Sentences with phrase «by releasing carbon»

True story: the heroes of AGW Theory (the idea that humans caused global warming by releasing carbon dioxide into the air) had a very poor grasp of the facts about the heat carrying capacity of Earth's oceans.

A carbon tax is a fee for making users of fossil fuels pay for climate damage their fuel use imposes by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and for motivating switches to clean energy.

Fires end up contributing to warming by releasing carbon dioxide during combustion.

By releasing carbon dioxide higher in the atmosphere, airplanes allow the molecule more time to trap heat, also contributing via contrails and other chemically active gases, the IPCC notes.

Not exact matches

Even if the ambitious targets of the world's biggest economies are met, and internal combustion engines give way to electric or other zero - emission vehicles by 2040, the total impact on global carbon dioxide emissions will be minimal, according to a new study released Tuesday.

A similar wells - to - wheels study released in September by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates out of Massachusetts found fuels derived from oilsands to be just 6 % more carbon intensive than the average of all oil sources consumed in the U.S.

Breakthrough: A power plant efficiently and cheaply captures carbon released by burning natural gas, avoiding greenhouse - gas emissions.

«The findings showed no mineralogical evidence for abundant liquid water or its by - products, thus pointing to mechanisms other than the flow of water — such as the freeze and thaw of carbon dioxide frost — as being the major drivers of recent gully evolution,» the team explained in the press release.

In a recently released study, Getting Energy Prices Right: From Principle to Practice, the IMF calculates what it considers to be the appropriate level of fuel taxes (a carbon tax by any other name) for 156 different countries.

In a press release by PETA, the animal rights group noted that in discussions with Tesla, PETA pointed out the possibility for the electric car company to reduce its carbon footprint through the usage of vegan leather.

In a new report released today for Sustainable Prosperity (a new research institute), Jack Mintz and Nancy Olewiler pitch a federal carbon tax constructed by broadening the base of the federal excise tax (which currently raises over $ 5 billion per year based on a tax of 10 cents per litre of gas and 4 cents -LSB-...]

Natural gas turbines replaced solar power capacity during the August 21st solar eclipse, highlighting the carbon - light fossil fuel's emerging role as a gateway «green» energy in the coming decades, according to a report by Fortune released before the sun took its proverbial nap.

A TD - Pembina - Suzuki study released seven weeks ago projected that cutting Canadaâ $ ™ s carbon emissions by 20 % below 2006 levels, or even 25 % below 1990 levels, would only modestly reduce overall Canadian GDP.

On April 2, 2018, the New York State Comptroller issued a press release announcing that the Company has agreed to detail how they will be impacted by the global effort to achieve the Paris Agreement's goals and how they can adapt to a lower carbon future.

Industrialized countries with less than a quarter of the world's population are responsible for about three - quarters of the carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels.

Bluetongue Brewery's water recovery is subjected to GWE's state - of - the - art anaerobic treatment that significantly reduces the brewery's carbon footprint by avoiding the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, say Mr Bambridge and GWE CEO Jean Pierre Ombregt.

«The Clean Energy Jobs and Climate Agenda released today will continue New York's path towards a more sustainable future by reducing harmful carbon emissions, ending New York's reliance on coal, and advancing offshore wind, energy efficiency, and energy storage.

Wolfe, who is the Vice-Chairman of the Legislature and the chair of the Environmental Committee, also noted that the operation of high - efficiency appliances does help to reduce the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) that is released by the US power grid annually.

(New York, NY)-- The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) makes tens of thousands of New Yorkers wait for weeks, months and sometimes even years before fixing serious problems such as asbestos, missing carbon monoxide detectors, broken elevators, leaky ceilings, and faulty stoves due to poor management and oversight, according to an audit released today by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer.

Cuomo's plan, released a couple of years ago, would cut the use of fossil fuels for electricity in the state in half by 2030, but does not apply those same goals to other carbon emmissions.

By the end of this century, carbon release from Arctic burning is likely to quadruple, according to a 2016 study in Environmental Research Letters.

Probing mysteries of soot and clouds A study released in May by the Arctic Council suggests that, while countries below 40 degrees north latitude collectively contribute the lion's share of the world's black carbon output, Nordic countries» soot is the most damaging, because it has the shortest distance to travel to the Arctic.

Considered, until now, a source of greenhouse gas emissions, capturing the CO2 fixed by the tropical forest through the soils of the watershed to release it into the atmosphere, the Amazon River actually has a balanced carbon footprint.

