Sentences with phrase «dioxide buildup»

D'Aleo's fundamental premise is that although there is a global warming trend there is not a strong causal relationship between that trend and carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere.

GM remains opposed to the Kyoto agreement but acknowledges that carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere could be changing the world's climate.

«I went from office to office in Washington, curves of the carbon dioxide buildup in hand, Weinberg wrote.

Some scientists who question whether the carbon dioxide buildup poses a danger to corals stress that corals have endured for hundreds of millions of years.

I reached out to Pierrehumbert because he is one of many authors of «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful energy.

The vast majority of research in recent decades on the carbon dioxide buildup has been focused on the atmospheric impacts of the accumulating greenhouse - gas blanket even though the vast majority of the heated trapped by these gases has gone first into the seas — and the drop in seawater pH driven by CO2 has been a clear signal of substantial environmental change.

In part, my article, «How We Ran Out of Airtime,» considers the current human - generated carbon dioxide buildup in relation to a tumultuous period of atmospheric disruption triggered by another life form some 2.4 billion years ago.

The carbon dioxide buildup is changing the chemistry of surface seawater, lowering its pH in a way that, in theory, could be harmful to the shell - forming and reef - forming marine organisms of today's ocean ecosystem.

How about BAU with carbon dioxide buildup partially masked by aerosol - induced global dimming, building climate crisis leading to a major economic recession?

Cynthia Rosenzweig, a researcher based at Goddard, has been using crop - growth computer models to predict effects of carbon dioxide buildup and climate change on wheat, the most widely cultivated crop in the world.

«The Paleocene - Eocene thermal maximum has stood out as a striking, but contested, example of how 21st - century - style atmospheric carbon dioxide buildup can affect climate, environments and ecosystems worldwide,» says Bowen, an associate professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah.

Not exact matches

However, mainly because until recently carbon dioxide was thought to be harmless, the buildup of CO2 is often even higher.

He could suffocate, or rebreathe his own air, which can cause a dangerous buildup of carbon dioxide.

Soft bedding can pose an unnecessary suffocation hazard to children, as well as limit fresh air causing a potentially fatal buildup of exhaled air (carbon dioxide) that when re-breathed is one of the leading cause of SIDS.

One science objective, agency officials say, could be to study Venus's carbon dioxide — rich atmosphere to glean insights into the buildup of the greenhouse gas in our planet's atmosphere.

Although fossil - fuel combustion has generated most of the buildup of climate - altering carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, effective solutions will require more than just designing cleaner energy sources.

But additional buildup of coal - to - natural - gas projects could also create an environmental nightmare because producing the gas will emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide and worsen the water crisis in China's arid western regions.

Natural geochemical processes that result in the slow buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide may have caused past geologic intervals of global warming through the greenhouse effect

Since the late 1970s, when he became the Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, Broecker had been sounding the alarm about a buildup of carbon dioxide in the big atmosphere.

These are a significant contributor to industrial carbon dioxide emissions, which add to the buildup of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere.

In 1980, Exxon assembled a team of climate modelers who investigated fundamental questions about the climate's sensitivity to the buildup of carbon dioxide in the air.

The burning of fossil fuels has been leading to a buildup of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere.

Greenhouse effect The warming of Earth's atmosphere due to the buildup of heat - trapping gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane.

Not all countries contribute equally to the buildup of excess carbon dioxide.

When speaking about the buildup of carbon dioxide and other gases in the Earth's atmosphere, Goreham correctly told NEPPA members that greenhouse emissions only make up a small fraction of the atmosphere, but wrongfully deduced that this means they could not have any significant impact on the planet.

As Devon explains, «when a person's lungs can not effectively remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the body, the CO2 becomes a large buildup, almost like a blockage.»

The proof of concept study represents a promising route to mitigate the buildup of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas in the environment, said researchers.

Over time continued shallow breathing can lead to a buildup of carbon dioxide.

