Sentences with phrase «managing atmospheric carbon»

And although the discovery is not directly part of climate science, it offers yet more unexpected insights into the role of forests in managing atmospheric carbon for the rest of the living world.

Swiss experiment on the interdependence of trees gets to the roots of the role forests play in managing atmospheric carbon for the rest of the living world.

Not exact matches

Geoengineering proposals fall into at least three broad categories: 1) managing atmospheric greenhouse gases (e.g., ocean fertilization and atmospheric carbon capture and sequestration), 2) cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight (e.g., putting reflective particles into the atmosphere, putting mirrors in space to reflect the sun's energy, increasing surface reflectivity and altering the amount or characteristics of clouds), and 3) moderating specific impacts of global warming (e.g., efforts to limit sea level rise by increasing land storage of water, protecting ice sheets or artificially enhancing mountain glaciers).

Therefore, forests should be excellent carbon dioxide traps and should be managed according to the need of balancing atmospheric surplus of carbon dioxide.

The Scripps CO2 Group, which manages the Keeling Curve record of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, reported this week that the average concentration of CO2 at Mauna Loa was 404.16 ppm for February.

While the Earth seems to be managing the steady increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide relatively well so far (although the effects of this increase may not be felt for many decades to come), there are concerns that passing the 400 parts per million atmospheric carbon dioxide threshold will bring the Earth's atmosphere closer to a tipping point at which global warming accelerates rapidly with dire consequences for mankind and other creatures on Earth.

Direct effects of increased concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide on managed forests

ACIA, in this graphic, manage to present virtually a perpendicular change which gives the impression of being about 500 % over «background» levels and fitted neatly to a representation of the infamous «hockey stick» graph when in fact the total change in atmospheric carbon dioxide is under 35 %.