The cradle-to-grave carbon footprint for natural gas is lower by approximately 25%% (see Table 4) compared to either coal or oil.
Palmerston, who was keener on gunboats than David seems, must be spinning in his carbon-neutral grave.
While the focus is on the planet, economists are warning that carbon emissions could cause grave damage to something else green and dear.
The European Union has already adopted an emissions cap, but France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, wants it to build in a "carbon tariff" too.How grave is the danger that these tariffs would counter?
At the low end, nuclear gains an advantage of half a cent and a quarter-cent respectively.But nuclear energy, even if boosted by a carbon tax, also carries grave environmental liabilities.
The graves these instruments were buried in have been carbon dated to between 2600 and 2500 BC, providing evidence that these instruments were used in Sumeria by this time.
An example of a more holistic consideration is a life cycle assessment (LCA) to consider urban forests' carbon balance throughout a lifetime (cradle-to-grave approach) [13].
And those people now expressing grave reservations need reminding that until recently they were lecturing the world about carbon emissions and global warming.
That's an encouraging sign that the dying diatoms had locked up carbon at the surface and were carrying it with them to their watery grave.
Take just one example that is considered by many the gravest charge of all: that sprawl fosters increased automobile use; longer commutes; and more congestion, carbon emissions and, ultimately, global warming.
The location of the bodies, and subsequent carbon-dating, linked them conclusively to the battle of Towton.It is the only mass grave of known medieval battle victims to have been found in England.
