Sentences with phrase «causes additional carbon»

Frederike Böhm Department of Philosophy, Kiel University I like to follow the concept «reduce — reuse — recycle» when it comes to consumption: borrowing, sharing or buying second - hand are often good alternatives to purchasing new things, the production of which causes additional carbon dioxide emissions and use resources.

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The release of that carbon can, in turn, cause additional warming and the release of more carbon, something scientists call a positive feedback loop.

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.

Meeting this demand without causing extensive air pollution or additional carbon emissions will require expanded use of nuclear power.

And that additional water vapour would in turn cause further warming - this being a positive feedback, in which carbon dioxide acts as a direct regulator of temperature, and is then joined in that role by more water vapour as temperatures increase.

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.

Their unwillingness to take immediate action is intellectually and morally bankrupt because unless carbon emissions are stopped very soon (remember that the damage is cumulative so continuing to emit at current of even reduced rates still causes additional damage hundreds if not thousands of years into the future.)

Additional carbon dioxide uptake causes direct changes in seawater acid - base and inorganic carbon chemistry in a process termed ocean acidification.

As the ocean and airs warm, these carbon stores release causing a massive spike of additional greenhouse gasses to hit the atmosphere and setting off ever - more - rampant heating.

Very few (1 - 2 points) of ice core C13 data (Francey tellus, 99) suggest that this drawdown was caused by additional terrestrial carbon storage (Joos et al, GRL, 99; Trudinger, Tellus, 99).

The greenhouse effect from that extra water vapor will then cause additional warming that gets added to the original warming from carbon dioxide.

If carbon dioxide causes warming, additional CO2 should produce additional warming.

And that additional water vapour would in turn cause further warming - this being a positive feedback, in which carbon dioxide acts as a direct regulator of temperature, and is then joined in that role by more water vapour as temperatures increase.

But Increases Ones Which Cause Acid Rain The bad news is that if you take the entire lifecycle of a CO2 - burying plant — the «cradle to grave» pollution which takes into account the extra energy required mine additional coal and bring it to the power plant — emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxides were 40 % greater than a modern coal plant not set up to capture carbon.

In short order they established a cap and trade program (the Kyoto Protocol) to tax carbon emissions, plus demanded additional economic penance from developed countries for all that climate damage their prosperity is causing.

Unless Germany brought an additional 40 billion kWh of generation from its older, more carbon - intensive coal - fired power plants offline, this planned uptick in fossil fuel generation would cause the country's overall carbon emissions to rise by as much as 14 % of the country's 2008 total carbon emissions (33 million tons of CO2), illustrated in Figure 1 below.