Sentences with phrase «higher carbon release»

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Bikes must remain compliant for 50,000 km (less for smaller bikes) Myth busting reality: Bikes release a much higher amount of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons than cars Catalytic converters can be fitted to motorcycles and routinely are Bikes over 7 years old will not be banned from entering town centres Measures Outside of Type Approval

Wolfe, who is the Vice-Chairman of the Legislature and the chair of the Environmental Committee, also noted that the operation of high - efficiency appliances does help to reduce the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) that is released by the US power grid annually.

This high - temperature process also releases carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.

By releasing carbon dioxide higher in the atmosphere, airplanes allow the molecule more time to trap heat, also contributing via contrails and other chemically active gases, the IPCC notes.

Higher lake temperatures may speed the conversion of carbon - rich organic matter in lake sediments into methane and carbon dioxide, gases that once released into the atmosphere could exacerbate global warming.

Still, the authors identified «hot spots» in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area where the carbon imbalance is high, meaning that far more carbon is being released than there are trees to absorb it.

At higher temperatures, less of the gas is absorbed, and the ocean releases more carbon dioxide into the air, contributing to a runaway greenhouse effect.

The process, which uses high temperatures and high pressure to turn plants into charcoal, releases little carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

They found that high rates of carbon accumulation in lake sediments were stimulated by several factors, including «thermokarst erosion and deposition of terrestrial organic matter, -LSB-...] nutrient release from thawing permafrost that stimulated lake productivity, and by slow decomposition in cold, anoxic lake bottoms.»

Energy - related carbon dioxide emissions from developing countries will be 127 percent higher than in the world's most developed economies by 2040, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S.

That deep water is not only rich in nutrients, it also has relatively high concentrations of carbon dioxide, both because it is cold (cold water can absorb and hold more carbon dioxide than warm water) and because the decomposition of organic matter that sinks into the depths releases carbon dioxide.

«Higher temperatures in the Earth's interior before the GOE may have affected the way that carbon was released into the diamond forming regions beneath the Earth's continental plates and may be evidence of a fundamental change in tectonic processes.

The team also showed that calcite associated with two seismic events in the earthquake cluster indicates very rapid carbon dioxide degassing, which can occur when fluid under high pressure is released — like opening the top of a shaken bottle of soda.

«The quantity of carbon expected to be released from thawing permafrost is high, with emissions from Arctic waters expected to be equal to those from land - use change in other regions of the world.

Hydrogen can also be split from water in high - temperature nuclear reactors or generated from fossil fuels such as coal or natural gas, with the resulting carbon dioxide captured and sequestered rather than released into the atmosphere.

The liquid is then solidified into pellets that are cooked in a high - temperature furnace that releases the carbon again, but as pure CO2.

CO2 concentrations would start to fall immediately since the ocean and terrestrial biosphere would continue to absorb more carbon than they release as long as the CO2 level in the atmosphere is higher than pre-industrial levels (approximately).

Other higher - tech options include using chemicals to absorb CO2 from the air, or burning plants for energy and capturing the CO2 that would otherwise be released, then storing it permanently deep below the ground, called bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS).

California can reduce carbon emissions by more than 70 million metric tons by 2030 — akin to taking 15 million gasoline - powered cars off the road in one year — by adopting a higher target for its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), according to an analysis released by the UK - based research firm Cerulogy.

They should be asked directly such questions as (1) Are they now saying that high levels of climate sensitivity are not possible, or (2) Are they now saying that some of the climate surprises including more rapid releases of carbon from the stored carbon are not possible.

When one of its samples released carbon dioxide after being heated to a high temperature, scientists knew for certain that the sample contained calcium carbonate.

In contrast, the smaller dark spots (which can appear as gray, brown, or red) may be the remains of low - speed, carbon - rich asteroids that splattered such» deposits» onto Vesta's surface, or they may be the result of higher - speed asteroid that melted and darkened volcanic basaltic crust on crater walls and floors, or on surrounding hills and ridges (NASA DAWN news release).

Palm oil deforestation releases high levels of carbon dioxide and destroys the habitat of some of Southeast Asia's most valued wildlife.

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While plentiful and cheap, coal - derived gas could also be deadly; in its unburned form, it released very high levels of carbon monoxide, and an open valve or a leak in a closed space could induce asphyxiation in a matter of minutes.

