Sentences with phrase «adding carbon dioxide from»

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.

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

Not exact matches

Even though the bulk of the added greenhouse gas effect in our atmosphere comes from carbon dioxide, methane — which is rarer — is much more potent.

View a slide show of the world's first carbon capture and storage facility in operation The small stream of flue gas travels to the carbon - capture unit through plastic pipes reinforced with fiberglass and is cooled to between — 1 and 21 degrees Celsius from the 55 - degree C temperature at which it emerges from the other environmental technology add - ons that strip out the fly ash, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.

In the catalytic converter, the catalyst cerium oxide grabs oxygen from air and adds it to carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons to turn them into carbon dioxide, which is nonlethal.

When previous research showed how much carbon dioxide was outgassing from rivers, scientists knew it didn't add up.

«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.

They argued, for example, over the effects of agriculture and deforestation in adding or subtracting carbon dioxide from the air.

The CLF argued that adding more fossil fuel generation — even an efficient gas - fired plant — would prevent Massachusetts from cutting its carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent by the year 2050, as state law requires.

According to DOE, as those less - efficient bulbs disappear, the savings will gradually add up — reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 594 million tons from 2012 to 2042.

«What's different [about carbon dioxide] is the scale and the disruption in the energy system from having to transition from carbon - intensive fuels to carbon neutrality,» he added.

And coal disappears from the map if you add the environmental and public health costs associated with various energy sources (the third map), including a $ 62 per metric ton price on carbon dioxide emissions.

The results might not have immediate repercussions — nitrogen trifluoride currently adds 0.04 percent of the global warming effect created by carbon dioxide emitted from sources such as coal - burning power plants and cars.

Add to that the aim of reducing the country's carbon dioxide emissions by 80 per cent from 1990 levels before 2050, and an economy emerging from its longest recession since the second world war, and it is easy to see why political debates about the...

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.

But climate modelers can't add enough carbon dioxide (a planet - warming greenhouse gas) to their Mars atmosphere models to get the temperature high enough to keep water from freezing.

While this controls the amount of carbon dioxide they're absorbing, it has the added outcome of limiting the amount of water released into the air from plants.

While the United States and Europe are responsible for the vast majority of the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere through the industrial era, the International Energy Agency foresees more than 90 percent of the growth in such emissions coming from developing countries, led by China.

Essentially, China and India, the emerging giants in the global greenhouse, are saying that any extra costs for them to divert from established trajectories for carbon dioxide emissions as they pursue prosperity must be covered by the established industrial powers, which still have many times greater emissions on a per - capita basis and spent a century freely adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in building their wealth.

Environmental groups have sought to force the federal government to restrict carbon dioxide emissions using the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act (because of threats to polar bears from global warming) and other federal laws, and now they are poised to add the Clean Water Act to the list.

This adds up to a staggering 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide emission each year from cars alone.

That could add up: an earlier LA Times investigation (h / t DeSmogBlog), based on data from Friends of the Earth, counted up at least 12 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from just a subset of the projects the two funded in 1993 - 2006.

Researcher Wang Mou from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences outlined a planetary carbon budget in which adding 2,771 gigatons (a gigaton equals one billion tons) of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere above the level in 1900 would still keep the average global temperature below the 2 degree Celsius threshold.

Dr Solomon and her colleagues peg the 2000 - 2009 cooling effect at about a third of the opposite effect they would expect from the carbon dioxide added over the same decade, and only a bit more than a twentieth of the warming expected from the rise in carbon dioxide since the industrial revolution.

George is convinced that by adding iron sulphate to the oceans, he can stimulate plankton blooms and so suck enough carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to offset human emissions from burning coal and oil.

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.

The carbon dioxide capture facility is configured to transfer carbon dioxide from a gas to the portion of the growth medium to yield an enriched growth medium, such that the concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide in the enriched growth medium exceeds the concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide in the growth medium, where dissolved carbon dioxide includes ions formed by the reaction of carbon dioxide with a species in solution, including such ions formed in the growth medium and added to the growth medium.

Added up over the course of a year, international shipping emits more than 800 million tons of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases — 11 percent of the total emissions from the transportation sector.

Ozone in the stratosphere protects earth from radiation (otherwise we would all be fried double quick) but in the troposphere it becomes a GHG, adding to the woes created by carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.

Over the world's tropical forests, this extra «carbon sink» effect adds up to 4.8 bn tonnes of CO2 removed each year — close to the total carbon dioxide emissions from the US.

The greenhouse effect from that extra water vapor will then cause additional warming that gets added to the original warming from carbon dioxide.

Artificially increasing the Earth's reflectivity, for example, does nothing about the ongoing acidification of the oceans resulting from carbon dioxide being added to the atmosphere.

So, that's 1.2 degrees C for the basic physics of added greenhouse effect of a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; coupled with a further increase of a similar magnitude from changes in atmospheric water vapour that come about as a direct consequence.

«Last time, we made the seawater less acidic, like it was 100 years ago, and this time, we added carbon dioxide to the water to make it more acidic, like it could be 100 years from now,» Caldeira explained.

Houghton (2004: 259) explains that when converting from carbon dioxide only concentrations to carbon dioxide equivalent concentrations, the amount that needs to be added varies with different concentrations of greenhouse gases as the relationship between radiative forcing and concentration is non-linear.

Burning the coal from the Galilee Basin would add hugely to carbon dioxide emissions and to the anthropogenic climate change problem;

We then raise the ceiling (by adding carbon dioxide) and take note that the level in the atmosphere from which the earth radiates to space in now higher up and thus colder (on account of the fixed lapse rate).

These and other human activities add over 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year into the atmosphere, with the greatest contribution from fossil fuel burning.

We know that the added carbon dioxide in the air is from a source that is, or was, alive.