Sentences with phrase «absorbs less carbon dioxide»

For example, as temperatures warm, seawater absorbs less carbon dioxide, and as precipitation patterns change and plants grow (or die), they take up more (or less) carbon.

Water absorbs less carbon dioxide when it is warmer, which is why you should always keep a carbonated beverage cold.

• albedo decreases as ice melts (ice is perhaps 80 % reflective, while ocean albedo can be as low as 3.5 %) • increased water vapor in a warmer climate • warmer oceans absorb less carbon dioxide • warmer soils release carbon dioxide and methane • plants in a hotter climate are darker

[IRON STRESSED] PLANKTON FOUND TO ABSORB LESS CARBON DIOXIDE, BBC, 08/30/06 The amount of carbon absorbed by plant plankton in large segments of the Pacific Ocean is much less than previously estimated, researchers say.

With fewer leaves to absorb sunlight, the trees can't photosynthesise as much, and they absorb less carbon dioxide from the air.

Plants may absorb less carbon dioxide than initally believed Plants may absorb less carbon dioxide than initally believed University of Minnesota April 12, 2006 The world's land plants will probably...

And those extreme events may damage ecosystems, causing them to absorb less carbon dioxide and allow more of that carbon dioxide to remain in the atmosphere, intensifying the warming of the planet, he said.

Not exact matches

Eating less meat will free up a lot of agricultural land which can revert to growing trees and other vegetation, which, in turn, will absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

At higher temperatures, less of the gas is absorbed, and the ocean releases more carbon dioxide into the air, contributing to a runaway greenhouse effect.

But will the world's biological systems absorb more or less carbon dioxide as they cycle it through the atmosphere?

With the ocean absorbing more carbon dioxide (CO2) over the past decade, less of the greenhouse gas is reaching the Earth's atmosphere.

The ocean becomes less effective at absorbing carbon dioxide with a weakened AMOC and this can lead to higher quantities of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere worsening global warming.

So with more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we expect to see less longwave radiation escaping to space at the wavelengths that carbon dioxide absorb.

As regional warming caused an increased number of trees to die, there would be less living trees to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

However, many carbon sinks (e.g. the ocean) become less effective at absorbing carbon dioxide at higher concentrations of dissolved CO2.

So with more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we expect to see less longwave radiation escaping to space at the wavelengths that carbon dioxide absorb.

North Atlantic carbon sinks absorbing less CO2 North Atlantic carbon sinks absorbing less CO2 mongabay.com October 23, 2007 The capacity of the North Atlantic ocean to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide...

But a weakened AMOC does make the ocean less effective at absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide, Oppo noted.

And if warming oceans are supposed to be nett outgassing carbon dioxide, how do they absorb more and become less alkaline?

When the air's carbon dioxide levels rise --- to 400, 600 or 800 ppm — the stomata shrink in size, causing them to lose less water from transpiration, while still absorbing ample CO2 molecules.

Ocean acidification has only one possible solution — less carbon dioxide emitted in the atmosphere so that the ocean doesn't have such a burden of absorbing it.

So, even if carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased a thousand-fold, and even if there was no water vapor, there is a limit to how much IR CO2 can absorb, and that limit is 10 % (or less) of all the IR emitted from the surface.

In contrast, water vapor and carbon dioxide molecules consist of three atoms that are less constrained in their motion, so they absorb the heat radiation.