Sentences with phrase «also adds carbon dioxide»

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And while salt in the air can accelerate corrosion, Ramirez says, it also adds to a protective covering on the statue called a patina, the result of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other compounds reacting with the copper.

He also sat down with Scientific American senior editor, Mark Fischetti to explain how the basic measurements of carbon dioxide in parts per million in the air and the added heat in the atmosphere that the carbon dioxide creates called Forcing leads to water, water everywhere.

Capturing carbon dioxide is also expensive, it added.

Oceans are also an economic driver and a source of protein - rich food, but unfortunately, Kerry added, excess carbon dioxide acidifies the oceans, and that negatively affects marine life and fisheries.

Now scientists have new evidence indicating El Niño conditions might also add extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as well as lessen the ability of trees to absorb the greenhouse gas.

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.

Hyundai also says that the new ultra-rigid rear - drive platform adds more precise vehicle dynamics for those vehicles ordered without the AWD, while active safety features now include available automatic emergency braking, head - up display, a cabin carbon dioxide sensor and lane - keep assist.

The Genesis also features a wealth of technological features including the world's first carbon dioxide sensor which automatically activates the ventilation system to add fresh air to the cabin, a 9.2 - inch HD touchscreen, and rain - sensing wipers with an auto defogging system.

The USGS is also investigating other risks involved with injecting carbon dioxide deep underground, including whether this process could induce unwanted seismic activity, Warwick added.

You are probably also aware already that water vapor is as much if not more of a so called greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide is and there is a lot of evaporating ocean water on the planet not to mention clouds and high tropical humidity because hot air provides added space in the atmosphere for water vapor gas to become a major component of air.

That spectroscope shows which kind of light is present, but also, what is missing — when satellites in the 70s began looking at energy leaving Earth's atmosphere, they found huge chunks of energy missing which show signatures for carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases, and these missing chunks become larger as we add more greenhouse gases.

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.

It is also carbon - neutral, because its burning does not add extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and is thus more «climate» friendly.

It has also been established that periodic, very substantial increases in the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere for a period of 420 thousand years never preceded warming, but, on the contrary, always followed an increase in the temperature with a delay of 200 - 800 years, i.e., they were its consequence (italics and boldface added.)

«Good examples of how we modify the stratosphere are the ozone hole and also fossil - fuel burning that adds carbon dioxide to the stratosphere.