Sentences with phrase «soot from»

I now have the Torch on display in my living room complete with the soot from the flame.

While a homeowners policy may cover the cost to replace your property, fire insurance also helps defray the expense of cleaning up ash and soot from a fire.

They modeled how soot from diesel engines, power plants and other sources affected snowpacks it landed on.

Just how much the soot from this smoke is impacting Greenland's melting can't be gleaned from the satellite data, though.

Soot from Canadian Wildfires & European Factories?

(PhysOrg.com)-- Soot from fire in an unventilated fireplace wafts into a home and settles on the surfaces of floors and furniture.

Now, adding to the darkening of the surface that comes with more meltwater is the soot from Arctic tundra wildfires, another phenomenon that seems to be increasing with global warming.

Soot from factories darkened the birch trees the moths landed on.

Right now, much of this soot from Asian coal plants lands on the ice in the Arctic and Greenland.

You can wonder about the effects of all that soot from industrialized Europe — my recollections of Glasgow was a city with every building completely black.

By lowering albedo, soot from the Industrial Revolution raised the amount of solar radiation absorbed by snow, leading to Alpine glacier retreat.

From the news that soot from cremated human bodies has been falling on homes in Ottawa, Canada to scientists solving wind power's bat - killing problem, a lot happened this week in green.

I've always said that the current drop in Arctic Ice Extent might have roots in soot from the industrialization of Asia causing an albedo change which really took off in the 1990 ′ s, would show up in the summer melt season when solar irradiance is at a peak in the Arctic.

Flecks of soot from a smoky open stove in India blacken more than just the roofs of the hut it is smoldering in.

This may be caused by soot from old diesel engines in the northern hemisphere.

The fact that soot from some diesel engines is a medical problem does not mean that a the volume of soot is a significant error in the estimate of combustion.

I have proposed in numerous blog comments including many on Green, Inc actions that can remove CO2, energy and soot from their overloads, so I direct persons interested to search my name for details rather than take more space here.

Kaitlin Keegan, of Dartmouth College in the US, and colleagues report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the dramatic surface melting of the island's ice sheet in 2012 can be explained by a combination of unprecedented temperatures linked to climate change and clouds of ash and soot from forest fires.

Some of it was clearly preserved from living things on the ice itself, some of was scraped up as the glaciers moved over old soils, and some of it was soot from fossil fuel combustion or distant forest fires.

Now back in the 1960's my parents used to spread soot from the fire along the icy paths leading to our house and it soon melted.

The EPA has long relied on disease surveys that include confidentiality for subjects, including studies on the health impact of soot from burning fossil fuels.

He wondered what impact soot from the fires — and others raging closer to the Arctic, including the largest tundra fire in history — might have on the ice sheets.

Ironically, soot from 400 million low - efficiency cooking stoves replaced by higher - efficiency stoves, will add billions of person / years and 1.5 hours a day to the lives of about two billion «pre-industrials».

A second UNEP report points out that it is much easier to cut short - lived greenhouse gases like methane, and fine atmospheric particles like soot from inefficient stoves.

The largest immediate impact will come from reducing powerful but relatively short - lived pollutants, like black carbon (especially soot from cooking fires), methane, and HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons, used in cooling equipment), and by stabilizing the world's forest cover.

Earth Times: Flecks of soot from a smoky open stove in India blacken more than just the roofs of the hut it is smoldering in.

As Chinaand India's economies become global challengers, the previously unspoiled plateau has been introduced to the dubious delights of development in the form of soot from industrial plants and burning fields.

It was my job in the freezing winter mornings of 1962/3 to spread the previous night soot from our open fire over our icy paths.

Soot from stoves in the third world and from diesel vehicles everywhere is an enormous low - hanging opportunity we can fix.

I remember it was my job to put the cold soot from our open fireplace on to our icy paths many years ago and it cleared them rapidly.

The amount of melting that was caused by soot from forest fires is important to know, since global warming is likely to increase the amount of forest fires in coming decades.

This carbon — aerosolized pollution and soot from wildfires — would also limit snow's ability to reflect sunlight, causing melting.

It was soot from industry, steam locomotives and domestic fires.

The results show comparable primary particles and agglomerate sizes in a direct comparison between soot from FAME and soot from diesel.

Furthermore, the Protocol does not mention other factors that affect the climate, such as sulfate aerosols from coal - fired power plants, soot from diesel engines, and smoke from the burning of biomass (mostly in developing countries).

Black soot from the plant «covered everything nearby,» and area farmer claimed he lost several cows due to the plant's soot and chemicals.

Many believe non-condensing GHGs and soot from volcanos are what build up over millions of years to melt a snowball (or slushball if you prefer) earth.

It's ironic that misinformed environmentalists blame ethanol for deforestation, when in some parts of the world, it's actually helping to reduce respiratory disease, infant mortality, and black carbon soot from burning trees.

The data showed fast deterioration of air quality as cities in low - income countries grow unchecked and smog and soot from construction sites, transport, industry, farming and wood - burning in home exacerbates air conditions.

But there are a lot of factors involved, according to many glaciologists and climate specialists, including soot from cooking fires, which settles on ice, making it less reflective and amplifying melting.

Along with less soot from Asia, diesel worldwide will be scrubbed w / in ten years, allowing the boreal environment to recover.

And surely you're aware that you can run buses on natural gas — meaning soot from diesel is a complete non-issue.

One major constituent of haze is particle pollution, such as dust, liquid drops, and soot from burning fuel or coal.

(Paper abstract) Soot from ships worse than expected Produced during combustion of fossil fuels and biofuels, light - absorbing carbon (soot) creates haze and absorbs light with an efficiency nearly one third that of carbon dioxide.

Soot from cooking fires is a health threat and warming the climate.

Their study reveals as well that emissions of soot from cargo and noncargo vessels are double the most recent estimates and also independent of engine load.

There is no denying that the arctic is melting at a record - setting pace and that this is related to global warming and climate change, but Box is pursuing a theory that soot from wildfires and burning coal in power plants is making Greenland's glaciers melt even faster than they would because of global warming alone.

During the record - setting wildfire season of 2012, Box was anxious to quickly get to Greenland to collect samples of the ice to see if soot from Colorado was landing on the glaciers, but by that time, traditional sources of science research funding were already allocated, so in his unorthodox, punk rock style, Box set out on his own and set up The Dark Snow Project to crowd - fund his research.

Working with Island Press, Robleto developed an innovative printing technique in homage to the sphygmograph's rudimentary technology — essentially mark - making in soot from a candle flame.

Through the accumulation of soot from a flame, an evolving cycle of images materialises in different quadrants of the frame, portraying the transformation from smoke to soot and then dematerialising altogether.