He hinted the proposals would be weighed toward usage, saying "84 percent" of the energy consumed in the United States comes from the burning of fossil fuels.
Rampant population growth and changes to the environment caused by humans, including the burning of fossil fuels and the conversion of nearly 43% of the planet's land to farms or cities, threaten to cause an abrupt and unpredictable shift in the global ecosystem, 22 scientists from five countries said in their paper.
The best solution, nearly all scientists agree, would be the simplest: stop burning fossil fuels, which would reduce the amount of carbon we dump into the atmosphere.
The world's oceans have already absorbed a third to a half of the CO2 produced by humans, principally by the burning of fossil fuels, over the past 200 years.
It is thought too that as the atmospheric CO2 concentration increases, as it must with the continued burning of fossil fuels, the kinetic energy generation from the atmosphere will decrease thus further diminishing the amount of energy that may be sensibly extracted by wind-turbines on the very large scale.
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He's sure, though, that we're adding more CO2 to the ocean now, in the form of burning fossil fuels, than it has ever held before.
Mercury can be released into the environment through a number of industrial processes including mining, metal and cement production, and the burning of fossil fuels.
He said that despite the global economic crisis, emissions remained high and there was a feeling that economic growth was "totally aligned to the need for burning fossil fuels".
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Economists generally agree that the key to addressing climate change is to raise the cost of burning fossil fuels, either directly, through a carbon tax, or indirectly, through a cap-and-trade program.
Human sources come principally from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas.
Those heat-trapping gases are from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
How much would electricity cost in the United States if the retail price reflected the health impacts of burning fossil fuels?
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Because of the burning of fossil fuels, such as oil and coal, carbon dioxide levels have gone up by that amount in just 55 years.
Some climate change "sceptics" claim that this process, rather than the burning of fossil fuels, can explain much of the Earth's recent rise in temperature.
The production of modern wind turbines, solar panels and nuclear power plants are extremely energy-intensive enterprises, and are by and large powered by the burning of fossil fuels.
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There were originally about 15 protesters at the site who said they were against the extraction and burning of fossil fuels when alternative, more sustainable fuel sources were available.
Other critics have argued that even if the burning of fossil fuels is changing the planet's climate, the reduction of CO2 levels by the world's emerging nations is unrealistic, impractical and undesirable.
The burning of fossil fuels, such as coal for electricity and oil for gasoline, has caused the overwhelming bulk of the man-made increase in carbon in the air, scientists say.
Current models show that Earth is getting warmer and warmer due to increased emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.
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It is important to note, however, that human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels for transportation and energy generation are the main sources of air pollution, said Wotawa.
The science of global warming is politically controversial but generally accepted as fact by most researchers, who point to heat-trapping carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels as the major cause.
The academics advocate concentrating first on short-term fixes for greenhouse gases or other warming agents, such as black carbon - particles emitted from the incomplete burning of fossil fuels, principally in diesel engines and wood stoves.
It is, first, an account of the many ways in which people have sought to produce energy by burning fossil fuels, harvesting the wind, brewing biodiesel and trapping the sun's heat.
They hunger for electricity, which in the U.S. comes predominantly from burning fossil fuels.
Burning fossil fuels has sent the atmospheric carbon-dioxide level rocketing.
Of course, carbon taxes (on burning fossil fuels) would provide the easiest way for countries to comply with the system, and each country could then decide what to do with the tax revenue.
In terms of greenhouse gas emissions, burning plastic is equivalent to burning fossil fuels, says Friends of the Earth (FOE).
The future is not in burning more ever-harder to harvest fossil fuels as our primary power source.
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Mr Brown has previously called for the UK to increase its nuclear power capacity as an alternative to burning fossil fuels, which many experts believe to be a cause of climate change.
However, most U.S. electricity is created from burning fossil fuels -- about 70 percent, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency of the Department of Energy.
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