Sentences with phrase «massive amounts of carbon»

This permafrost, in turn, contains massive amounts of carbon that could potentially be emitted to the atmosphere.

We are currently taking massive amounts of carbon that were removed from the atmosphere hundreds of millions of years ago and burning it.

At the time, massive amounts of carbon entered land and sea, and global temperatures rose by more than five degrees Celsius.

How can massive amounts of carbon get into soil rapidly and remain there?

What about mud all over the planet and how it captures massive amounts of carbon?

The plan calls for wealthy countries to pay developing countries to preserve their rainforests arguing that these ecosystems store massive amounts of carbon dioxide as well as providing important ecological services and serving as a repository for most of the planet's biodiversity.

Worldwide, peatlands store massive amounts of carbon in thick blankets of wet organic matter accumulated in the ground over centuries.

A proposed solution to the first question involves the outgassing of massive amounts of carbon dioxide by volcanoes, which could have warmed the planetary surface rapidly, especially given that major carbon dioxide sinks (rock weathering and photosynthesis) would have been dampened by a frozen Earth.

Give gasoline some credit: Burning it may spew massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the air, but the fuel is incredibly energy - rich.

Wildfires in Indonesia have been known to release massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere over short periods of time.

Turn Off the Carbon Emissions Tap at the Source Higgins says, «You and I, as human beings, do not emit massive amounts of carbon emissions.

There are indications that large regions of the permafrost in parts of Alaska and other northern polar areas are already thawing, with the potential to release massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere beyond those being directly added by human activity.

Saving Forests Page Content These nature - based initiatives aid in global mitigation efforts by preserving or restoring standing forests, which absorb massive amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.

Disruptive farming practices like slash and burn, fertilizing, ploughing, and overgrazing have sent massive amounts of carbon

(Scientists are investigating an assortment of extreme measures, such as sucking massive amounts of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.)

Worse, as wells, roads, and pipelines overtake our lands, they threaten to unleash massive amounts of carbon pollution, fueling our ever - growing climate crisis.

In recent months scientists have raised serious concerns about the efficacy of burying massive amounts of carbon underground.

Or what if ocean iron fertilization really can sequester massive amounts of carbon?

Injecting massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the subsurface could activate faults and trigger tremors.

With dry seasons lasting longer in the southern Amazon, rainforests could suffer and, if damage is severe enough, massive amounts of carbon currently stored in plants and the soil could be released into the atmosphere.

Richards and colleagues write that while the Deccan eruptions probably spewed massive amounts of carbon dioxide and other noxious, climate - modifying gases into the atmosphere, «It's still unclear if this contributed to the demise of most of life on Earth at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs.»

Agricultural wastes and other bio-sources contain massive amounts of carbon dioxide that could become the building blocks for methane and other simple fuels.

Burning forests emit massive amounts of carbon dioxide, producing a deeper greenhouse effect.

Whether for enhancing crop yields or storing massive amounts of carbon in the soil as part of a geoengineering plan, biochar certainly has a bit of a buzz going around it of late.

So during the growing phase of 30 to 50 years, the pine plantations will take massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

It also seems that Rajt is quite myopic in her criticisms of factory farming, because as opposed to Niman's nuanced arguments, she completely fails to acknowledge the very serious problems of factory farmed monocrops, which wipe out entire ecosystems, turn our topsoil into a desert wasteland, and release massive amounts of carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide into the atmosphere.

One proposed solution to the first question involves the outgassing of massive amounts of carbon dioxide by volcanoes, which could have warmed the planetary surface rapidly by enhancing the planet's so - called greenhouse effect, especially given that major carbon dioxide sinks (rock weathering and photosynthesis) would have been dampened by a frozen Earth.

Since around 1750, humanity's heavy and growing use of these fuels has spewed massive amounts of carbon dioxide, methane and soot into the air.

But Hypatia's matrix has a massive amount of carbon and an unusually small amount of silicon.»

«Reforesting US topsoils store massive amounts of carbon, with potential for much more.»

Forests across the United States — and especially forest soils — store massive amounts of carbon, offsetting about 10 percent of the country's annual greenhouse gas emissions and helping to mitigate climate change.

While there have been some limited successes — instituting sustainability practices inside the company, for instance — there haven't been any resolutions that have been able to address the core problem with the industry: the massive amounts of carbon they insist on dumping into the atmosphere.

Lead author Katarzyna Tokarska and her colleagues estimated that massive amounts of carbon dioxide will be released into the air if all the world's reserves of coal, oil and gas are used up.

The Arctic contains a massive amount of carbon locked within its frozen soil - the remnants of plants and animals that died more than 20,000 years ago.

For too long, on my «to do» list has been to post on the serious questions related to the booming in America's natural gas reserves due to the development of «Fracking» (hydraulic fracturing) technology and approaches that have enabled exploitation of the massive amount of carbon atoms in shale natural gas.

«Massive amounts of carbon stored in frozen soils at high latitudes are increasingly vulnerable to exposure to the atmosphere,» says the Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project at CSIRO, Dr Pep Canadell.

With all the focus on tropical forest conservation and the amount of carbon emissions resulting from its deforestation, are we overlooking protecting the massive amount of carbon stored in the world's boreal forests?

Sure, this waste product exists, but the reason it exists is because of an industry that not only is inherently cruel towards animals, but is also responsible for a massive amount of carbon emissions.

In order to explain the isotopic signature of the PETM, you need to add to the climate system either a massive amount of carbon that's somewhat enriched in light carbon, or a smaller amount of carbon that's extremely enriched in light carbon, or (most likely) something in the middle.

The results suggest that 1.5 C is achievable if global emissions peak in the next few years and massive amounts of carbon are sucked out of the atmosphere in the second half of the century through a proposed technology known as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS).

While there have been some limited successes — instituting sustainability practices inside the company, for instance — there haven't been any resolutions that have been able to address the core problem with the industry: the massive amounts of carbon they insist on dumping into the atmosphere for free.