Sentences with phrase «emissions of carbon dioxide into»

There are two primary externalities that result from our emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — 1) an enhancement of the greenhouse effect, which results in an alteration of the energy flow in the earth's climate and a general tendency to warm the global average surface temperature, and 2) an enhancement of the rate of photosynthesis in plants and a general tendency to result in more efficient growth and an overall healthier condition of vegetation (including crops).

Anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, however, have disturbed that equilibrium.

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.

But the area where the Met Office really contributes is, given emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, how much stays in the atmosphere and leads to warming?

We can do some work to mitigate the emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

But in the cold light of morning, many will agree that their diplomatic triumph offered little tangible progress to further reduce emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

«The answer is that year, 2013, being the hottest year in Australia ever, was virtually impossible without human emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Of course, burning fossil fuels to produce energy results in the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, tipping the natural balance of annual CO2 flux and leading to a gradual build - up.

Not exact matches

With CCS, instead of releasing carbon dioxide from oil and gas operations into the atmosphere, where the emissions contribute to global warming, that CO2 is converted into liquid and pumped underground to be sequestered indefinitely in porous rock formations.

Basically, it is due to the ever - increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions humanity pumps into the atmosphere.

Los Angeles International Airport has carbon dioxide emissions of nearly 19,000 tons a month, taking into account the use of electricity and natural gas.

Our current emissions trajectory locks Earth into a carbon dioxide level of at least 450 ppm, Ralph Keeling says.

«In the end, a failure to plan adequately for climate change by taking the full cost of carbon dioxide emissions into account will prove far more costly,» said Missirian, a fourth - year sustainable development major.

Experts on greenhouse - gas emissions tell me that every time my car burns a gallon of gasoline, I am putting more than 25 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as well as a smaller amount of methane, nitrous oxide, and various other toxic gases.

Moreover, it would itself involve the expenditure of large amounts of energy and thus the emission of additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Human activities that act on the crust are likely to multiply in the future, Wilson noted, as projects to tap into geothermal sources of energy and to store carbon dioxide emissions become more widespread.

Specifically, the incorporation of this oilseed plant into animal food cuts methane emissions by between 6 % and 13 % and carbon dioxide emissions by between 6.8 % and 13.6 %.

«When taking into account that production of the far smaller batteries of plug - in hybrids is associated with less carbon dioxide emissions than production of the larger batteries of electric vehicles, their carbon dioxide balance is even better,» says Patrick Jochem of KIT's Institute for Industrial Production.

This mass extinction has long been linked to a large and abrupt release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, but the exact source of this emission has been unknown.

So when, in fact, we have to try while still getting all of the energy that we need, we also need to start cutting back on our carbon emissions, and we have to start doing that right away because every year that we delay we are pumping that much more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and getting closer and closer to those thresholds.

As growing carbon dioxide gas emissions have dissolved into the world's oceans, the average acidity of the waters has increased by 30 % since 1750.

Many more complex flows of fluids also come down to the same underlying principles, Juanes says — for example, carbon sequestration, the process of removing carbon dioxide from fossil - fuel emissions and injecting it into underground formations, such as porous rock.

-- The Administrator may promulgate regulations to add to the list of class I and class II, group I, substances that may be destroyed for destruction offset credits, taking into account a candidate substance's carbon dioxide equivalent value, ozone depletion potential, prevalence in banks in the United States, and emission rates, as well as the need for additional cost containment under the class II, group II cap and the integrity of the class II, group II cap.

These regulations shall take into account the total number of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions for which a covered entity is demonstrating compliance temporarily, and may set a limit on this amount.

The Summary for Policymakers states that taking into account additional warming factors, the amount of carbon that can be released through carbon dioxide emissions — in total — comes down to about 800 billion tonnes.

With a budget for carbon dioxide emissions of 800 billion tonnes worth of carbon, and assuming that we had already put 531 billion tonnes into the atmosphere by 2011, it's more accurate to say we've spent two thirds of the budget, not half.

Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science led by Dr. James Liao have developed a more efficient way to turn methanol into useful chemicals, such as liquid fuels, and that would also reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

A test program in Iceland successfully turned a power - plant's emissions of carbon - dioxide gas into solid stone.

If human - caused climate change is to be slowed enough to avert the worst consequences of global warming, carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants and other pollutants will have to be captured and injected deep into the ground to prevent them from being released into the atmosphere.

