Sentences with phrase «by old carbon»

The Sydney Morning Herald led with Abbott dogged by old carbon comment (a Channel Ten clip is embedded on the SMH article).

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DUK doesn't only mention the word «cleaner» for fun; it has retired 40 older coal units, reducing their carbon dioxide emissions by 29 % since 2005.

Several studies exist that show carbon dating to be woefully inaccurate, dating rocks that are created by man and known to be 70 years old to be millions of years old.

i work with engineers that think the world is 10k years old and that carbon dating and radiometric dating are «tricks» by god to make people «think» the world is older than it is... and they think I'm crazy for not havinng faith... promoting ignorance / anti-science should be a crime

But by stopping the destruction of mature (old - growth) forests, we prevent a huge amount of carbon from going into the atmosphere, and by promoting Earth - friendly planting and management of young forests, we absorb large amounts of atmospheric carbon.

This will save First Milk from having to upgrade the old, inefficient plant, reducing their effluent treatment costs and carbon footprint, while cutting operational costs, which are borne by Lake District Biogas.

A 55 - year - old restaurant manager died and more than two dozen others were taken to hospitals Saturday after being overcome by carbon monoxide at a New York mall, police said.

By displacing older, less efficient generation operating today, the facility will reduce regional carbon emissions by nearly half a million tons per yeaBy displacing older, less efficient generation operating today, the facility will reduce regional carbon emissions by nearly half a million tons per yeaby nearly half a million tons per year.

Although he was only 14 years old, he decided that he could save the world by developing a method for synthesizing oxygen from carbon dioxide and light.

«Many old boreal forests tend to be underlain by permafrost soils, which can contain many times more carbon than that stored in the vegetation,» Euskirchen notes.

All told, by Luyssaert's calculations the relatively small remaining stands of old - growth forests in the U.S. Pacific Northwest as well as Canada and Russia consume «8 to 20 percent of the global terrestrial carbon sink,» or roughly 440.9 million tons (0.4 gigatonnes) of carbon per year.

To illustrate the beauty of Saab's new engine, which reduces fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and slices other emissions by as much as 75 percent, the 41 - year - old engineer describes a lone runner jogging full tilt through a misty forest in his native Sweden.

Healthy young (18 - 31 years) and older adults (55 - 74 years) with a wide range of fitness levels walked and jogged on a treadmill while researchers assessed their cardiorespiratory fitness by measuring the ratio of inhaled and exhaled oxygen and carbon dioxide.

The idea of biochar was inspired by a rare type of humanmade soil found in the Amazon Basin, terra preta — Portuguese for «black earth», so named because the soil is rich in black carbon generated by the partially burned remains of old plants, much like charcoal.

Such refrigerants can be turned to cash, either the old - fashioned way — making and selling them — or by destroying them to reap carbon credits.

The particles» incredible brightness makes some astronomers suspect that the rings are much younger than the planet: If they were old, they would have been darkened by accumulated carbon from meteoroid impacts.

It was discovered in 1964 by archaeologist Nikolai Dikov, who found spear points and tools that he carbon - dated to about 14,300 years old.

Mary Kang, then a doctoral candidate at Princeton, originally began looking into methane emissions from old wells after researching techniques to store carbon dioxide by injecting it deep underground.

At one site, named Noulo, they turned up 206 tool - like pieces of stone, mostly quartz and granite, whose varying ages — from 230 to 4,300 years old — they estimated by carbon - dating burned charcoal buried in the soil alongside.

«After examining rocks 450 million years old or older, we believe the drop was caused by a massive burial of organic carbon during the time period,» Quinton said.

Despite comparatively intense bombardment by large impactors, chemical and radio - isotopic trace evidence of what appears to be biologically processed carbon in Earth's oldest surviving rocks — from western Greenland's Isua greenstone belt that are as old as 3.85 billion years — suggest that self - replicating, carbon - based microbial life became well developed during Earth's first billion years of existence.

Their results, published online May 15 by Nature Geoscience, indicate that the carbon contained in such ancient rocks should not be assumed to be as old as the rocks, unless it can be shown to have had the same metamorphic history as the host rock.

