Sentences with phrase «accumulated atmospheric carbon»

Caption: Ratio of warming from accumulated atmospheric carbon dioxide to warming from combustion for coal, oil, and gas plants over time.

This graph shows the ratio of warming from accumulated atmospheric carbon dioxide to warming from combustion for coal, oil, and gas plants over time.

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Dust, ozone, and carbon can accumulate in valleys and basins, and mercury can be pulled to earth through atmospheric sinks that deposit it across large swaths of land.

By analyzing boron in shells accumulated over more than 2 million years, Hönisch was able to reconstruct in unprecedented detail how atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have changed over time.

The vast majority of research in recent decades on the carbon dioxide buildup has been focused on the atmospheric impacts of the accumulating greenhouse - gas blanket even though the vast majority of the heated trapped by these gases has gone first into the seas — and the drop in seawater pH driven by CO2 has been a clear signal of substantial environmental change.

Global temperature change can in turn be linked both to concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (Table 1) and to accumulated carbon emissions (Figure 1).»

«The recent several decades of wildfires are changing the boreal forest from a weak carbon sink — that is the forest and soil are accumulating carbon and helping offset rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration — to a weak carbon source,» Stith Gower of the University of Wisconsin told environmentalresearchweb.

The rate of build - up of CO2 in the atmosphere can be reduced by taking advantage of the fact that atmospheric CO2 can accumulate as carbon in vegetation and soils in terrestrial ecosystems.