Sentences with phrase «co2 than the atmosphere»

The ocean surface layer is what directly matters, that contains somewhat more CO2 than the atmosphere (1,000 GtC vs. 800 GtC), but the chemical reactions in the ocean water push the equilibrium back, so that ultimately the surface water - air equilibrium is reached with a 1:9 partitioning between water and air, reverse and far away from the 50:1.

Oceans contain about 50 times more CO2 than the atmosphere and are important regulators of the atmospheric CO2 concentration.

Our oceans contain more than 4000x's the concentration of CO2 than our atmosphere»

Our oceans contain more than 4000x's the concentration of CO2 than our atmosphere, and are buffered by millions of square miles of limestone and other carbon absorbing minerals.

And when one considers the ocean already contains 50 times more CO2 than atmosphere or say more than 50 trillion tonnes of CO2, what effect would their be if during a brief period of time [say any where within a week or month or even a year] one could add, say.1 trillion tonnes to this existing 50 trillion tonnes CO2 then what in terms acidifying occurs in such a body?

And when one considers the ocean already contains 50 times more CO2 than atmosphere — Elsewhere the figure of 4000 times was given.

Not exact matches

It lingers in the atmosphere for a shorter period than carbon dioxide, but its radiation - trapping impact is more than 25 times greater than CO2.

Flying across country puts more than two tons of CO2 into the atmosphere — like driving 7,500 miles.

The pipeline would facilitate 80 - 100 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which is more than BC currently emits in total.

With that kind of drug and their belief structure, we will have faster - than - light travel, cold fusion, a way to reverse global warming (caused by an overabundance of CO2 in our atmosphere, not god), and a real recipe for amrita, ambrosia, and a panacea by New Year's!

Indeed, it now seems that major volcanic eruptions 4 billion years ago would have created an even more diverse atmosphere than Miller used, including carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen (N2), hydrogen sulfide (H2S), and sulfur dioxide (SO2).

You do realize that it was less than 1 million years ago when the CO2 levels in the atmosphere were thousands of times greater than they are now?

Methane also remains in the atmosphere for 9 to 15 years; nitrous oxide remains in the atmosphere for 114 years, on average, and is 296 times more potent than CO2 — the gases released today will continue to be active in degrading the climate decades from now.

Through this process, more than 150,000 tons of agrochemical empty plastic bottles have been collected from the field since 2002, saving an estimated 374,000 barrels of crude oil and more than 160,000 tons of CO2 equivalents that were not belched into the atmosphere.

By capturing methane gas from cow manure and using it to generate electrical power, the Straus Dairy Farm prevents a greenhouse gas that is 72 times more detrimental than CO2 within a 20 - year period from getting into the atmosphere, while also creating a renewable energy source.

Ozone, methane and aerosols (tiny pollutant particles) remain in the atmosphere for a shorter time than CO2, but can affect both the climate and air quality.

But burning such fuels accounts for more than eight billion metric tons of CO2 entering the atmosphere yearly.

«For the most part I agree with the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], that adding CO2 to the atmosphere will cause some warming,» Spencer said, adding that the temperature rise will be much less than the panel predicts.

«With careful evaluation, burying carbon dioxide underground will prove very much safer than emitting CO2 directly to the atmosphere,» says Bickle.

This is partly due to the current atmosphere containing much less CO2 — approximately 400 ppm (parts per million)-- compared to before the PETM, where the concentration was about 1,000 ppm and partly because we emit carbon into the atmosphere at a much faster rate than during the PETM.

Dear EarthTalk: I read that CO2 in our atmosphere is now more than 300 parts per million.

Increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is making the Pacific coast acidic far more rapidly than previously believed, potentially wreaking havoc for creatures living in it that are unable to tolerate the swiftly changing environment.

Given the present energy mix that means Mantovani adds more than 3,000 metric tons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year.

About 460 million years ago, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere ranged somewhere between 14 and 22 times the current level, and the average global temperature was about 5 °C higher than it is now.

Rather than storing most of the extra carbon in long - lasting woody parts like trunks and branches, trees in an experimental forest in Tennessee instead make tiny roots that quickly degrade in the soil — sending the CO2 right back into the atmosphere.

