Sentences with phrase «amount of carbon dioxide in the air»

They attribute it to larger amounts of carbon dioxide in the air, which causes plants to grow more efficiently.

... How does an increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the air affect coral reefs in the Coral Triangle?

A new study tries to disentangle the complex question of whether rising amounts of carbon dioxide in the air might in some cases help crops.

For several hours each day, unbeknownst to those employees, the researchers raised and lowered the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, and then tested everyone on nine different kinds of cognitive ability, like responding to a crisis, strategic thinking and applying their knowledge to a practical task.

• We are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, causing changing climatic conditions and global warming.

If climate change is not a result of humans putting increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the air, then what action are you recommending that humans take?

In principle, biofuels do not increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, because as the plants grow they trap the CO2 that is released when the biofuels are burned.

Information on the amount of carbon dioxide in the air came from a network of sensors that has kept tabs on Salt Lake City since 2002 with stations placed throughout the metro area, including one on top of a mountain in nearby Snowbird.

So sourcing enough to make a difference to the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, without damaging natural forests or impacting food production, will not be easy.

Sometime in the middle of the next century, the amount of carbon dioxide in the air is expected to double from pre-industrial times.

The models take into account not only how the amount of carbon dioxide in the air changes, but also how the ocean and land responds to rising temperatures and greenhouse gases.

During this same period of time the amount of carbon dioxide in air increased by 21.6 percent.

The amount of carbon dioxide in the air has already risen to a dangerous level.

He wanted to precisely measure the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, far away from forests and cities.

This hypothesis was first advanced by Arrhenius, that the glacial period may have been produced by a temporary decrease in the amount of carbon dioxide in the air.

5 Ben said, «I have a PDF of it, which begins «The amount of carbon dioxide in the air will double by the year 2080 and raise the temperature an average of at least 4 per cent...»»

I have a PDF of it, which begins «The amount of carbon dioxide in the air will double by the year 2080 and raise the temperature an average of at least 4 per cent...» The editorial also mentions a recent paper presented by Gilbert Plass at AGU, which I haven't looked up.