Sentences with phrase «of real carbon»

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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.

The administration should focus on the real science of reducing our carbon output to address the challenges communities already face from sea - level rise, extreme storms, longer droughts, longer wildfire seasons, and other environmental disasters.

The final panel at the annual gathering of Canadian conservatives was a debate focused around a list of real alternatives to a carbon tax

It makes no sense that the provinces would deliberately circumvent Ottawa to produce a policy that is essentially a thumbs - up to pipelines and a bunch of rhetoric about environmental protection or any real goals for reducing our reliance on carbon fuels.

The real news of this week's LNG carbon emissions news was almost lost in the shuffle: British Columbia has reaffirmed its commitment to climate action.

For the Bank of England, for instance, the prospect of restrictions on carbon emissions is real enough to prompt a study on the broad implications for the U.K. economy.

We need to be vigilant to keep our land, air, and waters free of real pollution, particulates, heavy metals, and pathogens, but carbon dioxide (CO2) is not one of these pollutants.

The increase in real prices after June 2012 of around 14 % for household electricity and 13 % for household gas is associated with the implementation of a carbon price from July 2013.

And since electricity use can contribute up to 30 % of a household's carbon footprint, consumer choices have a real impact.

The English Left has scrawled its own caricature of Scotland and declared it a carbon copy of the real thing.

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.

The Real Estate Board of New York is blasting a plan backed by City Hall to cut real - estate carbon emissiReal Estate Board of New York is blasting a plan backed by City Hall to cut real - estate carbon emissireal - estate carbon emissions.

The Amanda Hansen Foundation creates resources to supply the public with CO detectors who could not otherwise afford them; educates, as to the real and imminent dangers of CO poisoning, its causes, and it's prevention through the proper use of detectors, and proper installation / maintenance of household appliances; works hand in hand with local and national organizations to future educate and promote awareness of the dangers of carbon monoxide; aims to enact local as well as national legislation to mandate that all buildings, both private and public, be equipped with CO detectors, without exception.

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.

It's made of 100 % real carbon fiber, which means that it's durable and will last for a long time.

«The combined effect of both parameters showed no real patterns, as some pollutants were more sensitive to changes in temperature and others to increased organic carbon content,» says Matyas Ripszam.

Matyas Ripszam has also examined the effects of higher temperature and different concentration of organic carbon content on the distribution of pollutants in modelled real - life marine ecosystems, so called mesocosms.

A team led by Hui - Tian Wang of Nankai University in Tianjin, China, showed that during cold compression the transition to bct carbon results in a release of energy, which means it is likely to happen in the real world.

We have no real idea what the atmosphere of Proxima b is made of, but for the sake of argument the researchers tried out an atmosphere like Earth's as well as a simpler one — mostly nitrogen with a dash of carbon dioxide.

They said the real strength of the Jacobson study — now in press at the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres — is that it relies on a new computer model of climate, air pollution and weather that accounts for several different ways black carbon influences the environment.

«The real benefit to these advanced biofuels may not be in displacement of fossil fuels but in the building up of carbon stores in the soil.»

«So as long as you're using renewable electricity and not some kind of brown electricity, that is really the most direct pathway to producing real, carbon - free hydrogen fuel.»

«The planet is in its danger zone because we've poured too much carbon into the atmosphere, and we're starting to see signs of real trouble: melting ice caps, rapidly spreading drought.

In other words, what happens when you pluck BECCS from the idealized realm of global carbon accounting and plop it into a real place, with patchwork lands, messy politics, and interconnected ecological, physical, and economic systems?

In 1960 they reported that the greenhouse threat was real and would worsen seriously unless strong action was taken to halt the rise in emission of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — In the run - up to national elections on 21 August, the country's top science body, the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), has weighed in on the climate change debate with a report backing the mainstream scientific view that human - induced climate change is real and that a business - as - usual approach to carbon emissions will lead to a «catastrophic» four - to five - degree increase in average global temperatures.

