Keeping carbon dioxide deep underground and
out of the atmosphere removes it as a player in climate change.
Not exact matches
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.
The Titan Effect
removed methane from the
atmosphere and the haze filtered
out light; both caused further cooling, perhaps a temperature drop
of 40 to 50 degrees Celsius.
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.
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.
«If we figure
out how much
atmosphere is
removed by changes in solar activity, we can extrapolate back to estimate what the isotope ratios should have been billions
of years ago.
Still, I felt that the latter entries were lacking in that oppressive
atmosphere,
removing the survival horror elements in favour
of jacking up the firepower and having characters slap the shit
out of boulders.
The reason that the greenhouse effect from water vapor does not spiral temeratures
out of control is because there is another phenomenon that
removes water vapor from the
atmosphere.
The CDR field has begun to emerge
out of relative obscurity recently as scientists have grown more confident that we will need to
remove carbon from the
atmosphere to prevent climate change.
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.
He believes geo - engineering and carbon drawdown,
removing CO2 from the
atmosphere, for example, are ways
out of the quagmire.
Thus anyway, the total biosphere
removes more 12CO2
out of the
atmosphere (which is at -8 per mil d13C), while fossil fuel burning enriches the
atmosphere with 12CO2.
If the negative effects
of climate change, the rising air temperatures, the changing precipitation, the prevalence
of extreme weather events, and the rising sea levels, become too disruptive or costly, we have the option to deploy certain climate altering technologies to
remove greenhouse gases directly from the air or reflect sunlight back
out of the
atmosphere before it warms the earth.
Note that this is unsustainable because the top
of atmosphere is still 1 W / m2
out of balance, and that won't be
removed until the surface warms enough to radiate
out the full 2 W / m2 which itself is growing with emissions.
Nations may need to physically
remove carbon from the
atmosphere, and they may have to deploy «negative emissions technology» - techniques that scrub CO2
out of the air.
He speaks about the fast residence time
of CO2, But that only says how much CO2 is going in and
out of the
atmosphere over the seasons (about 20 %) but that doesn't influence the total amount
of CO2 after a full cycle, if ins and
outs are equal, Only how much is added or
removed over a year is important, not how much circulates, And that is far less (about 4 GtC / year) than what is circulating...
While lots
of carbon cycles in and
out of the
atmosphere from photosynthesis and decay (most
of that 95 % figure), the planet has a (comparably) very slow rate
of removing carbon from the
atmosphere and oceans for geological timescales — only enough to roughly cancel
out volcanoes and other proportionally very small «old carbon» sources.
In doing so we'll also prevent some 1.5 million premature deaths annually due to improved air quality.Soot Comes
Out of the Atmosphere in Weeks, Not Decades Since soot — which in this context comes from older diesel engines and burning other fossil fuels, industrial sources, inefficient biomass cookstoves used in many developing nations — comes out of the atmosphere in a matter of weeks, not decades or centuries like carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, removing the source of pollution is highly effective in both stopping the warming effects as well as improving air quali
Out of the
Atmosphere in Weeks, Not Decades Since soot — which in this context comes from older diesel engines and burning other fossil fuels, industrial sources, inefficient biomass cookstoves used in many developing nations — comes out of the atmosphere in a matter of weeks, not decades or centuries like carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, removing the source of pollution is highly effective in both stopping the warming effects as well as improving ai
Atmosphere in Weeks, Not Decades Since soot — which in this context comes from older diesel engines and burning other fossil fuels, industrial sources, inefficient biomass cookstoves used in many developing nations — comes
out of the atmosphere in a matter of weeks, not decades or centuries like carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, removing the source of pollution is highly effective in both stopping the warming effects as well as improving air quali
out of the
atmosphere in a matter of weeks, not decades or centuries like carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, removing the source of pollution is highly effective in both stopping the warming effects as well as improving ai
atmosphere in a matter
of weeks, not decades or centuries like carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases,
removing the source
of pollution is highly effective in both stopping the warming effects as well as improving air quality.
It's that second part which really as implications for reducing warming from soot.Effects
of Black Carbon Pollution Stop Quickly Once Source is
Removed The good news about black carbon and global warming is this: Unlike greenhouse gases which can remain in the atmosphere for decades or even centuries, black carbon particles come out of the atmosphere very quickly once the source of pollution is r
Removed The good news about black carbon and global warming is this: Unlike greenhouse gases which can remain in the
atmosphere for decades or even centuries, black carbon particles come
out of the
atmosphere very quickly once the source
of pollution is
removedremoved.
Generically, what is required to head off the disaster is to phase
out fossil fuel use ASAP, reforest / afforest ASAP, and perhaps take extraordinary measures to both
remove carbon from the
atmosphere and reduce solar influx to quench the self - sustaining feedback mechanisms before they get further
out of control.
UPDATE: I've crossed
out the entire discussion
of the top
of the
atmosphere energy imbalance and
removed the illustration.
If some advanced form
of carbon capture and storage were available,
removing excess carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere could be as straightforward as having a bit
of a tidy - up and hiding away all the unwanted rubbish
out of harm's way.