Sentences with phrase «less carbon dioxide removal»

Drought also stunts forest growth, which leads to less carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, Keeling wrote.

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The simulations also suggest that the removal of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by natural processes on land and in the ocean will become less efficient as the planet warms.

«So, even well - managed present - day forests store much less carbon than their natural counterparts in 1750, which explains the [net] lack of carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere.»

Fertilizing the surface ocean with iron increases biological productivity, but the resulting carbon dioxide removal will be much less than expected due to the increased productivity of diatoms, which incorporate and remove the bioavailable iron.

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.

This decision defined small - scale afforestation or reforestation project activities as those that are expected to result in net anthropogenic GHG removals by sinks of less than 8 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide per year.

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.