Sentences with phrase «more old carbon»

The results hint at the existence of a permafrost carbon feedback, in which old carbon released into the atmosphere causes the melting of more permafrost and so the release of more old carbon, although the researchers say this would need to be confirmed in future studies.

More old carbon is draining away from water systems in the Arctic than previously thought, according to scientists in the UK and the Netherlands.

Instead, more lusty tree roots could goad the soil microbe population into releasing as carbon dioxide so much more old carbon stored in the soil.

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Much of the science they are trying to debunk is VERY OLD science, not the updated more accurate sciences, such as their attack on carbon dating... you do realize that we have updated the science well past the AiG website representation of the science, right?

As for claims that the earth is more than 12,000 years old, ever hear of carbon dating?

A 55 - year - old restaurant manager died and more than two dozen others were taken to hospitals Saturday after being overcome by carbon monoxide at a New York mall, police said.

Comparing the relative abundance of these carbon isotopes in the various wells, the researchers discovered that over half of wells more than 250 meters deep yielded mostly groundwater at least 12,000 years old.

Many researchers are concerned that if old carbon begins to cycle it could create a feedback loop — its emissions contribute to warming, which again contributes to the thawing of more permafrost.

«Many old boreal forests tend to be underlain by permafrost soils, which can contain many times more carbon than that stored in the vegetation,» Euskirchen notes.

Injecting carbon dioxide into old oil wells to drive out more oil is one application, but it's not enough, and it's not clear it even pays, given current low oil prices.

«Oldest trees are growing faster, storing more carbon as they age.»

In a finding that overturns the conventional view that large old trees are unproductive, scientists have determined that for most species, the biggest trees increase their growth rates and sequester more carbon as they age.

The study also found that, although transmitting coal power was slightly more effective at reducing air pollution impacts than simply replacing old coal power plants with newer, cleaner ones in the east, both coal scenarios had approximately the same carbon emissions.

• There's more to life than that: we meant to say that graphite flecks in 4.1 - billion - year - old zircon crystals had a ratio of carbon - 12 to carbon - 13 isotopes that is characteristic of organic origins (24 October, p 12).

Using something like CHESS to see whether you have ionized or neutral carbon, or even carbon monoxide molecules tells you more about how old the cloud is and can help scientists learn how stars form from these clouds.

Like older models, they will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a turbine, but these reactors will be smaller, simpler to build, and each will add more than 1100 megawatts of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017 — without emitting carbon dioxide.

«More research is needed to assess whether graphitic carbon in the oldest sedimentary rocks belongs to these rocks and if it indicates the existence of microbial ecosystems on the earliest Earth,» lead author Papineau said.

However, using an ultrafiltration technique that cleansed the bone of modern carbon impurities that can give inaccurate younger dates, they found the bone was more than 46,700 years old.

A more sound approach would recognize that (1) converting old forest to young forests releases significant amounts of carbon (both above and below ground), (2) young forests are only good carbon sinks if they are allowed to grow and hold onto the carbon for centuries, yet there are too few economic incentives for doing so, and (2) the fraction of carbon that is put into long - term storage after logging is very small, i.e. old forests are better at storing carbon than our disposable culture.

If climate change were to trigger large emissions of methane to the atmosphere from these old carbon reservoirs, the result would be even more warming.

Old woodstoves emit more black carbon than new ones.

Rather, larger and older trees accumulate carbon more rapidly than do younger, smaller ones.

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The carbon bucket seats» backrests are fixed, so you tend to sit a little more upright and closer to the wheel than you would in, say, an SL, though it's actually very comfortable and not at all at odds with a car that, deliberately or not, is shot through with the charisma of an old school American hot rod.

It's not common any more since unleaded gas doesn't leave carbon deposits like the old leaded stuff did.

Whilst also using old preloved textiles to encourage a less wasteleful lifestyle and to reduce my own personal carbon footprint, limits me more and is a challeng as I will not buy anything new, as this in my minds eye defeats the object of my series.

