Sentences with phrase «if additional carbon»

Several experiments with the KOSMOS mesocosms showed that the smallest phytoplankton benefits, if additional carbon dioxide is dissolved in the seawater.

Not exact matches

In his year - end interviews, and in the final days of the fall sitting of the House of Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said it would be crazy to impose additional costs on Canada's oil and gas sector in a time of low prices if the U.S. was not enacting similar carbon emission policies.

If the bulbs were adopted worldwide, that single measure could meet 70 percent of the additional carbon reductions promised by industrialized nations in the Kyoto Protocol, according to Paul Waide, a senior policy analyst at the International Energy Agency.

So bioenergy only reduces greenhouse gases if it results from additional plant growth or in some other way uses carbon that would not otherwise be stored (for example, by using the waste material left after timber harvest that would decompose rapidly anyway).

In fact food scientists can tell or could tell if allegedly pure maple syrup had been doctored with additional sweeteners by measuring the carbon - isotope ratios, but what's now an environmentally changed isotope ratio could make it harder to see if maple syrup or other foods are being altered before being sold.

Consequently, an international team of researchers led by Markus Reichstein, director at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, investigated the influence of extreme climate events on the carbon cycle of land ecosystems and if the resulting additional CO2 emissions feedback on climate change.

If the standard AMG body kit and interior accoutrements are not ostentatious enough for you, you may choose an optional Performance Package, which not only injects an additional 32 hp and 44 pound - feet of torque, but also buys the carbon fiber engine cover, special steering wheel, and red - painted calipers our test vehicle sported.

With the high SV look rear wing you actually get two options from DMC, you know there is an adjustable rear wing sitting flush with the body on the original Aventador, this item can be replaced with a DMC unit finished in clear carbon fiber... but if the owner also orders the SV rear wing DMC will deliver this lower unit with pre-drilled holes which make installing the SV wing very easy, and has the additional advantage you can fit the original wing back in place as you didn't have to get holes drilled into it.

If I understand the above calculation correctly, it would seem that, in the electricity sector, we could mostly concentrate on meeting additional demand with efficiency and carbon neutral generation (and avoid some of the fights associated with replacing existing coal generation plants); but if we need to reduce emissions by 80 % by 2050, then I am not sure whether this makes sensIf I understand the above calculation correctly, it would seem that, in the electricity sector, we could mostly concentrate on meeting additional demand with efficiency and carbon neutral generation (and avoid some of the fights associated with replacing existing coal generation plants); but if we need to reduce emissions by 80 % by 2050, then I am not sure whether this makes sensif we need to reduce emissions by 80 % by 2050, then I am not sure whether this makes sense.

For his view, circa 1989, of a way for this age of methane abundance to play out without a concomitant and destabilizing additional burst of heat - trapping carbon dioxide, read here (I've sent a query to see if he'd adjust this scenario at all now, and will report back):

That said, I only have two additional comments: First, given the immensity of the issue, I think that such fact - based news (they aren't just random opinions if the majority of scientists are correct and if coal contains carbon, which of course it does, a lot!)

Melillo and colleagues now report that if biofuel crops replace food crops on current farmlands, then the clearing of forested land for additional food crops will release more carbon from the soil there than in the areas where the biofuel crops themselves are being grown,» says the press release.

Their unwillingness to take immediate action is intellectually and morally bankrupt because unless carbon emissions are stopped very soon (remember that the damage is cumulative so continuing to emit at current of even reduced rates still causes additional damage hundreds if not thousands of years into the future.)

Figure 2 shows the portion of the global carbon budget consumed between 2000 - 2009 (the grey area), the portion that remains to be emitted during the 2010 - 2050 period, relative to a 350 target (the red area), and the additional budget that would be available during this same 2010 - 2050 period if we accept the more risky goal of 2 °C (the white area beneath the thin red line).

So, if we want reasonable odds of staying below 2 °C, there's only so much more additional carbon dioxide we can put in the atmosphere.

