Sentences with phrase «often on carbon dioxide»

When people talk about climate change, the focus is often on carbon dioxide, and for good reason.

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The researchers focused on results from simulations with rapid carbon dioxide release, often referred to as «business - as - usual» simulations.

The debate about how to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide often focuses on emissions from generation of electricity and transport.

The dense carbon dioxide atmosphere often invoked to explain the warm era should have left its mark on the planet's geology, as carbon and oxygen sequestered in carbonate minerals.

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.

The urchins live on the Pacific coast of North America, where they often experience upwellings of carbon - dioxide - rich water from the deep ocean.

I often try to step back and take the point of view of the atmosphere in considering claims of progress on curbing emissions of carbon dioxide from human activities.

Climate change, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, excess nutrient inputs, and pollution in its many forms are fundamentally altering the chemistry of the ocean, often on a global scale and, in some cases, at rates greatly exceeding those in the historical and recent geological record.

The world's existing power plants are on track to pour more than 300 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and current monitoring standards often fail to take these long - term emissions into account, according to new research from scientists at UC Irvine and Princeton University.

Litterman became incredulous about a decade ago when a friend explained to him that economists who work on the issue often fought over how to estimate the economic damage, in dollars, from a ton of carbon dioxide.

THIS excellent piece focuses on an important part of the climate debate often overlooked — the heat absorption ability of the carbon dioxide molecule as its concentration increases in the atmosphere.

If the regulations are extremely costly, such as the current proposed regulations to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) or the ban on DDT in 1972, it is often not possible to justify them.

THERE is little grey area or middle - ground in often heated debates, with the CAGW camp blaming the burning of fossil fuels, namely coal, not only for a > 1 degree celsius warming of the atmosphere since 1850, but on literally anything and everything that moves, shifts, spins or tilts upon contact with colourless, odourless, tasteless, non-reactive, trace gas and plant food carbon dioxide!

Though many logging companies replant felled trees on a one - to - one basis, environmentalists believe these replacement forests (which are often harvested once the trees reach a certain age) are not as effective at storing carbon dioxide as old - growth forests.