Of course until the in vitro is commercially viable and low - energy (if ever), we can stick with the really easy, inexpensive, lower - carbon, old - school (Diet for a Small Planet) approach of just shifting our diets more towards plants and away from animal products.

This is again in carbon (not CO2) units; the 12 gigatons of carbon emitted in 2016 are a lot more than the 7 gigatons in the older Fig. 3.

A more sound approach would recognize that (1) converting old forest to young forests releases significant amounts of carbon (both above and below ground), (2) young forests are only good carbon sinks if they are allowed to grow and hold onto the carbon for centuries, yet there are too few economic incentives for doing so, and (2) the fraction of carbon that is put into long - term storage after logging is very small, i.e. old forests are better at storing carbon than our disposable culture.

There's plenty more, including a great question about making climate - friendly fuels using carbon dioxide captured from air, posed by 14 - year - old Benji Fields (the son of a friend).

Frankly, I can't imagine anything more important that I could be doing with my life than trying to educate the public about the reality of this problem, to do my best to make sure that we make decisions today as far as the environment and in particular carbon emissions, that will preserve the planet for my daughter — I have a six year old daughter — our children and our grandchildren.

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

The good old USA has generated thousands of super fund sites, has vast slums, and a huge carbon footprint and more traffic then anywhere else in the world.

It is bad enough that they are in sight of fresh water and have access to canals, railroads and highway infrastructure galore; a new British study, «New Tricks With Old Bricks» (PDF), says reusing and refurbishing existing and empty properties could actually save more carbon dioxide than constructing new ones.

But, because the nation still has more than 11 million old diesel engines without proper emission control technology, black carbon remains a serious health and environmental threat.

The truth is if you produce power using old power plants, you're going to be emitting more carbon — but to upgrade those plants, energy's going to be a little bit more expensive, at least on the front end.

Are you then also disagreeing with Jim Owen's statement that young growth is more carbon - hungry than old?

But there is increasing evidence to suggest that primary, or old - growth, forests are seizing the opportunity of a carbon - heavy atmosphere to suck up more carbon than they did previously, a process known as «carbon fertilisation».

Methods developed in the late 1980s for projecting the course of prices over time bring more nuance than cruder, decades - old macroeconomic equations that power conventional carbon accounting.

But the drag comes at a time when the U.S. (and the world) need to do more to reduce carbon emissions and slow down that good old global warming.

It doesn't look like it is LEED - certified, but being more than half a century old, visitors could take heart in the fact that the building's carbon debt has probably been paid off a while ago.

Old forests that are protected and allowed to grow and recovery for long periods after fires and hurricanes would store carbon over time, more so than if those same lands were managed as agricultural fields or short - rotation tree farms.

But to win money from the newly - available federal Clean Coal Power Initiative, Southern now promised to also use TRIG to capture most of the plant's carbon dioxide, which would be compressed and piped out to older underproducing oil fields and injected into the ground to drive more oil to the surface — a process called enhanced oil recovery.

Using a «high - resolution electricity system planning model» of the DOE's two - year - old SunShot Initiative (meant to knock down the cost of solar electricity to market prices by 2020) alongside likely carbon - limitation policies, Kammen and company found that it's not unrealistic for solar to capture a third of the Western U.S. electricity market within 40 years, displacing currently more - attractive technologies like nuclear and natural gas.

A new study from the University of Minnesota found secondary tropical forests are able to sequester 11 times more carbon than old - growth forests.

As will be shown, the depiction would be far more accurate if it was turned upside down, so that the downward arrows point upwards to illustrate shell dissolution happens when old carbon stored at depth is upwelled to the surface.

Old woodstoves emit more black carbon than new ones.

... Under a price approach, the natural baseline is a zero - carbon - tax level of emissions, which is a straightforward calculation for old and new countries (more on this below).