Sentences with phrase «way out of fossil fuels»

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When fossil fuels run out we shall have invented ways of using the energy of the sun to drive our industries.

Groups such as Friends of the Earth warn the UK can not «plant its way out» of climate change but instead must reduce its use of fossil fuels.

Unlike Governor Cuomo, they have both gone out of their way to take positive steps on climate change; A.G. Schneiderman by issuing a report detailing the need to address climate change at the state level, Comptroller DiNapoli by effectively pressing the world's largest fossil fuel companies to disclose how their business plans fare in a low - carbon future.»

Environmental Advocates of New York says the Cuomo team deserves credit for its aggressive State Energy Plan, but cautions the goals may be just out of reach should the state go the way of re-firing outdated fossil fuel plants and raiding carbon abatement programs like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

If we could pull carbon out of the air and use it to wean cars off fossil fuels, that would go a long way toward reducing humankind's production of greenhouse gases without impeding technological progress.

«Our kids are likely going to spend a good part of their adulthood, maybe all of it, just dealing with the climate implications of our profligacy and now our leaders are telling them the way out is offshore drilling for more climate - changing fossil fuels.

First let's get the blindingly obvious out of the way: energy does not have to come from fossil fuels.

If my math and physiology is correct, breathing puts out way more, about 200 times, CO2 than Mark's 4 cans of soda per week — and it is a net add from long sequestered carbon (though most not near as long as fossil fuel).

If only the alternative were to be seen as a cheap way out of a terribly expensive fossil fuels adventure which we are seeing today, and which has been scientifically proven, time and time again, to be exceptionally risky.

And, so long as burning fossil fuels is the cheapest and easiest way of achieving that, they'll continue to burn fossil fuels — and, in the process, they'll continue to lift millions of people out of poverty.

This is a point routinely mentioned at the top of the list of challenges for wider deployment of clean energy (and too often blown way out of proportion by fossil fuel interests).

You should apologise to your grandchild for me, as I am one of those lucky people who hasn't yet been fired from the oil industry (though I imagine it will happen soon enough), so, as such, I am an evil fossil fuel sympathiser, going out of my way to actively promote wars, poverty, death, and environmental rape.

I accept a level of hypocrisy because to engage with every injustice all the time is not only to open ourselves up to way too much suffering but can lead to a form of self - disarmament (consider for example the committed climate activist who won't use fossil fuel transportation on principle and therefore can't get to the action to shut down the coal plant — who comes out losing?)

The three demands strengthen one another — after all, one way of achieving a 100 % renewable future is to phase out fossil fuels, yet that won't happen if our cities, universities, schools or places of worship keep funding the fossil fuel industry.

Matt Lucky points out that while people view CCS as a way to produce greener power while prolonging the supply of fossil fuels like coal, that's not the current reality anywhere in the world.

The way to read this letter is that it is the fossil fuel industry that is trying to short - circuit the decisionmaking process by taking the science out of it, and basically getting Congress to oppose any carbon - related policies.

But states often serve as laboratories of democracy, and a successful carbon tax in Massachusetts could help to broaden support for a national or even global carbon pricing system — if powerful fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil get out of the way.

Climate economists repeatedly have pointed out that such energy innovation is the most effective climate solution, because it is the surest way to drive the price of future green energy sources below that of fossil fuels.

I am convinced that the real hope of sustainability lies in getting every Exxon / Shell / racist / misogynist / fat / lazy fossil fuel funded politician worldwide out of any kind of power position they have lied their way into.

Pointing out the similarities (and differences) between slavery and the use of fossil fuels can help us engage with climate change in a new way

If people want and need fossil fuel energy, if they're willing to pay for it, then someone will find a way to get the fossil fuels out of the ground.

Radiative Transfer Physics does not depend entirely on the simple absorbtivity of CO2, which by the way is effectively permanent in air when added by burning fossil fuels, compared to water which saturates and precipitates out depending on climate conditions, such as warming due the GHE, as a marginal shift in the dynamic equilibrium through feedbacks.

because when fossil fuels are burned, the fossil fuels are running out more and more and so scientists are trying to figure out a way for fossil fuels to become more of a renewable resourse then a nonrenewable resource so that way we have more of a likely cause that we will have a future use of all the fossil fuel that are about to run out just like an extinct species.

And yes fossil fuels will carry on being burned a) because, as Hansen says, they're the cheapest fuels out there and b) because, as he probably meant to say, fossil fuels are God's way of telling us He wants us to be rich and warm, not cold and poor.

You might like to ponder what has changed since I wrote a letter on 16 Feb 1979 quoting the Chairman of the U.K. Central Electricity Generating Board, Mr R England, who wrote ``... the only proven way in which the predicted shortage of fossil fuels can be counterbalanced in the field of electricity generation is by increasing out investment in nuclear power... In view of the drawbacks involved, the CEGB is not carrying out any work of its own on harnessing solar energy... it is too early to say whether geothermal energy is feasible, or what the likely cost would be...»

China and India «have, of course, every right to raise their people out of poverty the same way we did, by burning fossil fuels.»

Other federal agencies have gone out of their way to nurture fossil fuel producers, bolstering our deadly reliance on carbon.

Now, out here in the real world the most charitable way to describe this lunacy of forcing the nations of the world to give up fossil fuels is to... to... well, now that I think about it, there is no way to describe this as anything but a pathetic joke which if implemented will cause untold economic disruption, disaster, and death.

He's still undecided whether we're about to run out of fossil fuels and the lights will go out or we're about to fry ourselves to death with fossil fuels, but he KNOWS that doomsday is coming soon, either way.

You know, the idea that the problem we need to solve with regard to phasing out fossil fuels is to find other ways to «satisfy the energy hunger of suburbia» has got to go.

I don't see a way out of this: we're already going to do it anyway, i.e., burn enough fossil fuels to exceed the 2 degree limit, and within a few decades, to the 4 degree limit.

We Need to Phase Out Fossil Fuels, Quickly & Regardless of Cost - It's the Moral Thing to Do Slavery wasn't abolished, either in the United States nor in Great Britain, because a more economically efficient way of plowing, planting and picking produce was developed, not a better method of keeping houses clean, or building, or... or anything.

shows that the political will is there, if only the entrenched interests of the fossil fuel lobbies would get out of the way.

Speaking about the broader health impacts of climate change, Wonky Health author Dr Tim Senior pointed out that the only way to maintain the extraction and use of fossil fuels is to choose someone and somewhere to sacrifice.