Sentences with phrase «of additional carbon»

Coal use will rise an estimated 13.5 percent in Germany this year, resulting in at least 14 million metric tons of additional carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, even as the nation continues to

Although somewhat of a simplification, since it's strongest infrared absorption bands are already saturated, the greenhouse effect of additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is approximately logarithmic.

The temperature effects of cloud cover during the 20th century could be as much as 7 times greater than the alleged temperature effect of 200 years worth of additional carbon dioxide and several times greater than that of all additional greenhouse gases combined.

Bioenergy is responsible for nearly 20 % of the additional carbon savings needed in the 2DS compared to an emissions trajectory based on meeting existing and announced policies.

To have most of the additional carbon of the atmosphere from other sources than human influence these other sources must be larger than the human influence.

Shifting from the 2C path to its below - 2C scenario would again put heavy emphasis on energy efficiency across transport, buildings and industry, to make 34 % of the additional carbon savings.

The Environmental Protection Acts ratified by the United Kingdom and Australia and the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change are some examples of attempts to combat deleterious environmental change associated with the release of additional carbon dioxide into the air.

In this scenario the difference — call it the Trump effect — comes to 11 billion tons of additional carbon dioxide emitted between 2016 and 2030.

Consistent with recent observations and simulations, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet becomes unstable with 600 to 800 GtC of additional carbon emissions.

Research indicates that oceans have absorbed much of the heat and about a third of the additional carbon dioxide pumped into the air from pre-industrial times.

In other words, about 40 % (174/441.5) of the additional carbon has remained in the atmosphere, while the remaining 60 % has been transferred to the oceans and terrestrial biosphere.

Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine and Robert Socolow of Princeton University in the US report in the journal Environmental Research Letters that existing power plants will emit 300 billion tonnes of additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during their lifetimes.

Noting that rock star farmer Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms has built up 6.5 % of additional carbon in his soils, Bane argued that truly maximizing soil carbon sequestration across all the world's agricultural soils could literally soak up more carbon than we release each year.

It is also very crucial to include the most definitive estimates of additional carbon cycle feedbacks that have already been locked in due to current (and future) warming.

So that still leaves 240 Pg of additional carbon to soak up somehow.

My understanding was that about 60 % of the additional carbon we pump into the atmosphere each year is immediately sequestered by natural processes, presumably largely biological.

Abstract: The oceans are becoming more acidic due to the uptake of additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

As the temperature rises, water vapor evaporates at a higher rate, raising the water vapor content of the atmosphere, further amplifying the the increased greenhouse effect of the additional carbon dioxide.

Moreover, it would itself involve the expenditure of large amounts of energy and thus the emission of additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

If the bulbs were adopted worldwide, that single measure could meet 70 percent of the additional carbon reductions promised by industrialized nations in the Kyoto Protocol, according to Paul Waide, a senior policy analyst at the International Energy Agency.

According to these calculations, fragmentation of the tropical forests leads to approximately 0.34 gigatonnes of additional carbon being released each year.

Not exact matches

Some, like methane, come with the additional downside of having a greenhouse effect 23 times greater than carbon dioxide's.

The floor price, which begins this year at C$ 10 per tonne and increases to $ 50 by 2022, will cost the country's economy about $ 2 billion, or 0.1 % — before factoring in «the prospect of additional growth that could result from clean technology investments spurred on by a higher price on carbon,» The Canadian Press notes.

NANTERO SECURES MORE THAN $ 21M IN ADDITIONAL FUNDING New Round Signals Nantero's Continued Strong Customer Support WOBURN, MA — DECEMBER 8, 2016 — Nantero Inc., the nanotechnology company developing next - generation memory using carbon nanotubes, today announced the closing of an over $ 21 million financing round.

In his year - end interviews, and in the final days of the fall sitting of the House of Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said it would be crazy to impose additional costs on Canada's oil and gas sector in a time of low prices if the U.S. was not enacting similar carbon emission policies.

Failure to consider the competitiveness impacts of misaligned Canada / US climate policy and carbon pricing will put additional Canadian refineries and their employees at risk.

