Sentences with phrase «likely absorb carbon»

But the fast - motion shift to forests will likely absorb carbon dioxide, as well.

Not exact matches

Although some lakes can also absorb CO2 at their surfaces similar to the way oceans do, the increases in these other sources of organic and inorganic carbon are likely the dominant factor, says Scott Higgins, a research scientist at the International Institute for Sustainable Development's Experimental Lakes Area, a natural laboratory of 58 small lakes in Ontario.

Its two faces differ strikingly in color, likely the result of thermal segregation: Over time, darker materials (like carbon) have absorbed more heat from the sun, warming up and sending lighter, more volatile materials (like ice) to the colder hemisphere.

The mostly likely explanation is that the carbon nanotubes absorb more sunlight and donate electrons to the photosynthetic process, according to Giraldo and the rest of the team, or the nanotubes may be speeding up the transfer of electrons within the photosynthetic processes.

«We wanted to understand why there is more cis - lycopene in the body, and by mathematically modeling our patients» blood carbon - 13 lycopene concentration data, we found that it is likely due to a conversion of all - trans to cis lycopene, which occurs soon after we absorb lycopene from our food,» she added.

Further, because of the processes highlighted in the Solomon paper and other analyses, including the IPCC AR4, the net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere is likely to fall as the stocks that absorb all that carbon, particularly the oceans, fill up.

One of climate science's main focuses is the capacity of land and sea to absorb CO2; if «carbon sinks» lose the ability to sequester carbon, more CO2 will remain in the atmosphere, likely escalating warming.

New research shows forests are slow to recover from droughts, and climate models that overlook recovery time are likely overestimating how much carbon forests can absorb after droughts.

This leaves only a few dollars margin to absorb other factors such as potential carbon offset costs, likely inflation in labour, materials and energy costs.

And such corals are likely to suffer before their tropical counterparts as cold waters absorb more carbon dioxide.

Callendar suggested that the top layer of the ocean, that interacts with the atmosphere, would easily become saturated with carbon dioxide and that would affect its ability to absorb more, because, he thought, the rate of mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters was likely to be very slow.

Black carbon has likely played a far more significant role there, because of the contrast between absorbing aerosols deposited on the ice surface, and the high albedo perennial ice cover, and thus in this particular region black carbon has likely been an aggravating factor when it comes to anthropogenic surface warming.