Sentences with phrase «if additional carbon dioxide»

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

Not exact matches

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):

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.

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 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.»

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.

«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.