Sentences with phrase «out of the atmosphere by»

These trips would involve taking a boat to a launchpad in the water and boarding a ship that's carried out of the atmosphere by a BFR, before returning to a landing pad near the destination city.

The researchers have predicted that increasing smog would prevent as much as 263 billion metric tons of carbon from being taken out of the atmosphere by plants over the past and coming century, though this depends on how tropical plants respond to O3 pollution.

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

To stay within the budget, global emissions would have to peak by 2020, and then become negative — with more CO2 being taken out of the atmosphere by plants and the oceans than is put into the air each year — by 2090.

-- «They are the base of the food chain... if there's no plankton, there's no fish in the oceans... And they take CO2 out of the atmosphere by taking it into the interior of the ocean where it can be stored for thousands of millions of years so they're an essential buffer against climate change due to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere»

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

In order for biomass to be carbon neutral, you'd have to actually increase the amount of carbon being sucked out of the atmosphere by forests by an amount commensurate with the total net emissions created by chopping down a carbon sink and then adding a slew of new emissions by burning wood for energy.

From the earth's perspective, carbon dioxide is hardly just a minor trace gas, but because it is non-condensing, and is not taken out of the atmosphere by simply lowering the temperature, it become the master thermostat of the planet.»

I suppose that if you estimated the amount of urine produced each day by all the creatures of the earth and worked out how much CO2 makes its way through this biological process and how much of the proposed heat retention is taken out of the atmosphere by this process alone it would be no small amount!

Even if we manage to suck out all the CO2 out of the atmosphere by then.

Not exact matches

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

He develops five characteristics of such a spirituality: conversion, with its requirement for solidarity; gratuitousness, as creating the atmosphere for efficacy; joy, which seeks victory over suffering by going through the school of martyrdom to Easter victory; spiritual childhood, which emphasizes being «with the poor and against poverty»; and community, which must emerge out of the dark night of injustice and solitude.

The Irish may have only got through by the skin of their teeth and be strong favourites to go out today, with three days fewer than the hosts to rest and prepare, but their fans are definitely firm favourites thanks to the friendly party atmosphere that follows them around.

Yes they should make a statement by cheering their Arsenal loud I personally believe in electric atmosphere where it charges up players Else whats the point of going out supporting if you are not heard Unity bring success and always

Wenger will claim it's a player he has had his eye on and tried to sign previously on many occasions.Abua gets a move away from a club he no longer wishes to play for in addition to a nice financial package and bigger wages.The fans get a top top replacement for Sanchez.Laca gets a strike partner.The team gets rid of someone who has reportedly left a nasty smell and atmosphere in the dressing room.The Board get a (temporary) get out of jail card.We as fans lose Walcott as a bonus.Mika to sign as an added bonus.WOW the garden is full of roses.Will probably get stuffed by Palace on Saturday.

«Whatever team Tottenham pick they should have enough to overcome a League Two side but if they go with youngsters and fringe players there is the possibility of them being intimidated by the raucous atmosphere with a sell - out crowd of close to 10,000.

A team led by Miloslav Druckmüller at the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic took multiple photographs of several recent solar eclipses, when the sun's atmosphere, or corona, was visible as a halo around the blacked - out sun.

One approach that is gaining currency among environmental scientists is carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a form of carbon sequestration in which CO2 is removed from the waste gas of power plants, typically by absorbing it in a liquid, and subsequently burying it deep underground, hence keeping the gas out of the atmosphere.

Dangerous cosmic rays are deflected by the magnetic field back out into space, and our atmosphere remains robust because of this protection.

These particles are one of the most pervasive forms of matter in the Universe: they are created in the Sun and in supernovas, by cosmic rays crashing into the upper atmosphere, and they are even made on Earth, streaming out from nuclear reactors and radioactive rocks.

It's too late to avoid dangerous climate change just by switching to renewable energy, so we will also have to pull the greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere

Titan is Saturn's largest moon, a cryogenically cold world with a surface shaped by hydrocarbon rivers and seas fed by methane, ethane and complex organic compounds raining out of its thick, smoggy atmosphere.

To achieve 450 ppm, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere associated with a 2 - degree Celsius rise in global average temperatures (a target advocated by the European Union), the «aggregate of fossil - fuel demand will peak out in 2020,» Tanaka says.

Oxygen, which would quickly react out of Earth's atmosphere if it weren't continually produced by plants, is closer to a smoking gun, especially if it were seen together with methane.

Methane is normally held in check by the hydroxyl radical (OH), which scrubs nearly all of it out of the atmosphere within a decade.

She plans to return to the Southern Ocean later this year to study interactions between the sea and the atmosphere and to figure out how some of those newly discovered species get by.

Researchers are pursuing a handful of negative emissions technologies (NETs) that would mitigate global warming by pulling carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere.

