Sentences with phrase «carbon than the sun»

Not exact matches

A place in the sun Photovoltaic (PV) panels installed throughout the campus divert more than 600 metric tons of carbon each year, equivalent to removing 125 cars from the road annually.

Who knows, there might be other life forms out there on planets with differnt types of suns, other types of atmosphere, maybe even based on something other than carbon... Religion can't answer those questions, but science, ever so slowly, is plugging away at the answers.

Globular clusters contain far lower concentrations of the planet - forming heavy elements — such as carbon, oxygen, and iron — than do our sun and nearby stars, leading some to suspect that it might be difficult for planets to form there.

The discovery that the debris disks around some larger stars retain carbon monoxide longer than their Sun - like counterparts may provide insights into the role this gas plays in the development of planetary systems.

According to the accepted view, the formation of the Earth released vast amounts of water vapour and carbon dioxide, which formed a thick atmosphere and caused strong greenhouse warming at a time when the Sun was 15 to 20 per cent fainter than today.

Analyzing the light with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, the researchers found the amount of elements heavier than helium to be less than one - thousandth that in the sun's neighborhood, and the ratio of carbon to silicon is just what would be expected of exploded population III stars.

One possibility, notes astronomer and lead author Patrick Dufour of the University of Arizona, Tucson, is that the stars simply might not have grown massive enough — about 10 times heavier than the sun — to explode but are so close to the limit that they might be harboring abnormally high amounts of carbon.

Finally, about 130 million years after the red giant phase, the sun will go through a final spasm and eject its outer layers into space, leaving behind a white dwarf: a hot, dense lump of carbon and oxygen no larger than Earth.

According to the experiments of Langley, the carbon dioxide and the water vapor, which the atmosphere contains, are more opaque to the heat rays of great wave lengths which are emitted by the earth, than to the waves of various lengths which emanate from the sun.

On the other hand, the levels of carbon monoxide and methanol in the coma might have changed over time, especially because Jupiter - family comets spend more time near the Sun than Oort Cloud comets do.

Once thought to be a relatively inactive world, being so bitterly cold and far from the Sun, Pluto has been shown to be more geologically active than anticipated, with mountains of solid water ice, canyons, unusual pits, and large, slowly moving glaciers of nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide ices.

So are planets located near the center of the Galaxy, where stars are more carbon - rich than the sun, on average.

Upon your arrival to the second planet from the sun, you'd be greeted by surface temperatures comparable to those in a pizza oven, and a carbon - dioxide atmosphere more than 90 times denser than ours here on Earth.

What it means to consumer's today is that with their purchase choice of Sun Chips in the Ingeo bag, they're already today, choosing a product which is renewably based, and which has a lower carbon footprint than the petroleum bag.

We know this because we can measure the effect of man - made carbon dioxide and it is much stronger than that of the sun, which we also measure.:»

Citing but one example, 2.5 billion years ago the sun's brightness was 20 percent to 30 percent less than it is today (compared to the 2 percent change in energy balance associated with a doubling of carbon - dioxide levels) yet the oceans were unfrozen and the temperatures appear to have been similar to today's.

I conclude that for the past 33 years there has been an increase of no more than 0,3 deg C, which would represent a «global warming» trend of around 0.9 C per century, due to unknown factors related to the Sun, and surly nothing to warrant a huge economic disruption caused by a fanatical U.S. war on carbon aimed at driving up the cost of conventional fuels aimed at unnecessarily reducing their consumption.

This past week has brought some attention to a much earlier «let's pretend» — that global climate is influenced primarily by human - caused carbon dioxide emissions rather than changes in the sun, our source of heat and light.

Carbon dioxide is fully part of that water cycle where water heated by the thermal infrared direct from the Sun evaporates and anyway lighter than air rises in air and takes away heat from the surface — all pure clean rain is carbonic acid, the water vapour spontaneously joining with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere releases its heat in the colder heights and condenses out back into liquid water and ice, cooling the Earth from the 67 °C it would be without the water cycle.

Thawing permafrost also delivers organic - rich soils to lake bottoms, where decomposition in the absence of oxygen releases additional methane.116 Extensive wildfires also release carbon that contributes to climate warming.107, 117,118 The capacity of the Yukon River Basin in Alaska and adjacent Canada to store carbon has been substantially weakened since the 1960s by the combination of warming and thawing of permafrost and by increased wildfire.119 Expansion of tall shrubs and trees into tundra makes the surface darker and rougher, increasing absorption of the sun's energy and further contributing to warming.120 This warming is likely stronger than the potential cooling effects of increased carbon dioxide uptake associated with tree and shrub expansion.121 The shorter snow - covered seasons in Alaska further increase energy absorption by the land surface, an effect only slightly offset by the reduced energy absorption of highly reflective post-fire snow - covered landscapes.121 This spectrum of changes in Alaskan and other high - latitude terrestrial ecosystems jeopardizes efforts by society to use ecosystem carbon management to offset fossil fuel emissions.94, 95,96

The real flat - earthers have more than doubled - down on their absurd notion that a paltry percentage of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has more power to influence daily weather and hence climate than the protons, electrons, and photons Earth is immersed in from the sun, solar system, galaxy, and universe.

It seems likely that the Earth's atmosphere had somewhat more CO2 half a billion years ago than today; as the Sun slowly grew brighter, the carbon cycle deposited more CO2 in the crust, keeping the temperature «just right.»

«To counter the effect of the weaker Sun, carbon dioxide concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere would need to have been 1,000 times higher than present,» said lead author Professor Bernard Marty, from the CRPG - CNRS University of Lorraine.

If atmospheric carbon doesn't cause the surface temperature of planets to rise, why is Venus hotter than Mercury even though it's farther from the sun?

If electricity could power the whole society, countries where hydropower is cheap and abundant would have already made their transition to 100 % renewable electricity, cheap, convenient (much more than sun), carbon free, and safe.

GORE: The relationship is actually very complicated, but there is one relationship that is far more powerful than all the other and it is this: when there is more carbon dioxide the temperature gets warmer, because it traps more heat from the sun inside.