Sentences with phrase «if less carbon»

If less carbon is captured by these organisms, more remains in the atmosphere, adding to global heating.

If less carbon is captured by these organisms, more remains in the atmosphere, adding to global heating.

If less carbon dioxide makes it into the water, the ocean will stop becoming more acidic, and calcium carbonate will be left available to the organisms that use it to build shells.

Not exact matches

We are living in an enormous fabric of life, where anti-poverty measures may create new pressures caused by excess consumption; where methane emissions increase if we eat more beef or throw food waste in a landfill; where drought leads to forest fires and more carbon; where marginalizing women makes communities less resilient.

But while that is a crucial national conversation, the heated pipeline debate sometimes means we pay a lot less attention to the kinds of things we should build in Canada if we're serious about reducing carbon emissions.

On the other hand, if higher fuel taxes work as intended and get drivers to burn less carbon, then those people will find themselves ahead.

If lower oil prices are as bad for Canada's economy as rate - cutting Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz insists, the central bank might consider assessing the risks to the economy in a world where constraining carbon emissions becomes less of an abstract notion and more of a daily reality.

Although Obama supports clean coal and coal to liquid if they can emit 20 % less carbon over their life cycle then traditional fuels.

If the NDP government is serious in their promise to meet the target, they will have to rely on more expensive regulatory policies to make up for the less stringent than recommended carbon tax.

If the production rate of C - 14 in the atmosphere was less in the past, dates given using the carbon - 14 method would incorrectly assume that more had decayed out of a specimen than what actually occurred, and would result in faulty data.

Study into carbon tax on high - emissions food finds people would be more likely to eat less meat if they had to pay more for it

«In other words, if greenness declines, this is an indication that less carbon will be removed from the atmosphere.

In the future, if China's households save less, more of the country's money will be spent on services and everyday goods, which have a smaller aggregate carbon footprint.

Many said that if EPA follows through with rescinding the rule, the agency should write a less stringent carbon regulation that sets efficiency standards for coal plants.

If I recycle a bit more, if I make some energy efficiency, if I travel less, if I try to generate less carbon — what is the use of that when China is building another coal - fired power station next week?&raquIf I recycle a bit more, if I make some energy efficiency, if I travel less, if I try to generate less carbon — what is the use of that when China is building another coal - fired power station next week?&raquif I make some energy efficiency, if I travel less, if I try to generate less carbon — what is the use of that when China is building another coal - fired power station next week?&raquif I travel less, if I try to generate less carbon — what is the use of that when China is building another coal - fired power station next week?&raquif I try to generate less carbon — what is the use of that when China is building another coal - fired power station next week?»

But if humans, through carbon dioxide emissions, are affecting climate less than we think, would that mean we may have more time to reduce the harmful effects?

The fertilizers farmers use on their crops today may become less efficient if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere keep rising.

«If ozone continues to increase, vegetation will take up less and less of our carbon dioxide emissions, which will leave more CO2 in the atmosphere, adding to global warming,» Sitch says.

If you need to emit less carbon, you can change your process, you can change what fuel you use, or you can find a company that you can pay to reduce those tons for you, which is what happens when you buy an offset.»

Similarly, the money spent to house and care for prisoners — a proxy for measuring their carbon footprint — might be less than the money the prisoners themselves would spend if they were not living behind bars.

Moreover, if the new rice supplies less carbon and other nutrients to the soil, farmers might eventually want to use more nitrogen - based fertilizers, resulting in the release of nitrous oxide, another strong greenhouse gas.

A new report published today by researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Sheffield shows that global carbon emissions could be cut by one gigatonne per year (3 % of global emissions) in less than five years if other countries followed the same strategy.

But if people were better at using less electricity, which accounts for 38 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, the potential for reducing emissions would be huge.

The sculpted ices of nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide would look eerie and beautiful, but it's less interesting scientifically if Pluto is stuck that way.

If people reduce the amount of carbon dioxide they put in the air, then less will end up in the ocean.

But if people reduce the amount of carbon dioxide they put in the air, then less will end up in the ocean.

Now, if you have all this very cold, nearly freezing water surrounding these ice caps, sucking up carbon dioxide out of the polar atmosphere, at nearly the highest possible rate, 30 times faster than oxygen, and 70 times faster than nitrogen, doesn't it stand to reason that the air that remains might just have a lot less carbon dioxide in it than the atmosphere across the rest of the planet?

Global temperature in 2100 would be close to 1 °C in the 500 GtC scenario, and it is less than 1 °C if 100 GtC uptake of carbon by the biosphere and soil is achieved via improved agricultural and forestry practices (Fig. 9).

