Sentences with phrase «because additional carbon»

Not exact matches

The ability to buy additional glass inserts adds convenience and affordability and reduces the carbon footprint in the environment because you use less plastic (our 4oz starter set demonstrates this feature).

But additional buildup of coal - to - natural - gas projects could also create an environmental nightmare because producing the gas will emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide and worsen the water crisis in China's arid western regions.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

«This is because the coastal ocean is shallower than the open ocean and can quickly transfer sequestered carbon dioxide to the deep ocean; this process creates an additional and effective pathway for the ocean to take up and store anthropogenic carbon dioxide,» said Cai, the Mary A.S. Lighthipe Professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.

The trim I drove was fitted with a carbon fiber roof, too, contributing an additional 6.6 lbs cut, but unfortunately that won't make it stateside, possibly because it doesn't play nice with the moonroof Audi thinks American buyers demand.

That said, of course, my sense is that the coal industry is trying to change the subject, because reason is against it (in terms of its desire to build additional coal capacity before technologies are available that can take carbon dioxide out of coal emissions).

Their unwillingness to take immediate action is intellectually and morally bankrupt because unless carbon emissions are stopped very soon (remember that the damage is cumulative so continuing to emit at current of even reduced rates still causes additional damage hundreds if not thousands of years into the future.)

Because energy prices affect every single America, everyone has a stake in the issue of whether the government imposes additional restrictions on fossil - fuel use, including carbon pricing schemes such as those proposed by PRG.

«The additional burden of CO2 added to the atmosphere by human activities... leads to the current «perturbed» global carbon cycle... These perturbations to the natural carbon cycle are the dominant driver of climate change because of their persistent effect on the atmosphere.»

As additional CO2 is added, it tips the equilibrium between these three kinds of carbon dioxide, so because of the Revelle Factor, it means that you can add a large amount of CO2 to the air without adding much to the water».

What about all of the additional children who will die from dysentery between 2030 and 2070 because their communities couldn't afford to put in improved sanitation and drainage systems that would have been installed had economic growth not been reduced as a result of carbon rationing?

And carbon taxes are opposed by the regulated community because of the additional costs they would place on private industry, and are opposed by environmentalists because of the political challenges.

The reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide per new unit of non-hydro «renewable» capacity falls off rapidly as additional «renewable» capacity is added to an electric grid because additional fossil fuel sources must be kept in «spinning reserve» in case the wind dies or the sun goes under a cloud unless hydro is available.

This increase of other emissions is largely because collecting and burying CO2 — a process called carbon sequestration — requires additional energy, new equipment and new chemical reactions at the plants.

[The conventional reasoning] double counts the carbon absorbed by plants when the bioenergy crops are grown on land already used for crop production or already growing other plants because the bioenergy does not necessarily result in additional carbon absorption.

The additional CO2 from fossil fuel burning and deforestation has disturbed the balance of the carbon cycle, because the natural processes that could restore the balance are too slow compared to the rates at which human activities are adding CO2 to the atmosphere.

This is especially critical because studies have estimated a reduction in Atlantic dust cover of 40 to 60 % under a doubled carbon dioxide climate, which, on the basis of model runs with an equivalent reduction of the mean dust forcing, could result in an additional 0.3 ° to 0.4 °C warming of the northern tropical Atlantic.»

Pielke Jr provides additional moral cover by claiming that one (partial) solution, a carbon tax, can be taken off the table, not because it couldn't work but because it is unpopular (Pielke: «The evidence that a high carbon tax is politically infeasible seems irrefutable, based on experience and common sense.»).