Sentences with phrase «as less carbon dioxide»

These touches contribute in improved fuel economy, as well as less carbon dioxide emissions.

Not exact matches

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As a result the plant produces more oxygen, consumes more carbon dioxide and has less environmental impact.

Hansen's assessment is simple: we need, as a planet, to be emitting less carbon dioxide inside of ten years — an enormous task given that China and India are finally beginning to use power in appreciable quantities (and not for luxuries but for the second light bulb or first refrigerator in a house).

«The goal of our work was to develop an alternative approach to making ammonia, but the insights that have come from this collaboration between our research groups can be applied to other difficult chemical processes, such as converting carbon dioxide into a less harmful and more useful product.

The simulations also suggest that the removal of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by natural processes on land and in the ocean will become less efficient as the planet warms.

Natural gas, which is mainly methane, may generate less carbon dioxide than oil and coal when burned, but as recent research has found, there's more to greenhouse gas emissions than just combustion.

Previous ocean sediment records suggest that, as the world slipped into the last glacial period, less carbon overall reached the sediments of the Southern Ocean, coinciding with declining atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Instead, the Administration's plans for energy conservation and using energy sources with less CO2 emission will help in the short - term, he said; down the road, a new National Climate Change Technology Initiative will help develop cutting - edge technologies such as fuel cells and carbon dioxide sequestration, Bush said.

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.

Conversely, understanding how to accelerate dissolution where it would be appropriate would also be beneficial, such as with nontraditional (e.g., aluminosilica) cements that produce less carbon dioxide.

Because there is no combustion, fuel cells run extremely cleanly: Their emissions are just water and carbon dioxide, and they produce less than half as much CO2 per kilowatt - hour as do traditional power plants.

But will the world's biological systems absorb more or less carbon dioxide as they cycle it through the atmosphere?

But today their influence is far less than that of manufactured greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and the CFCs, according to two new studies of the link between solar activity and climate.

The new study suggests that the impact may have released around three times as much sulfur and much less carbon dioxide compared with previous estimates from 20 years ago.

Furthermore, it is likely that Miller and Urey erred by simulating Earth's early atmosphere with gases containing hydrogen, which reacts easily, as opposed to carbon dioxide, a gas that is far less reactive but was probably far more plentiful at the time.

A UFZ team of scientists led by Andreas Huth described in Nature Communications in spring of last year that fragmentation of once connected tropical forest areas could increase carbon emissions worldwide by another third, as many trees die and less carbon dioxide is stored in the edge of forest fragments.

That's a huge boon to humanity, because the more carbon dioxide a landscape can store, the less will be left as a greenhouse gas that drives planetary warming.

As climate change affects forests, they'll store less carbon dioxide because drought stresses them and hinders their ability to grow, making man - made global warming even worse.

The general consensus among scientists is that the young Earth's atmosphere contained much larger quantities of greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide and / or ammonia) than are present today, which trapped enough heat to compensate for the lesser amount of solar energy reaching the planet.

As regional warming caused an increased number of trees to die, there would be less living trees to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Usually contains platinum, palladium and / or rhodium, which acts as a catalyst in a chemical reaction that converts unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen into water vapor, carbon dioxide and other gases that are less toxic than untreated exhaust fumes

The engine was developed as part of the «Limo - Green» project funded by the U.K.'s Technology Strategy Board to produce a large sedan with an emissions rating of less than 120 g / km of carbon dioxide.

As research has shown rail travel is a more environmentally - way to holiday and generates ten times less carbon dioxide than flying.

Carbon taxes like those suggested in the «Stern Report» to the UK Government, about $ 100 / metric tonne of carbon dioxide (equivalent to 88 US cents / gallon of gasoline and so on throughout the system) would accelerate whatever technology, economic forces, and lifestyle decisions might choose as paths towards a less carbon intensive lifestyle.

Libby's article speaks volumes about the difficulty of moving a world that is more than 80 percent dependent on fossil fuels toward one largely free of carbon dioxide emissions from such fuels within two or three generations, even as the human population heads toward 9 billion (more or less).

Researchers at Stanford University who closely track China's power sector, coal use, and carbon dioxide emissions have done an initial rough projection and foresee China possibly emitting somewhere between 1.9 and 2.6 billion tons less carbon dioxide from 2008 to 2010 than it would have under «business as usual» if current bearish trends for the global economy hold up.

• albedo decreases as ice melts (ice is perhaps 80 % reflective, while ocean albedo can be as low as 3.5 %) • increased water vapor in a warmer climate • warmer oceans absorb less carbon dioxide • warmer soils release carbon dioxide and methane • plants in a hotter climate are darker

As I wrote in The New York Times last week, the Swedish government is already encouraging its citizens to modify their diets (less red meat, more seasonal vegetables) to reduce personal carbon dioxide emissions.

