Sentences with phrase «out of the atmosphere»

If you plant trees to offset carbon, at least you know that you're taking CO2 out of the atmosphere as they grow.

Taking carbon out of the atmosphere will be crucial if we are to slow the progress of climate change.

Even with innovation and scaling up, we may at some point have to deploy «direct - air capture» technology, which pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

This is one of the most important ways in which carbon is taken out of the atmosphere in the long term.

Saving these forests amounts to a 70 % decline in deforestation and 3.2 billion tons of CO2 kept out of the atmosphere.

The world's plants can only pull so much CO2 out of the atmosphere in a given season, while human emissions keep rising.

So far about a third of our CO2 emissions have been sucked out of the atmosphere, mainly by the oceans.

However, it is increasingly likely that the world will also need to remove many billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere each year in the future.

We'd then need to keep cutting and possibly be taking carbon - dioxide back out of the atmosphere by 2100.

The more carbon emissions it puts out, the more land it needs to pull that carbon back out of the atmosphere and trap it.

An examination of these changes gave them new insights into how much of the polar ice cap's carbon dioxide freezes out of the atmosphere during winter.

Because they are larger to begin with, the salty drops soon grow so heavy that they fall out of the atmosphere as precipitation, taking much of the dirt down with them.

Black carbon is washed out of the atmosphere by rain, and only has a lifetime of a few weeks.

«It's a proof of concept of an instrument that will take water out of the atmosphere to produce liquid water for astronauts,» he says.

The easiest response would be for an equivalent small amount of H2O to drop out of the atmosphere.

If, when they die, they are buried and become layers of rock, this carbon stays out of the atmosphere.

Or better yet, call them up, and tell them that organic farming could pull forty percent of global greenhouse gas emissions out of the atmosphere — each year.

Their theory is more nitrogen, people take nitrogen out of the atmosphere and cooling the planet.

That helps them keep that pollution off their books, but not out of the atmosphere.

As they heat up, the oceans, land and atmosphere release heat in the form of IR thermal radiation, which passes out of the atmosphere and into space.

It has 100 times the instantaneous greenhouse effect as CO2, although it clears out of the atmosphere much more quickly.

[So] if we can not develop a way to grab CO2 back out of the atmosphere then we are in deep, deep trouble.

For a place that may launch two rockets out of the atmosphere each day, will solar panels and natural light really make a difference in its environmental impact?

Keeping carbon dioxide deep underground and out of the atmosphere removes it as a player in climate change.

Now, she's breaking out of the atmosphere.

I think the problem is it's too realistic... this looks like something out of the real world, and it's sucking the fantasy out of the atmosphere.

Perhaps, too, carbon credits could increase in value with increased longevity of the carbon storage out of the atmosphere?

The CO2 released can not be more than the amount of CO2 absorbed out of the atmosphere by the tree in growth, so wood is a global - warming neutral energy source.

The panel is putting its hopes in technologies that allow us to pull carbon out of the atmosphere toward the end of the century.

The panel likewise said that research is needed for the development of efficient ways to remove the greenhouse gas and keep it, so it would remain out of the atmosphere.

Large amounts of carbon are currently locked in the vast biomass of the tropical rain forests, and so kept out of the atmosphere.

But it may be home to more life than the rest of the ocean, combined, and also key to the ocean's ability to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

But if you only burn what you grow there's no net increase in atmospheric CO2, because the carbon contained in the plants you burn came out of the atmosphere.

However, in the future the world will also then need to remove many billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere each year in the future.

Basically, they want to make something useful and beneficial out of fossil fuel emissions, so that those emissions stay out of the atmosphere.

I submit to you that CO2 becomes the opposing force to growing cold as water vapor is frozen out of the atmosphere.

For a very long time, carbon has been taken out of the atmosphere by the plant world.

We just need to cut more drastically — oh, and also figure out a way to pull lots of carbon dioxide back out of the atmosphere.