Sentences with phrase «taken out of the atmosphere»

The balance between what is taken out of the atmosphere and what is returned has been remarkably constant over the ages until recently.

«The longer you have green leaves, the more carbon dioxide you can take out of the atmosphere.

When existing corn is used for ethanol, what comes out of the tailpipe doesn't change and what is taken out of the atmosphere doesn't change either because the corn would be grown anyway.

The researchers have predicted that increasing smog would prevent as much as 263 billion metric tons of carbon from being taken out of the atmosphere by plants over the past and coming century, though this depends on how tropical plants respond to O3 pollution.

With less time on the surface there is less time for the biological processes to take place and less carbon is taken out of the atmosphere.

For a very long time, carbon has been taken out of the atmosphere by the plant world.

«Without a way to take it out of the atmosphere quicker, our measurements indicate there can not be much methane being put into the atmosphere by any mechanism, whether biology, geology, or by ultraviolet degradation of organics delivered by the fall of meteorites or interplanetary dust particles.»

To stay within the budget, global emissions would have to peak by 2020, and then become negative — with more CO2 being taken out of the atmosphere by plants and the oceans than is put into the air each year — by 2090.

of anthropogenic CO2 releases that have been taken out of the atmosphere (over and above the amount taken out of the atmosphere that balances the natural additions to the atmosphere), perhaps mainly as a direct biogeochemical feedback (increased CO2 favoring more rapid biological fixation of C, net flux of CO2 into water until equilibrium for the given storage of other involved chemical species in the upper ocean) fairly promptly.

BECCS is being promoted as a means to achieve negative emissions whereby more greenhouse gases are taken out of the atmosphere than are put into it.

As part of the Earth's natural carbon cycle, vast amounts of carbon dioxide are taken out of the atmosphere and absorbed by the land each year.

So something is taking out of the atmosphere half the CO2 we put there.

From the earth's perspective, carbon dioxide is hardly just a minor trace gas, but because it is non-condensing, and is not taken out of the atmosphere by simply lowering the temperature, it become the master thermostat of the planet.»

Every year nearly 30 % of the carbon we release from burning fossil fuels is taken out of the atmosphere and sequestered by the world's forests.

I suppose that if you estimated the amount of urine produced each day by all the creatures of the earth and worked out how much CO2 makes its way through this biological process and how much of the proposed heat retention is taken out of the atmosphere by this process alone it would be no small amount!

Under the theory of offsets, an organization calculates the amount of greenhouse gas emissions it pumps into the air from activities, chiefly energy use and travel, and then pays for someone else to prevent that much in emissions or to take them out of the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

These trips would involve taking a boat to a launchpad in the water and boarding a ship that's carried out of the atmosphere by a BFR, before returning to a landing pad near the destination city.

I know for a fact that most of these folks started out just like everybody else... as first - timers who were new to the whole concept of retiring abroad and wanted to take that first important step in a supportive atmosphere.

In addition to this sensitivity to the general atmosphere of impermanence, and the adherence to a concept of freedom understood as a perpetual openness, many people avoid taking marriage vows out of a sense that such vows appear to involve an unrealistic level of commitment.

Carbon farming takes excess carbon out of the atmosphere, where concentrations have reached unprecedented levels, and stores it in farm soils.

Arsenal will do much better and my tip is Arsenal winning winning and winning it All winners have no time for flying banners at matches this stupid embarrassing carry on most stop and will stop during matches taking the motivation out of players at matches is otter shame spending this kind of money to kill the atmosphere at matches is totally ridiculous it should be spent to support and ignite players the 12 man standing in matches you create a winning vibe a winning atmosphere

the team has lost urgency the thing most important to the team of highest caliber, here there is no intention to do things of any kind only flamini intentions are clear to take out opposition player get his customary yellow and monreal's irritation is soon going to hit the papers.Wenger's verdict «at the moment we are a good team good players good atmosphere and players are slowly coming back from injury, monreal is solid CB and he has accepted his role also flamini is taking the opponents nuts to the cleaners which is very viera like quality which i like also Diaby is ready is 2 months cause the surgeon got bored of opening up him lost a screw inside so therefore fourth place is ours».

