Sentences with phrase «natural sinks»

During the last century or so, over half of the CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, industry, and deforestation have been absorbed by natural sinks such as the forests and oceans.

CO2 emissions rise as natural sinks slow, but how can scientists precisely track this greenhouse gas, especially in advance of a potential global treaty to reduce its emissions?

In 1959, natural sinks removed just over 50 % of the carbon dioxide man emitted.

CO2 emissions rise as natural sinks slow, but how can scientists precisely track this greenhouse gas, especially in advance of a potential global treaty to reduce its emissions?

The main natural sinks are the oceans and plants and other organisms that use photosynthesis to remove carbon from the atmosphere by incorporating it into biomass.

Human activities are altering the carbon cycle — both by adding more CO2 to the atmosphere and by influencing the ability of natural sinks, like forests, to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

Soil is a huge natural sink for carbon dioxide.

The goal is to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by enhancing China's capacity to impound carbon in natural sinks like forests, thereby supporting environmentally sustainable development in China.

Tulum and Riviera Maya are home to a dense and green jungle with fresh water natural sink holes scattered throughout the jungle, this water runs like veins throughout the jungle.

Conclusion: there must be huge natural sinks.

This well is probably the Sacred Cenote, one of two large natural sink holes found at the site.

It has always been my belief that emissions of methane, CO2 and nitrous oxide can and do result from human activity but that that natural sources predominate and that natural sinks act to sequest much of any excess gases that human activity alone may cause.

The ocean and the biosphere are natural sinks for excess CO2.

End deforestation and degradation and restore degraded lands to protect biodiversity, reduce carbon emissions and to absorb atmospheric carbon into natural sinks;

If in 1959, natural sinks removed 50 % of carbon emissions just like now while emissions have been multiplied by 3 to 4 in the interval, that means the sink efficiency has increased, greatly increased, not dropped.

His change results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers» changeups, is slightly firmer than usual, has slight armside fade and has some natural sink to it.

One is the natural sinking of land called glacio - isostatic adjustment.

«Until now, we thought that the decline in the efficiency of natural sinks was going to happen during the 21st century and more strongly during [its] second half,» Canadell says.

«For every ton of CO2 emitted [into] the atmosphere, the natural sinks are removing less carbon than before,» says biologist Josep «Pep» Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project — an Australia — based research consortium devoted to analyzing the pollution behind global warming.

These natural sinks play a critical role in determining the climate effects of CO2 emissions.

But a 25 % reduction wont fix the climate issue, so we will require renewable energy and some form of negative emissions with either technology or natural sinks, preferably the later.