Sentences with phrase «when fossil fuel burning»

Similarly, when a fossil fuel burning power plant dumps carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, its owners don't pay for the resulting climate disruption.

You can see this pioneer effect in the growth of CO2 mixing ratios from a bit earlier than 1800 to maybe 1900 when fossil fuel burning takes over.

When a fossil fuel burns, it radiates heat and releases carbon dioxide.

Not exact matches

The province, though, needs to recognize that if an emission - constrained world is going to limit the royalty revenue it collects from extracting fossil fuels, then it will be better off with a tax regime that adds money to provincial coffers when fuel is burned.

Think of it as a homeowner who borrows based on the inflated value of a home: When this «carbon bubble» bursts — for example, when governments finally enact policies to restrict or penalize the burning of carbon — the devaluation of fossil fuel reserves may be even worse than the housing bubble that sent shock waves down Wall Street five years When this «carbon bubble» bursts — for example, when governments finally enact policies to restrict or penalize the burning of carbon — the devaluation of fossil fuel reserves may be even worse than the housing bubble that sent shock waves down Wall Street five years when governments finally enact policies to restrict or penalize the burning of carbon — the devaluation of fossil fuel reserves may be even worse than the housing bubble that sent shock waves down Wall Street five years ago.

When we burn these fossil fuels, or for that matter the trees in forests, carbon dioxide is returned to the atmosphere.

When we clear forests, we're not only knocking out our best ally in capturing the staggering amount of GHGs we humans create (which we do primarily by burning fossil fuels at energy facilities, and of course, in cars, planes, and trains).

When it comes to environmental policy, the Trump Administration had ignored well established scientific evidence that the burning of fossil fuels is a prime contributor to global warming.

The Earth relies on its vegetative cover to extract and hold onto carbon dioxide when a great deal of it finds its way into the atmosphere, as has happened with the burning of fossil fuels.

In addition, he said existing customers, such as a newly built Sheridan Hotel, have a bonus message to share with their customers: «When you come to Georgetown, you're not burning fossil fuels when you turn on the lights.&raWhen you come to Georgetown, you're not burning fossil fuels when you turn on the lights.&rawhen you turn on the lights.»

Now a group of researchers led by Steven Kuznicki at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and Anthony Ku at General Electric think they can be used to screen out the carbon dioxide produced when processing or burning fossil fuels.

«Anecdotally, our customers are saying, «If you give me the tools, I'll help you out when the wind quits blowing so you don't have to keep the fossil fuels burning in the background,»» Carlson says.

The original fossil fuel is back in the spotlight, under fire for being the biggest contributor to climate change (when burned in power plants).

When it's not horrific mining accidents like the one in Soma, Turkey, on May 13 that killed more than 300 miners, it's the 13,000 Americans who die early each year because of air pollution from burning the dirtiest fossil fuel.

CO2 is formed when any kind of organic material or fossil fuel, such as natural gas, petroleum, coal or gasoline, is burned.

When fossil fuels such as gasoline are burned, the chains of carbon that make them up are broken and carbon dioxide is released into the environment.

There are over 100 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) found in oil, coal and tar, which are readily released into the environment when fossil fuels are burned.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Black carbon aerosols — particles of carbon that rise into the atmosphere when biomass, agricultural waste, and fossil fuels are burned in an incomplete way — are important for understanding climate change, as they absorb sunlight, leading to higher atmospheric temperatures, and can also coat Arctic snow with a darker layer, reducing its reflectivity and leading to increased melting.

When humans burn hydrocarbons, or fossil fuels, the carbon reacts with oxygen.

When we do get rid of it, we should burn it to offset fossil fuels, part of a cascading system of multiple uses,» Kurz says.

Using carbon dioxide to pump out more fossil fuels — and permanently storing the gas in the process — might sound counterproductive to limiting climate change because those fuels, when burned, put more CO2 into the atmosphere.

When fossil fuels are burned, carbon dioxide (CO2) is emitted.