The team improved the plant's water - use - efficiency — the ratio of carbon dioxide entering the plant to water escaping — by 25 percent without significantly sacrificing photosynthesis or yield in real - world field trials.

They suspect that the way the olfactory system is organized has little to do with how an organic chemist might organize molecules (for instance, by the number of carbon atoms on each molecule); instead, it more closely resembles the complex way that chemicals are associated in the real world.

«These are initial necessary steps in taking carbon nanotubes from the chemistry lab to a real environment,» said Supratik Guha, director of physical sciences for IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and a world leader in CNT research.

These disparities have led to major doubts about the reliability of global forest area estimates, and to questions about the real contribution made by forests to the global carbon cycle.

There are a lot of reasons to believe that there is a real reduction in man - made sources of carbon monoxide, such as vehicle emissions and tropical forest burning, that should persist.»

Third, governments must accept that real leverage on emissions will require a combination of market - based climate policies (such as carbon taxes and smarter trading schemes) and a set of measures to support indirect, but effective and economical pressure to cut carbon and adopt new technologies.

Taking Lessons from the Gecko Real - world Spidermen could one day scamper up walls thanks to an adhesive made of carbon nanotubes.

The real role for a carbon tax, says Barker, is as a source of revenue to fund government action on the greenhouse effect.

Instead of bacteria being responsible for the conversion of carbon into carbon dioxide, the real culprit in many cases is sunlight, according to the research supported by the National Science Foundation.

Columbia University physicist Peter Eisenberger created an effective model that proves, through real world testing, that carbon sequestration can be used on a global scale and can prevent the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide from ever exceeding 450 ppm, below dangerous levels.

Carbonation adds fizz to real fruit: An orange bubbles like Orange Crush soda when squeezed, the result of hours of compression in a carbon dioxide tank at 60 pounds per square inch.

So Peter Scarborough and his colleagues at the University of Oxford took data on the real diets of more than 50,000 people in the UK, and calculated their diet - related carbon footprints.

He says that's a lesson from his work on climate change doubters, whose real driver often isn't their beliefs about the role of carbon dioxide but rather their conservative political views.

And they urge the government «to show real leadership and revise the carbon target in line with the Paris Agreement (and on the basis of equity and the precautionary principle) as a matter of urgent and immediate priority.»

The platform - based power plant will be the largest OTEC application developed to date, according to Lockheed, supplying 100 percent of the power needed for the resort, which will be marketed as a low - carbon real estate development.

Many science - fiction writers have proposed life - forms that use alternate elemental building blocks, often silicon instead of carbon, but this marks the first known case in a real organism.

Instruments on the glider will provide scientists back on shore with a near - real - time view of fine - scale mixing processes in the upper ocean that play an important role in the movement of carbon, nutrients, and other chemicals through the marine system.

«The risks to the Earth system associated with increasing levels of carbon dioxide are almost universally agreed by climate scientists to be real ones,» they wrote.

Whether it's through this technique or some other, using the innovative abilities of the private sector to increase their own bottom lines through efficient carbon capture could be the best way to advance not just carbon capture technology, but its actual utilization in real world.

Although these two carbon sources alone wouldn't have accounted for the dramatic warming event that followed, once a bunch of greenhouse gas is released into the atmosphere, as we modern earthlings have been observing in real time lately, it destabilizes and releases other greenhouse gases like methane locked up in permafrost or under the seafloor.

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Built in southern California by Metalcrafters, the Gaffolio family enterprise reknowned for its significant contributions to some of Chrysler's best concepts in the past, the Ciel makes lavish use of carbon - fiber panels, and is a real car, driven under its own power not only for films, but to run it up the famous California Highway 1 south of Monterey.

Flared, vented, and bulged from several miles of carbon fiber, the BMW 3.0 CSL Homage R is a surprise take on one of my favorite BMWs of all - time, and in this classic livery, a real knockout.

You really do feel the benefits of its lean carbon fiber physique compared to rivals like the R8 because it changes direction so cleanly, rides with such poise and fires along the straights with a real ferocity if you wring the engine right out.