Sentences with phrase «lots of carbon dioxide»

Coal plants also release lots and lots of carbon dioxide — in fact, they're our nation's biggest source of carbon pollution.

By adding lots of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we are causing the climate to favor certain weather patterns.

We just need to cut more drastically — oh, and also figure out a way to pull lots of carbon dioxide back out of the atmosphere.

Since then, human activities have pumped lots of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The researchers found that in hot years, trees in a Costa Rican rainforest grow less, and the tropics worldwide release lots of carbon dioxide (CO2).

Lower traces of the special form of oxygen indicated that the bear's body chemistry had been very active, and that the bear had exhaled lots of carbon dioxide.

Will they counteract a lot of the carbon dioxide effect or just a little?»

Conventional processing methods use a high - temperature blast furnace to heat the iron ore and other compounds to remove oxygen and yield a desired alloy, a method that creates a lot of carbon dioxide, according to a report last year from U.S. EPA on greenhouse gas emissions from the iron and steel sector.

«Without the existence of these proteins that could help phytoplankton cope in these stressful environments, the phytoplankton diversity in many regions of the ocean would be much lower, in particular by reducing large phytoplankton such as diatoms that are known to take up a lot of carbon dioxide, thus possibly accelerating the pace of a warming planet,» said Marchetti, assistant professor of marine science at UNC - Chapel Hill.

Why they can cause bloating: «Fizzy carbonated drinks contain a lot of carbon dioxide and therefore are the most common cause of bloating.»

As we know, burning gasoline DOES create a lot of carbon dioxide, and the amount is quantifiable and known.

In the case of climate, the fee would have to steadily rise to propel a steady shift away from energy choices that come with a lot of carbon dioxide releases, and it'd have to encompass all sources (and perhaps credit «sinks,» like new forests, that sop up the gases).

Francesca Galeazzi is a self - described «nasty, evil woman» in this short video clip, shot in Greenland several days ago and aimed at pillorying so - called «carbon offsets» as a dubious justification for actions that release a lot of carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping emission building in the atmosphere.

This absorbs a lot of carbon dioxide, removing around 500 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year since 2000.

But more than just water comes from the ground: there's a lot of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide as well.

«The crystalline silicon in modern electronics is currently made through a series of energy - intensive chemical reactions with temperatures in excess of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit that produces a lot of carbon dioxide.»

One problem is that producing oil from shale or oil sands generates significant amounts of carbon dioxide — but a lot of that carbon dioxide comes from producing the hydrogen needed to process the raw materials.

Not exact matches

Allen notes that there are lots of consumer - friendly carbon dioxide detectors on the market, adding that the research found that people performed best at CO2 levels of 500 to 600 ppm.

Eating less meat will free up a lot of agricultural land which can revert to growing trees and other vegetation, which, in turn, will absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

New research is making it increasingly clear that, without a shift in approach, humans might strip away healthy peatlands and get, in return, a lot of climate - warming carbon dioxide.

That's a lot of dollars, a lot of megawatts and a lot of tons of carbon dioxide, so many other cities are taking note.

To turn carbon dioxide into sugar via photosynthesis, plants need a lot of water.

Fossil fuels cost a lot of money and [have] a lot of climate impact; that's something we haven't covered either, but this plan will also reduce carbon dioxide emissions to about a third of what they are now [by] 2050, assuming some level of growth as well.

Log fires simply restore carbon dioxide to the atmosphere that was locked up a few decades earlier, in the growing tree: Log fires in that sense are carbon neutral, or even carbon negative, since a lot of the carbon lingers and is buried as ash, soot or charcoal.

There is a lot of interest in the northern hemisphere in proposals to capture carbon dioxide and get rid of it somewhere — on the sea bed or in deep rock layers, for instance.

Sydney researcher Ian Jones attracted a lot of interest with his innovative scheme to increase the capacity of the ocean to absorb carbon dioxide.

New research on carbon sequestration suggests that carbon dioxide could be chemically converted to a solid, providing a safe way to get rid of a lot of greenhouse gas.

It's not clear how much of a greenhouse effect that would produce, but it's a good bet that Earth would be a lot warmer — much as it would be, say, if there were no plants drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Researchers at the U. of I. found that plants vary a lot in the efficiency with which they uptake carbon dioxide and conserve water.

«Scientists have paid a lot of attention to potential climate change signals in forests — like them growing faster than expected due to an overabundance of carbon dioxide, or slower due to climate change - induced extreme temperatures.

Roughly 25 billion tons of carbon dioxide are produced each year, and that's a lot of storage.

It is not just a matter that if we started to use lots of coal gasification techniques [in] which your burning coal, which [and] you pull in the carbon dioxide out before it goes into the atmosphere — you can't just rely on those.

What we have to do is stack up lots of different technologies and the contribution they make toward saving us carbon dioxide; and that's what will help us get there.

Mining the exotic metals used in modern electronics inflicts a lot of damage on the environment, especially by polluting the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.

The Industrial Revolution has been a lot of fun but it has pumped a bit too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

But there can be too much of a good thing: In the last 200 years, humans have added a lot of extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas to produce energy.

In a lake at the surface, you'd find a lot of microbes that use the energy from sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into more complex organic compounds, such as sugars, and use them for energy.

Now, if you have all this very cold, nearly freezing water surrounding these ice caps, sucking up carbon dioxide out of the polar atmosphere, at nearly the highest possible rate, 30 times faster than oxygen, and 70 times faster than nitrogen, doesn't it stand to reason that the air that remains might just have a lot less carbon dioxide in it than the atmosphere across the rest of the planet?

In automobiles, researchers have struggled to develop a system that seamlessly and easily converts pollutants like nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide to less harmful nitrogen and carbon dioxide — without using a lot of energy.

Particularly useful when under lots of stress, Rhodiola tends to offset the negative effects of increased carbon dioxide and lactic acid — which lowers oxygen uptake.

An awful lot of states have gone to court because the Bush administration is fighting their efforts to curb carbon dioxide emissions.

Retrofit of older stuctures, new green buildings, and increased energy efficinecy can do a lot to reduce energy demands and the consequent carbon dioxide emissions.

Kelemen has done a lot of interesting work on possible ways to capture carbon dioxide from air (none being easy or cheap):

As with the «No Pressure» video in Britain in 2010 — in which a school teacher explodes the brains of kids who don't agree to cut their carbon dioxide emissions — this one is getting lots of views.

When global warming enters the realm of politics, the conversation usually focuses on a few «solutions» — a bill capping carbon dioxide, «clean coal,» a climate treaty (you've read a lot here on «clean coal»; a lot more on treaties is coming shortly).

Unless it has changed a lot very recently, basic economics tells us that a relatively free, largely unregulated marketplace can not be expected to consider all key factors or lead to outcomes that are responsible with respect to all key factors (for example, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide) unless those factors are represented in costs and correspondingly in prices.

Finally, this all points to another reality — that if you care about blunting the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, you'd better start hoping for a lot more basic science on how to capture that gas cheaply and stash it away for safekeeping.

A lot of climate and energy experts I've interviewed of late see no prospect of that doing the job without also making an aggressive push for basic research on the frontiers of solar, energy storage, carbon dioxide capture, and more.

• Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide gets a lot of attention (think Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth), but it's only one factor in rising temperatures.

Since the design lifetime of most fossil fuel plants is of order 40 years, the world would be wise to opt for another generation of fossil fuels to continue the improvement of the lot of mankind, while making a more determined effort over a longer time to develop real workarounds to the currently perceived problem of carbon dioxide emissions.