Sentences with phrase «data about carbon»

Until recently, these trends were extremely difficult to calculate due to a lack of data about carbon dioxide in coastal waters.

To understand where that carbon dioxide is going, we need precise, comprehensive, ongoing data about carbon dioxide absorption and emission by forests, the ocean and many other regions.

Not exact matches

Indeed, he argues that the pilots in China are less about creating carbon markets and more about gathering data.

The impact of these results is wide - reaching, and Dr Pullen suggests that it may even change how we think about global climate data: «Climate models need to incorporate genetic elements because at present most do not, and their predictions would be much improved with a better understanding of plant carbon demand.»

Photo: Reuters I last raised the issue of a carbon price in «What Unconventional Fuels Tell Us About the Global Energy System», which added several data points to Charles C.

Kyoto regulates all sources of carbon dioxide as well as other greenhouse gases, but reliable long - term data by country are available only for carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels (which accounts for about two - thirds of the human contribution to global warming).

The ultimate goal for OCO - 2 is to provide data so that organizations and individuals throughout the world can make better - informed decisions about carbon.»

But if all the beaver dams were occupied with their wetlands intact, her previous data suggest, beaver meadows would be storing about 23 % of the landscape's soil carbon, an estimated 2.7 million metric tons of organic carbon.

Data obtained from research shows that there is more carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere than has ever been present in more than three - million years, and scientists are increasingly becoming more concerned about the rise in the average temperature of the Earth.

March 20, 2018 Researchers analyzed dissolved organic carbon from water column samples collected in five regions to establish baseline data about its relative persistence and cycling in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

The new ALMA data, however, provide much greater clarity, unveiling important details about the distribution and high - velocity motion of the carbon monoxide (CO) gas inside the streamers.

According to the official data sheets, the E63 S weighs 4,515 pounds, about 145 pounds heavier than the new M5, which itself has shed 33 pounds thanks in part to its carbon fiber roof.

Let's start with a brief overview of the most important data and facts about the increase in the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere:

«Data from GPS measurements and carbon dating of marsh sediments indicate that regional land subsidence in response to glacial isostatic adjustment in the southern Chesapeake Bay region may have a current rate of about 1 mm / yr (Engelhart and others, 2009; Engelhart and Horton, 2012).

There is definitely more to learn about how climate behaves and there are now data sets for ocean warming and carbon dioxide distribution that could benefit from better surface temperature measurements.

Using these accepted values and the PETM carbon data, the researchers found that the models could only explain about half of the warming that Earth experienced 55 million years ago.

The benefits of manipulating the data about the effectiveness of carbon sequestration are too great for profit - driven companies to resist and the incentive to consider the «seventh generation» is too little.

Aspects of his comment may be unwelcome to just about everyone in one way or another, but I think it is worth noting that he says that the data issues don't detract from clear evidence of a long - term warming trend and that carbon dioxide is «a major climate forcing» (along with many others):

Every bit of data is in fact about the long term future of all leading AGW scientists, their lifestyle and importance... and of course the excuse for politicians to use AGW as a means for taxation and for the various stock exchanges to trade in carbon offsets.

Jane Burston, Head of the Centre for Carbon Measurement at the National Physical Laboratory, spoke to Climate Action about how the NPL is reducing uncertainty in climate data and helping to develop low carbon technologies.

The work in question takes measurements from one locale, and doesn't publish conclusions, rather Doney's statements are giving his opinion about what he read, «Long - term ocean acidification trends are clearly evident over the past several decades in open - ocean time - series and hydrographic survey data, and the trends are consistent with the growth rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide (Dore et al., 2009).»

The key pieces of empirical data are that average global temperature has now failed to increase for 17 years despite an accompanying increase of about 8 % in carbon dioxide which represents 34 % of all the human emissions since the start of the industrial revolution (NIPCC SPM, Figure 6).

Federal Climate Emergency Declaration petition including actions data People who sign this petition can also answer a few quick questions about how they reduce their carbon emissions.

New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now.

My other point to him at the time was that the Industrial Revolution was actually quite limited and that it wasn't until the forties last century that industry spread, but he ignored this as he ignored the email about getting rid of the MWP and LIA and when I found the Vostok data, and began to appreciate the great cycles within our Ice Age, he dismissed these too and came back to the claim that our temps had been «flat normal» and our fault that we were changing this by our increased production of carbon dioxide as the Hockey Stick showed.

Stories about the lives of people and communities helped by carbon offset projects can be very compelling, but must also include reliable data alongside the narrative.

But, if we can reduce the uncertainty about the carbon sinks, our data could be used to verify the effectiveness of climate mitigations policies.»

Dr. Theodore A. Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, said the long life of Larsen B «makes you think there's something particularly unusual about this warming» — perhaps evidence that the warming has been brought on by artificial emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.

Technological advances make it possible to deliver ocean carbon data real - time but questions about instrument reliability and data quality limit this practice at this moment.

I have done enough work in recent years on technical, geological, historical and archeological data sets to have real concern about carbon dioxide being the root cause of the global warming seen from about 1978 to 1998.

Recent astronomical data has indicated that water worlds are likely to be abundant across the cosmos, which has raised questions about how the carbon cycle would function, for example, on a planet covered in 200 km of water.

That stubborn error in the satellite data is about six times larger than what is scientifically possible, and several times larger than the effect scientists are trying to see, namely planetary warming caused by continued massive emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Christine Milne makes some interesting assertions about 25 % cuts not being much more expensive than 5 % cuts, and how 40 + % is for the best if you're ultimately going for carbon neutrality, and I hope that her Senate inquiry produces some support for these assertions, or at least some relevant data, but for now they're just assertions.

4) July 13, 2010: Despite his claim that it was about fraud and not about science, Cuccinelli relies on blog - science in a brief filed with the court, arguing that Mann and his colleagues have manipulated scientific data for years to back the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions.

Since the EPA proposed a baseline year of 2005, 13 states and the District have cut carbon emissions by about 30 percent or more, according to a Sierra Club compilation of Energy Information Administration data.

Indeed, if one excludes carbon, global biocapacity exceeds the footprint of consumption by about 45 % in 2008 (the latest year for which data are available) and by an average of 69 % over the period from 1961 to 2008.

Other issues with CCS include the lack of data about what might happen once carbon is stored underground, as well as the lack of regulation outlining who would be responsible if a carbon leak were to occur.

(16) Examination of historical data for coke plant operations indicates that about 10 percent of the carbon in coking coal remains in non - energy byproducts.

Users can see basic data that is organized intuitively, or, as they become more comfortable with the website, highly detailed information about their carbon footprint.

Why This Is A Really Big Deal It is really difficult to find carbon footprint information about everything we use and consume, and it is even harder to see and understand how that data is calculated to ensure it is accurate.