By the afternoon of August 28th, haze from the Krakatau eruption had reached South Africa and by September 9th it had circled the globe, only to do so several more times before settling out of the atmospherBy the afternoon of August 28th, haze from the Krakatau eruption had reached South Africa and by September 9th it had circled the globe, only to do so several more times before settling out of the atmospherby September 9th it had circled the globe, only to do so several more times before settling out of the atmosphere.

In fact, the amount of global warming already guaranteed by existing concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere — 392 ppm and still rising — will also play out over centuries, if not millennia.

Fiber optics allow simultaneous spectrographic readings of as many as 100 objects in the field of view; a fourth correcting mirror rapidly tips and tilts back and forth to cancel out image «wiggling» caused by turbulence in Earth's atmosphere; new CCD image receptors can tip and tilt electronically.

«Our results suggest that this change in circulation and the consequent extended biological activity by itself took 30 - 60ppm of CO2 out of the atmosphere.

A key new measurement of Mars» atmosphere by NASA's Curiosity rover provides the most definitive evidence yet of the origins of Mars meteorites while at the same time providing a way to rule out Martian origins of other meteorites.

The impact layer may be capped by hardened deposits of ash that persisted in the atmosphere for weeks or more before falling out.

Such rules include perspective (parallel lines appear to converge in the distance), stereopsis (our left and right eyes receive horizontally displaced images of the same object, resulting in the perception of depth), occlusion (objects near us occlude objects farther away), shading, chiaroscuro (the contrast of an object as a function of the position of the light source) and sfumato (the feeling of depth created by the interplay of in - and out - of - focus elements in an image as well as from the level of transparency of the atmosphere itself).

Most of the gases in Mars» atmosphere may have been stripped away by solar wind, Ashley Yeager reported in «Extreme gas loss dried out Mars» (SN: 4/29/17, p. 20).

Instead of having the entire atmosphere of the theatrical stage, now my works are created by putting cut out colored film onto the 2 - D surface.

High temperatures increase weathering of silicate rocks, and this sucks carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and into the oceans — a process aided by plants.

One possibility called out by the authors would be icy comets bombarding Earth after formation and delivering their own distinct cocktail of compounds and gases to an existing atmosphere evolved from a solar source.

Astronomers» current strategy for finding life on another planet is to detect the chemical composition of that planet's atmosphere, on the look - out for chemical imbalances which could be caused by living organisms.

If we embark on a path that is equivalent to setting emissions to zero now (say by having a period of negative emissions in the 2035 to 2050 time frame), and call the sequestration we accomplish mitigation then mitigation can arrest climate change, make adaptation unneeded and bring us to a safe concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as Hansen has pointed out.

They modernized the factory by updating the carboxysome, a particularly complex BMC that requires a series of protein - protein interactions involving at least six gene products to form a metabolic core that takes CO2 out of the atmosphere and converts it into sugar.

Now, thanks to near - infrared spectral measurements taken by NASA's Cassini orbiter and analysis of near - infrared color signatures by researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Saturn's superstorm is helping scientists flesh out a picture of the composition of the planet's atmosphere at depths typically obscured by a thick high - altitude haze.

It is listed in the Book the Weather Makers by Tim Flannery (a recent release) where he details on page 196 the possibility of the Amazon rain forest drying out and returning to the atmosphere huge quantities of CO2 released from the soil.

The haze of Titan's atmosphere stands out in this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn.

A team led by New Horizons team member Jeffrey Moore, a research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, has determined that formation of the bladed terrain begins with methane freezing out of the atmosphere at extreme altitudes on Pluto, in the same way frost freezes on the ground on Earth, or even in your freezer.

On Sept. 15, the probe — which is nearly out of fuel — will end its life by plunging intentionally into Saturn's thick atmosphere.

Pete, where did you hear that «By 2040 the Amazon will be drying out and has the potential by 2100 to have released some 35 Gigatonnes of additional CO2 into th atmosphere pushing up ppm levels to around 1000 ppm»By 2040 the Amazon will be drying out and has the potential by 2100 to have released some 35 Gigatonnes of additional CO2 into th atmosphere pushing up ppm levels to around 1000 ppm»by 2100 to have released some 35 Gigatonnes of additional CO2 into th atmosphere pushing up ppm levels to around 1000 ppm»?

In 2012, we set out to better answer this question by launching our largest research project to date: A series of 16 independent, rigorously executed projects [PDF] designed to find out how much and from where methane is escaping into the atmosphere across the entire supply chain.

Regarding the possible role hydrogen sulfide in the major extinctions you might want to check out another book, one which places it in the context of the methane clathrate gun, the destruction of the coccolithophores which help to maintain an oxygenated atmosphere by ocean acidification, the role of algae blooms, etc...

«Without a way to take it out of the atmosphere quicker, our measurements indicate there can not be much methane being put into the atmosphere by any mechanism, whether biology, geology, or by ultraviolet degradation of organics delivered by the fall of meteorites or interplanetary dust particles.»