Sentences with phrase «harmful effects of carbon dioxide»

Carbon offsetting — IOP records details of overseas business flights taken by its staff and makes a financial donation, based on those figures, to a company that takes steps to limit the potentially harmful effects of carbon dioxide emissions on the environment.

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The pumping of carbon dioxide and other harmful chemicals along with radiation can have an adverse effect on your health, causing breathing problems.

The net effect is that a mature forest, such as those filling the Amazon Basin, is in effect in the constant process of converting harmful carbon dioxide into the much more harmful and dangerous gas, methane.

The IPCC have provided a wealth of scientific information on the climate, but have not established a case that increases in carbon dioxide are causing any harmful effects.

Therefore all dreams of mankind going quickly to low - carbon should cease as our efforts should properly be directed at mitigating whatever harmful effects will come from the increased carbon dioxide emissions, as soon as we agree what those consequences will be and to what degree, if there will be any.

Ocean acidification occurs when carbon dioxide dissolves out of the atmosphere and into the ocean, where it chemically reacts and lowers the water's pH. The process is sometimes dubbed the «evil twin» of climate change because of the harmful effects it may have on marine ecosystems.

To any unprejudiced person reading this account, the facts should be obvious: that the non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide as a sustainer of wildlife and crop plants are enormously beneficial, that the possibly harmful climatic effects of carbon dioxide have been greatly exaggerated, and that the benefits clearly outweigh the possible damage.

The Australian federal government's effort to levy a tax on carbon - dioxide emissions to battle supposed «climate change» is facing massive resistance from voters, despite a flurry of pro-carbon-tax propaganda and government - funded reports touting alleged benefits of the scheme while downplaying its harmful effects.

Among other findings, the research did show that no harmful environmental effects were noted in creating an artificially generated iron induced plankton bloom, and that very large quantities of carbon dioxide are indeed sequestered from the atmosphere.