Sentences with phrase «as natural sinks»

My objection is that it doesn't matter, because as long as the natural sinks are larger than the natural sources, whatever the height of the sources, these are only part of the throughput and don't add to the increase (as is the case in Bart's example).

CO2 emissions rise as natural sinks slow, but how can scientists precisely track this greenhouse gas, especially in advance of a potential global treaty to reduce its emissions?

CO2 levels are steady increasing, never decreased, at least not in the past 50 + years, but the increase rate goes up and down, as the natural sink capacity is influenced by temperature...

This correlation has been brought up before and is just as easily explained as the natural sink being less effective in warmer years.

Not exact matches

While Devon's reaction to the 2011 say - on - pay provides positive evidence that boards can and do respond effectively to a negative vote, its failure to alter its pay programs prior to that point as natural gas prices sank suggests that owners of companies whose fortunes are closely tied to commodity prices should be wary of lax compensation structures.

That which we usually make the object of life, those outer things we are all so wildly seeking, which we so often live and die for, but which then do not give us peace and happiness, they should all come of themselves as accessory, and as the mere outcome or natural result of a far higher life sunk deep in the bosom of the spirit.

I think I was converted to more natural cleaning products when I used half a tub of bicarb down the sink plughole followed 10 minutes later by half a bottle of vinegar and then a while later a kettle full of boiling water, and found it un-blocked the sink just as well as any previous drain unblocker I had tried AND without all the noxious fumes and damage to our septic tank!!

Massachusetts ocean waters are biologically diverse, support the Bay State's traditional fishing industry, and act as natural carbon sinks.

Beyond their value as carbon sinks, or medical plunder, plants are now seen to have value in terms of the vast gene bank they represent for crops, their ecosystem services and as «natural», spiritual capital.

In the report, an international team of climate scientists warns policy - makers that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are at the extreme end of predictions made only in 2007, and that natural CO2 sinks such as oceans are becoming saturated.

This includes big infrastructure projects to control floods, like levees and breakwaters; retrofitting individual homes or moving homeowners away from floodplains; and restoring wetlands to serve as natural water sinks.

If everything goes according to plan, data from the US probe will help researchers track large natural sources and sinks of CO2, such as oceans and forests, and perhaps some manmade sources, such as sprawling urban areas or even large power plants.

But natural turbulence is key: in calm water, the dispersant won't help much, just as the measuring cup resting at the bottom of the soapy sink won't clean itself.

Natural «sinks» such as forests and oceans remove just 20 billion tons of the gas from the air every year on average, researchers said.

«OCO - 2 was designed to help locate and identify natural regional processes that serve as sources and sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and how these vary with time and location,» explained Annmarie Eldering, a NASA scientist working on the mission.

Others hope that it will also allow OCO - 2 to go beyond large natural sources and sinks, such as oceans and forests, to detect CO2 emanating from sprawling urban areas or even large power plants.

During the last century or so, over half of the CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, industry, and deforestation have been absorbed by natural sinks such as the forests and oceans.

It was therefore clear that the remaing 43 % had to be taken up by the natural system, which thus acted as an overall sink — regardless of whether this carbon is in the ocean or elsewhere.

Crucially, the warmer the world becomes, the more difficult it could be to prevent further warming, as our CO2 emissions could have proportionally larger impacts, and natural carbon sinks could become less effective.

As a natural water softener, washing soda also helps remove hard water stains on sinks, appliances, faucets or anywhere else they are.

-LSB-...] of the mess on the sink, I tried using milk of magnesia, after reading a post on using it as a deodorant at Whole Natural Life.

Fat acts as a natural, built - in shock absorber, cushioning the body and its various parts from the wear and tear of training, and helps prevent organs from sinking due to the downward pull of gravity.

Chic black and white bathroom is fitted with a glossy black washstand adoring polished nickel pulls, a polished nickel ring towel holder and a white marble countertop finished with a rectangular sink and a polished nickel gooseneck faucet positioned beneath a dark nickel mirror flanked by white glass nickel sconces as natural light flows in from a window dressed in a white roman shade.

When a series of terrifying natural disasters begin to plague Japan, including the inexplicable offshore sinking of a U.S. submarine, a mystic old man warns his nation that Godzilla has come back to destroy Japan as revenge for all the souls lost in the Pacific War.

As most of us know — Dogs are natural nesters and love to make a hole to sink into and lie — This is equally true when lying in a pile of dirt in the back yard or a dedicated doggy bed.

