Sentences with phrase «carbon load»

Small ponds also tend to be shallow, which means their terrestrial carbon loads are highly concentrated compared to larger lakes.

In any case I own enough forest to offset the fossil carbon load of many homes and am working on a land trust to protect it in perpetuity.

While the paper does not extend to the medieval maximum, from charcoal in lake bed studies it documents increased biomass burning and deforestation during agricultural and population expansion in the Neotropics from 2500 to 500 years BP, which would correspond with atmospheric carbon loading and global warming 1100 to 650 years BP.

A higher organic carbon load might lead to the development of ecosystems where microorganisms mainly feed on dissolved organic carbon, thus opening a way for the pollutants to enter the food web and cause more problems in higher level organisms, like fish,» says Matyas Ripszam.

Unlike right - wingers who would say, «Since we don't know 100 percent for sure, we can keep carbon loading,» I'd say there is enough evidence that it's reasonable to try to move toward renewables, to try to move toward conservation, to try to move toward a hydrogen economy.

396 ppm less...... pre-industrial................................................... 280 ppm anthropogenic carbon loading....................................... 116 ppm...... Loading as fraction required for 2X CO2:...... 116 / 280 = 41 %

I had a dialogue with Senator John Kerry recently and I started by saying let's stipulate that it is problem that global warming is going on, that it is conceivable that humans have a role and therefore as a matter of prudence we ought to have less carbon loading of the atmosphere.

«The evidence is sufficient that we should move toward the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere,» Gingrich said, noting that environmentalism is a touchy issue for conservatives.

An «article in the New Scientist suggests that the problem with obesity is the additional carbon load it imposes on the environment; others that a major social cost of divorce is the additional carbon burden resulting from splitting up families.»

(A political consensus, after all, will one day be required to practically limit human combustion, should Humanity decide to constrain atmospheric carbon loadings).

I believe as a matter of prudence it is reasonable to try to lower the carbon load in the atmosphere.

In actual use, there was little difference in the performance of the older house than in the new one, and that it could take decades for the operational savings to offset the carbon load of the initial construction.

All of the world's major emitters, both developed and developing, must make significant contributions to hitting IPCC's «50 by 50» goal, and that can best be accomplished through cooperation and healthy competition in the race for the best alternatives to our carbon loaded energy economy.

As for my Vermont neighbors, now that the Vermont Yankee Nuclear plant has closed I'm guessing that their carbon load has risen slightly.

The carbon loads grow exponentially.

Some are profoundly personal and practical — like what one person can do to lower the carbon load at home — others complex endeavors such as Southern California Edison's quest to find the best batteries to electrify transportation.

And it's going to save a load of money in the process.According to the New York Times, the company is responding to sagging sales by cutting down on plastic used in packaging, and lightening its carbon load simultaneously.

This reduces both lost commuting time and the carbon load.