Sentences with phrase «added carbon dioxide»

Plants make food by adding carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to this molecule.

If you now add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere it will start to absorb and IR optical thickness will increase.

Plants make the food we eat by adding carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to a five - carbon molecule.

For example, we know that smoking causes lung cancer and that adding carbon dioxide into the atmosphere leads to increased global warming.

Besides the burning of wood for fuel, forest fires add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

The misconception is understandable: we're steadily adding carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, so it makes sense that the temperature should be going higher every year.

By most estimates it will take 1000 years from the time we stop adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere for the oceans and the atmosphere to come into equilibrium.

Nevertheless, for healthy individuals who do not require artificial ventilation, dietary carbohydrates may support the activity of vitamin K, which activates certain proteins by adding carbon dioxide to them.

As humanity burned fossil fuels such as coal, which added carbon dioxide gas to the Earth's atmosphere, we would raise the planet's average temperature.

Club soda is pretty much just water with added carbon dioxide.

JBEI scientists have shown that adding carbon dioxide gas during the deconstruction phase of biofuel production successfully neutralized the toxicity of ionic liquids.

The planet is drier when it is colder), as savannah is less productive that tropical forests that change also adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

As people keep adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, humanity could throw the Earth's climate out of whack in a geological hurry.

As with any biomass fuel, any carbon dioxide produced when the reed is burnt was extracted from the air when it grew, so producing and burning it does not add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

The plaintiffs in Juliana argue that the federal government has known for at least 50 years that combustion of fossil fuels adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and damages the climate.

As humankind adds carbon dioxide, aerosol particles, and other nasty things to the atmosphere, we can expect our climate to change over the 21st Century, but it's not easy to predict how fast the climate should change and how it will change in different parts of the world.

Adding carbon dioxide reductions on top of MATS and the cross-state rule will make coal - fired power plants to expensive to build and operate.

Therefore adding carbon dioxide at that level will have a miniscule effect.

«The problem with [the skeptics»] argument is that it's as if you can cherry - pick the CO2 fertilization effect from the overall effect of adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere,» Myers says.

Now as vast areas of land which are currently forested, were covered by the glacial period ice sheets, the temperate forest is no longer using carbon dioxide which adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Data clearly point to a high risk in the Southwest and Great Plains, as we continue to add carbon dioxide into our atmosphere,» said Toby Ault, Cornell associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences.

We've been adding carbon dioxide from fossil fuels to the atmosphere at increasing rates since the dawn of the Industrial Era, and the result has been a steady warming of the planet's surface.

Some producers further carbonate their products by adding carbon dioxide, making them even more bubbly.

Club soda is pretty much just water with added carbon dioxide.

The planet is drier when it is colder), as savannah is less productive that tropical forests that change also adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

«We're adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere so fast, it would be unbelievable that we could stop it as low as 550 parts per million,» warns Surace.

Mission to Earth Scientists knew more than a century ago that adding carbon dioxide to our atmosphere would warm temperatures.

In them he added carbon dioxide to the atmosphere stepwise, just as is happening in the real world.

Heat might be expected to harm a crop (or force farms to move poleward), but added carbon dioxide, which all plants use to make organic matter, might act as a fertilizer.

BACK in 1896, the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius realised that by burning coal we were adding carbon dioxide to the air, and that this would warm the Earth.

But then we come along and start burning fossil fuels and adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and glaciers that would still be growing start to melt back because summer temperatures are warmer.»

Biofuels Digest covered how JBEI researchers have demonstrated that adding carbon dioxide (CO2) gas during the deconstruction phase of biofuel production successfully neutralized the toxicity of ionic liquids.

At the time, the increase in carbon 12 and carbon 13 was small, reinforcing the idea that the oceans were absorbing much of the added carbon dioxide.

Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide.

No one questions that surface temperatures have increased overall since 1880, or that humans are adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, or that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have a warming effect on the planet.

To me all the witnesses and senators are obviously persons of consequence but I don't think your excerpt shows that anyone should think he takes issue with this statement — «No one questions that surface temperatures have increased overall since 1880, or that humans are adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, or that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have a warming effect on the planet.»

If you now add carbon dioxide to atmosphere it will start to absorb, just like the Arrhenius theory says.