Sentences with phrase «absorbing the greenhouse gases generated»

Just in terms of carbon emissions alone, the GFN estimates that absorbing the greenhouse gases generated during 2015 «would require 85 % of the planet's biocapacity.»

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Iron particles generated by cities and industry are being dissolved by human - made air pollution and washed into the sea — potentially increasing the amount of greenhouse gases that the world's oceans can absorb, a new study suggests.

A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluding that the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases could leave a profound millenniums - long imprint on climate and sea levels, focuses on a characteristic of global warming that the public, and many policymakers, have not absorbed — at least according to John Sterman at M.I.T.

We know that right now, there are two greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide and water vapor — absorbing in the IR and thereby generating heat.