Sentences with phrase «boosted by carbon dioxide»

Plant leaf growth is boosted by carbon dioxide, but can, in turn, slow global warming, shows research.

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We may even give a boost to a carbon - free world by sequestering carbon dioxide as, you guessed it, a supercritical fluid.

It will boost global emissions of carbon dioxide by up to 110 million tonnes per year.

Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere boosts, by gas - liquid equilibrium, the amount of carbonic acid in the ocean, which in turn lowers the marine pH level.

While a strong El Niño has given global temperatures a boost, the bulk of that heat comes from the manmade global warming driven by increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

According to GM, the new Duramax turbo - diesel will boost efficiency by 25 percent, while cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 13 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions by 90 percent.

A new study suggests the benefits of a boost to marine plant growth from increased carbon dioxide will be cancelled out by the increased stress to fish species.

Along with a boosted catch, a second hoped - for payoff was the sale of carbon credits on international markets aimed at offsetting greenhouse gas pollution by financing projects that absorb heat - trapping carbon dioxide — typically by planting trees but in this case through spurring plankton growth.

At the same time, evidence shows that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, partly driven by industrial emissions, is boosting forest growth.

Premier Li Keqiang Tuesday promised China will cut the amount of heat - trapping carbon - dioxide it emits for every dollar of economic output, augmenting existing pledges to boost renewables and for total emissions to stop rising by 2030.

The carbon dioxide that mankind has put into the atmosphere to date has in fact boosted crop yields by 15 percent.

Violence got intrigued by an Earth - wide temperature boost when he took a course at Harvard University with Professor Roger Revelle, one of the first researchers to measure carbon dioxide in the climate.

In 1977, Black told Exxon's management committee of top executives that emerging science showed that carbon dioxide levels were rising, likely driven by fossil fuel use, and such increases would boost global temperatures, leading to widespread damage.

• Scale: Achieving the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's long - term sequestration goals means boosting deep geological carbon dioxide storage from about 5 megatons per year to more than 22,000 megatons annually by the end of the century — an «unprecedented» undertaking that Mr. Thomson says will involve extensive new facilities and pipelines that would rival the world's oil industry infrastructure.

They put it into their computerized climate models and it can boost the meager Arrhenius warming from carbon dioxide alone by a factor of two or three.

Renewable energy policies, for example, are estimated to have saved around 96 Mt of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2005 by increasing renewable electricity production in the 25 EU countries four-fold between 1990 and 2005, and boosting production of renewable heat and liquid biofuels for transport by 20 %.

David Doniger, senior climate lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of several environmental groups that sided with Vermont, said the waiver request was given a big boost by an April 2 U.S. Supreme Court decision saying carbon dioxide was a pollutant worthy of regulation.

And in just the past 150 years, humankind has boosted carbon dioxide concentrations by 32 percent.