Sentences with phrase «sucked out of the atmosphere»

Tonnes of pollutants, including carbon and sulphur dioxide, are sucked out of the atmosphere.

For a 1.5 - degree goal, large - scale negative emissions activity would need to begin soon, before 2030, and expand rapidly, so that by 2050 or sooner the amount of carbon sucked out of the atmosphere would have to exceed the amount emitted into it from fossil fuel burning.

Volcanoes add CO2 to the atmosphere, but the weathering of rocks tends to suck it out of the atmosphere.

Tropical surface waters, one could argue, will still be at the surface a year from now, so there is plenty of time for them to replenish their CO2 concentration by sucking it out of the atmosphere.

In order for biomass to be carbon neutral, you'd have to actually increase the amount of carbon being sucked out of the atmosphere by forests by an amount commensurate with the total net emissions created by chopping down a carbon sink and then adding a slew of new emissions by burning wood for energy.

According to Archer et al 2009, about half of that ~ 45 % will be sucked out of the atmosphere in a matter of centuries and so can not contribute much to any 100,000 figure.

The results suggest that 1.5 C is achievable if global emissions peak in the next few years and massive amounts of carbon are sucked out of the atmosphere in the second half of the century through a proposed technology known as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS).

Not exact matches

Because Cash, no stranger to a speech of Castro-esque proportions, was doing his best to suck the atmosphere out of the room.

He seals the paper sample inside the machine's chamber, and a pump sucks out the air until the pressure drops to a staggering 10 ^ -6 Torr (a billionth of an atmosphere).

Not only can N. europaea convert ammonia into energy, but the bacterium sucks carbon out of the atmosphere in the process.

Plants suck CO2 out of the atmosphere to build their woody roots, stems and leaves.

This would have sucked CO2 out of the atmosphere, weakening the greenhouse effect and thus lowering global temperatures.

As they grew higher they were exposed to increased weathering, which sucked CO2 out of the atmosphere and reduced the greenhouse effect.

High temperatures increase weathering of silicate rocks, and this sucks carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and into the oceans — a process aided by plants.

The big problem is that sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere is expensive: many estimates put the cost at close to $ 1000 for each tonne captured.

Fertilising the world's oceans with iron has been controversially proposed as a way of sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to curb global warming.

«We never dreamt an electric wind could be so powerful that it can suck oxygen right out of an atmosphere into space.

One idea is to somehow suck excess carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere.

But it may be home to more life than the rest of the ocean, combined, and also key to the ocean's ability to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Now, if you have all this very cold, nearly freezing water surrounding these ice caps, sucking up carbon dioxide out of the polar atmosphere, at nearly the highest possible rate, 30 times faster than oxygen, and 70 times faster than nitrogen, doesn't it stand to reason that the air that remains might just have a lot less carbon dioxide in it than the atmosphere across the rest of the planet?

Taking better care of our soil through regenerative techniques (think crop rotations and using natural pesticides) can help drastically reduce greenhouse gas in the atmosphere (healthy soil actually sucks carbon out of the air).

Thanks to a lack of atmosphere, opening most crates out on the moon's surface instantly sucks in anything you need, speeding up the ammo collection process.

Atmosphere is completely sucked out of the early gas station paintings and prints — something Ruscha admired in the work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg — offering an unencumbered presentation, abstracted for clarity.

In both cases, if you really care about cutting risks of the kind of human - driven warming that could last centuries, if not millennia, you also would do well to support research in technologies or practices that could suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere (See Cao and Caldeira's paper for relevant background).

We must invest in technological advances which can suck CO2 out of the atmosphere.

This is extremely important as it may be the only sensible and cost effective way of sucking carbon out of the atmosphere.

Climate engineering: The leadership of the American Meteorological Society has staked its position on possible artificial interventions in climate ranging from sucking heat - trapping CO2 out of the atmosphere to adding high - altitude veils of sulfur to reflect the sun.

But triggering an algae bloom is also a way to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and along with spewing particles into the stratosphere to block some of the sun's heat, it's one of the main techniques geoengineers talk about using if efforts to limit those emissions ultimately fail.

Taking carbon out of the atmosphere: The first approach would entail sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

The other is to capture fossil fuel emissions before they enter the atmosphere, or to suck them directly out of the air — a technique known as carbon dioxide removal.

You either have to be talking about sucking a lot of CO2 out of the atmosphere once emissions have peaked, or you have to talk about reducing, slightly, the amount of sunlight that's coming into the system.

As a result, carbon sinks became more effective in this experiment, and sucked extra CO2 out of the atmosphere.

George is convinced that by adding iron sulphate to the oceans, he can stimulate plankton blooms and so suck enough carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to offset human emissions from burning coal and oil.

With spring in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere, plants will start to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, reducing the CO2 ppm below the 400 ppm level, but that doesn't slow a path to 450 ppm or more, at which level we are looking at a 2 degrees Celsius increase in global temperatures.

The ultimate problem is that carbon is such a jim - dandy construction material for everything from fuel to food to furniture that once bio-technology is mastered people will be sucking carbon out of the atmosphere for a lot more than just fuel and when it's sucked out for durable goods it doesn't get returned anytime soon.

Which is all very good news because it means we are very helpfully returning CO2 to the atmosphere from which it originally came and thereby being good citizens in the carbon cycle... unlike the the greedy and stupid plants which sucked most the CO2 out of the atmosphere over the last 175 million years without giving any thought to the sustainability of what they were doing.

But Anesio's team has also found that organisms in these holes can have a cooling effect on the planet by actively sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere through photosynthesis.

Scientists in Canada are developing an industrial carbon dioxide recycling plant that could one day suck CO2 out of the atmosphere and convert it into a zero - carbon e-diesel fuel.

He said his study showed the 2C target set in Paris was «still just about achievable» but limiting warming to 1.5 C in the long term could only be achieved by «overshooting» and then somehow reducing the temperature using futuristic technology, such as artificial trees which suck CO2 out of the atmosphere.

If we could devise carbon - removal technologies that can suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, we could conceivably extend our existing «carbon budget.»

Carbon Engineering's pilot plant in Squamish, British Columbia, sucks carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Lackner says he expects a square mile of artificial trees could suck as much as ten million tons of CO2 a year out of the atmosphere.

In the former, we try to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and get it back in the ground; or we shunt CO2 aside at the smokestack before it gets to the atmosphere, and bury or store it; or we promote algae blooms that absorb CO2 at the ocean surface and then die off and carry it to the ocean floor.

Could new air capture machines suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it underground so cheaply as to obviate the need to slow emissions?

Negative emissions can refer to carbon capture and storage technology powered by biomass, geo - engineering of the atmosphere and oceans, or CO2 removal that sucks emissions out of the air.

Are there any studies that prove sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere, or using hydrogen for our transport fuels will be cheap?

It is possible that a miraculous technology will be invented that can suck CO2 out of the atmosphere at low cost.

The Amazon forest acts as a carbon sink, because trees suck the greenhouse gas CO2 out of the atmosphere as they grow, during photosynthesis, converting this to plant matter including bark, wood and roots.

And it might even be necessary to start sucking greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.

As the former NASA scientist Jim Hansen recently told Rolling Stone: «We are at the point now where if you want to stabilize the Earth's energy balance, which is nominally what you would need to do to stabilize climate, you would need to reduce emissions several percent a year, and you would need to suck 100 gigatons of CO2 out of the atmosphere, which is more than you could get from reforestation and improved agricultural practices.»