One driver of temperatures in this region is the abundance and variability of ozone, but water vapor, volcanic aerosols, and dynamical changes such as the Quasi - Biennial Oscillation (QBO) are also significant; anthropogenic increases in other greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide play a lesser but significant role in the lower stratosphere.

They further question the claims that a pre-industrial or «below 350 ppm [carbon dioxide]» climate is necessarily more benign or less affected by extreme weather, and they warn that «unachievable» CO2 emissions reduction policies are at risk of being classified as «ill advised, ineffective, and disingenuous» if and / or when the public eventually recognizes how flimsy the evidence is upon which these policies are based.

And as to his claim that there may be «places around the world where global warming will lead to less crop success and yield, even when taking into account the carbon dioxide fertilization effect,» he appears to be equally ignorant that rising levels of atmospheric CO2 tend to raise the temperature of optimum plant photosynthesis beyond the predicted temperature values associated with global warming, effectively nullifying this worn out claim (Idso & Idso, 2011).

As this trend has gathered pace, more than 100 of the best - known organisations in the UK, many of them charities, have joined together to support the Fit for the Future Network, which has the simple aim of sharing expertise on ways of using less energy and cutting carbon dioxide use.

For example, as atmospheric concentrations of CO2 increase, every tonne of carbon dioxide has less of an effect on warming (the strongest absorption bands are already saturated).

HERE is a poll by the IGM of their Economic Experts Panel on a carbon tax; the question posed was: «A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles».

As increased levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide trap more solar heat radiating from the Earth's surface, less warmth reaches the stratosphere, which cools as a resulAs increased levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide trap more solar heat radiating from the Earth's surface, less warmth reaches the stratosphere, which cools as a resulas carbon dioxide trap more solar heat radiating from the Earth's surface, less warmth reaches the stratosphere, which cools as a resulas a result.

This decision defined small - scale afforestation or reforestation project activities as those that are expected to result in net anthropogenic GHG removals by sinks of less than 8 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide per year.

Scientists complained that the programme makers distorted evidence, and made elementary mistakes such as claiming that volcanoes produce more carbon dioxide than human activities, when in fact they produce less than 2 % of that caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

In a somewhat hopeful note, the report found that in 2014 and 2015, carbon dioxide emissions growth rates slowed as economic growth became less carbon - intensive.

Until then, it would appear that it is your assertion that the carbon dioxide filled bottle heated faster and become hotter than the air filled bottle because the carbon dioxide has a higher mass than does air, i.e., «Much smaller mass means they can hold much less heat, just as a smaller cup holds less boiling water.»

The removal of the phrase does have the effect of making the inclusion of carbon dioxide as a «climatic factor» slightly less nonsensical on its face.

Neither you nor your reference proves any error in my explanation that Earth would be just as hot or hotter than the present if there were no water, water vapour, clouds, vegetation, carbon dioxide or other radiating gases in it atmosphere which would thus have no albedo due to lack of clouds, and which rocky surface would have emissivity less than 0.88.

Preventing carbon dioxide levels from rising to potentially dangerous levels could cost less far less than originally projected — less 1 percent of gross world product as of 2050 — but a major shift in the way energy is found, transformed, transported and used will be necessary to prevent a severe energy crisis within the next century, say researchers from the The Earth Institute.

Lackner and Sachs estimate that a program to moderate the Earth's carbon dioxide levels could cost less than 1 percent of projected gross world product as of 2050.

With fewer leaves to absorb sunlight, the trees can't photosynthesise as much, and they absorb less carbon dioxide from the air.

As individuals, each of us can lower our carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions through actions like flying less and improving the energy efficiency of our cars and homes.

The rise of shale gas has had an environmental benefit as well — greatly reduced carbon dioxide emissions, because generating electricity by burning natural gas emits less than half as much carbon dioxide as burning coal.

The whole problem involves black carbon, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur dioxide, CFC's and tropospheric ozone — with CO3 as a significant part but less than half of the problem.

But a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that the projections of climate change that have been made by the current family of computerized climate models has been overdone — that the world will warm up significantly less than has been predicted as a result of our ongoing carbon dioxide emissions.

This has left us with highly variable estimates of project costs, ranging from Klaus Lackner's claim that air capture could be effectuated for less than $ 100 per ton of carbon dioxide to more than $ 1000 in a 2011 study, as well as the American Physical Society's estimate of about $ 600 per ton.