Because everyone in this global community will be affected by climate change, it will be for our own benefit if we manage to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in such a way that global warming is limited to less than 2 degrees Celsius», says Prof. Ulf Riebesell, marine biologist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and coordinator of BIOACID.

Still if they had carbon fibre chassis, it would provide an advantage but less so at lightweight targets.

The carbon - ceramic brakes (also standard) are typical PCCB fare, lacking in initial bite but pretty fearsome after that, and if we're being picky the car's extra width might bring some traction benefits but it also makes the car less useable on tight British roads.

But there are other, less expensive options too in the Mansory catalog... like a new steering wheel combining leather and carbon, but also available in leather / leather or leather / alcantara, and if you change the original steering wheel why not opt for carbon fiber shift paddles to match the special carbon fiber dashboard trim, dashboard pod cover, central console frame and door handles... even the hexagon air vents on top of the dashboard receive a carbon fiber finish at Mansory.

The brakes are slightly lower - tech cast iron, too; if you want carbon rotors (noisier and marginally less capable from cold) you have to pay a fat option price.

Not so here: if you want to play in Spider - Man's (whose city is more or less a carbon copy of The Avengers») or Guardian of the Galaxy's different worlds, you'll have to shell out extra money to get access to them.

However, that means we get the answer that there was less carbon released than if it had been, say, organic carbon -LRB--20 o / oo rather than -60 o / oo).

If the atmospheric carbon had been at preindustrial levels, there would have been less energy available to generate and drive those storms.

Researchers at Stanford University who closely track China's power sector, coal use, and carbon dioxide emissions have done an initial rough projection and foresee China possibly emitting somewhere between 1.9 and 2.6 billion tons less carbon dioxide from 2008 to 2010 than it would have under «business as usual» if current bearish trends for the global economy hold up.

If this limitation in growth due to drought stress is sustained, the future capacity of northern latitudes to sequester carbon may be less than currently expected.]

Moreover, even if methane leakage were to remain modest in some areas, long - term climate models suggest that warming trends have less to do with the rate of methane leakage and more to do with other variables, such as the thermal efficiency of future coal plants and whether the switch to gas is permanent or a bridge to zero - carbon energy.

If we want to stay within calculated «reasonable limits» and reduce our warming to less than two degrees Celsius, researchers at the Potsdam Institute have helpfully provided us with a «carbon budget» for the next 40 or so years.

If America would only borrow and consume less, produce less carbon, generate less ozone and garbage, we could improve both our material and spiritual well being.

If the oceans had contributed to the rise in atmospheric CO2, it would hold less carbon.

It is like saying that if you drive at 55 miles an hour the carbon dioxide emissions from your car will be less than if you drive at 70 miles per hour.

Even if climate sensitivity is somewhat less than the IPCC's median value of about 3 degrees Celsius, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are increasing exponentially, so a smaller value merely buys an extra decade or two until the same amount of warming is reached.

Over very long time periods such that the carbon cycle is in equilibrium with the climate, one gets a sensitivity to global temperature of about 20 ppm CO2 / deg C, or 75 ppb CH4 / deg C. On shorter timescales, the sensitivity for CO2 must be less (since there is no time for the deep ocean to come into balance), and variations over the last 1000 years or so (which are less than 10 ppm), indicate that even if Moberg is correct, the maximum sensitivity is around 15 ppm CO2 / deg C. CH4 reacts faster, but even for short term excursions (such as the 8.2 kyr event) has a similar sensitivity.

If the new forest plantation is composed by different or fewer tree species, it will most likely store less carbon than the original forest.

It may be possible to weather this onslaught if we begin preparing now, by building low - carbon, high - density cities away from the coasts, radically improving the efficiency of water and energy systems, boosting local and global emergency - response capacities, and adjusting to a less consumption - and waste - oriented lifestyle.

Even if CO2 Scorecard is correct that the effect of natural gas on emissions has been less than previously believed, delivering one quarter of U.S. carbon cuts is still «pretty significant,» said Michael Tubman, a senior fellow at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), a nonprofit policy organization.

If the «low carbon energy revolution» will be at all successful in its aims, it will have created jobs by reducing their productivity: more people for less output.

They further question the claims that a pre-industrial or «below 350 ppm [carbon dioxide]» climate is necessarily more benign or less affected by extreme weather, and they warn that «unachievable» CO2 emissions reduction policies are at risk of being classified as «ill advised, ineffective, and disingenuous» if and / or when the public eventually recognizes how flimsy the evidence is upon which these policies are based.