fossil fuels

Fossil fuels are, in terms of the energy they store, remarkably inexpensive to get out of the ground and sell.

由于化石燃料储存能源的方式，使其开采和出售都非常便宜。

The object, he said, was not to be an alternative for fossil fuels, but "to become a viable replacement. "

目标不是要成为化石燃料的替代，而是“要成为一个可行的替代品。”

If it falls into the right category of subsidies for fossil fuels, we would have to look at our own programmes as well as others.

如果它恰好被划分到了燃料补贴的类别，我们将需要研究一下我们自己及其它国家的计划。

"In the end, if they use more renewables domestically, they can export more" fossil fuels, she said. "It's sort of a no-brainer. "

最后，如果他们在国内使用更多的可再生资源，他们就可以出口更多的化石燃料，这是显而易见的事实。

And as you go across there you will see that we've got a few tens of years, and perhaps 100 years of fossil fuels left.

这么看过去，你就会发现我们只剩下几十年的，多说100年的化石燃料。

The only way of ensuring that does not happen is to price fossil fuels to cover the cost of the environmental damage they do.

唯一可以确保页岩开采不受灭门之灾的方法是让化石燃料为其导致的环境污染买单。

It's easy to call global warming junk science as long as you are the one benefiting from burning fossil fuels to extract their energy.

如果你是烧别人的石油的受益者，你就称称全球变暖是科技进步表现。

But because much of this industry still relies on subsidies to be competitive with fossil fuels, it is still not a true free market.

但由于这个行业在很大程度上仍然依赖津贴去和化石燃料竞争，因此仍然不是一个真正的自由市场。

He said that the climate talks due to conclude in Copenhagen in December were fundamental to whether the world moved away from fossil fuels.

他指出即将于12月在哥本哈根达成协议的气候大会对于是否在世界范围内离开化石能源至关重要。

Human beings need to make far more decisions like this: to leave fossil fuels in the ground, and to leave rainforests standing.

人类需要做出更多此类决定：不去开采地层下面的化石燃料，让雨林自然生长。

Climate scientist can estimate how much of the remaining fossil fuels we can safely burn.

气候科学家可以测量我们还可以安全地燃烧多少剩余的石化燃料。

But it is definitely good news to see at least one Christmas tree lot switching over from fossil fuels to solar power.

但无论如何，有一批圣诞树放弃了矿物燃料转而使用太阳能这种清洁能源都是毋庸置疑的好消息。

But the nuclear industry needs to do more than build a few plants a year to be a true low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels.

但是，要想成为真正的低碳的化石能源替代品，核能行业必须在建造核电站以外做更多的工作。

The next big piece of a global-warming-control plan involves learning to be more efficient with the fossil fuels we continue to burn.

控制全球气候变暖方案的另一个大的方面涉及到如何更有效的利用我们仍在使用的化石燃料。

The very gas we are busy pumping into the air at the rate of 30bn tonnes a year, mostly by burning fossil fuels.

就是我们主要通过燃烧矿物燃料，忙着以每年三百亿吨的速度排入空气的那种气体。

OCO measurements could give us an indication of how much longer we can burn fossil fuels at the rate that we're burning them now.

观测卫星（OCO）的测量数据可以给我们一个指标，以现在我们燃烧石化燃料的速度还能有多久。

If the flow of fossil fuels to the United States were ever cut off, the economy would come to a halt.

假如有朝一日，向美国输送石油的渠道被切断，整个国家的国民经济将陷入停滞。

It also raised global concerns about the safety of nuclear power at a time when it has seen a resurgence as an alternative to fossil fuels.

这也让全球重新审视核，这个曾一度被称为化石燃料替代品，安全问题。

A new report by the National Research Council seeks to put a dollar amount on the "hidden" costs of energy produced by burning fossil fuels.

《国家研究委员会》的最新报告认为，通过燃烧化石燃料而产生的能量其“隐性”成本要增加一美元。

Failure would be a blow to the United Nations as the main forum for designing a world economic model less dependent on fossil fuels.

联合国曾倡导一种更少依赖化石燃料的新的世界经济模式，而这次失败将是对这种提议的一击重创。