Not exact matches
The crash of a NASA mission this week to monitor the flows of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a big blow to climate
scientists hoping to learn more
about the fate of CO2 streams in the air.
But talking
about 2020 is crucial to climate
scientists, who see quick emission cuts as important as the concentration of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in four decades.
Given what
scientists know
about the Red Planet's atmosphere, these clouds likely consist of either
carbon dioxide or water - based ice crystals.
Before the age of industrialization, the amount of atmospheric
carbon dioxide was
about 280 parts per million (ppm),
scientists have determined.
So far, the climate system has responded to rising
carbon dioxide levels at a fairly steady rate, but many
scientists worry
about possible nonlinear effects.
Although
scientists have measured atmospheric CO2 levels for decades, the current network of ground stations, observatories, aircraft and other instruments emerged during an era when researchers were trying to answer questions
about the total amount of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
RICHLAND, Wash. — As the Arctic warms, tons of
carbon locked away in Arctic tundra will be transformed into the powerful greenhouse gases
carbon dioxide and methane, but
scientists know little
about how that transition takes place.
Forget everything government officials, many media outlets, and «activist
scientists» have warned
about the damaging effects of
carbon dioxide, because in reality there's no cause for alarm, a group called the CO2 Coalition urges.
Data obtained from research shows that there is more
carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere than has ever been present in more than three - million years, and
scientists are increasingly becoming more concerned
about the rise in the average temperature of the Earth.
Scientists predict that in 100 years, the oceans will have
about the same amount of
carbon dioxide as the acidified water in the experiment did.
The permafrost
scientists predict that over the next three decades a total of
about 45 billion metric tons of
carbon from methane and
carbon dioxide will seep into the atmosphere when permafrost thaws during summers.
Exxon documents show that top corporate managers were aware of their
scientists» early conclusions
about carbon dioxide's impact on the climate.
About BIOACID: Since 2009, more than 250 BIOACID
scientists from 20 German research institutes have investigated how different marine organisms respond to ocean acidification and increasing
carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater, how their performance is affected during their various life stages, how these reactions impact marine food webs and elemental cycles and whether they can be mitigated by evolutionary adaptation.
Last week I posted a «Your Dot» contribution from Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, a University of Chicago climate
scientist concerned that policy makers and the public keep in mind the primacy of
carbon dioxide emissions if they are serious
about limiting the chances of propelling disruptive human - driven global warming.
Sept. 30, 10:04 a.m. Updated There's been a steady stream of distracting commentary here and elsewhere positing that
carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas at the heart of concerns
about a growing and hard - to - reverse human influence on climate, is far more ephemeral than climate
scientists assert.
... In the late 1980s, there was a sense of the new
about the greenhouse effect, even though
scientists had been positing since the 1890s that heat - trapping gases, particularly
carbon dioxide released by burning coal and other focal fuels could raise global temperatures.
Climate
Scientist Rachel Licker is quoted in a HuffPost article
about the Trump administration eliminating funding for NASA's
Carbon Monitoring System which tracks the world's flow of
carbon dioxide.
About 75 % of the individuals whose political outlooks are «liberal» (meaning to the «left» of the mean on a political outlook scale that aggregates their responses to items on partisan identification and liberal - conservative ideology) are able to correctly identify «
carbon dioxide» as the «gas... most
scientists believe causes temperatures in the atmosphere to rise.
While finishing up her dissertation at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Parkinson and climate
scientist William Kellogg decided to take the theory
about carbon dioxide emissions increasing global temperatures and apply it to a sea ice model that Parkinson had built.
Blackburn cited two climate
scientists to make her point: One who has been «wrong
about nearly every major climate argument he's made over the past two decades,» according to fellow environmental
scientist Dana Nuccitelli, and another who recently said, «it's clear that adding more
carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will warm the planet.»
Learn more
about this essential gas as
scientists continue to make amazing discoveries
about carbon dioxide.
At the moment, the oceans are absorbing
about a third of the
carbon dioxide we are emitting, but
scientists are unclear whether it will continue to do so in the future, as the oceans become warmer and more acidic.
The Marshall Institute was founded in 1984 by three outstanding
scientists, each of whom knew more
about carbon dioxide and climate than 97 % of the IPCC authors combined:
While discussing a UN report
about rising
carbon dioxide levels, chief environmental affairs correpondent Anne Thompson said that many
scientists are worried
about these CO2 levels but «some disagree, saying those fears are wildly overblown.»
