Sentences with phrase «when global energy consumption»

Most of this CO2 increase has taken place since 1970, about the time when global energy consumption accelerated.

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When the entire existing global building sector — 1.49 trillion square feet — is taken into account, annual building operations energy consumption and GHG emissions greatly exceeds the annual embodied energy and emissions of new construction.

... when it comes to the real - world consequences of those scientific findings, specifically the kind of deep changes required not just to our energy consumption but to the underlying logic of our economic system, the crowd gathered at the Marriott Hotel may be in considerably less denial than a lot of professional environmentalists, the ones who paint a picture of global warming Armageddon, then assure us that we can avert catastrophe by buying «green» products and creating clever markets in pollution.

Many believe all the ideas and thoughts about global warming is nothing more than a politically driven mandate to control our lives when it comes to energy consumption.

I agree that we need to cut unrenewable energy consumption, but when I saw that chart them years ago, I realized that we are in a cooler era in our history, just coming out of a mini ice - age, and that periods of global warming and cooling have been taking place longer than we've been around to notice it.

Given the substantial growth of energy consumption in China, it seems likely that when the global economy improves, the rate of CO2 emissions may grow even faster than projected in some of the middle range scenarios.