Sentences with phrase «compound carbon dioxide increase»

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Either way, this finding means that increasing levels of carbon dioxide can affect trees both indirectly through global warming and directly as a chemical compound.

Dams; rising temperatures and carbon dioxide concentrations; droughts; and increased runoff of nutrients from urban and agricultural lands are all compounding the problem.

When carbon dioxide dissolves into the ocean, it triggers chemical reactions that reduce the pH (increasing its acidity) while also reducing the availability of compounds such as carbonate.

Although carbon dioxide increases are the largest driver of modern climate change, changes in the abundance of many other compounds also play a role.

6 Ice age — time in the past when continental glaciers covered large parts of Earth's surface Global warming — a gradual increase in the temperature of Earth's atmosphere Greenhouse gas — Gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, that trap solar energy Ozone hole — a large area of reduced ozone concentration in the stratosphere, found over Antarctica Chlorofluorocarbon — chlorine compounds that are the main cause of ozone depletion KEY TERMS

They assumed that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide — the main global warming gas — will increase by 1 percent per year, compounded yearly.

No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single - minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control... The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science.