For example, we know that smoking causes lung cancer and that
adding carbon dioxide into the atmosphere leads to increased global warming.
Data clearly point to a high risk in the Southwest and Great Plains, as we continue to
add carbon dioxide into our atmosphere,» Toby Ault, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, said.
Not exact matches
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.
As they grow, they pull
carbon dioxide out of the air and convert it
into sugars that
add bulk to their trunks.
However, as a cheap, readily available and non-toxic
carbon source, in the past few years there have been efforts to turn
carbon dioxide into valuable wares, or «value -
added» products.
The achievement could be revolutionary, enabling creation of a closed system in which
carbon dioxide emitted by combustion was transformed back
into fuel instead of
adding to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
-- The Administrator may promulgate regulations to
add to the list of class I and class II, group I, substances that may be destroyed for destruction offset credits, taking
into account a candidate substance's
carbon dioxide equivalent value, ozone depletion potential, prevalence in banks in the United States, and emission rates, as well as the need for additional cost containment under the class II, group II cap and the integrity of the class II, group II cap.
The wonder - material graphene may have a new trick to
add to its resume: converting
carbon dioxide into liquid fuels.
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.
By the year 2100, if we continue to
add the same amount of
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that we are
adding now, the oceans will be more than twice as acidic as they were before the Industrial Revolution.
By the year 2100, if people are still
adding the same amount of
carbon dioxide into the air that they are
adding now, the oceans will be more than twice as acidic as they were before the Industrial Revolution.
By this time next year we'll probably be able to
add another effect to that list: This El Niño is likely to tip us over
into a world with
carbon dioxide concentrations permanently above 400 parts per million.
He suggests that the flakes could also be
added as a filler
into plastic drinks bottles — where their
added strength reduces the amount of plastic needed, and their ability to block the passage of gas molecules such as oxygen and
carbon dioxide maintains the drink's shelf life.
Note 2: Including «
Carbon Sequestration on Agricultural Lands «as part of a «Climate Intervention:
Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration» (emphasis
added) report is an important win for advocates of soil
carbon sequestration: many geologic sequestration proponents have called
into question the permanence of soil
carbon sequestration as a major issue with these approaches, which the NAS report largely doesn't raise as an issue.
All told, each of these changes could
add a total of 350 billion to 450 billion tons of
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, if the rest of the world followed Trump, according to climate modelers, Ben Sanderson of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and Reto Knutti of ETH, Zurich.
The protocol embraces six greenhouse gases,
carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and industrial gases HFCs, PFCs and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), that are combined in a «basket», so that individual gases are translated
into CO2 equivalents, which are then
added up to produce a single figure.
Assume we are heating the planet by
adding carbon dioxide; it's made worse by the extra water vapour chucked
into the atmosphere by the excess heat.
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.
By
adding lots of
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we are causing the climate to favor certain weather patterns.
-- The Administrator may promulgate regulations to
add to the list of class I and class II, group I, substances that may be destroyed for destruction offset credits, taking
into account a candidate substance's
carbon dioxide equivalent value, ozone depletion potential, prevalence in banks in the United States, and emission rates, as well as the need for additional cost containment under the class II, group II cap and the integrity of the class II, group II cap.
Most deforestation is done to provide cleared land for agriculture, but the cutting down of trees and the planting of crops releases large amounts of
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which
adds to global warming, the researchers said.
Two years ago, an authoritative study predicted there could be as little as 10 years before this «tipping point» for global warming was reached,
adding a rise of 0.8 degrees had already been reached with further rises already locked in because of the time lag in the way
carbon dioxide the principal greenhouse gas is absorbed
into the atmosphere.
But if you
add carbon capture technology, this facility can catch all the
carbon dioxide stored by the plants before it escapes back
into the air.
Unlike fossil fuels, when biofuels and other plant - based substances are burned, no extra
carbon is
added to the air, even though this process also releases
carbon dioxide into the air.
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.
Of course, all of this ignores the fact that fossil fuels were burned to make and transport the burning logs, thus
adding extra
carbon dioxide into the air.
It is no secret that increased solar irradiance warms Earth's oceans, which then triggers the emission of large amounts of
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere (italics
added.)
Consequently, the excess
carbon dioxide «leaked» back
into the atmosphere,
adding a greenhouse gas that warmed the planet.
However, this process, which is analogous to
adding fertilizer to a lawn to help the grass grow, only reduces
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere if the
carbon incorporated
into the algae sinks to deeper waters.