Sentences with phrase «so much carbon»

If we want to limit temperature rise to 2 degrees C or less, then there's only so much carbon we can dump in the atmosphere.

It's even worse on peatlands, which contain so much carbon that it would be 600 years before we see any benefits whatsoever.»

And we're still, because we're burning so much carbon in our car engines, transport's also the fastest growing source of greenhouse gases, of course.

It will sequester only so much carbon, but there are sure to be other benefits, according to some fresh thinking by a distinguished plant ecologist.

«The climate system has enormous momentum, as does the economic system that emits so much carbon dioxide.

Because tropical forests store so much carbon, the whole world has a stake in protecting them.

Even the plants we depend on for food are exposed to so much carbon that nutritional value is declining, and some crops — wheat and corn — are producing toxins as protection from extreme weather.

And according to emissions specialists like the Tyndall Centre's Kevin Anderson (as well as others), so much carbon has been allowed to accumulate in the atmosphere over the past two decades that now our only hope of keeping warming below the internationally agreed - upon target of 2 degrees Celsius is for wealthy countries to cut their emissions by somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 — 10 percent a year.27 The «free» market simply can not accomplish this task.

Yet we have already poured so much carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere that huge, threatening changes to the world's climate appear to be inevitable.

When all the attendees, and their poseurs, start staying home and stop emitting so much carbon they might have some credibility.

We have so much carbon under management that the amount of energy needed to keep it sequestered is more than the atmosphere can contain.

Ice formed during the Ice Age is being given back to the sea in our naturally warmer geological period, and man is making matters worse by pouring so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that more heat is being trapped within it.

It's a shopping cart overflowing with so much carbon fiber, forged aluminum, and NACA ducting that Mizuno - san deserves the SAE's highest commendation.

We spewed so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and denuded so much of the planet's greenery that we succeeded in warming everything up to an even more chaotic and less predictable state.

Deforestation in Indonesia is particularly problematic from a climate perspective because the local flora holds so much carbon, said project leader Lisa Curran, a professor of ecological anthropology at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

All three views make sense: that man produces so much carbon that we're driving up the temperature at a dangerous rate, that something else is driving up the temperature and we can't do anything about it, or that we're not driving up the temperature, or not driving it up very fast, though many people say or think we are because they will benefit from people believing that.

Not exact matches

This is carbon neutral, nonpolluting approach is so transformational that for much history of manufacturing, it has been considered impossible.

Either that or explain to taxpayers why it is pouring so much money into massive carbon capture projects that will never do what they were designed to do because carbon capture and storage requires carbon pricing to make financial sense.

6,000 years??? So much for those dinosaur bones that are carbon - dated to show that they're from millions of years ago.

Nor is it particularly important to know the chemical composition of a man, except for the purposes of amusing or shocking audiences in popular lectures by telling them that they are so much hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, potassium, sulfur, and so on, worth one dollar and ninety - eight cents on the current market in chemicals.

So using radio carbon dating they found camel bones that were from the 10th century BC, OK how does this prove anything about if camels were domesticated much earlier or not?

If you see a fossil, it is much easier to think that it is just really old, rather than a god put it there, made it to look old, made it so carbon dating would give a false result, etc etc..

The reaction starts as soon as the dry ingredients come in contact with the wet ingredients, so if you stir the batter too much or too long, you'll pop those carbon dioxide bubbles and the outcome will be flat.

There is too much nitrogen, so add sawdust, dry leaves, or other high - carbon materials, and turn the pile.

The development of natural gas, far from being a bridge fuel, makes climate change worse because it is so much more potent than carbon near term.

Having so much water might also slow or halt the movement of building blocks of life, such as carbon and phosphorus (the backbone of DNA), into oceans.

Fish and seafood are normally fairly environmentally friendly, but it takes so much fuel to catch some species that their carbon footprint is as big as that of red meat

Coconuts were so cheap and convenient a source of carbon that no one thought much about other possibilities.

Creating so much oxygen takes a fiercer nuclear furnace than is needed for a carbon - rich mixture, so the stars that became these white dwarfs must have been hot and massive.

Another major advantage the catalysts have is that, while they are general in what substrate they can oxidize, they are very specific about which carbon - hydrogen bonds they cut — so much so that they target a certain spot on amino acids like proline, leucine or valine even when they are part of a much larger peptide chain.

GOTCHA A mosquito's quest for a blood meal is so much more intricate than just flying toward an exhalation of carbon dioxide.

This relates to the whole area of development for people talking about biofuels, which is this idea of trying to develop replacements for the conventional sorts of fossil fuels that we have to at least — if we are going to be burning some sort of hydrocarbons of some kind — to try to get them [so] that they are being derived from a different source, and potentially or ideally, ones that would actually burn without delivering as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere too; that's great if you can get that.

«So, even well - managed present - day forests store much less carbon than their natural counterparts in 1750, which explains the [net] lack of carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere.»

As it melts, it will release that carbon, potentially offsetting much of the greenhouse gases avoided through the regulations that are the subject of so much hot debate in Washington, D.C.

«For comparison, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2005 was about 380,000 ppbv — so carbon dioxide absorption of escaping infrared radiation is much more important,» Rowland adds.

They dramatically accelerated the natural breakdown of exposed rocks, according to a new study, drawing so much planet - warming carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere that they sent Earth's climate spiraling into a major ice age.

«So we know how much carbon dioxide went in and we know exactly where all of it went.

So much of this «black carbon» is entering the marine ecosystem that it could be hurting ocean life, although further tests will be needed to confirm this possibility.

That's because, on top of bringing water, they are also believed to have delivered much of Earth's so - called volatile elements, namely, carbon, nitrogen, and noble gases, says Conel Alexander, a cosmochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. To explain the abundance of these elements, there would have had to have been enough impacts to also deliver Earth's water, he says.

The atmosphere can take only so much extra carbon before impacts become serious.

And carbon dioxide can corrode materials, so engineers will have to redesign much of the plumbing and support hardware from steam systems to account for these problems.

Grasslands and semi-arid regions are not nearly as carbon dense as forests, so on a global scale, loss of carbon storage in those areas because of expanding energy development doesn't have much of an effect on global climate change, said

The idea of biochar was inspired by a rare type of humanmade soil found in the Amazon Basin, terra preta — Portuguese for «black earth», so named because the soil is rich in black carbon generated by the partially burned remains of old plants, much like charcoal.

And while carbon dioxide is crucial for plant life, the carbon balance on Earth is a delicate cycle, with oceans and land able to absorb only so much CO2.

In sodium - poor soil, a University of Oklahoma ecologist has found, small amounts of added salt boost invertebrate biomass and increase decomposition — so much so, his latest work suggests, that a lack of salt could have a major impact on the global carbon cycle.

So when, in fact, we have to try while still getting all of the energy that we need, we also need to start cutting back on our carbon emissions, and we have to start doing that right away because every year that we delay we are pumping that much more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and getting closer and closer to those thresholds.

«Human influence is so dominant now,» Baker asserts, «that whatever is going to go on in the tropics has much less to do with sea surface temperatures and the earth's orbital parameters and much more to do with deforestation, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and global warming.»

Video games and the environment don't typically interact much, so I was excited when I saw the following video of folks pulling carbon emission data into the video game Minecraft.

But every person in Britain uses more than 80 times as much fossil fuel as a Bangladeshi, so Britain's population growth effectively contributes 3.5 times as much carbon dioxide to the global atmosphere as Bangladesh's.

«Absolutely, because we have so much catching up to do,» Tom Anderson, a Louisiana delegate, said of a carbon tax.