Sentences with phrase «from human carbon»

It is characteristic of a type of forest that is playing a big role in limiting the damage from human carbon emissions: a recovering forest.

In a September article by National Geographic, every scientist contacted by the magazine was in agreement that Harvey's destructive rainfall was «almost certainly driven up by temperature increases from human carbon - dioxide emissions.»

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A joint statement from the National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society in Britain said «human - induced increases in CO2 (carbon dioxide) concentrations have been the dominant influence on the long - term global surface temperature increase.»

Woven from conductive thread built on microscopic carbon nanotube sheets, this fiber could one day help power human - sized electronic wearables and high - performance solar cells.

On this year's list, robots are going places no human has ever been, «big data» is doing things that weathermen have never been able to master, carbon is being captured from waste and turned into fuel simultaneously, fiber optic cables are searching for oil, and future well blowouts are being averted (maybe).

Asked on Sunday to clarify a statement he made last month that carbon dioxide — emitted from fossil fuel power plants — is not a primary contributor to climate change, Pruitt said «human activities contribute to that change in some measure.»

Fears of carbon emissions from human activity have the rest of the developed (and much of the developing) world taking steps to move away from oil.

Trump and several of his cabinet members deny the consensus among climate scientists that carbon dioxide from human activity is the primary cause of global warming.

It commits rich and poor nations to rein in rising carbon levels and is an attempt to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions from human activity this century.

Perry has questioned the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are the primary driver of climate change.

One such company is Eterneva, an Austin - based company that transforms carbon from human remains into diamonds.

The properties of the chemical substances, a plant's movement towards the sun and its ability to produce oxygen from carbon dioxide are very useful to humans in general and can be very useful to designers.

Rick Perry, the U.S. Secretary of Energy who infamously once said he would do away with the Department of Energy, told CNBC that he didn't believe that carbon dioxide emissions from humans are the main cause for climate change.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

Given the knowledge that they are crapping in their own habitat with their carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning on Earth, I'd like to think humans have gained an evolutionary advantage which canines lack.

«The results show unequivocally that most of the increase in CO2 between 7000 and 500 years ago is due to release of carbon from the ocean, not to axe - wielding humans,» says Eric Steig, an isotope geochemist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

The seas» absorption of human - generated carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is well documented, along with the harm it is causing ocean creatures like shellfish.

Roy Spencer, a climate scientist at the University of Alabama who argued from the skeptical side, agrees that human contributed carbon dioxide lessens the planet's ability to shed heat, meaning that warming is likely.

«By extracting wood from unmanaged forest and bringing these forests under production, humans released carbon into the atmosphere that would otherwise be stored in the biomass, litter, dead wood, and soil of the forest,» Naudts said.

We humans emitted 35.9 metric gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2014, mostly from burning coal and natural gas in power plants, making fertilizer and cement, and other industrial processes.

ScienceInsider reported this week that the U.S. Senate rejected a resolution last week that would have blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions based on its finding that they endanger human health, among other stories.

To reinvent carbon dioxide fixation using such enzymes, Erb and colleagues carefully selected 17 enzymatic compounds from nine organisms — including bacteria, archaea, plants, and humans — bringing them together in a single, collaborative pathway.

Marine biodiversity is in jeopardy from human activities such as acidification from carbon emissions, posing an existential threat to many marine animals, Wiens said.

The rate of carbon release during the PETM was determined to be much smaller than the current input of carbon to the atmosphere from human activities.

The carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is coming primarily from human - caused fossil fuel emissions.

The EPA chief is under fire from conservatives who question his reluctance to attack his agency's finding that carbon dioxide emissions endanger human health — a necessary precursor to regulations.

The seven - day rainfall total from Harvey was as much as 40 percent higher than rainfall from a similar storm would have been decades ago, before human activity caused atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to spike, according to a study published yesterday in Geophysical Research Letters.

And achieving any stabilization target — whether 2 degrees C of warming or 450 ppm or 1,000 gigatons of carbon added to the atmosphere by human activity — will require at least an 80 percent cut in emissions from peak levels by the end of this century and, ultimately, zero emissions over the long term.

Human - caused climate change caused the storm to drop significantly more rain than storms would have before atmospheric carbon dioxide levels spiked from the consumption of fossil fuels, according to research published yesterday.

According to one of its lead authors, the report will say that to limit global warming to 2 °C, we must keep CO2 emissions from all human sources since the start of the Industrial Revolution to below about a trillion tonnes of carbon.

Each year, CO2 emissions from human activity pour just over 6 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.

While the team's research showed no significant difference in bacterial degradation of organic matter from cleared or forested watersheds, Canuel says it did show that «organic carbon in runoff from watersheds affected by human activity is less susceptible to solar degradation than that from forested watersheds.»

They found surprisingly, that human - induced emissions of methane and nitrous oxide from ecosystems overwhelmingly surpass the ability of the land to soak up carbon dioxide emissions, which makes the terrestrial biosphere a contributor to climate change.

5) Cremating a human body releases 15 kilograms of carbon dioxide (along with other pollutants, such as mercury from dental fillings), while traditional burial uses up scarce land.

Further, carbon - dating charcoal bits unearthed from the cave floor suggests the cave was occupied — or at the very least visited — by humans as much as 37,000 years ago, researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In forested areas, the carbon compounds are byproducts of plants» metabolism; in populated areas, they are often from human pollution.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now,» echoed Kim Knowlton, senior scientist and deputy director of the Science Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a release.

As Schlesinger reports, each year, an estimated 31 % of the carbon dioxide emitted from human activities is stored in forests.

The White House obviously accepts the science behind human - caused climate change, as was made clear again this week by its announcement of plans to cut carbon emissions from U.S.

Kyoto regulates all sources of carbon dioxide as well as other greenhouse gases, but reliable long - term data by country are available only for carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels (which accounts for about two - thirds of the human contribution to global warming).

The report, written and reviewed by leading U.S. scientists as part of the National Climate Assessment, reinforces that warming temperatures and extreme weather around the globe are «extremely likely» to be the result of carbon pollution from human activities.

As emissions from human activities increase atmospheric carbon dioxide, they, in turn, are modifying the chemical structure of global waters, making them more acidic.

In July researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published findings that the oceans store almost half the anthropogenic carbon dioxide — the CO2 produced by humans — released into the atmosphere.

The carbon in layers of algae from the bottom of a Japanese lake will help reveal the precise dates of historical climate change and human migrations

«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human history to date,» says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Wiedinmyer wondered if this burning waste could be an underappreciated source of air pollutants, from greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide to tiny particles and toxic chemicals that can harm human lungs.

Joe Reiss, vice president of marketing at manufacturer American Science and Engineering (AS&E) in Billerica, Mass., says low - atomic - number elements such as carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen — common constituents of explosives — create a strong scattering effect visible in images that operators monitor on a screen yet discernible from the organic molecules in the human body.

«Of the carbon dioxide human beings put into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation,» Berry says, «roughly a third remains in the atmosphere, a third goes into terrestrial ecosystems, and a third goes into the ocean.»

As more carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere, the global ocean soaks up much of the excess, storing roughly 30 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions coming from human activities.

Scientists from Columbia and elsewhere will monitor the project to see if this approach could expand to handle the 28 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide humans emit each year.