Sentences with phrase «caused by carbon dioxide»

At the same time, tackling climate change caused by carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and other environmental stresses has never been more important.
It is not the temperature of the atmosphere neither the temperature of the Earth... It is the change of temperature caused by the carbon dioxide.
Most people have been taught that the increase is caused by carbon dioxide, but that is by no means clear.
The CHANGE OF TEMPERATURE caused by the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is... etc..
It is also possible that, even at pre-industrial concentrations of atmospheric CO2, we were already above the «saturation point» of IR absorption by CO2, and therefore, even the warming that has occurred in the last 150 years could not have been caused by carbon dioxide.
Wayne, I read on a website (Gary Novak — Global Warming — not caused by carbon dioxide) that CO2 in air absorbs to extinction at its 15 micron peak in about 10m (Heinz Zug).
But he no longer thinks global warming is caused by our carbon dioxide and so isn't concerned about his or any one else's carbon footprint.
Studies show that the water vapor «feedback loop» roughly doubles the warming caused by carbon dioxide.
Most scientists believe global warming is mainly caused by carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere through the combustion of fossil fuels.
«Our calculations suggest that all the non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gases together have a net impact that rivals the warming caused by carbon dioxide
«Our findings provide strong evidence that ocean acidification caused by carbon dioxide emissions will severely slow coral reef growth in the future unless we make steep and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions,» said first author Albright.
Years earlier, one climate researcher at the company, Henry Shaw, had called management's attention to a key conclusion of a landmark National Academy of Sciences report: global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions, not a scarcity of supply, would likely set the ultimate limit on the use of fossil fuels.
«The earth cools, the earth warms... It could be caused by carbon dioxide or methane.
Tim Ball was a student of H.H. Lamb, who pioneered the modern study of climate change before it was taken over by those promoting dangerous global warming caused by carbon dioxide (CO2).
Climate change, caused by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases humans have emitted, is expected to increase certain types of extreme weather, leading to more disasters, according to a report being assembled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The Charney Report stated that numerical modelers of global climate had estimated that the modest warming caused by carbon dioxide would be greatly amplified by a more powerful warming from an increase in water vapor, particularly in the tropics.
While concentrations of methane in the atmosphere are about 200 times lower than carbon dioxide, methane was responsible for 60 % of the equivalent radiative forcing caused by carbon dioxide since the onset of the Industrial Revolution.
«Just how large this role is, must still be investigated, since, according to our latest knowledge on the variations of the solar magnetic field, the significant increase in the Earth's temperature since 1980 is indeed to be ascribed to the greenhouse effect caused by carbon dioxide
The Nature commentary by Penner et al. on which this argument is based actually says that on top of the global warming caused by carbon dioxide, other short - lived pollutants (such as methane and black carbon) cause an additional warming approximately 65 % as much as CO2, and other short - lived pollutants (such as aerosols) also cause some cooling.
We need knowledge based on evidence and not guesswork of how much warming is caused by carbon dioxide, versus solar output and other factors, and of how much climate change we could produce by controlling carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Ocean acidification is caused by carbon dioxide pollution and it's associated with a decline in calcium carbonate, which coral use to make their tough sheaths.
Ocean acidification is mainly caused by carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere dissolving into the ocean.
It's caused by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases polluting the atmosphere.
But even La Nina years now are warmer than El Niño years several decades ago because of the long - term warming caused by carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases emitted into the atmosphere.
A LITTLE good news on the climate front, for once: some marine creatures may adapt surprisingly well to ocean acidification caused by carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.
The technique seeks to inject sulfur into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and offset the warming caused by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
They used these factors to derive a simple model for resulting temperature change caused by the carbon dioxide and methane released by a particular plant.
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.

Not exact matches

Increased ocean acidification caused by the absorption of carbon dioxide causes bleaching, too.
The new report «Lights Out for the Reef», written by University of Queensland coral reef biologist Selina Ward, noted that reefs were vulnerable to several different effects of climate change; including rising sea temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the ocean, which causes acidification.
As the carbon dioxide tries to escape from the dough, the gluten (which has been properly activated during the autolyse and by stretching and folding) expands and captures this gas, causing wonderful holes (aka crumb).
If average warming is instead caused by increased carbon dioxide, then a cooling trend is unlikely to start on its own.
The carbon they produce when building their chalk plates even helps buffer the increasing acidity in the ocean caused by excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
They found that the carbon dioxide - caused warming exceeds the amount of heat released by a lump of coal in just 34 days.
The request also calls for cuts in international climate programs such as SilvaCarbon, a forest assistance program supported by the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Forest Service, and they are all links in a chain that is working toward providing effective measures of human - caused carbon dioxide emissions.
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.
Two potential scenarios: gas seeping from the liquid solution, like carbon dioxide escaping from an open soda can, and a pressure difference caused by the slow freezing of liquids.
Extracting carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust and storing it underground may be the only hope to avoid a climate change catastrophe caused by burning fossil fuels
Already, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas, are approaching 400 ppm, and at least the amount of warming caused by that level is likely by century's end.
It may takes tens of thousands of years for oceans to recover from the acidity caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide
The U.S. EPA is considering stiffening standards for the ocean acidification caused by rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere
«However, ocean warming cancelled this benefit of elevated carbon dioxide by causing stress to the animals, making them less efficient feeders and preventing the extra energy produced by the plants from travelling through the food web to the fish.
In the past, some people have argued that the increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air would be partially offset by an increase in plant growth, caused by that additional (CO2): increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere should work like extra fertilizer and lead to increased plant growth.
The cooling effect of a grand minimum is only a fraction of the warming effect caused by the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
This balance is threatened by increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, which causes ocean acidification (decreasing ocean pH).
However, carbon dioxide fertilization isn't the only cause of increased plant growth — nitrogen, land cover change and climate change by way of global temperature, precipitation and sunlight changes all contribute to the greening effect.
Doubling of the carbon dioxide concentration will cause global plant photosynthesis to increase by about one third, according to a paper published in the journal Nature.
Ocean acidification, another change caused by the oceans» uptake of carbon dioxide, also hurts corals.
After the Geneva meeting, he claimed that Pearce's work shows that a doubling of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere by the middle of the next century would cause damage from climate change valued at between 1.5 and 2 per cent of «gross world product».
Critics argue that albedo modification and other «geoengineering» schemes are risky and would discourage nations from trying to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas that comes from the burning of fossil fuels and that is causing global warming by absorbing increasing amounts of energy from sunlight.
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