Sentences with phrase «much carbon dioxide in the air»

That's fortunate, since too much carbon dioxide in the air will cause Earth's atmosphere to become overly warm.

Not exact matches

Although there is much less of it in the air, it is 33 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere and adding to greenhouse warming.

So in a sense, the cleanup will cost that much, whether it is converting hydrogen from coal or pulling carbon dioxide from the air.

However, a new University of Minnesota study with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than scientists previously believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open - air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.

Compared to power - plant emissions, carbon dioxide in the ambient air is much more diffuse and harder to concentrate.

The stomata open and close depending on the amount of carbon dioxide available in the air and how much they need of it.

Since the lungs are still partially filled with carbon dioxide (and too much air), not as much oxygen (air) can get in.

This clears the alveoli deep in the lungs of stale air with a high carbon dioxide content more efficiently than trying to inhale as much air as possible.

The analysis concluded that without much stronger action to cut emissions both before and after 2020, «global emissions will remain on an unsustainable pathway that could lead to concentrations equal or above 550 p.p.m. [parts per million of carbon dioxide in the air] with the related temperature» rising 3 degrees Celsius, or 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

While climatologists have been closely monitoring carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere, it seems they should be focusing just as much on what's under their feet as what's in the air.

You are probably also aware already that water vapor is as much if not more of a so called greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide is and there is a lot of evaporating ocean water on the planet not to mention clouds and high tropical humidity because hot air provides added space in the atmosphere for water vapor gas to become a major component of air.

«Humans Didn't Exist the Last Time There Was This Much CO2 in the Air» (Eric Holthaus, Grist) «On Wednesday, scientists at the University of California in San Diego confirmed that April's monthly average atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration breached 410 parts per million for the first time in our history...» More...

Specifically, the term is defined as how much the average global surface temperature will increase if there is a doubling of greenhouse gases (expressed as carbon dioxide equivalents) in the air, once the planet has had a chance to settle into a new equilibrium after the increase occurs.

As regards the reserves of fuel these would be sufficient to give at least ten times as much carbon dioxide as there is in the air at present.