Sentences with phrase «for atmospheric pollution»

This video provides a sense of scale for atmospheric pollution — both in total emissions and the rate of emission — by showing what the 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide that New York City added to the atmosphere -LSB-...]

This video provides a sense of scale for atmospheric pollution — both in total emissions and the rate of emission — by showing what the 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide that New York City added to the atmosphere in 2010 would look like.

It accounted for atmospheric pollution effects that have been cooling Earth by reflecting sunlight into space, and for the slow response time of the ocean.

This suggests, says Karl, that deciduous trees provide good negative feedback for atmospheric pollution: The more polluted the atmosphere becomes, the more oVOCs the plants take up.

Not exact matches

There is a current and lively argument in our own Congress, with California's Senator Boxer leading the charge for a bill to cut our emissions sharply, even as she prepares to fly to Bali and contribute some atmospheric pollution as she flies.

Following on this study, I plan to continue investigating whether gaseous mercury is also a dominant source of pollution in other remote lands, and the mechanism of plant mercury uptake, which may be the main pathway for atmospheric mercury deposits to land.

Ming Sung, chief representative in Asia for the Clean Air Task Force, a Boston - based nonprofit group dedicated to reducing atmospheric pollution, said that other companies in China confront the same obstacle.

Air pollutant emission inventories are essential in measuring the impact of pollution on air quality and the climate, as they are fed into atmospheric and climate models to make projections for the future.

«We show that uptake of atmospheric NH3 (ammonia) onto surfaces containing TiO2 (titanium dioxide) is not a permanent removal process, as previously thought, but rather a photochemical route for generating reactive oxides of nitrogen that play a role in air pollution and are associated with significant health effects,» the authors write.

Phloretin CF features a patented synergistic combination of 2 % phloretin, 10 % pure vitamin C (l - ascorbic acid), and 0.5 % ferulic acid for enhanced protection against atmospheric skin aging — environmental damage and premature signs of aging caused by free radicals from UVA / UVB, infrared radiation (IRA), and ozone pollution (O3).

The $ 200,000 Tyler Prize for 2009, one of the top awards for environmental achievement, will be shared by Richard Alley, who has spent decades probing the planet's ancient ice for climate clues, and Veerabhadran «Ram» Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist whose focus has been the substantial influence of sooty pollution on climate and health in South Asia.

Such transformational changes in attitudes would help foster the necessary institutional reforms and technological innovations for providing the energy sources that have negligible effect on global climate, atmospheric pollution and eco-systems, thus protecting generations yet to be born.

Pouring millions of gallons of oil and dispersants into an area already greatly stressed by upstream pollution, atmospheric fall - out, fifty years of industrial activity (44,000 wells, 33,000 miles of pipelines), shoreline trauma, and ecosystem damage by decades of large - scale fishing is a recipe for short and long - term disaster.

Those who got rich by burning fossil fuels have taken up the available atmospheric space for carbon pollution, leaving little for the rest.

Several of the most disconcerting atmospheric problems include smog and air pollution, which are responsible for a higher incidence of respiratory diseases and death; acid rain, which contaminates numerous other ecosystems such as watersheds and forests; and finally, one particularly serious issue, climate de-stabilization caused by the accelerated rate of global warming.

Sections 243.1 - 243.4 of Article 243 of the Code, specifically: rate of the tax due on emissions of certain pollutants into the atmospheric air, caused by stationary sources of pollution; rates of the tax due on stationary sources» emissions into the atmospheric air of pollutants (compounds), which are not listed in Section 243.1 of this Article and are falling within a certain substance hazard category (except for carbon dioxide), shall be applicable subject to determined approximately safe impact levels of such substances» (compounds») impact on the atmospheric air of urban settlements; and rates of tax due on emissions of carbon dioxide

MRD: This paper presents a detailed review of atmospheric pollution observed in the Hindu Kush — Himalaya (HKH) region and its implications for regional climate.

Damage to coral reefs from higher ocean temperatures and ocean acidification caused by higher atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, as well as damage from pollution and sedimentation, are threatening these breeding grounds for fish in tropical and subtropical waters.

How hurricanes develop also depends on how the local atmosphere responds to changes in local sea surface temperatures, and this atmospheric response depends critically on the cause of the change.23, 24 For example, the atmosphere responds differently when local sea surface temperatures increase due to a local decrease of particulate pollution that allows more sunlight through to warm the ocean, versus when sea surface temperatures increase more uniformly around the world due to increased amounts of human - caused heat - trapping gases.25, 26,27,28

Among the criteria that Callendar used to reject measurements were any that deviated by 10 % or more from the average of the region, and any taken for special purposes such as such as «biological, soil, air, atmospheric pollution».

Yet, they continue to call for geoengineering deployment as if that is not the source of «atmospheric pollution» they have just condemned.

Environmentally minded athletes are wrestling with the moral dilemma of contributing to atmospheric pollution with their widening search for snow.

As Science Digest reported in 1973, «At this point we do not have the comfortable distance of tens of thousands of years to prepare for the next Ice Age, and that how carefully we monitor our atmospheric pollution will have direct bearing on the arrival and nature of the weather crisis.»

I find it telling that someone who accuses those who use the word «pollution» to describe excess atmospheric CO2 of being «Orwellian» can also describe proposals for what is a form of «user - pays» in fossil fuel usage as «like listening to Marxist students of the 1960s.»

How hurricanes develop also depends on how the local atmosphere responds to changes in local sea surface temperatures, and this atmospheric response depends critically on the cause of the change.23, 24 For example, the atmosphere responds differently when local sea surface temperatures increase due to a local decrease of particulate pollution that allows more sunlight through to warm the ocean, versus when sea surface temperatures increase more uniformly around the world due to increased amounts of human - caused heat - trapping gases.18, 25,26,27 So the link between hurricanes and ocean temperatures is complex.

(Sec. 1309) Qualifies certain atmospheric pollution control facilities operating after January 1, 1976, for 84 - month amortization.

That lack of immediate concern may in part stem from a lack of understanding that today's pollution will heat the planet for centuries to come, as explained in this Denial101x lecture: So far humans have caused about 1 °C warming of global surface temperatures, but if we were to freeze the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide at today's levels, the planet would continue warming.

Instead of fixing the black carbon (soot) pollution they are responsible for, the EU activists continue to rail about the atmospheric trace gas CO2, which, by the way, doesn't melt glaciers, sea ice or polar ice sheet caps.

It is important to note that these impacts do not take account of ancillary stresses on species due to over-harvesting, habitat destruction, landscape fragmentation, alien species invasions, fire regime change, pollution (such as nitrogen deposition), or for plants the potentially beneficial effects of rising atmospheric CO2.

as it was previously said here, it won't prevent acidification of oceans but such molecules like sulphates are known to provoke acidic rains, and even atmospheric pollution for some sensitive organisms like lichens.

For example, one possibility is eventually having pollution detectors built into phones so anyone can help record atmospheric conditions and potentially contribute to climate activism.