As a precaution to avoid potential spillage on fabrics, furniture or carpets, it's recommended to place down your post on a sink or a newspaper and apply slowly, by drawing 2 or 3 lines that will mimic the natural lacerations made by cats.

To avoid potential spillage on fabrics, furniture or carpets, place down your scratching post on a sink or a newspaper as a precaution, and slowly apply the liquid product by drawing 2 or 3 lines on the post that will mimic the natural lacerations left by cats on a scratching post.

Natural carbon sinks such as soils and forests that are not burned for fuel, are less likely to have unintended consequences.

As Venezuela sinks into chaos and violence, Pres. Maduro rushes to salvage its sinking economy by selling off the nation's natural legacy in the Orinoco Mining Arc — analysis.

Those three facts suggest that most if not all of the observed increase in CO2 is natural unless it can be shown that for some reason warming oceans can nevertheless act as a carbon sink rather than a carbon source.

There is not the slightest influence of any natural cycle, as long as the inflows are equal to the outflows, which is nearly the case: the variation in net sink rate (0.5 - 3.5 GtC) over a year is less than the increase measured in the atmosphere...

The IPCC Guidelines state that natural, undisturbed forests, where still in equilibrium, should not be considered either as anthropogenic source or sink, and therefore can be excluded from national inventory calculations.

As I have repeatedly said, the height and variability of individual natural flows or even the sum of all sources or all sinks has not the slightest interest for the endresult.

Natural sinks are measured and reported as well.

Those chalk deposits were the result of sinking plankton that produced calcium carbonate shells like foraminifera and coccolithophorids, As discussed in Natural Cycles of Ocean Acidification, the creation of calcium carbonate shells pumps alkalinity to depth but produces CO2 at the surface thus adding to higher concentrations of atmospheric CO2.

The more sensible solution is the dCO2 / dt = A-B (T), where A is anthropogenic input and B (T) is the natural sink that becomes less effective as it gets warmer.

There are no known fluctuations in recent (last millennium) natural sources and sinks of CO2 that are remotely as large as the growth in CO2 of the last half century.

The research challenges the long - held belief that forests act as «carbon sinks» by storing more carbon than they emit due to natural processes and human activity.

As a first step, this «no more bad investment» legislation should ban all new coal, oil, and gas projects and all new logging or clearing that degrades and destroys natural carbon sinks (including renewals of expiring regional forest agreements).

Secondly, and more importantly, nature could provide humans with a helping hand to reach those lofty CO2 concentration targets through the combination of natural terrestrial sinks becoming less effective, along with new sources of carbon emissions appearing as a result of rising global temperatures.

FE in # 510: referencing discussion on nature as a sink to last 50 years «there is no visible increase or decrease in natural variability over 50 years.»

Since CO2 from coal - generated electricity used for air conditioning would be tiny compared to ocean CO2 flux, the temperature influences CO2 as only a Natural mechanism and will affect both sources and sinks of carbon.

Because we know the emissions and the increase in the atmosphere, we know what nature is doing (that is natural sources — natural sinks) with the amounts available in the atmosphere, as nature absorbs or releases CO2 which makes up the difference between human emissions and the increase in the atmosphere.

As CO2 is too heavy to disappear in space (hydrogen does), the non-increasing quantities emitted by humans must go somewhere in natural sinks.

Thus as the left terms both are known, the difference in the right terms is known too, whatever the real height of the natural sinks and sources.

After atmospheric CO2 levels remained steady for thousands of years, natural sources suddenly began to emit more than the sinks absorb at the exact same time as humans began burning fossil fuels.

It could directly balance emissions, as well as drawing down natural sinks / sources that contribute to the high pCO2.

Measurements of atmospheric isotopes such as C12 / C13 can not prove anything either because CO2 ′ s residence time based on the IPCC's figures in 2007 - AR4 is 3.8 years meaning the C12 / C13 ratio can not change substantially because human CO2 is rapidly absorbed by natural sinks.

Yes science pointing to saturation of natural sinks is contradictory, this is developing science, facts are that by Knorrs own paper (that you guys pointed to) it is imperative that we stop CO2 from going into the atmosphere as, once we do reduce it natural proceeses will be slower to get it down than thought.

And taken globally, increases in tropical forest carbon may be at least partly explained not by carbon fertilization, but by a recovery of carbon after past disturbances such as fire (both natural and anthropogenic) and land clearing by humans even centuries earlier - a factor that will reduce sink strength over time as forests recover.