Sentences with phrase «of human carbon»

That means if plants around the world continue to adjust to rising carbon dioxide concentrations, increasing their biomass on a global scale, they could actually help offset some of our human carbon emissions by removing more carbon dioxide from the air.

While the SE4All objectives do not explicitly address climate change, it is clear that sustainable energy is a prerequisite for reducing greenhouse gas emissions: 80 % of human carbon dioxide emissions come from the global energy system, including transportation, buildings, industry, and electricity, heat, and fuel production.

This coincides with the beginnings of the human carbon volcano.

Ua would be the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as a result of human carbon sequestration efforts, it is not the uptake of carbon from anthropogenic emissions.

Yet even as a measure of the human carbon footprint, the EF uses an arbitrary methodology that is highly sensitive to its authors» assumptions.

This position does not appear to be supported by any observational evidence, much like the highly exaggerated claims concerning the effects of human carbon dioxide emissions on climate.

Undoubtedly, sea levels will continue to rise into the future, in part, from the earth's temperature increase as a result of human carbon dioxide emissions resulting from our use of fossil fuels.

This means the IPCC is tasked with finding a human effect of human carbon dioxide emissions on the climate, whereas NIPCC looks at climate change «in the round,» without bias.

Scientists have released the first - ever global maps of human carbon dioxide emissions taken from satellite observations.

Given the high uncertainty about the net effect of human carbon dioxide emissions on global temperatures, we only see natural changes in climate.

It concluded that due to the amount of human carbon emissions in the atmosphere, the planet has reached 3 to 7 degrees Celsius of global warming.

«The human impact on global climate is small, and any warming that may occur as a result of human carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions is likely to have little effect on global temperatures, the cryosphere (ice - covered areas), hydrosphere (oceans, lakes, and rivers), or weather.

Forests soak up roughly 25 percent of human carbon emissions, but some models suggest that by the end of the century the world's forests could flip from a critical carbon sink to a major source.

What is clearly needed is an immediate «feedback» of quick reductions of human carbon emissions, but that does not seem much in evidence after the latest farce in Warsaw.

Data from satellite observations «suggest that greenhouse models ignore negative feedback produced by clouds and by water vapor, that diminish the warming effects» of human carbon dioxide emissions.

«Ocean warming is occurring because of human carbon dioxide emissions, which warm the earth as a whole,» Weber says.

Forests and other land vegetation currently remove up to 30 percent of human carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere during photosynthesis, but thanks to this latest study, experts now know that we have tropical forests to thank for a great deal of this work - absorbing a whopping 1.4 billion metric tons of CO2 out of a total total global absorption of 2.5 billion metric tons.

Not exact matches

Decades of scientific investigation across multiple lines of evidence corroborate a powerful yet inconvenient truth: Human - caused global warming and climate change is real, and it's briskly accelerating as we dump more carbon into the atmosphere.

A joint statement from the National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society in Britain said «human - induced increases in CO2 (carbon dioxide) concentrations have been the dominant influence on the long - term global surface temperature increase.»

Fears of carbon emissions from human activity have the rest of the developed (and much of the developing) world taking steps to move away from oil.

Trump and several of his cabinet members deny the consensus among climate scientists that carbon dioxide from human activity is the primary cause of global warming.

Perry has questioned the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are the primary driver of climate change.

The reactors — six - foot - tall metal and glass boxes that glow seafoam green when at work — mimic what happens to carbon after millennia of pressure, but faster, with less human labor and a carbon - neutral footprint.

I know it's a cliche and it's rather personal, but it takes away the carbon footprint of an entire human!

Their faster metabolism reacted more quickly than that of humans to higher levels of carbon monoxide.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing that we all ought to be carbon copies of one another but fundamentally I think we want to say that there is ONE PARTICULAR way to be fully human and fully alive and that ONE PARTICULAR way is unique to Jesus, not unique to us.

A normal human exhales around 1 kg of CO2 (the simplest chemically stable molecule of carbon in the earth's atmosphere) per day.

Hey, the big kahuna upstairs gave humans the free will to pollute their environment and to dump excessive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

While neither is overly occupied with the policy concerns of the larger environmental movement ¯ global climate, carbon capture, alternative energy, the future of nuclear power, and so on ¯ they help illuminate a common narrative that places nature above human need.

As a Christian, I absolutely believe God began the human race in the Garden of Eden... as a discerning intelligent human being, I can not deny the facts found in carbon dating studies of ancient fossil remains... if God can creat man, he can also allow for investigation and confirmation of planet plant and animal life, the upheaval of mountains, and history of the sea.

The properties of the chemical substances, a plant's movement towards the sun and its ability to produce oxygen from carbon dioxide are very useful to humans in general and can be very useful to designers.

It is theoretically possible to produce a «carbon - copy» of a human being.

... A number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity... Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain.

The parable of the rivet popper is particularly applicable to the threat of human activity to the cycles of nature such as the nitrogen cycle or the carbon cycle, which are part of the life - support systems of nature.

Rick Perry, the U.S. Secretary of Energy who infamously once said he would do away with the Department of Energy, told CNBC that he didn't believe that carbon dioxide emissions from humans are the main cause for climate change.

Simone said he wanted to promote the fact that vegetables and pulses are more climate - and human - friendly than animal proteins, which are bad for the health and the production of which leads to environmental degradation and an increased carbon footprint.

«Science behind health» feeds Gnosis» challenge to develop clinically proven bioactive compounds and nutrients involved in one carbon metabolism - the key network of cellular reactions essential to sustain human life for whole body health condition.

Just by changing the way we farm, by stopping deep tilling, mono - cropping, and chemical fertilizer use — the Climate Collaborative estimates regenerative carbon farming practices could mitigate as much as 4 billion to 6 billion tons of CO2 equivalents a year or 10 percent to 12 percent of global human - caused emissions.

Over the last decade lightweight carbon fiber and improvements in the design of the prosthetic racing foot have so improved performance that some people believe a human being without legs could have an advantage over one with them.

A vast majority of scientists believe climate change is caused by humans, they aren't biased against carbon.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

The only real climate change solutions that I have seen are to reduce carbon dioxide in the air by having human activity emit less of it.

New research is making it increasingly clear that, without a shift in approach, humans might strip away healthy peatlands and get, in return, a lot of climate - warming carbon dioxide.

The aviation industry produces 2 percent of global human - induced carbon dioxide emissions.

She helped the trio build a forest of tiny carbon nanotubes, cylinders of pure carbon 10,000 times smaller than a human hair, that could boast over 2000 square metres of area per gram.

They were the first to demonstrate that a microwave beam could actually lift a real structure — a tiny sail, about 1.4 inches in diameter, composed of lightweight carbon fibers 10 times thinner than a human hair.

One - third of carbon dioxide emitted by humans enters the oceans, making seawater more acidic, the study noted.

Drivers of Climate Change Atmospheric concentrations of many gases — primarily carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and halocarbons (gases once used widely as refrigerants and spray propellants)-- have increased because of human activities.

Rising anthropogenic, or human - caused, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have up to twice the impact on coastal estuaries as it does in the oceans because the human - caused CO2 lowers the ecosystem's ability to absorb natural fluctuations of the greenhouse gas, a new study suggests.

Carbon emissions have grown rapidly in the past decades, and humans emit about 10 petagrams of carbon per year.