My rather old (1994) carbon cycle chart shows 111 GtC turned into biomass each year (61 land 50 ocean) compared to 750 in the atmosphere and 5.5 added to the atmosphere by human activity.

January 8, 2013 New book connects the human community to its cosmic roots The 1969 «Woodstock» song by Joni Mitchell, it turns out, was onto something: «We are stardust / billion - year - old carbon.»

A new study to be published in Astrophysical Journal letters on Oct. 15, lead by John Silverman at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, studied carbon monoxide (CO) gas content in seven starburst galaxies far away from when the Universe was a young four billion years old.

Scientists have found, however, that minute levels of radioactive carbon absorbed by the barley as it grew before it was harvested to make the whisky can betray how old it is.

Since 1947, scientists have reckoned the ages of many old objects by measuring the amounts of radioactive carbon they contain.

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If you have a fossil, you can tell how old it is by the carbon 14 dating method.

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«Just changing out an old thermostat for a smart one can reduce energy use — and energy bills, and carbon emissions — by over 10 per cent.»

The Game was developed by Old School Games and was a carbon copy of God Mode, albeit with everything that had made God Mode at least semi-fun ripped out, leaving nought a bloody husk mimicking electronic life.

CARBON 13 presented in conjunction with «The Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of Climate & Sustainability» Artists: Ackroyd & Harvey, Amy Balkin, Erika Blumenfeld, David Buckland, Adriane Colburn, Antony Gormley, Cynthia Hopkins, Sunand Prasad Participants: Hamilton Fish, Diana Liverman, John Nielsen - Gammon, Michael Pollan, Robert Potts, Tom Rand, Rebecca Solnit Curated by David Buckland «I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.»

That carbon is not oxidized, it is sequestered in the great cities of the east and west coast, while the old growth has been replaced by carbon fixing grasslands and new growth.

Anti-regulatory blogs and commentators and the McCain - Palin campaign made a push to publicize a 10 - month - old comment by Senator Barack Obama about the high cost of coal burning if and when a hard cap is set for carbon dioxide emissions.

The other focuses on New York City, where Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the City Council Speaker, Christine C. Quinn, are pursuing an ambitious plan to cut energy use and carbon - dioxide emissions by the city's huge assortment of older buildings (nice map at this link).

There's plenty more, including a great question about making climate - friendly fuels using carbon dioxide captured from air, posed by 14 - year - old Benji Fields (the son of a friend).

Black carbon — a dangerous pollutant emitted by old, dirty diesel engines like school buses — is thought to be the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide.

The state also has a five - year - old law banning power companies from importing coal - fired electricity by setting steep carbon emissions standards.

Replacing old slowly growing forest by young rapidly growing one is useful only if the old trees are either stored so that they will not release their carbon back to atmosphere or used to replace fossil fuels or materials, whose manufacturing causes CO2 emissions.

I always think of it as anthropogenic CO2 is «old» carbon with «young» oxygen, the old and young part being determined by isotope analysis similar to carbon dating.

An increasing global RS value does not necessarily constitute a positive feedback to the atmosphere, as it could be driven by higher carbon inputs to soil rather than by mobilization of stored older carbon.

Market «solutions,» such as, carbon markets, REDD + displacement projects, and deregulation of the private sector in climate investment, have been an inept creature birthed by the conscious breeding of this domineering incest — it is clear which sector is the older cousin.

This is followed by proposals to log the Tongass National Forest of Alaska (which the Bush administration approved in late 2003), and all other old - growth trees on public lands (with a flip suggestion that replacing «decadent» old trees with carbon - dioxide - absorbing young tree farms will reduce global warming).

However, Heartland doesn't get paid by Nucor and other big carbon emitting corporations to mislead a fringe tribe of retired old white men (picture of conference at right).

Opposition Leader Steven Marshall called for taxpayer spending on battery storage, while Premier Jay Weatherill quoted a 10 - year - old opinion column written by Malcolm Turnbull in which the Prime Minister described as «bullshit» suggestions that it was possible to cut carbon emissions without increasing the price of power.