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(2) Long - term anoxic permafrost organic matter decomposition releases less carbon but more CO2 — Ce than oxic organic matter decomposition when considering the higher GWP of CH4.

Given the number of ways that things can go wrong with continued CO2 emissions (from ocean acidfication and sea level rise to simple warming, shifting precipitation patterns, release of buried carbon in perma - frost, and the possibility of higher climate sensitivities — which seem to be needed to account for glacial / inter-glacial transitions), crossing our fingers and carrying on with BAU seems nothing short of crazy to me.

Growing trees that then release their carbon 100 years from now might reduce the size of the transient atmospheric high level, without changing the long climate tail.

According to the mayor's press release, it will also provide «City government, residents and businesses information regarding the true costs of carbon intensive activities, which are likely to be much higher than nominal amounts charged by several current offset programs.»

In this case, you're getting something (a higher energy state carbon) for something (energy released by nuclear fission).

He's working on alternatives that don't draw energy from «the oxidation of the carbon backbone, but from their high heats of formation, which are released upon their decomposition.»

Today, we have limits in place for arsenic, mercury and lead, but we let power plants release as much carbon pollution as they want — pollution that is contributing to higher rates of asthma attacks and more frequent and severe floods and heat waves.

In my model, that is to say neglecting surprises but just considering the atmosphere / ocean / CaCO3 system, if we stopped releasing CO2 today and closed the terrestrial biosphere to either releases or uptake of carbon, just closed the system, CO2 would relax down to some value higher than today.

Further, sea levels, of great significance to the state of various submarine carbon stores, were of course also very different, too, and while we normally think of higher sea levels as always making hydrates more stable (explaining the lack of release then), there could potentially be an opposing effect as well, discussed by Archer, in fact (Archer, 2007).

David, I havent been keeping up with all the PETM research, but I do recall that individual plankton recovered from Bass River, New Jersey show a single step CIE. Due to the high sedimentation rate of coastal fluvial systems, Bass River sediments are consistent with a much shorter duration of organic carbon release during the PETM (estimated as less than 500 years).

The higher CO2 concentration does lead to additional uptake where deforestation is not occurring; however, the conversion to long - lived soil carbon is quite slow so additional biospheric disturbance (or a decline in atmospheric CO2) in the future could lead to its release.

An increase in temperatures as a result of global warming may lead to significantly higher levels of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere.

Health implications of actions are examined in both high - income and low - income countries designed to reduce the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases.

Giving a price for wind power 13,000 times as high as the actual figure Jones came as close as anyone I know of to another wind power opponent, Dr Roger Sexton who over-estimated the time it would take a wind farm to pay - back the carbon released from its construction by a factor of 60,000.

Other marine - based drainage systems become unstable under higher emission scenarios, until most of the marine ice is eventually lost to the self - reinforcing feedback after about 2500 GtC of cumulative carbon release

The US government spends $ 2.5 billion per year on research that focuses on carbon dioxide, ignores powerful natural forces that have always driven climate change, and generates numerous reports and press releases warning of record high temperatures, melting icecaps, rising seas, stronger storms, more droughts and other «unprecedented» crises.

Now, as an important aside, it is quite doubtful one could actually stabilize at 750 ppm, since work by the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Hadley Center suggest that carbon cycle feedbacks, like the defrosting of the tundra or the die - back of the Amazon rain forest, would release greenhouse gas emissions that would take the planet to much higher levels.

«The carbon release during the latter 19th century was caused by a combination of high storm activity and the existence of larger forests during that period,» explained Fisk.

Precisely when CO2 is released within this timeframe is largely irrelevant to the outcome, but very relevant to the problem in that the continued release of carbon over time, even at much lower levels than today, eventually leads to an accumulation with the same 2 °C or higher outcome (the slow running tap into the bathtub problem).

In industrialized countries, a history of fire suppression and a lack of thinning treatments have created high fuel loads in many public forests, such that when fires do occur, they release large quantities of carbon (Schelhaas et al., 2003).

Without a bold change of policy direction, the world will lock itself into an insecure, inefficient and high - carbon energy system -LSB-...] The agency's flagship publication, released today in London, said there is still time to act, but the window of opportunity is closing.

The comparison found that climate change will spark a growth in high - latitude vegetation, which will pull in more carbon from the atmosphere than thawing permafrost will release.