Sentences with phrase «burnable carbon»

From the above clip, we see there's five times more burnable carbon in the ground than we can afford to burn — about 2,500 gigatonnes vs. 500 gigatonnes, respectively.

That's the amount of extractable, burnable carbon that likely sits beneath what were once the green forests of Alberta and are now little more than a sprawling waste of smoking pits covering tens of square miles.

The first step of accumulating significant burnable carbon didn't occur until the Permo - Triassic ~ 250 mya.

Not exact matches

These correlations were negative, suggesting that when average fire weather seasons are longer - than - normal or when long seasons impacted more global burnable area, net global terrestrial carbon uptake is reduced.