Sentences with phrase «eventually reach the atmosphere»

Scientists are somewhat concerned that this leaking methane may eventually reach the atmosphere, contributing to climate change, but only time will tell.

Not exact matches

He says ``... concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere eventually would reach levels higher than in the Pliocene era, more than 2.5 million years ago...» Surely this is an error.

It's far more likely that the ocean has been following the heating trends of the atmosphere at a distance of some decades and will eventually reach the same plateau.

We simply need to ensure that, by the time global temperatures reach 2 ℃ (or 1.5 ℃ if that is what is eventually deemed safe), any company that sells fossil fuels, or any carbon - intensive product like conventional cement, is obliged to take back an equivalent amount of CO2 and dispose of it safely to ensure it doesn't end up in the atmosphere.

For example, from whatever peak concentration of carbon dioxide we eventually reach in the atmosphere, it will take about a thousand years for it to decrease by half, and then another thousand years to fall by half again.

Yet carbon dioxide would continue to build up in the atmosphere — breaching the level of 450 parts per million by volume (ppmv) that most climatologists now recommend as an upper limit, then passing the 550 ppmv mark that is the goal of many current policy initiatives, and eventually reaching 1,000 ppmv, a level not seen on Earth since the days of the dinosaurs.