Participant, NativeEnergy and Warner Bros. partnered in a similar way on Stephen Gaghan's film, Syriana, where 100 % of the carbon dioxide emissions generated by the production were translated into investments into renewable energy.

Thw 1.4 MultiAir engine has and 109g / km in band C carbon dioxide emissions of 139 g / km which puts it into road tax band E with an annual charge of # 130.

[OOOPS; this nonlinear effect puts their «alternative concept» into the realm of Trump administration «alternative facts» — BD] Although the deep ocean could dissolve 70 to 80 % of the expected anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions and the sediments could neutralize another 15 % it takes some 400 years for the deep ocean to exchange with the surface and thousands more for changes in sedimentary calcium carbonate to equilibrate with the atmosphere.

Steel can also be recycled time and time again without loss of quality; by simply recycling our steel cans we can conserve non-renewable fossil fuels, reduce the consumption of energy and the emission of gasses like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Thus, would you rather have some of your money going toward the makers of high - efficiency vehicles, many (or at least some) of which should be in the U.S., helping to create or preserve jobs in the U.S, by making these shifts, and all - the - while helping to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and protect the climate; OR would you rather continue to have much more of your money going to ExxonMobil and to overseas providers of oil, all - the - while continuing to pour larger amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?

But it's important to emphasize that if southwest North America moves into a dust bowl by mid-century or later (PNAS Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/01/28/0812721106.full.pdf+html), there will be suffering closer to home, even for people on other parts of the continent.

One of the dominant talking points among climate campaigners since 2004 was to break the climate challenge into «wedges» of avoided carbon dioxide emissions (from transportation, nuclear power, efficiency, etc...).

It's not the cutting of GHG emissions that are the real issue: it's the cutting into the 35 % and growing overload of carbon dioxide already on the globe that has to be addressed for getting some control of global warming.

A story by Roger Harrabin of the BBC yesterday provided the latest of many estimates that China's explosively growing use of coal for electric power had vaulted it past the United States into world leadership in emissions of carbon dioxide.

The health of forests globally is gaining attention, because trees are thought to absorb a third of all industrial carbon emissions, transferring carbon dioxide into soil and wood.

The influential paper, published in Science, divided the challenge of keeping emissions of greenhouse gases through mid-century at levels prevailing in the 2000s into seven «wedges» of carbon dioxide reductions — through switching to renewable and nuclear power, ramping up energy efficiency, ending deforestation and taking action in other areas.

Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine, and Robert Socolow of Princeton (best known for his work dividing the climate challenge into carbon «wedges») have written «Commitment accounting of CO2 emissions,» a valuable new paper in Environmental Research Letters showing the value of shifting from tracking annual emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants to weighing the full amount of carbon dioxide that such plants, burning coal or gas, could emit during their time in service.

But even when carbon dioxide does make its way out of the atmosphere, Earth's natural systems can release other carbon dioxide molecules that were previously stored in the oceans / land back into the atmosphere, making the full effect of carbon dioxide emissions on surface temperatures much longer than this 5 - 200 year average.

It estimates that the processes needed to feed the world — from farming to storing, transporting and refrigerating food — accounted for 19 - 29 percent of global emissions in 2008, or the equivalent of 10,000 - 17,000 megatonnes of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere annually.

But triggering an algae bloom is also a way to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and along with spewing particles into the stratosphere to block some of the sun's heat, it's one of the main techniques geoengineers talk about using if efforts to limit those emissions ultimately fail.

Until now, power plants have been allowed to dump unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into the atmosphere — no rules were in effect that limited their emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global warming.

Comparing those with estimates of the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions, they found that each additional metric ton of carbon dioxide sent into the atmosphere reduced the amount of sea ice by three square meters, or about 11 square feet.

So here's a short video we made, to put recent climate change and carbon dioxide emissions into the context of the past 800,000 years.

The team also used the Global Fire Emissions Database to estimate carbon dioxide emissions from biomass burning, as large swaths of Australian grasslands burn every year, dumping carbon into the atEmissions Database to estimate carbon dioxide emissions from biomass burning, as large swaths of Australian grasslands burn every year, dumping carbon into the atemissions from biomass burning, as large swaths of Australian grasslands burn every year, dumping carbon into the atmosphere.

They also had to consider the air traffic lanes between Europe and the Americas, the changes according to season, and the projected rates of increase in carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere.

If our emissions of carbon dioxide are causing the world to warm and lead into possibly difficult times in the future, it is important also to establish the upsides of such emission.