Last season I attended the FA Cup game against Watford and out of all of my trips to the Emirates this was the worst, the atmosphere was flat and I could see many empty seats — whilst the fans in the stadium were more interested in taking selfies and recording every set piece instead of cheering their team on.

As has been pointed out so many times here, it takes an immense amount of privilege and whitewashing of human history and biology to get to the place where you think atmosphere or idealized is the main priority.

The changes to the atmosphere and the changes to the resources we have on this planet from depleting our resources and taking carbon out of the ground is something, regardless of somebody's politics — you can't keep doing that long - term.

A team led by Miloslav Druckmüller at the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic took multiple photographs of several recent solar eclipses, when the sun's atmosphere, or corona, was visible as a halo around the blacked - out sun.

The researchers say that countries must also tackle short - lived climate pollutants like hydrofluorocarbons that accelerate warming greatly in the near term, and take some of the carbon that is currently in the atmosphere out.

Taking carbon out of the atmosphere will be crucial if we are to slow the progress of climate change.

«It's a proof of concept of an instrument that will take water out of the atmosphere to produce liquid water for astronauts,» he says.

But this wiggly line that you referred to, that does turn out to be a couple of percent of the entire atmospheric CO2 on an annual basis and one of the messages from that is that the vegetation and the bacteria that are releasing the CO2 from the soil, the vegetation is taking it up from the atmosphere to the sugars.

Sulfate aerosols appear to take several years to settle out of the atmosphere, which is one of the reasons their effects are so widespread and long lasting.

Because they are larger to begin with, the salty drops soon grow so heavy that they fall out of the atmosphere as precipitation, taking much of the dirt down with them.

«The band has not faded significantly since September, indicating that this ejecta may take years to settle out of the upper atmosphere,» says Tom Herbst of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, who used a 3.5 - metre telescope to study Jupiter in the near infrared on 19 December.

Mercury emissions from human activities take several forms that behave differently in the atmosphere Oxidized mercury, notated as Hg (II), generally settles or is rained out of the atmosphere close to emission sources.

«Our results suggest that this change in circulation and the consequent extended biological activity by itself took 30 - 60ppm of CO2 out of the atmosphere.

The great benefit is that legumes contribute to cropping systems; they can help take nitrogen out of the atmosphere and make it available in the soil.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

During the descent, its engineering sensors will take time out to probe the state of the atmosphere.

So while a mature forest is in chemical equilibrium with the atmosphere, coral reefs form permanent limestone structures that keep on taking carbon out of the air forever.

TAKING carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere is crucial to slowing the progress of climate change.

Within the constraints of this Congress, we've tried to do a whole range of things, administratively, that are making a difference - doubling fuel - efficiency standards on cars is going to take a whole lot of carbon out of our atmosphere.

To get the needed resolution — 20 times that of other ground - based telescopes and 3 times that of even the Hubble Space Telescope — Ghez helped develop a technique that involved taking a rapid series of snapshots that could be «averaged» to cancel out the distorting effects of our atmosphere.

Co-author Dr Grant Wilson, from Energy2050 at the University of Sheffield, said: «Having a longer - term view, it is likely to prove vastly cheaper not to emit a tonne of CO2 into the atmosphere over the near - term, rather than to have to take it back out of the atmosphere after 2050.

They modernized the factory by updating the carboxysome, a particularly complex BMC that requires a series of protein - protein interactions involving at least six gene products to form a metabolic core that takes CO2 out of the atmosphere and converts it into sugar.

Now, thanks to near - infrared spectral measurements taken by NASA's Cassini orbiter and analysis of near - infrared color signatures by researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Saturn's superstorm is helping scientists flesh out a picture of the composition of the planet's atmosphere at depths typically obscured by a thick high - altitude haze.

New continents formed and weathered, again taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Because transit measurements are relative measurements stellar spectra cancels out — in the first order approximation: the difference of a spectrum taken before transit and during transit will provide the transmission spectrum of the exoplanet atmosphere.

The haze of Titan's atmosphere stands out in this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn.

As part of that mission, it flies close to the cloud tops that obscure the planet's surface, using its instruments to take images, study the auroras and find out more about the world's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.

Carbon dioxide emitted at the start of the industrial revolution is still warming the atmosphere today, which is why scientists take into account historical emissions as well as present day ones to work out a country's contribution to climate change.