Sentences with phrase «effect of carbon dioxide as»

The IPCC define the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide as a forcing and the greenhouse effect of water vapour as a feedback.
To any unprejudiced person reading this account, the facts should be obvious: that the non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide as a sustainer of wildlife and crop plants are enormously beneficial, that the possibly harmful climatic effects of carbon dioxide have been greatly exaggerated, and that the benefits clearly outweigh the possible damage.

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The increase in carbon dioxide that is now occurring is expected to have dramatic consequences for life on Earth as a result of the so - called greenhouse effect which will make the Earth hotter.
But the impact these gases have on the climate has until now not been as widely studied as the effects of carbon dioxide emissions.
Random fluctuations and three physical reasons come into question to explain this: The model calculations are based on different amounts of radiant energy from the sun that impinge on Earth's surface and are stored as a result of the greenhouse effect, e.g. due to atmospheric carbon dioxide.
The indirect effects of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, such as changes in soil moisture and plant structure, can have a bigger impact on ecosystems than previously thought.
Freshwater such as lakes, though, receive various sources of carbon dioxide from decomposing organic and inorganic matter swept into them, which makes it hard for scientists to distinguish between the direct effects of rising atmospheric CO2 and these other elements.
Hwang also considered metal oxide frameworks that trap carbon dioxide molecules, but they had the unfortunate side effect of capturing the desired methane as well and they are far too expensive to make for this application.
«The problem with [the skeptics»] argument is that it's as if you can cherry - pick the CO2 fertilization effect from the overall effect of adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere,» Myers says.
«These effects include wasted resources, foregone revenue and outsized emissions of carbon dioxide as well as local pollutants such as sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides.
And so the irony then is that as we burn cleaner sources of fuel, we don't help keep carbon dioxide's effects down, is that right?
This effect makes the atmosphere act somewhat like a blanket that becomes thicker when amounts of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, such as methane and nitrous oxide, increase.
Hansen has studied other effects of seasonal carbon - dioxide ice on Mars, such as spider - shaped features that result from explosive release of carbon - dioxide gas trapped beneath a sheet of dry ice as the underside of the sheet thaws in spring.
The theory of dangerous climate change is based not just on carbon dioxide warming but on positive and negative feedback effects from water vapor and phenomena such as clouds and airborne aerosols from coal burning.
It's not clear how much of a greenhouse effect that would produce, but it's a good bet that Earth would be a lot warmer — much as it would be, say, if there were no plants drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
The behavioral effects of such interventions are currently estimated as the most cost - effective way to prevent a metric ton of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere.
The results might not have immediate repercussions — nitrogen trifluoride currently adds 0.04 percent of the global warming effect created by carbon dioxide emitted from sources such as coal - burning power plants and cars.
A new study in Canada has found that some hydroelectric reservoirs give off as much carbon dioxide and methane — the two most important causes of the man - made greenhouse effectas coal - fired power stations producing a similar amount of electricity.
BURNING UP The heat radiated by burning fossil fuels such as natural gas, shown, is overshadowed within months by the greenhouse gas effect of the released carbon dioxide, new research shows.
As it does, it could release tons of additional methane gas, which has 20 times the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide, possibly increasing the rate of global warming.
Functioning as a ballast, these platelets are important for the carbon transport to the deep ocean — and thus for the ability of the oceans to take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mitigate the effects of climate change.
7It is particularly ironic that Lomborg would offer such a ridiculously precise estimate of the cost of the impacts of climate change from carbon dioxide emissions, inasmuch as the entire thrust of his books chapter on «global warming» is that practically nothing about the effects of greenhouse gases is known with certainty.
However, a new University of Minnesota study with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than scientists previously believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open - air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.
Figuring out just how long the continent has been a barren, cold desert of ice can give clues as to how Antarctica responded to the effects of past climates and can perhaps also indicate what to expect there in the future as Earth's atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide grows.
As future climate changes become more severe, people might become interested in ways of offsetting the effects of human - induced climate, which could be cheaper than measures to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
Geoengineering methods that don't remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere don't undo the other effects of high atmosphere carbon - dioxide concentrations such as ocean acidification, and our ability to adequately control geoengineering with sunlight - reflecting particles is not certain.
Greenhouse effect The warming of Earth's atmosphere due to the buildup of heat - trapping gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane.
Or at least it won't for many centuries, as the long - lived nature of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means that its effects will be felt for many human generations, absent efforts to curb emissions or use
As one of the largest national research programmes on this topic, the project has been instrumental in quantifying the effects of «the other carbon dioxide problem» on marine life and in unravelling the underlying mechanisms.
