Sentences with phrase «by carbon dioxide»

Global warming is largely caused by carbon dioxide emissions.

Overall the potential methane emission increases would likely be offset by carbon dioxide emission reductions but much more research is needed to quantify these amounts.

Most scientists believe global warming is mainly caused by carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere through the combustion of fossil fuels.

The problems posed by carbon dioxide do not reflect these natural processes, but rather human activities, of which the most notable are fossil fuel burning and deforestation.

There is a video showing the absorption of thermal radiation by carbon dioxide.

Global warming has occurred naturally many times in the past and is not to be feared — it is not controlled by carbon dioxide or humans.

The pollution produced by carbon dioxide increases the acidity of the oceans and affects the marine food chain.

He quickly claimed this as caused by the carbon dioxide greenhouse effect.

There is accordingly a clear distinction between the composition of the «summer» and the «winter» atmosphere: The former is dominated by water, the latter by carbon dioxide.

He decided to build himself a tick trap, and read that the pests are attracted by carbon dioxide.

A sudden global warming 55 million years ago might have been fueled by carbon dioxide released from permafrost, as happened in Alaskan fires in 2007.

Warming phases were enhanced by carbon dioxide feedback loops.

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

In order to understand the role played by carbon dioxide emissions in global warming, it is necessary to account for the effects of atmospheric aerosols.

Studies show that the water vapor «feedback loop» roughly doubles the warming caused by carbon dioxide.

There may have been a hiatus, depending on your definition and timescale, but it did not and does not change the big picture of a world of greenhouse warming driven by carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere, as a consequence of fossil fuel combustion worldwide.

«Ultimately, the warming induced by carbon dioxide over the many thousands of years it remains in the atmosphere would exceed the warming from combustion by a factor of 100,000 or more,» Caldeira said.

The CO2 Coalition, founded in 2015, describes its mission as «educating thought leaders, policymakers, and the public about the important contribution made by carbon dioxide to our lives and the economy.»

The results «indicate that a weak radiative forcing by carbon dioxide is highly unlikely» and that a «climate sensitivity greater than 1.5 °C has probably been a robust feature of the Earth's climate system over the past 420 million years»

«Ultimately, the warming induced by carbon dioxide over the many thousands of years it remains in the atmosphere would exceed the warming from combustion by a factor of 100,000 or more,» Caldeira said.

The results might not have immediate repercussions — nitrogen trifluoride currently adds 0.04 percent of the global warming effect created by carbon dioxide emitted from sources such as coal - burning power plants and cars.

Light in the atmosphere near STP travels at about 99.94 % of C. Energy captured by a carbon dioxide molecule travels at a pace in the human walk to run range.

When I regress Hadley CRUTEM4 temperature anomalies on CO2 and International Sunspot Number from 1850 to 2014, I get 80 % of variance accounted for by carbon dioxide and 3 % by solar variation.

that he believed his agency did not «engage in a robust, meaningful discussion» about the threat posed by carbon dioxide before adopting the endangerment finding.

The only way to do that is to reduce the output of so - called greenhouse gasses, caused primarily by carbon dioxide emissions from industry, automobiles and other human activities, Horton said.

Maybe you're telling yourself, «well, I'm special, I won't let myself get poisoned by carbon dioxide.»

Image shows a cold water geyser driven by carbon dioxide erupting from an unplugged oil exploration well drilled in 1936 into a natural CO2 reservoir in Utah.

If, in addition to mitigating global warming, we also want to prevent the acidification of oceans by carbon dioxide, climate engineering could substitute for emission reductions only in greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide.

«Our results indicate that O2 can be formed by carbon dioxide dissociation in a one step process.

For the last few months, global temperatures have received a boost from an exceptionally strong El Niño, but the bulk of the temperature rise is due to the excess heat trapped in the atmosphere by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted by human activities.

Eco-minded criminals might want to take note: The environmental impact of crime, as measured by carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, is surprisingly high.

Bright white areas to the south, including the Hellas impact basin at extreme lower right, are covered by carbon dioxide frost.

Ocean acidification is mainly caused by carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere dissolving into the ocean.

Experts report that synthetic polymers in polyester are capable of emitting greenhouse gases in more than 300 times the amount generated by carbon dioxide.

Winds can do a lot, but can they beam warm surface waters heated by carbon dioxide 700 meters further down?

We also have a good understanding of the feedbacks and how they interact e.g. warming between glacials and interglacials is amplified by carbon dioxide released as permafrost melts.

Making ethanol from corn reduces atmospheric releases of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide because the CO2 emitted when the ethanol burns is «canceled out» by the carbon dioxide taken in by the next crop of growing plants, which use it in photosynthesis.

While concentrations of methane in the atmosphere are about 200 times lower than carbon dioxide, methane was responsible for 60 % of the equivalent radiative forcing caused by carbon dioxide since the onset of the Industrial Revolution.