Sentences with phrase «actually absorb carbon»

It's made with 50 per cent sawdust, and the manufacturing process actually absorbs carbon dioxide.»

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Because carbon in the air is absorbed by trees, carbon - 14 levels in tree rings actually reflect solar activity and unusual solar events in the past.

Revelle suggested that the buffering would place a strict limit on the amount of carbon dioxide the oceans could actually absorb.

Instead of a solid length of steel, aluminum, or carbon fiber, there's actually a small, fluid - filled shock absorber in the center of the bar to act as an NVH suppressor.

The carbon cycle today is actually acting as a negative feedback, absorbing our fossil fuel CO2.

Since, on average, aerosols have a cooling effect (although some absorbing aerosols like black carbon (soot) are actually adding to global warming), reducing current aerosol levels (particularly sulphates) is equivalent to an extra warming effect.

If they plant a tree in their backyard, that single tree generates a refundable credit based on the carbon it actually absorbs.

Their role in the carbon cycle is quite different from that of trees and other land plants, which actually absorb CO2 and serve as a storehouse, or «sink», of carbon.

Such a trend would actually feed back into global warming: ideally, more vigorous plant growth would absorb more carbon dioxide.

In the 1850s the Irish physicist John Tyndall figured out a way to actually test and measure the capacity of various gases, including nitrogen, oxygen, water vapour, carbon dioxide, and ozone, to absorb and transmit radiant energy.

And, at least in the short term, air pollution may actually be helping to speed the growth of young, carbon - absorbing forests in -LSB-...]

Revelle suggested that the buffering would place a strict limit on the amount of carbon dioxide the oceans could actually absorb.