His research interests include studying the interactions between El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the monsoons of Asia; identifying possible effects on global climate of changing human factors, such as carbon dioxide, as well as natural factors, such as solar variability; and quantifying possible future changes of weather and climate extremes in a warmer climate.
As the temperature rises, water vapor evaporates at a higher rate, raising the water vapor content of the atmosphere, further amplifying the the increased greenhouse effect of the additional carbon dioxide.
The discovery team presumes that VP113 has an icy reflective surface like other relatively small, outer Solar System objects, as the dwarf planet is observed to have a pink tinge, which is hypothesized to result from chemical changes produced by the effect of radiation on frozen water, methane, and carbon dioxide.
As there is no yeast to raise the loaf the production of carbon dioxide from the chemical reaction of bicarbonate of soda and acid (citric acid from lemon juice, lactic acid from buttermilk or yoghurt or tartaric acid as cream of soda, or even a teaspoonful or two of vinegar) will have the same effecAs there is no yeast to raise the loaf the production of carbon dioxide from the chemical reaction of bicarbonate of soda and acid (citric acid from lemon juice, lactic acid from buttermilk or yoghurt or tartaric acid as cream of soda, or even a teaspoonful or two of vinegar) will have the same effecas cream of soda, or even a teaspoonful or two of vinegar) will have the same effect.
The metabolic effects of a ketogenic diet imply a higher - than - usual oxidation of fats, which leads in turn to reduced respiratory exchange ratio values.20, 97 Metabolic carbon dioxide output may be calculated as the product of alveolar ventilation multiplied by the fractional alveolar carbon dioxide concentration.
These findings at least suggest potential useful effects of this diet in patients with increased carbon dioxide, arterial partial - pressure values as a consequence of respiratory failure.
As if the title weren't misleading enough, the article goes on to say that «Many scientists believe the burning of fossil fuels is causing an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, triggering... the greenhouse effect
So to the fires burning in Russia will have worldwide effects as the torched peat bogs whose layers consist of dead plant materials will end up releasing large quantities of carbon dioxide into the air accelerating the greenhouse effect and making the air nearly unbreathable.
How many people know how water vapor and carbon dioxide relate (or don't relate) to each other as they both relate to the temperature of the Earth's climate and to the greenhouse effect?
The net effect is that a mature forest, such as those filling the Amazon Basin, is in effect in the constant process of converting harmful carbon dioxide into the much more harmful and dangerous gas, methane.
For example, it treates ice sheets as a boundary condition and therefore ignores the fact that over time the ice sheets respond, amplifying the effects our of anthropogenic pulse of carbon dioxide.
«The course of world temperatures during the next twenty years should afford valuable evidence as to the accuracy of the calculated effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide
As a further rebuttal of the influence of carbon dioxide over the climate, the alleged greenhouse effect is a non-existent effect.
Rather than engaging in endlessly nitpicking, unproductive arguments over unknowns such as the logarithmic exponent describing the almost nonexistent / nonexistent effect of carbon dioxide on temperature, and the «estimate» of CO2 sensitivity, let's look at empirical evidence, and the big picture: CO2 is rising, and the planet's temperature is falling.
Because Arctic warming is not greenhouse warming it follows that no observations of Arctic warming can be used as proof that carbon dioxide greenhouse effect exists.
Between 1990 and 2015, the bulletin says, there was a 37 percent increase in radiative forcing — the warming effect on the climate — because of long - lived greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide from industrial, agricultural and domestic activities.
They regard this as evidence of the validity of the» greenhouse» effect, in which increasing amounts of carbon dioxide cause steady temperature increases.
We all have been told that the greenhouse effect is due to the absorption of outgoing infrared radiation by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
After all this time, some decades, and this is level of «science» you are all reduced to in claiming that there is such a thing as the Greenhouse Effect — so what that water and carbon dioxide imbibe thermal infrared?
And as to his claim that there may be «places around the world where global warming will lead to less crop success and yield, even when taking into account the carbon dioxide fertilization effect,» he appears to be equally ignorant that rising levels of atmospheric CO2 tend to raise the temperature of optimum plant photosynthesis beyond the predicted temperature values associated with global warming, effectively nullifying this worn out claim (Idso & Idso, 2011).
Disputes within climate science concern the nature and magnitude of feedback processes involving clouds and water vapor, uncertainties about the rate at which the oceans take up heat and carbon dioxide, the effects of air pollution, and the nature and importance of climate change effects such as rising sea level, increasing acidity of the ocean, and the incidence of weather hazards such as floods, droughts, storms, and heat waves.
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