Aerosol chemist Markus Ammann of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland, and his colleagues, suspected that soot particles — spewed when fossil fuels are burned — might have a hand in creating nitrous acid.

And ozone, which forms a beneficial shield against ultraviolet radiation when high in the stratosphere, is an efficient greenhouse gas when it appears at airliner altitudes — as it increasingly does, since it too is a by - product of fossil fuel burning.

In essence, such technology catches the CO2 and other pollutants emitted when coal or other fossil fuels are burned.

That mobilized me to think about when we burn fossil fuels or dump garbage, there is no way it just goes somewhere else.»

Indeed, he has evidence: the speediest drop in greenhouse gas pollution on record occurred in France in the 1970s and «80s, when that country transitioned from burning fossil fuels to nuclear fission for electricity, lowering its greenhouse emissions by roughly 2 percent per year.

He says the only answer may be immediate cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels, which would curb the amount of bleaching and limit acidification of oceans that results when they absorb carbon dioxide.

Mercury is a neurotoxin that settles into the ocean in large concentrations after we spew it out of industrial smokestacks when burning fossil fuels like coal and oil.

Even when additional reduction measures are implemented against black carbon, or soot, which is released when fossil fuels are burned, they do little to slow down global warming in a 2 degrees scenario.

When fossil fuels are burned, other climate - forcing gases are produced in addition to long - lasting carbon dioxide.

The local electric company performs that service far more efficiently when it burns fossil fuels in its big generators; the car stores only the residual electrical energy in its rechargeable batteries.

They eventually linked the mysterious pollution to a nearby natural - gas field, and their investigation has now produced the first hard evidence that the cleanest - burning fossil fuel might not be much better than coal when it comes to climate change.

And, if it were found in large enough quantities, some experts speculate that it could be used as a clean - burning substitute for fossil fuels today because it gives off high amounts of energy when burned but emits only water, not carbon.

Although mercury, a neurotoxin, occurs naturally in the environment, it is also released into the atmosphere when humans burn coal and other fossil fuels.

Acid rain arises when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides (NOx), emitted by burning fossil fuels, react with water droplets in the air to form sulfuric and nitric acid.

But it must be noted that human activity is an explicit cause of the rising level of CO2 in the atmosphere, for example, when fossil fuels are burnt.

The increase started around 1800, when we started burning fossil fuels (mostly coal to start) in a big way at the start of the Industrial Revolution.

sulfur dioxide A pollutant made of sulfur and oxygen that forms when fossil fuel is burned.

Carbon dioxide also is released when organic matter burns (including fossil fuels such as oil or gas).

When asked about global warming, 84 percent of scientists say the earth is getting warmer because of human activity such as burning fossil fuels, while only 49 percent of the public agrees.

No oil is imported and no fossil fuels are burned when you go whale watching with us.

The 1840s gallery was chosen for the protest because it houses many paintings from the time of the industrial revolution, when the large - scale burning of fossil fuels began in the west.

How can there be no linkage when both have the same source, the burning of fossil fuels?

As here, refuting Jon Kirwan's concern (# 150): «the speediest drop in greenhouse gas pollution on record occurred in France in the 1970s and «80s, when that country transitioned from burning fossil fuels to nuclear fission for electricity, lowering its greenhouse emissions by roughly 2 percent per year.»

But CO2 never rose higher than 280 parts per million until around 1890, when the burning of fossil fuels and forests began to generate enormous amounts of this gas.

Fossil fuels are made of hydrocarbons; when they don't burn completely, they are released into the air.

Updated below, 12:51 p.m. A comprehensive and sobering Associated Press story by Dina Cappiello provides a valuable update on how United States policies promoting exports of coal are undercutting domestic efforts to restrict emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas released when fossil fuels are burned.

what drivel... the timing couldnt be better (for Rs) when oil prices are sky high and here is AlGo, the quintessential hypocrite who burns more fossil fuels and consumes more power than most would in a lifetime, propgandizing to the opposite...