Sentences with phrase «release huge amounts of carbon»

Last — but not least — the burning of coal releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

«This homeostasis is now being disrupted by our brief binge of fossil fuel consumption, which has released a huge amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Opponents of nuclear power have started a counteroffensive to Dr. Lovelock's call for a new nuclear age, arguing that mining uranium and building nuclear plants releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide, and that the danger from accidents or terrorism is too great.

Not exact matches

The hot flood basalts would have released huge amounts of sulfur and carbon dioxide, potentially causing a quick global chill followed by a longer period of global warming.

With huge stores of carbon in peat, the fear is that rising global temperatures could cause the release of massive amounts of CO2 from the peatlands into the atmosphere — essentially creating a greenhouse gas feedback loop.

Tropical rainforests absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide, but because slash - and - burn deforestation releases so much of the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, the tropics are a wash for carbon, according to a new study.

Since the period 1750 — 1880 was a period of rapid industrialization in the Northern Hemisphere, huge amounts of black carbon and smoke were released, certainly wrt the status quo ante.

This permafrost is composed of Yedoma soil which has stored huge amounts of carbon for tens of thousands of years that is now is being released into the river.

Global warming's greater than anticipated impact on permafrost will release huge amounts of methane and carbon dioxide as the soil thaws.

Between the Virgin lands campaign, the green revolution and the great leap forward, huge amounts of carbon have been released from the soil and no longer allowed to accumulate.

If the world warms too much, increased temperatures could cause huge amounts of carbon to be released that would overwhelm the quantities of carbon being released through fossil fuel combustion and deforestation.

Many researchers predict that thawing permafrost could release huge amounts of methane — a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide — as global temperatures rise.

Although the melting of underlying permafrost will release huge amounts of the greenhouse gases blamed for fueling global warming, researchers who sampled three sites in boreal Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have discovered that the warmer, softer, wetter soil that results also promotes the growth of new mosses that capture and store about as much carbon from the atmosphere as the thawed ground releases.

Perhaps more ominously yet, the possibility exists that thawing Arctic permafrost — known to contain huge amounts of carbon — could release large amounts of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.