Sentences with phrase «kept out of the atmosphere»

And yeah, we have ecosystems [that] are storing carbon and keeping it out of the atmosphere, a lot of that actually.

Most electricity generation produces CO2, but to stop the gas drastically changing climate and ocean acidity, we have to keep it out of the atmosphere

How and where you keep them out of the atmosphere makes no difference to the climate, so long as you do it.

«The more we can prolong the storage of wood products in human structures, the longer the carbon is kept out of the atmosphere.

The number of certified homes recently reached one million, which the EPA says indicates a savings of $ 1.2 billion in energy bills and 22 billion pounds of greenhouse gases kept out of the atmosphere.

«As of now, for a number of reasons, we have not made estimations on specifically how much CO2 bike sharing keeps out of the atmosphere for any given program,» she said.

Every tonne counts, and any tonne of carbon we keep out of the atmosphere is an improvement, whether or not it offsets China's coal mining.

Saving these forests amounts to a 70 % decline in deforestation and 3.2 billion tons of CO2 kept out of the atmosphere.

(04/24/2013) Some eight billion tonnes of greenhouse gases could be kept out of the atmosphere if China sticks to a deal with the United Nation's Montreal Protocol to eliminate the production of hydro - fluorocarbons (HCFCs).

It could be argued that it performs a useful function as a carbon sink — all that concrete (calcium carbonate) being kept out of the atmosphere but that would be a specious position to take, confusing the wasted resource with a benefit to the environment.

A carbon offset, fundamentally, is an intangible commodity that represents a ton of carbon dioxide that has been kept out of the atmosphere» through absorption, he said.

They earn one carbon credit for each ton of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in greenhouse gases that they keep out of the atmosphere.

This vegetation stores vast amounts of carbon, keeping it out of the atmosphere where it can contribute to climate change.

Large amounts of carbon are currently locked in the vast biomass of the tropical rain forests, and so kept out of the atmosphere.

The more we can prolong the storage of wood products in human structures, the longer the carbon is kept out of the atmosphere.

«The big question to this day is, what fraction of that carbon gets out of the surface water and into the deep ocean where it's sequestered for long periods of time, keeping it out of the atmosphere?»

Boreal Forests Store Carbon for 8,000 Years The report authors argue boreal forests store carbon in ways more akin to oceans, keeping it out of the atmosphere for 6,000 - 8,000 years.

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Meanwhile, a group of 20 scientists studying the Otway Project in Australia since 2008 confirmed Dec. 14 that the CO2 there was behaving as it was expected to and the practice is indeed an effective way to keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere for thousands and perhaps millions of years.

This CNN forum, and the vitriol it has induced, is a good example of precicesly why a civilized society keeps religion out of the public forum... (and for the record, the high stress atmosphere of an airplane is clearly a particularly bad forum to inject religion).

«The work of the staff keeps customers coming back day - in and day - out, so it's important that we have a pleasant atmosphere and the best people possible,» Weaver says.

Smell is just one of the senses that will keep you coming back for more.The great atmosphere, food presentation and customer service are all part of the package that makes regulars out of most diners.

I'll be honest, you hear a lot of bollocks about Scottish refereeing, but the referee got 99 % of the decisions right, he was well placed at all times and despite handing out 400 yellow cards and two reds, kept the match largely under control in a difficult atmosphere.

A viewpoint widely held is that we should «get rid» because of his conduct and perceived attitude and that you shouldn't keep an unhappy player; I've even heard the word toxic used in relation to the atmosphere around him, but think back to the summer of 2013 when Luis Suarez publicly wanted out.

Chelsea made the early running in a muted Stamford Bridge atmosphere and almost broke the deadlock after only nine minutes when Wayne Hennessey kept out an effort from N'Golo Kante as striker Olivier Giroud tried to make contact just in front of him.

The changes to the atmosphere and the changes to the resources we have on this planet from depleting our resources and taking carbon out of the ground is something, regardless of somebody's politics — you can't keep doing that long - term.

Noh - Bec's forest management practices not only provide good habitat and a sustainable wood harvest, they also ensure these trees will help keep carbon out of the atmosphere.

One approach that is gaining currency among environmental scientists is carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a form of carbon sequestration in which CO2 is removed from the waste gas of power plants, typically by absorbing it in a liquid, and subsequently burying it deep underground, hence keeping the gas out of the atmosphere.

Although the oceans are currently the greatest carbon sink, terrestrial carbon sinks also play a significant role in keeping the carbon out of the atmosphere.

Then the world will lose the one prospective way it currently has for paying to keep CO2 out of the atmosphere.

Bogs, swamps and mires help keep 500 billion metric tons of carbon out of the atmosphere, so preserving peatlands is emerging as a new priority

«Over time it would spread out and get wider, reaching the top of the Martian atmosphere in a few million years, when it would start losing material because stuff would keep raining down on Mars.»

Whether they are absorbing or releasing the gas, they will always be keeping some CO2 out of the atmosphere and providing other ecological benefits.

«You have three superimposed trapping mechanisms to keep your CO2 below the sea bottom and out of the atmosphere,» Goldberg says.

The devices could be armed once they're out of Earth's atmosphere, and the intervention can occur far enough from our planet to keep any fallout or explosion risk well beyond the biosphere — the goal being to save the world without harming it.

The world's plants can only pull so much CO2 out of the atmosphere in a given season, while human emissions keep rising.

As people keep adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, humanity could throw the Earth's climate out of whack in a geological hurry.

So while a mature forest is in chemical equilibrium with the atmosphere, coral reefs form permanent limestone structures that keep on taking carbon out of the air forever.

A new study suggests that beaver dams and the sediments corralled behind them sequester carbon, temporarily keeping greenhouse gases containing the element out of the atmosphere.

Now his background is in things like [the] space shuttle and figuring out how to keep the space shuttle from flying out of control when it is re-entering atmosphere.

Estimating how bike sharing keeps CO2 out of the atmosphere is complicated because every bike - sharing program works differently and collects data differently, Shaheen said.

«The approach binds CO2 in a way that immobilizes it on a relatively short timeline, especially when compared to the duration of time that we need to keep CO2 out of the atmosphere.»

As long as rapid continental weathering continued, carbonate was deposited on the oceanic crust and subducted into what Lowe calls «a big storage facility... that kept most of the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.»

The good news is that has kept more of the gas out of the atmosphere.

Keeping carbon dioxide deep underground and out of the atmosphere removes it as a player in climate change.

The process transforms the biological matter into a more stable form of carbon, slowing the release cycle and thereby keeping more carbon out of the atmosphere.

An international observing campaign is calling on large observatories in Chile and Hawaii, orbiting instruments such as Hubble, and amateurs armed with backyard telescopes to all keep an eye out for what's going on in the rest of Jupiter's atmosphere.

«If California allows credits for reductions in deforestation, it would send farmers and forest communities a powerful signal that living forests can be worth more than dead ones, and contribute to keeping these greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere,» said EDF's Schwartzman.

«It's very clear our time is running out in terms of our global carbon budget, which is the amount of carbon civilization can put into the atmosphere while hoping to keep climate change under control,» Walsh said, adding that we could use the balance of our carbon budget in the next 40 years.

Using methods like planting shrubs, fertilizing with compost, and moving cover crops, the Institute has been able to keep carbon out of the atmosphere and in the soil, where it can better conserve water.

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