Sentences with phrase «became less carbon»

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.

The (somewhat) good news is that «in 2014 and 2015, emission growth rates slowed as economic growth has become less carbon - intensive.

As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.

Not exact matches

If lower oil prices are as bad for Canada's economy as rate - cutting Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz insists, the central bank might consider assessing the risks to the economy in a world where constraining carbon emissions becomes less of an abstract notion and more of a daily reality.

The concern, of course, is that Canadian goods with a carbon tax may become much less attractive from a price point perspective.

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.

And around Antarctica, where even the surface ocean water is already quite cold and dense, some of that water in the ocean depths, which is also carbon rich, eventually warmed enough so that it became less dense than the water above it.

The fertilizers farmers use on their crops today may become less efficient if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere keep rising.

With more driving, carbon is released and the system becomes less green.

Consequently the global climate in these models becomes less sensitive in its response to atmospheric carbon dioxide.

The results show that tropical forests continue to accumulate carbon through to the end of the century, although they may become less efficient at higher temperatures.

Though it's arguably already necessary to store a larger proportion of this carbon, that fact will become undeniable over the coming decades — or perhaps even less than that.

The ocean becomes less effective at absorbing carbon dioxide with a weakened AMOC and this can lead to higher quantities of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere worsening global warming.

If less carbon dioxide makes it into the water, the ocean will stop becoming more acidic, and calcium carbonate will be left available to the organisms that use it to build shells.

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.

The carbon - fiber body composition, with dual aluminum crash - box design for added safety, combined with the high - double wishbone front and McPherson rear suspension systems allow the 2015 Alfa Romeo C4 to seemingly melt into the curves as car and driver virtually become one being dancing effortlessly in a precisely choreographed series of movements that decree nothing less than an all out assault on the pavement below.

Our food is becoming less nutritious due to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

There is some really impressive realistic damage modelling including loss of tyres following a heavy impact with the barrier or a collision with another car, the front wing becoming detached which will affect the handling of your car until a pit stop has been made, aerodynamic carbon fibre bodywork flying through the air in a variety of directions after a lesser impact which is not race ending but could affect the behaviour of your car, engine blowouts following a mechanical failure or too much mileage on the same engine and more besides.

However, when that sink begins to become less effective, the percent falls, and the diminished capacity to absorb our carbon emissions would be counted as a feedback.

Also, it thought that the «easy» carbon sinks are becoming saturated and will be less and less effective over time.

The carbon content then declines for two reasons — there is less forest becoming farm and more farmland over which to average the gains.

Most corporations can become carbon neutral at a one - time cost of less than 1 percent of sales, Hintlian said.

All that said, it will become less and less possible to adapt to what is a persistent and growing crisis if the issue of the world's carbon emissions is not addressed.

Note that this argument applies to all levels of the atmosphere, including the upper levels where carbon dioxide is relatively less abundant, and that the line of reasoning also becomes more potent (in the sense that less additional warming is forced) the more carbon dioxide that either humans or nature emit.

However, many carbon sinks (e.g. the ocean) become less effective at absorbing carbon dioxide at higher concentrations of dissolved CO2.

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.

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.»

And as predicted, they revealed an increasing imbalance: more phosphorus, less carbon and nitrogen as they became drier.

During the period, the state became -49 % less carbon dioxide efficient.

For people on the right, a carbon tax yields a double benefit: The affluent get a tax cut and gas becomes so expensive that a lot of annoying less - affluent people can't afford to drive, and cease to clutter up the roads with their proletarian Chevies and Fords.

A carbon tax would allow energy efficiencies to become cost effective faster, a carbon tax would cause the utilities to use less carbon fuels in the electrical grid and a carbon tax would promote fuel switching faster.

Everyone whose technology makes current ventures less carbon intensive becomes more competitive.

The EU's carbon markets could become more unstable too, its analysts argued, if votes in the European Parliament's key environment committee become less predictable and more frequently subject to challenge.

But low gas prices and the emergence of SMR meant this technology became less fashionable during an era when carbon emissions were not a consideration.

As power demand growth slows from a historical average of 10 % to 3 % or less per year, the coal capacity in the pipeline, as well as some existing coal capacity, risks becoming stranded due to low carbon capacity targets, ongoing reforms in the power sector and carbon pricing.

And if warming oceans are supposed to be nett outgassing carbon dioxide, how do they absorb more and become less alkaline?

Emitting carbon becomes more expensive, and consumers and producers seek ways to use technologies and products that generate less of it.

Our human problem has become so severe through extreme neglect and the unwillingness to engage in confrontational behavior that it's more or less now going to take two dimensional an carbon based quantum simulators using a Manhattan style project and Apollo style national effort in reusable launch vehicles to even come close to solving it in the timeframes that will make any difference.

If some of this is from land use and urban heating (and one studies suggests it is.35 C for the century), and some is solar heating -LRB-.25 C for century), then the amount attributable to carbon dioxide becomes less.

And it means that that idea of using activated carbon to scrub mercury from «clean coal» technology produced gases will become increasingly less cost effective as the Appalachian sources dry up.

The higher acidity threatens marine life, including corals and shellfish, which may become extinct later this century from the chemical effects of carbon dioxide, even if the planet warms less than expected.

Further, the LCFS is less efficient than a carbon tax, but when combined with a price ceiling, the policy approaches the efficiency of a carbon tax as the LCFS policy become more stringent.

This means that the impact of greenhouse gases can accumulate and intensify over time, while the aerosol effects become comparatively less important on longer time scales due to the accumulation of carbon dioxide.

In this case, the impression one is invited to take away from his post is that carbon - dioxide increase has become less exponential, and he cites certain ten - year differences for that proposition.

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