Burning fossil fuels uses oxygen and produces carbon dioxide.

燃烧化石燃料消耗氧气并产生二氧化碳。

On a global scale, 77% of energy is created from fossil fuels.

全球77%的能量产生自化石燃料。

The electricity industry consumes large amounts of fossil fuels.

电力工业消耗大量的矿物燃料。

People use fossil fuels like coal and oil.

人们使用煤和石油之类的化石燃料。

Burning gasoline and other fossil fuels (矿物燃料) produces greenhouse gases.

燃烧汽油和其他矿物燃料会产生温室气体。

Their batteries often use electricity (电) that was made by burning fossil fuels.

它们的电池通常使用化石燃料所产生的电力。

The other is to stop CO2 emissions altogether by using non-fossil fuels.

另一种是通过使用非化石燃料来彻底停止二氧化碳排放。

Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

燃烧化石燃料会向大气中排放二氧化碳。

Our use of fossil fuels is the main source of excess greenhouse gases.

我们对化石燃料的使用是温室气体过量的主要来源。

Fossil fuels release carbon that has been stored for years from the earth.

化石燃料释放出在地球上储存多年的碳。

Theres an energy crisis in America, and it has nothing to do with fossil fuels.

美国出现了能源危机，并且这一危机与化石燃料无关。

There's an energy crisis in America, and it has nothing to do with fossil fuels.

美国出现了能源危机，并且这一危机与化石燃料无关。

In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels.

换句话说，少数几个国家正通过消耗化石燃料，攫取巨大利益。

Earth was already in one of its warm interglacial periods when we started burning fossil fuels.

当我们开始使用化石燃料时，地球已经处于温暖的间冰期之一。

Natural gas and coal—also fossil fuels—have similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived.

天然气和煤炭，还有化石燃料，也出现了类似的价格下跌，而且看起来会持续很长时间。

In a way that means they have to cost less than fossil fuels—certainly when you're filling up your car.

在某种程度上，这意味着它们的成本比化石燃料要低——当然是当你给汽车加油的时候。

The chemical compound, ethanol, has risen in recent years as the most viable alternative to fossil fuels.

化合物乙醇近年来作为最可行的化石燃料替代品开始兴起。

The exploitation of fossil fuels has brought planetwide developments: industrialization, construction, and mass transport.

化石燃料的开发带来了全球性的发展：包括工业化、建筑以及大规模运输方面的发展。

"As long as we're consuming fossil fuels, we're putting out CO2," says Klaus Lackner, a geophysicist at Columbia University.

“只要我们还在消耗化石燃料，我们就在排放二氧化碳。”哥伦比亚大学的地球物理学家克劳斯· 拉克内说。

Renewable energy will have to displace fossil fuels to a much greater extent in the future to avoid unacceptable climate risks.

为了避免难以容忍的气候风险，未来可再生能源将不得不在更大程度上取代化石燃料。

This was also the time of the industrial revolution, which brought a tremendous increase in the use of fossil fuels such as coal.

它也是在工业革命时期的，带来了煤等化石燃料使用量的巨大增长。

Only an aggressive research and development program might find ways of breaking our dependence on fossil fuels or dealing with it.

只有积极的研究发展项目才能够摆脱我们对化石燃料依赖，或找到解决这一问题的方法。

By using corn ethanol instead, the cost of gas will decrease because now the import taxes on fossil fuels are calculated into the price.

通过使用玉米乙醇作为替代，汽油的成本将会降低，因为现在化石燃料的进口税已经计算在价格中了。

Temperatures climbed more rapidly in the twentieth century as the use of fossil fuels proliferated and greenhouse gas levels continued to soar.

20世纪，随着化石燃料的大量使用和温室气体水平的持续飙升，气温上升得更快。

He and other scientists say there are basically two options to replacing fossil fuels, generating energy with renewables, or embracing nuclear power.

他以及其他科学家表示，现在主要有两种替代化石燃料的选择，即用可再生能源产生能量或采用核能。

Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.

可再生能源只占全球主要能源消耗的一小部分，化石能源仍然占主导地位——煤炭和石油各占30%，天然气占25%。

Another reason why the author feels that moving from traditional gasoline to corn ethanol is a good idea is because they are more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels.

作者认为从传统的汽油转向玉米乙醇是一个好主意的另一个原因是，它比化石燃料更环保。

Green buildings like this aren't necessarily cost-efficient for the investor, but it does produce much less pollution than that caused by energy production through fossil fuels.

对投资者来说，像这样的绿色建筑不一定具有成本效益，但它产生的污染确实比通过化石燃料产生能源的过程少得多。