Sentences with phrase «less carbon dioxide makes»

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.

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.

«Thanksgiving dinner's carbon footprint: A state - by - state comparison: Meals prepared in Maine and Vermont emit less carbon dioxide; meals made in Wyoming emit most.»

The researchers found that ocean warming would be an overwhelming stressor that made food webs less efficient, neutralised the «fertilising» effect of elevated carbon dioxide and threw the fragile relationship between predators and prey off balance.

«However, ocean warming cancelled this benefit of elevated carbon dioxide by causing stress to the animals, making them less efficient feeders and preventing the extra energy produced by the plants from travelling through the food web to the fish.

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.

A new study suggests that in carbon - dioxide - rich environments, plants given the nitrate fertilizers widely used today will grow slower and make less protein than plants fertilized with ammonium.

Although ponds less than a quarter of an acre in size make up only 8.6 % of the surface area of the world's lakes and ponds, they account for 15.1 % of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and 40.6 % of diffusive methane (CH4) emissions.

Researchers made the discovery by growing today's teosinte in 20.1 °C to 22.5 °C greenhouses with 40 % to 50 % less carbon dioxide in the air — conditions more like those 14,000 years ago, before the plant was first domesticated.

On a sprawling roof that covers most of a city block a kind of park has been laid, sucking up carbon dioxide and other air pollution, filtering rainfall, making it less acidic.

In turn, a warmer atmosphere heated the oceans making them much less efficient storehouses of carbon dioxide and reinforcing global warming, possibly forestalling the onset of a new glacial age.

As climate change affects forests, they'll store less carbon dioxide because drought stresses them and hinders their ability to grow, making man - made global warming even worse.

Another factor, the carbonic acid's stability, makes it less acidic — carbonic acid reverts to carbon dioxide and water when the pressure is released (when you open the bottle), and this causes the bubbling that can be seen.

During the fermentation process, carbon dioxide is formed and tries to escape, making the vegetables less packed.

Researchers say the slow digestive system of cows makes them a producer of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that gets far less public attention than carbon dioxide in efforts to fight global warming.

With human carbon dioxide production accounting for less than 3 % of the earth's total natural carbon dioxide production it is ludicrous to think any small reduction we might make would be perceptible — Remember going back to the old stone age before mankind had fire (when the climate was warmer than it is now) would result in a less than 3 % reduction in carbon dioxide production.

Rising carbon dioxide could make crops less nutritious (Non-tech.)

Decisions regarding deployment of carbon dioxide removal technologies will be largely based on cost and scalability, and research is needed to make current options more effective, more environmentally friendly, and less costly.

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.

Scientists complained that the programme makers distorted evidence, and made elementary mistakes such as claiming that volcanoes produce more carbon dioxide than human activities, when in fact they produce less than 2 % of that caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

Risk of Sudden Catastrophic Warming This concern stems directly from the possibility that the prospect of successful geoengineering would make emissions reductions seem less urgent, allowing more and more carbon dioxide to build up in the atmosphere over the century ahead.

The removal of the phrase does have the effect of making the inclusion of carbon dioxide as a «climatic factor» slightly less nonsensical on its face.

Recent studies have separately warned that high levels of carbon dioxide, or CO ₂, make crops less nutritious for reasons that are not totally clear, and put shellfish and other key parts of the food chain at risk by making oceans more acidic.

Keeling was a joke, in less than two years of «data gathering» he claimed to have shown a trend and concluded that man - made levels were rising — pretending to be measuring «pristine background levels of carbon dioxide» from the top of the world's highest active volcano, surrounded by active volcanoes on top of a great hot spot creating volcanoes in warm seas rocked by thousands of earthquakes every year.

But a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that the projections of climate change that have been made by the current family of computerized climate models has been overdone — that the world will warm up significantly less than has been predicted as a result of our ongoing carbon dioxide emissions.

Following heat extraction, the cold water could be returned to a higher level - the resulting negative pressure gradient would make leakage of carbon dioxide from below less likely.

«However, ocean warming cancelled this benefit of elevated carbon dioxide by causing stress to the animals, making them less efficient feeders and preventing the extra energy produced by the plants from travelling through the food web to the fish.

«Last time, we made the seawater less acidic, like it was 100 years ago, and this time, we added carbon dioxide to the water to make it more acidic, like it could be 100 years from now,» Caldeira explained.

But a weakened AMOC does make the ocean less effective at absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide, Oppo noted.

Carbon dioxide is a potent greenhouse gas which makes the atmosphere warmer — the more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the warmer it is, and the less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere the colder it is.

Plants grown with more carbon dioxide make larger fruit and vegetables and use less water.