Yet if those plants were going to grow anyway, simply diverting them to bioenergy does not remove any additional carbon from the atmosphere and therefore does not offset emissions from burning that biomass.

Yet if those plants were going to grow anyway, simply diverting them to bioenergy does not remove any additional carbon from the atmosphere and therefore does not offset the emissions from burning that biomass.

To make up for the missed revenue from the taxes and fire prevention fees, as well as to pay for offsets to counteract additional allowances put on the market if the carbon price hits its upper bound, money will be taken from the cap - and - trade program's revenue, effectively decreasing the amount of discretionary funds remaining for local environmental investments and other greenhouse gas reduction projects.

But if California uses additional low or zero - carbon grid management methods such as storage, demand response, electricity exports, and more flexible operation of renewable generators, greenhouse gas emissions would drop by 27 percent.

If California continues «business as usual» (BAU), or without any additional energy - savings measures, greenhouse gas emissions in 2050 are expected to nearly double those in 2005, to more than 900 metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent.

If the purchase of carbon offsets is a critical factor in making the reductions happen, the reductions are said to be «additional» to the business - as - usual case.

If that is the case, the additional carbon dioxide being emitted by China, India and other developing countries could bring a major additional benefit: helping to protect wildlife habitats, enhance oceanic biota and preserve crop yields under sub-optimal climatic conditions.»

If the land is developed, or converted to agricultural use, then the carbon debt is never repaid and grows over time as the harvested land emits additional carbon from soils.

If prevented wetland loss, that is the prevention of wetlands from reverting to, or turning into, open water, is included in the carbon accounting, an additional $ 140 million to almost $ 630 million may be earned by Louisiana wetlands.

A CAT country could, if it wished, introduce procedures whereby additional emission permits could be issued if the trading price of permits exceeded the agreed carbon charge by a significant amount for a significant period of time.

And if we calculate current policies including subsidies to renewables as implicit taxes on carbon then in many if not not most cases it would imply there should be no additional carbon tax at all.

If forests globally were to become a net source of carbon to the atmosphere in the future — an all - too - plausible scenario under climate change — the EF would approach infinity, since additional forest would augment human carbon emissions rather than offset them.

If the world's forests were to become a net source of carbon later in this century — as some scenarios suggest [32]-- the global EF would be infinite, since no amount of additional forest could suck the new additions of fossil carbon out of the air.

The production tax credit, if renewed, would lead to future wind development that would reduce carbon emissions equivalent to an additional 30,000 cars and provide enough energy to power another 50,000 homes, according to Dorle.

For example if only 10 per cent of the permafrost melts, the resultant feedback could result in an additional 80 ppm carbon dioxide equivalent released into the atmosphere, equating to about 0.7 °C of global warming.»

If carbon dioxide causes warming, additional CO2 should produce additional warming.

If 2 C were to lead to the massive Amazonian die - back discussed in Two Degrees, carbon feedbacks could lead to an additional 250 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere, and an additional 1.5 C warming — we would then be in the 4C world.

But Increases Ones Which Cause Acid Rain The bad news is that if you take the entire lifecycle of a CO2 - burying plant — the «cradle to grave» pollution which takes into account the extra energy required mine additional coal and bring it to the power plant — emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxides were 40 % greater than a modern coal plant not set up to capture carbon.

Thus, if the low carbon technology substitution could be done on the order of a decade (I have no idea about the practicality of this level of intense effort), then additional demand reduction could be on the order of 10 - 15 % per year.

«Overturning the «Consensus» in One Fell Swoop» gloats Planet Gore, which says the study «concludes that the Earth's climate is only about one - third as sensitive to carbon dioxide as the IPCC assumes» and so we «should expect about a 0.6 oC additional increase in temperature between now and 2070» [0.1 oC per decade] if CO2 concentrations hit 550 parts per million, double preindustrial levels.