The Earth's climate is predicted to change over time, in part because human activities are altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the buildup of greenhouse gases - primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

But HFCs remain a small contributor to meeting the grand challenge of stabilizing climate, with many centuries of heating of the climate and oceans being driven predominantly by the unrelenting buildup of long - lasting carbon dioxide, as Raymond Pierrehumbert of Oxford University and others have shown.

[4:19 p.m. Updated * I realized that these phrases could be misinterpreted as meaning I don't think aggressive action is needed to blunt and eventually stop the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

[2:38 p.m. Updated Raymond Pierrehumbert of the University of Chicago has a fresh post on Realclimate warning that a shift in the talks toward focusing on «low - hanging fruit» and away from the unrelenting buildup of carbon dioxide is actually raising the long - term warming threat.]

1) Suppose humans are not heating the climate and oceans through the buildup of heat - trapping carbon dioxide.

Despite a long string of years in which Republican leaders and candidates bashed global warming science, the platform adopted on July 18 has no section characterizing — one way or the other — the party's view of risks from an unabated buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

He asserts that these dynamic biological communities, long heralded as the rain forests of the sea, are doomed «zombie ecosystems» — with the triple whammy of overfishing, pollution and ocean acidification from the global buildup of carbon dioxide bound to overwhelm conservationists» efforts.

Britain's Royal Society has published a helpful new collection of papers in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B that provide fresh insights on how the global buildup of carbon dioxide released by human activities could affect ocean ecology.

The review, which is being published in the journal Science on Friday, concludes that the human - driven buildup of carbon dioxide under way now appears to be far outpacing past natural events, meaning that, for ocean chemistry particularly, the biological implications are potentially enormous — and laden with the kind of uncertainty that is hard to see as a source of comfort.

As the post explains, Broecker's 1975 paper appears to have been the first in the scientific literature to use the term «global warming» to describe climate change driven by the buildup of human - generated carbon dioxide.

I'll be writing more on the scope of what would have to happen to stop the buildup of carbon dioxide at just about any of the concentration peaks that have been tossed around lately as either «safe» or not totally calamitous.

All of them, for the moment, are costly or hard to envision at the billion - tons - a-year scale that would be needed to blunt the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere coming mainly from fuel burning.

In «Cool It,» Lomborg breezily ticks down a laundry list of high - tech ways to engineer the atmosphere, for example, but punts on the tougher questions related to such planet - scale enterprises — such as the inevitable diplomatic dispute over who sets the planetary thermostat and how blocking the sun does nothing to stem the buildup of carbon dioxide, much of which will stay in the atmosphere for many centuries.

The most indirect impact of all is coming through the global buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which are altering the climate and ocean chemistry with long - lasting repercussions.

As for the ethics of all of this, Donald A. Brown of Pennsylvania State University argues that the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases are morally obligated to curb carbon dioxide and similar emissions based on the level of certainty that is already established on the impacts of those emissions — most of which will be in poorer places with small contributions to the human - caused gas buildup in the atmosphere.

Luckily it's still too early to describe the ongoing buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases as the great Carbon Dioxide Catastrophe.

In my recent chat with Ed Miliband, the lead British climate official here, I mentioned my piece from awhile ago examining how even a best - case scenario for emissions of carbon dioxide in a world with that many people leads to an enormous buildup of the gas.

When I was at the zoo last week, I asked a lawyer from the conservation society whether it might be best to think of these credits as «conservation credits,» given the persistent questions about the utility of carbon trading in limiting the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Addressing the buildup of carbon dioxide is truly a «super wicked» problem, as Kelly Levin, Richard Lazarus and other scholars began pointing out years ago.

[UPDATED 6/23, 9:30 a.m.] Twenty years ago today, James E. Hansen testified before the Senate Energy Committee — in a room kept intentionally warm by committee staff — that the atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels and forests was already perceptibly influencing Earth's climate.

Here's the most important line from Annan's Dot Earth comment, in which he notes how recent events point to less warming from a given buildup of carbon dioxide:

I argued that the pipeline issue, which will confront President Obama later this year as he decides whether to approve the project, is a distraction from the core issues involving our energy future and is largely insignificant if your concern is averting a buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.