«Currently the ocean is a sink for CO2 — that is, it takes in more CO2 from the atmosphere than it releases,» Hutchins explains.

Rather than asking President Obama to articulate the message that it is no longer appropriate — to expand industries that dump CO2 pollution into the atmosphere — the PCAST report calls on him to expand such industries.

Licht says that using STEP in an area less than 10 % the size of the Sahara desert could bring CO2 in the atmosphere down to preindustrial levels in just 10 years.

They used two different climate models, each with a different sensitivity to carbon dioxide, to project California's future under two scenarios: an optimistic one, in which we only double the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — since the 19th century we've already increased it by about a third — and a pessimistic scenario, in which we more than triple CO2.

Its mixing ratio in the atmosphere is lower than that of CO2 (about 4 parts per trillion ppt in 1990 versus 365 ppm of carbon dioxide), its contribution to global warming is accordingly low.

Plants using the C3 form of photosynthesis normally show a stronger growth response to extra CO2 in the atmosphere than those using the C4 form.

Specifically, liquid CO2 is heavier than the water above it at 8,850 feet (2,700 meters) or more under the surface, meaning any leaks would never bubble back into the atmosphere.

«For every ton of CO2 emitted [into] the atmosphere, the natural sinks are removing less carbon than before,» says biologist Josep «Pep» Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project — an Australia — based research consortium devoted to analyzing the pollution behind global warming.

Although fossil - fuel combustion has generated most of the buildup of climate - altering carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, effective solutions will require more than just designing cleaner energy sources.

In the global view, then, the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere is the sole reason that humankind's ecological footprint is larger than Earth itself.

That's because methane (or CH4) has more than 30 times the global warming impact of carbon dioxide (CO2) over 100 years (and its more than 80 times more powerful over 20 years, since methane disappears from the atmosphere far more quickly than CO2).

The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.

He and his team modelled Earth's climate, and found that adding large quantities of CO2 to the atmosphere — far more even than what we're doing now — could also heat the planet until it leaks water.

Co-author Dr Grant Wilson, from Energy2050 at the University of Sheffield, said: «Having a longer - term view, it is likely to prove vastly cheaper not to emit a tonne of CO2 into the atmosphere over the near - term, rather than to have to take it back out of the atmosphere after 2050.

Coastal portions of the world's oceans, once believed to be a source of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere, are now thought to absorb as much as two - thirds more carbon than they emitted in the preindustrial age, researchers estimate.

«In contrast to long - term climate change,» he said at the meeting, «everybody agrees that El Niño makes the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere go up faster than usual.»

CO2 concentrations would start to fall immediately since the ocean and terrestrial biosphere would continue to absorb more carbon than they release as long as the CO2 level in the atmosphere is higher than pre-industrial levels (approximately).

Glacial melt and ocean warming, etc., result from, but take longer than, the warming in the atmosphere caused by the increased CO2.

But now we've got significantly more CO2 in the atmosphere than there was even during the warm periods, and climate scientists have some hints that we're actually at the highest levels in perhaps 15 million years.

Since industrial CO2 emissions were massively higher between 1850 and 1900 than any period up to 1850, it's hard to believe that 1850 CO2 levels in the atmosphere were any more than 285 ppm.

In other words, with more nitrogen available, plant life might be able to absorb more CO2 than climate scientists have been estimating, which means the planet won't warm as much, despite mankind's pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.

The coastal ecosystems of mangroves, seagrass meadows and tidal marshes mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and oceans at significantly higher rates, per unit area, than terrestrial forests (Figure 1).

Whether being lesser than CO2 in number of molecules in the atmosphere, methane is a potent greenhouse gas absorbing more infra - red radiation per molecule than CO2.

The two numbers — CO2 leaving the atmosphere through photosynthesis and CO2 entering it through respiration — are both large and close in magnitude, with slightly more leaving the air than entering.

To stay within the budget, global emissions would have to peak by 2020, and then become negative — with more CO2 being taken out of the atmosphere by plants and the oceans than is put into the air each year — by 2090.