Sentences with phrase «less carbon dioxide into»

«It's telling that in April 2015 — the month the United States generated more electricity from natural gas than from any other fuel source — the United States also emitted less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than at any time since 1988.

Not exact matches

«The goal of our work was to develop an alternative approach to making ammonia, but the insights that have come from this collaboration between our research groups can be applied to other difficult chemical processes, such as converting carbon dioxide into a less harmful and more useful product.

Previous ocean sediment records suggest that, as the world slipped into the last glacial period, less carbon overall reached the sediments of the Southern Ocean, coinciding with declining atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Other factors come into play: Increasing carbon dioxide emissions worldwide are making all oceans more acidic, forcing species to use more energy to adapt, leaving them with less energy to reproduce and grow.

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.

This may have been triggered by a 250 - million - year lull in volcanic activity, which would have meant less carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere, and a reduced greenhouse effect.

«When taking into account that production of the far smaller batteries of plug - in hybrids is associated with less carbon dioxide emissions than production of the larger batteries of electric vehicles, their carbon dioxide balance is even better,» says Patrick Jochem of KIT's Institute for Industrial Production.

We spewed so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and denuded so much of the planet's greenery that we succeeded in warming everything up to an even more chaotic and less predictable state.

Scientists measured how much carbon dioxide the artificially warmed plants respired — released into the air via their leaves — and learned that over time, the trees acclimated to warmer temperatures and increased their carbon emissions less than expected.

If less carbon dioxide makes it into the water, the ocean will stop becoming more acidic, and calcium carbonate will be left available to the organisms that use it to build shells.

While larger planets could have sufficient gravity to attract a massive hydrogen - helium atmosphere, smaller planets — like Mars or Mercury that have less than half the Earth's mass — located in or near their star's habitable zone may lose their initial life - supporting atmosphere because of low gravity and / or the lack of plate tectonics needed to recycle heat - retaining carbon dioxide gas back into the atmosphere (Kasting et al, 1993).

Usually contains platinum, palladium and / or rhodium, which acts as a catalyst in a chemical reaction that converts unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen into water vapor, carbon dioxide and other gases that are less toxic than untreated exhaust fumes

That takes the edge off of the atmosphere's rising concentration of CO2, but that same carbon dioxide, being dutifully dissolved into the sea, makes the ocean itself more acidic - and so less able to support marine life.

And as to his claim that there may be «places around the world where global warming will lead to less crop success and yield, even when taking into account the carbon dioxide fertilization effect,» he appears to be equally ignorant that rising levels of atmospheric CO2 tend to raise the temperature of optimum plant photosynthesis beyond the predicted temperature values associated with global warming, effectively nullifying this worn out claim (Idso & Idso, 2011).

The less we drive, the less carbon dioxide is emitted into the air.

«The efficiency of converting coal into electricity matters: more efficient power plants use less fuel and emit less climate - damaging carbon dioxide,» wrote the authors of the International Energy Agency report on measuring coal plant performance.

The project will result in two thirds of a million tonnes less carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere each year, slowing climate and ocean acidity damage;

The greenhouse gas (GHG) value is a function of converting the methane into carbon dioxide, which traps less heat in the atmosphere than methane.

The GHG value is a function of converting the methane into carbon dioxide, which traps less heat in the atmosphere than methane.

Lower temperatures = less melting = more ice = lower temperatures, on and on and until factors # 1 and # 2 rescue us from turning into a giant snowball (or, during the most extreme ice age, a spate of volcanic eruptions eventually helped belch out enough carbon dioxide to warm the atmosphere and reset the thermostat.)

And, going back to the Little Ice Age, with the oceans appropriately a lot cooler than today they could hold more carbon dioxide and less was released into the air.

The Kyoto Protocol entered into force on 16 February 2005 in accordance with Article 23, that is on the ninetieth day after the date on which not less than 55 Parties to the Convention, incorporating Parties included in Annex I of the Convention which accounted in total for at least 55 % of the total carbon dioxide emissions for 1990 of the Parties included in Annex I, had deposited their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.

Recalculating this amount into the total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emission in grams of CO2, one obtains the estimate 1.003 Ã — 1018 g, which constitutes less than 0.00022 % of the total CO2 amount naturally degassed from the mantle during geologic history.