Sentences with phrase «worse than burned coal»

Not exact matches

The study concluded that burning natural gas — and in particular gas obtained through fracking — was worse for the climate than burning coal.

If we do nothing worse than burn all the coal, there is basically a slim and a none chance of a comfortable, non-tree hugging world ever existing.

We're going to burn more coal over the next 30 years than in all of human history, CO2 emissions are rising at worst case expectations, and we're looking at 6 degrees Farenheit temperature rise over that time.

That's despite that fact that many scientists disagree, and have argued that burning wood can in fact be worse for the climate than burning coal.

But tar sands are between 12 and 20 percent more carbon intensive than even regular oil, especially when burning of the, worse than coal, coke bi-product is taken into account.

If so, LNG tankers are far worse for global warming than burning coal for elctricity generation, since CH4 is one of the most potent greenhouse gasses.

«That U.S. exports of LNG to China could end up being worse from a greenhouse gas perspective than if China simply built a new power plant and burned its own coal supplies.»

Under long - standing regulations, they said, it would be «in the public interest,» even though science has recently made it clear that the methane leaking from the fracked gas the pipeline will carry is worse than the burning of coal.

Coal to gas: the influence of methane leakage; an interesting paper on how methane leakage from the natural gas industry could prove worse for climate change than burning coal (and it doesn't seem to consider the leakage from coal seam gCoal to gas: the influence of methane leakage; an interesting paper on how methane leakage from the natural gas industry could prove worse for climate change than burning coal (and it doesn't seem to consider the leakage from coal seam gcoal (and it doesn't seem to consider the leakage from coal seam gcoal seam gas).

The proven health problems relating to the burning of fossil fuels (especially coal, bunkering oil used for shipping, and diesel oil) are far worse than any that are claimed to be caused by wind turbines.

I think you could make the case that consistently breathing PM from wood burning fires would be much worse for those individuals than the longer term ill effects of global warming, etc.... just as it would be worse for individuals to be in the path of coal burning smoke as opposed to suffering the long term consequences.

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Back in 2011, a Cornell University research team first made the groundbreaking discovery that leaking methane from the shale gas fracking boom could make burning fracked gas worse for the climate than coal.