Sentences with phrase «effects on the carbon»

That would seem to be a boon for Keystone, since a preliminary assessment by the U.S. State Department concluded its effect on carbon emissions would be negligible.

The idea is to incentivize the state's agricultural industry to reduce its effect on carbon emissions, rather than penalize it for not taking action.

«Those will have profound effects on carbon dioxide emissions,» Stavins said, «because they'll reduce investment in new coal and slow the use of existing coal.»

Investigations of this event suggested that climate extreme events have a much stronger effect on the carbon cycle than previously assumed.

Unfortunately, RECs are almost entirely non-additional (e.g. the wind turbines producing them in Iowa would have been built independent of the REC income stream), so buying RECs has no real effect on carbon dioxide emissions.

[Response: We suggest an emphasis on adaptation over mitigation for grasslands in particular, especially where precipitation is relatively low, because they fluctuate annually between weak sources and sinks and the extensive management strategies applied have minimal effects on carbon balance.

Can anyone point me to literature that models and quantifies the impact of this effect on carbon capture?

We also have the question of if the phytoplankton is not killed; but, just «mamed a little» by UV, would this have a negative effect on the carbon fixing level of activity?

In turn, the heating has effects on the carbon cycle.

This caused a rapid increase in vegetation in 2011, which the team thought might have a significant effect on carbon uptake.

A June report from the National Academies found that numerous federal programs designed to increase energy efficiency or promote renewable fuels have almost no effect on carbon emissions — or, in some cases, actually increase emissions.

The problem is that we don't know enough about effects on the carbon cycle via positive feedbacks e.g. melting permafrost, rainforest deforestation, peat forest destruction, etc..

«The implications are that wildfire management may help offset rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, and climate change does not appear to have a large positive effect on carbon storage.»

Furthermore, we found no relationship between δ13C and δ18O (linear mixed effect model, coefficient = − 0.012, df = 82, p = 0.925) when we structured the analysis by individual, a result that might have indicated metabolic effects on carbon and oxygen isotopes (e.g. [23]-RRB-.

«Our results show that increasing temperatures have a large effect on carbon release from permafrost, but that changes in soil moisture conditions have an even greater effect,» Dr Schädel says.

Considering, the ETS has no effect on carbon emissions, you would have to conclude this in itself is a strong endorsement of the fact, that carbon is benign to the environment.

Lots of things change between the glacials and interglacials, and some of them have opposing effects on carbon fluxes.

For each basic model we assume the anthropogenic emission (a) is having insignificant effect on the carbon cycle, and (b) is affecting the carbon cycle to induce the observed rise in the Mauna Loa data.

The rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration is induced by a variation in the unquantified undersea volcanic sulphur emission which causes a known effect on the carbon cycle.

However, there is a wide range of response to CO2, even in the absence of climate change effects on the carbon cycle.

Some of this gas inevitably escaped into the environment, even though it was trapped as well as possible, and since it is about 17000 times as powerful as a global warming gas as CO 2, it had an effect on the carbon footprints of the cells.

Researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) have quantified the transformation of the boreal landscape by open - pit oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada to evaluate its effect on carbon storage and sequestration.

The trouble is that the carbon tax proposed by the Greens would have no effect on carbon dioxide emissions.

Not exact matches

Baccini went on to say that forests were the only carbon capture and storage «technology» we had in our grasp that was «safe, proven, inexpensive, immediately available at scale, and capable of providing beneficial ripple effects.»

Utley's firm just received FDA clearance for an over-the-counter carbon monoxide breathalyzer — a device that smokers using the company's new Pivot cessation program would use to see the effect that smoking has on the carbon monoxide level in their blood streams.

The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 years.

Industry advocates often blame the Obama administration's «war on coal,» specifically two signature policies to reduce fossil fuels» carbon emissions — the Clean Power Plan, which never went into effect before the Trump administration moved to eliminate it altogether, and the Paris Climate Agreement, from which the United States has withdrawn.

Having quoted the invariably profound, long - term Sunday Times journalist, Bryan Appleyard, to the effect that «matter evolved in an elaborate, finely tuned conspiracy to produce air - breathing, carbon based life forms possessed of self - consciousness» he goes on to state that «Living matter, or living beings, are purpose driven».

On the average each person contributes two metric tons of carbon dioxide a year of which one ton gets into the upper atmosphere to contribute to the greenhouse effect.

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.

Agriculture has expanded into sensitive ecosystems and had far - reaching effects on biodiversity and carbon storage.

The review of relevant research conducted by Stolze et al. (2000) concludes that under European conditions organic agriculture has beneficial effects on the characteristics of soil organic matter because the soil organic carbon content is higher on organically farmed soils than on conventional ones.

In addition to the effect on soil from tilling, emissions from the farm tractors increases carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

On 1 July this year NCOS came into effect.1 It is designed to give Australian businesses, particularly farm businesses, opportunities to develop offset credits for voluntary carbon markets.

«We put out a letter to our customers and told them about the carbon tax effect and we were told quite clearly they were not going to accept price increases,» said Mr Northrop, who runs electrical cabling manufacturer Tycab Australia on Melbourne's outstkirts.

Louisville Slugger tweaked the standard titanium design by utilizing a re-enforced carbon polymer that provided better durability, a better weight distribution, less «sting» on the hands, a wider and longer «sweet spot,» and an even more potent trampolining effect, spawning even more composites.

Liberal Democrat environment spokesman Chris Huhne says carbon offsetting must be more than just a fashion statement if it is to have a real positive effect on climate change.

Ensure that the tradable emission permits under Governor Pataki's proposed regional carbon cap are auctioned rather than given away with the proceeds used to mitigate negative distributional effects on low and moderate income households and to serve other economically and socially important purposes.

Tenney called new Environmental Protection Agency regulations of carbon emissions from power plants «a job killer» that would not have much of an effect on the climate.

To explore what these new findings could mean for soil carbon storage in a warming world, the team compared output from a soil model that includes the effect of temperature on microbial lifespan to models unaffected by temperature change.

On 28 May, a Japanese governmental advisory body laid out options for the mix of energy sources in 2030, along with projected effects on the economy and carbon dioxide emissionOn 28 May, a Japanese governmental advisory body laid out options for the mix of energy sources in 2030, along with projected effects on the economy and carbon dioxide emissionon the economy and carbon dioxide emissions.

Some observers quietly worry that, under Trump, a new focus on climate engineering could become part of a justification for delaying government action to curb carbon emissions, with the reasoning that geoengineering technologies could later be used to remove carbon from the atmosphere, or prevent the warming effects of solar radiation.

GREENHOUSE GASSED In a long - running field experiment in Minnesota, scientists are studying the effects of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on plots of grassland.

The findings suggest that effective new greenhouse gas controls could help lessen the effects of climate change on the release of carbon from soils of the northern permafrost region and therefore decrease the potential for a positive feedback of permafrost carbon release on climate warming.

But the impact these gases have on the climate has until now not been as widely studied as the effects of carbon dioxide emissions.

«But if, as global circulation models suggest, drying continues, our results provide evidence that this could degrade the Amazonian forest canopies, which would have cascading effects on global carbon and climate dynamics.»

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.

Ocean acidification, which is a direct consequence of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, is expected to have a deleterious effect on many marine species over the next century.

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.

Because of that, they haven't allowed an accurate assessment of the effects of climate change on carbon in the region.