the opposite direction in 2015, and only the development of affordable renewable energy technology is likely to counter that trend.

How will we manage our resources for instance, if we use up most of our fossil fuels and can't ship food across the country any longer?

As a result one long - standing criticism of renewable energy may no longer apply, namely that mandating increased use of renewable energy for electricity generation will be more costly in the long run than sticking with fossil fuel energy.

For example, a growing scarcity of fossil fuels and the need to stem the environmental damages caused by climate change will undoubtedly lead to a substantial increase in the use of public transportation.

Scientists need to explain to the public that while they continue to study the details of anthropogentic global warming and consequent climate change, that we already know enough to be certain that continued unmitigated warming will be a disaster for all humanity, and that we urgently need to phase out all fossil fuel use as quickly as possible.

The government says that completely banning fossil fuels from local industry will be a «titanic and beautiful task,» even though the country already generates more than 99 percent of its electricity using renewable energy sources.

Not only will this reduce the use of fossil fuels, but the higher purity fuels made in this way can be used in even higher compression ratio engines, increasing efficiency even more.

We will seek to avoid the following: • Bonds that finance projects with substantial sustainability concerns such as first - generation biofuels, waste - to - energy plants using toxic substances, or projects that prolong fossil fuel dependence such as refurbishment of coal power plants.

Retrograde Orbit wrote: «we probably won't live to see any negative consequences of our current use of fossil fuels — only our children and grandchildren will»

Unfortunately, fossil fuels are so abundant that resource depletion is not going to make them too expensive to use, so that emissions fall in time (indeed, resource depletion of oil this side of 2050 will mean coal and gas will be used for synthetic fuels - pushing emissions up even faster that I think the IEA recognise).

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.

All forms of conservation are very important, as is making maximal practical use of solar, wind, geothermal, falling water, and tide differentials as sources of energy, but all these factors taken together will not allow us to fully transition away from fossil fuels for our growing energy needs.