This carbon was then transformed into CO2 and released by outgassing into the atmosphere.

A federal report released in November 2016 laid out a strategy for the United States to «deeply decarbonize» its economy by 2050, and said that developing carbon dioxide removal techniques «may be necessary in the long run to constrain global average temperature increases to well below 2 °C.»

Therefore, the Amazon recycles the CO2 from its own river system, and not that fixed by the tropical forest, releasing as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as it absorbs.

This entails both an uptake and a release of carbon by these systems.

Conversely, climate policy that results in little or no effort to control greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide would likely result in a substantial release of carbon from the permafrost region by 2300, the study found.

Previous studies established that especially in cooler mountain regions, carbon bound in soil organic matter reacts very sensitively to warmer weather caused by climate warming, and is increasingly released by microorganisms.

The fungus consumes carbon compounds released by tree roots, says the UW - Madison associate professor of botany and bacteriology, and in return helps the roots absorb soil nutrients.

They found that the carbon dioxide - caused warming exceeds the amount of heat released by a lump of coal in just 34 days.

In a modeling study of coal, oil, and natural gas, Zhang and Caldeira compared the warming caused by combustion to the warming caused by the carbon dioxide released by a single instance of burning, such as one lump of coal, and by a power plant that is continuously burning fuel.

A team led by Hui - Tian Wang of Nankai University in Tianjin, China, showed that during cold compression the transition to bct carbon results in a release of energy, which means it is likely to happen in the real world.

A porous material invented by the Rice lab of chemist James Tour sequesters carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, at ambient temperature with pressure provided by the wellhead and lets it go once the pressure is released.

That's of particular interest to scientists studying global warming, because in those waters much of the carbon that's being released from melting permafrost is oxidized by bacteria into carbon dioxide, says Rose Cory, an environmental scientist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

More than one - fifth of the carbon stored in the world's tropical forests lies in territories belonging to or claimed by indigenous groups, concludes an analysis released this week at the climate talks in Paris.

But the fluorescence map, an unexpected secondary capability, provides a more direct measure of carbon fluxes: the amount mopped up by plants during photosynthesis or released during respiration.

Laborious research in the 1960s by the late pioneering U.S. ecologist Eugene Odum seemed to indicate that forests achieve a balance between the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) absorbed by growing trees and plants and the amount of CO2 released back into the atmosphere by the decomposition of dead plant matter.

This indicates that soils will typically respond strongly to increasing temperature by releasing more carbon dioxide, said Jianwu Tang with the Marine Biological Laboratory Ecosystems Center and a lead scientist on the study.

«By extracting wood from unmanaged forest and bringing these forests under production, humans released carbon into the atmosphere that would otherwise be stored in the biomass, litter, dead wood, and soil of the forest,» Naudts said.

The hot flood basalts would have released huge amounts of sulfur and carbon dioxide, potentially causing a quick global chill followed by a longer period of global warming.

In the worst - case scenario, more carbon could be released from the bogs and permafrost in northern areas than have been released by the burning of fossil fuels to date.

Research at the Rodale Institute found that «organic farming helps combat global warming by capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide and incorporating it into the soil, whereas conventional farming exacerbates the greenhouse effect by producing a net release of carbon into the atmosphere.»

The period known as the Palaeocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was triggered by massive releases of carbon into the atmosphere and climate researchers have long identified it as a time that could in some ways be analogous to today's global warming.

If damaged, they would stop capturing carbon dioxide and a large amount of it could be released into the atmosphere by decomposing vegetation

First, the chemists release the hydrogen from its bonds with carbon by mixing methane with oxygen, throwing in a catalyst, and turning up the heat.

By retaining carbon in the soil, no - till farming also reduces the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.

Now, a new study from Barros reveals that the increase in forest photosynthesis and growth made possible by tropical cyclones in the southeastern United States captures hundreds of times more carbon than is released by all vehicles in the U.S. in a given year.

MBARI news release on summer experiments Greenhouse - gas research by MBARI oceanographer Peter Brewer Department of Energy research on ocean carbon disposal

As a result — and for reasons that remain unexplained — the waters of the Southern Ocean may have begun to release carbon dioxide, enough to raise concentrations in the atmosphere by more than 100 parts per million over millennia — roughly equivalent to the rise in the last 200 years.