Sentences with phrase «carbon cycle speeds»

Furthermore the entire biosphere is energised by extra warmth and the whole carbon cycle speeds up with extra warmth from sun or oceans without any need to invoke human involvement at all.

Not exact matches

Once these organisms could dig, they kept all that carbon in play, speeding the whole biological cycle.

However, when trapped in fossil fuels, it is essentially taken out of the cycle because storage is so long relative to the speed that carbon is cycled between biota and atmosphere.

No matter, eco-restoration of grasslands has such remarkable and widespread benefits — for carbon and water cycles, for biodiversity, for food production (especially in poorer countries)-- that we should proceed full speed ahead regardless of carbon - number specifics.

Even if these improvements are sped up by a concerted reinvestment in technology education, R&D, deployment assistance, etc. there's no way they're going to start bending the curve for 10 - 20 years.The advantage to carbon pricing schemes is that they can be brought into effect much quicker than the development / deployment cycle of advanced technology.

They have not only excised the water cycle, and excised rain from the carbon cycle, but have excised the whole atmosphere which is the heavy voluminous fluid ocean of real gas Air weighting a ton on our shoulders and in its place have empty space with imaginary ideal gas molecules travelling under their own molecular momentum at great speeds through this empty space miles apart from each other bouncing off each other in elastic collisions, no attraction, and so «thoroughly mixing».

Dr Lenton (who is also one of the creators of the planetary - boundaries concept) and Dr Watson suggest that energy might be used to change the hydrologic cycle with massive desalination equipment, or to speed up the carbon cycle by drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide, or to drive new recycling systems devoted to tin and copper and the many other metals as vital to industrial life as carbon and nitrogen are to living tissue.

Truly only one negative feedback in the planet's overall carbon cycle can act with sufficient speed and strength to avert catastrophic climate impacts: The dominant carbon - based life form on this planet will have to respond to the already painfully clear impacts of our carbon emissions by slashing those emissions sharply and eventually running the planet on carbon - negative power.

More solar energy increases the speed of processes in the biosphere and thus the carbon cycle and by warming the ocean surface reduces it's ability to absorb CO2.

Since we have already sped up the carbon cycle by increasing CO2, we ought to slow it back down.