Sentences with phrase «increased atmospheric carbon»

The difficulty arises from the inhomogeneity of ocean carbon and from the fact that anthropogenic carbon has increased ocean carbon by only 1 - 2 %, even while it is has increased atmospheric carbon by about 38 %.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), some politicians and many others mislead the gullible public by stubbornly continuing to proclaim that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is the primary cause of global warming.

Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are expected to cause cooling of the lower stratosphere.

Seitz added that «there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful.»

The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine has promoted a paper on global warming entitled «Environmental effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide», which has had a number of incarnations since 1999.

Using simulation models that account for the impact of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations on temperature and precipitation in the region, scientists at the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research in the UK have forecast significant «die - back» of the Amazon rain forest by mid-century and a virtual collapse of the ecosystem by 2100.

Indeed, Avery concludes that «misguided opposition to biotechnology, fossil fuels, and increased atmospheric carbon dioxide could very well condemn millions of people to malnutrition and starvation, and numerous wildlife species to extinction.»

Carbon dioxide (CO2) fertilization - The enhancement of the growth of plants as a result of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration.

Ocean acidification has the potential to substantially slow this process; effectively leading to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide.

The powerful video below shows the possible and final result of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide on the world's coral reefs.

Future studies will need to be conducted that account for the effects of temperature and increased atmospheric carbon dioxide.»

He says the entire basis for the doomsday climate change scenario so beloved of politicians and scientists is the hypothesis that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel emissions will heat our planet to temperatures that would make it uninhabitable.

Importantly, the degree of neutralisation of the oceans from increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is too small to be measured.

Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide due to massive burning of carbon - containing fossil fues: petroleum, natural gas, coal; and other causes such as changes to land use and clearing of forest;

If wildfire trends continue, at least initially, this biomass burning will result in carbon release, suggesting that the forests of the western United States may become a source of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide rather than a sink, even under a relatively modest temperature - increase scenario.

This translates out to about 41 trillion grams of carbon per year, three - quarters of which is attributed to the changing climate and one - quarter of which is attributed to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration.

Ground temperatures and temperatures in the lower atmosphere have risen by just under one degree Celsius as a direct result of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

(a) there is increased atmospheric carbon due to industrialized economies burning fossil fuels — granted, as far as I can tell, in your statements.

(b) agrarian economies are to blame for global warming, because they have deforested the land more than industrialized countries (an unproven assertion, but we'll let it pass) and so the earth is not able to absorb the increased atmospheric carbon that industrialized countries are pumping out.

There is no definitive, scientific evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is creating catastrophic weather or potential catastrophic flooding or any other kind of catastrophic situation.

Ocean acidification, which is a direct consequence of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, is expected to have a deleterious effect on many marine species over the next century.

A substantial portion of the planet is greening in response to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, nitrogen deposition, global warming and land use change.

This balance is threatened by increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, which causes ocean acidification (decreasing ocean pH).

«Human influence is so dominant now,» Baker asserts, «that whatever is going to go on in the tropics has much less to do with sea surface temperatures and the earth's orbital parameters and much more to do with deforestation, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and global warming.»

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

These range from stabilization of atmospheric carbon dioxide at twice its pre-industrial value by the end of this century (IPCC SRES B1) to continuously increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide at the rate of a bit less than 1 % per year (IPCC SRES A2).

Royal Society Report on Ocean Acidification: Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (pdf, 1.1 M)

an emerging body of science indicates that rapidly increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide may be boosting the onrushing waves of woody vegetation.

«We find this fingerprint both in a high - resolution climate model in response to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, and in the temperature trends observed since the late nineteenth century.»

This is a large effect for increasing the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration by 100 ppm.

Increasing atmospheric carbon 14 and relative dating, the age of a huge problem for absolute dating the number of index of a.

This is a large effect for increasing the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration by 100 ppm.

«Climate impact of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.»

In the paper, Peng et al. (2013) use the Canadian Terrestiral Ecosystem Model to investigate the effects of climate change and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations on the amount of carbon that has been drawn down by plants in British Columbia since 1900.

It claims that this viewpoint constitutes a «scientifically - sound perspective on the increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.»

That question is highly debatable since the outcome of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide is unknown and is subject to considerable debate.

«We find this fingerprint both in a high - resolution climate model in response to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, and in the temperature trends observed since the late nineteenth century.»

«Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide,» The Royal Society, June 2005, www.royalsoc.ac.uk 45.

Evidence in support of the hypothesis that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide MUST inevitably lead to an increase in global temperature exists only in the Models.

Leaf area index, which is also enhanced by increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, was the second most important factor, contributing an additional 21.8 percent, followed by climate change (precipitation and air temperature together) and the fraction of photosynthetically active radiation, which accounted for the remaining 18.3 and 14.6 percent increase in NPP, respectively.

It sloshes back and forth as one would expect on a planet with vast oceans and atmosphere that are never in equilibrium, but does not warm as some claimed it would with slowly increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.

If we assume that the whole ocean (mean depth 3795 m) is in equilibrium with the atmosphere, a one degree celsius global warming will increase the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration by 28 ppm.

Feely testified before Congress in 2010 — using the same data that shows a decline in seawater pH (making it more acidic) that appears to coincide with increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.

At the same time, Dr. Grabherr said, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations could theoretically increase plant productivity at high altitudes, leading plants to spread upslope.

Bear in mind that the representation of clouds in climate models (and of the water vapour which is intimately involved with cloud formation) is such as to amplify the forecast global warming from increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide — on average over most of the models — by a factor of about three (5).

For nearly a century, scientists have known that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide would eventually result in warming that was most pronounced in winter, especially on winter's coldest days, and a cooling of the stratosphere.

Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and associated global warming are often in the news — for example, coverage of an international environment summit (like that held in Johannesburg in 2002) or of local initiatives to cut carbon dioxide emissions (like «Walk to School Week»), or energy - saving initiatives in school.

And using the oceans as a sink causes acidification that scientists now think may cause the most rapid and disruptive change to life in the seas since catastrophic events tens of millions of years ago (see Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, Royal Society, August 2005 and The other CO2 problem, New Scientist, August 2006).

The first place I recall reading about the breakdown of methane in water was from: Revelle, Roger (1983), «Methane hydrates in continental slope sediments and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide,» Changing Climates, Report of the Carbon Dioxide Assessment Committee, pp. 252 — 261, National Academy Press, Washington, D. C.

The authors said the proposed policies «were premised on the flawed notion... that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations will change climate dramatically and thereby cause major ecological and economic damage.»