By 1995, a group of
scientists had started vocally dissenting from the emerging consensus on its anthropogenic causes, signing the Leipzig Declaration, which stated: «There does not exist today a general scientific consensus
about the importance of greenhouse warming from rising levels of
carbon dioxide.
In recent years, climate
scientists have been concerned
about a so - called «methane time bomb» on land, which would be detonated when warming Arctic temperatures melt permafrost and cause frozen vegetation in peat bogs and other areas to decay, releasing methane and
carbon dioxide.
Another goal is to learn more
about how greenhouse gases interact with the climate, so
scientists want an accurate record of how
carbon dioxide levels have fluctuated over time.
Scientists generally agree that in the last century, humans have warmed the planet
about.7 degrees C by pumping vast amounts of
carbon dioxide into the air.
Scientists generally agree that in the last century, humans have warmed the planet
about.7 degrees C (
about 1.3 degrees F) by pumping vast amounts of
carbon dioxide into the air.
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Scientists that think that an increase in
carbon dioxide is a major factor in global warming Until the late 1800s carbon dioxide in the atmosphere remained about the same Measured carbon dioxide levels in bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice CHANGING LEVELS OF CARBON D
carbon dioxide is a major factor in global warming Until the late 1800s carbon dioxide in the atmosphere remained about the same Measured carbon dioxide levels in bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice CHANGING LEVELS OF CARBON
dioxide is a major factor in global warming Until the late 1800s
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere remained about the same Measured carbon dioxide levels in bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice CHANGING LEVELS OF CARBON D
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere remained about the same Measured carbon dioxide levels in bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice CHANGING LEVELS OF CARBON
dioxide in the atmosphere remained
about the same Measured
carbon dioxide levels in bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice CHANGING LEVELS OF CARBON D
carbon dioxide levels in bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice CHANGING LEVELS OF CARBON
dioxide levels in bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice CHANGING LEVELS OF
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Many
scientists agree that
carbon dioxide levels should be at 350 PPM to be considered safe; we're at
about 400 PPM right now and this number is growing by approximately 2 PPM each year.
That stubborn error in the satellite data is
about six times larger than what is scientifically possible, and several times larger than the effect
scientists are trying to see, namely planetary warming caused by continued massive emissions of
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Students,
scientists and others are recording the seasons, observing birds, flowers and butterflies, studying the rain forest as well as trees, the tundra, glaciers, the ocean,
carbon dioxide and other things to learn more
about global warming.
Roberts attempted to argue that because the experts had commented on how
carbon dioxide causes global warming, this constituted engineering advice the trio were not qualified to give, and so contravened the state's Professional Engineers Act (essentially, Roberts was reclassifying the world's climate
scientists as engineers in order to complain
about them).
While
carbon dioxide receives most of the attention in the debate over greenhouse gas emissions, climate
scientists warn that methane is
about 30 times more potent than CO2 in terms of contributing to a warmer climate.
Clean Energy Technologies Can Return CO2 to Safe Levels This Century Though current atmospheric
carbon dioxide levels of
about 385 parts per million are already above the revised safe level of 350ppm being promoted by
scientists, Kharecha said that it is still possible to return them to safe levels by the end of this century if we engage in «Herculean» efforts to shift towards renewable energy sources, increase the use of nuclear power, and apply
carbon sequestration technologies on existing coal power plants.
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Carbon Capture At German Coal Plants
If you listen to climate
scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to do something
about emissions of
carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Scheduled speakers include some of the nation's best - known global warming skeptics, including Anthony Watts, a television weatherman; Timothy Ball, a former University of Winnipeg professor who has been sued for libel by Michael Mann, a prominent mainstream climate
scientist; and Alan Carlin, a former Environmental Protection Agency analyst who claims he was muzzled when he raised questions
about the agency's finding that atmospheric
carbon dioxide is a threat to human health and the environment.
«The underlying significance of all this is that the rate of
carbon dioxide increase is higher than ever at the moment, year after year now it's been more than 2 ppm per year,» said Pieter Tans, a senior
scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. «The increase is manmade... This is one of the known things
about climate change.»
«A lot of climate
scientists have intuition
about how long it takes to feel the warming from a particular emission of
carbon dioxide.