With the news out of the United States that they're energy industry is beginning to recover, it's clear that imposing additional costs to export industries drives investors to other jurisdictions that lack a carbon tax.

With savings of 7,792 kg CO2 per year in carbon savings, the homeowner could realize an additional $ 25.50 to $ 85.80 per year in carbon credit income just by living in a hempcrete home.

SCC dollar values are sometimes characterized as representing the marginal damage of an additional tonne of carbon dioxide emitted.

The EPA claims that the extraction, transport, refining and use of the oilsands crude that would be transported daily through the pipeline would result in «an additional 1.3 to 27.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year» compared to lighter crudes.

«The additional carbon footprint created by the longer supply chain is the enemy of food production.

Carrefour published its Sourcing Policy on Sustainable Palm Oil in 2014 which includes the RSPO standard and additional criteria such as protection of peat lands and high carbon stock areas.

In response to the upcoming implementation of the carbon tax, Australians will find an additional tax on their household energy bills — but the exact figure will not be itimised, The Daily...

However, in May 2010, the new Coalition government announced that, as part of a programme of measures to tackle climate change and promote a low carbon economy, the third runway would now be cancelled and permission also refused for additional runways at Gatwick and Stansted.

She says she's pleased about the additional funding for the new rail and bus center here in downtown Rochester, «I think the more we can get people out of their privately owned vehicles and the more we can depend on mass transportation is better for the ecology and for the economy and any lowering of the carbon footprint, quote unquote is a good thing.»

That's 500 additional years of locked - away carbon released back into the atmosphere in a matter of weeks.

Politics of deferred gratification Under one of the additional scenarios, known as RCP 4.5, humans take longer to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but eventually do so, and under the other, known as RCP 8.5, carbon dioxide concentrations continue to rise through 2100.

Later, other kinds of meteorites and comets, vaporizing on impact, brought water to our planet, along with additional carbon and nitrogen.

The release of that carbon can, in turn, cause additional warming and the release of more carbon, something scientists call a positive feedback loop.

The simple soak and heating process develops a carbon capture material with the additional environmental benefits of recycling a waste product.

Global simulations conducted by the team found that microbial responses to enhanced root activity under rising CO2, while depending on plant species, climate and soil mineralogy, led to a loss of global soil carbon stocks that counteracted the additional carbon storage resulting from increased plant growth in many regions of the world.

As some of the incentives for fracking come from the lower carbon emissions produced by gas - fired power stations, a key question is whether the extraction of shale gas has an additional impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The team determined that there are opportunities to establish additional protected areas in some lowland Amazonian regions of Peru, where they found very high carbon densities, as well as in the so - called sub-montane region, which exists between the lowland Amazonian and Andean highland regions.

And since 2004 oil giant BP and its partners (including Statoil) in the In Salah gas field in Algeria have been stripping the nine billion cubic meters of natural gas produced there annually of the 10 percent carbon dioxide it contains and pumping a million metric tons of liquid CO2 back into the underlying saline aquifer through three additional wells.

While some experts think these solutions are impractical for wide - scale use, others say there is a need for additional tests capturing carbon dioxide from cement, one of the highest - emitting industries.

However, this approach requires precision engineering of nano - features (in a detection chip), complex optical setups, novel nano - probes (such as graphene oxide, carbon nanotubes, and gold nanorods) or additional amplification steps such as aggregation of nanoparticles to achieve sensitive detection of biomarkers.

The team found that removing crop residue from cornfields generates an additional 50 to 70 grams of carbon dioxide per megajoule of biofuel energy produced (a joule is a measure of energy and is roughly equivalent to 1 BTU).

That fast - spreading development is creating additional water stress while simultaneously damaging the ecosystem's ability to absorb carbon dioxide and store or «fix» it in plants, according to the research — a study led by scientists at the University of Montana and published in the journal Science.

David Fahey, an atmospheric scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado, said that the researchers will need to do additional analyses to reduce the «significant uncertainties associated with the role of black carbon in the climate.»

Biodiversity declines dramatically, the forest loses significance as a carbon source and the increased use of mineral fertiliser leads to additional leaching of nutrients such as nitrogen.