Sentences with phrase «even deeper carbon»

For many in the electric power industry, talk of even deeper carbon cuts sounds daunting.

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Even as phytoplankton blooms sequester new carbon, the upwelling of deep, subsurface water currents in the region bring old, once - sequestered carbon back to the surface waters, allowing for exchange with the atmosphere.

He found that even in places where burning coal was so deep in the ground that there was no visual evidence on the surface, there were still significant amounts of carbon dioxide rising up.

Even in the absence of oxygen, the research team found that the respiration of organic carbon occurring in the anoxic waters of the Black Sea is not as different from that occurring in the deep ocean.

«The deep - sea microbial communities in the Mediterranean fix as much or even more carbon dioxide each year as those in the surface layers,» says Yakimov.

Over very long time periods such that the carbon cycle is in equilibrium with the climate, one gets a sensitivity to global temperature of about 20 ppm CO2 / deg C, or 75 ppb CH4 / deg C. On shorter timescales, the sensitivity for CO2 must be less (since there is no time for the deep ocean to come into balance), and variations over the last 1000 years or so (which are less than 10 ppm), indicate that even if Moberg is correct, the maximum sensitivity is around 15 ppm CO2 / deg C. CH4 reacts faster, but even for short term excursions (such as the 8.2 kyr event) has a similar sensitivity.

Even if the initial moves were small, the knowledge that policies will eventually reach a place where they demand deep cuts will encourage investors to think about low - carbon technologies and energy sources.

A phenomenon known as «upwelling» off the coast of Washington state and Oregon also brings deep ocean water — which already is more acidic — to the surface, where it's saturated with even more carbon dioxide.

Even if we could re-establish the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, the deep ocean would remain acidified for many centuries.»

Their impact on the land restores a healthy soil microbiome, increases the density of plants that cover the land surface, and — when incorporating perennial and native forages or trees — are able to store even more carbon deep underground, increasing its long - term stability.

The scientists believe that nitrogen's relatively small impact on the carbon cycle is due to the fact that deeper layers of permafrost won't thaw until the fall or even early winter, when summer's warmth finally reaches more than one meter below ground.