Sentences with phrase «talk about carbon»

Roberts responded: «Um... for example, carbon dioxide... ah... has been, whenever we talk about carbon dioxide on the ABC... um... you see on the news broadcast billowing steam pouring out, giving people the impression that carbon dioxide is both... um... colourful and it's also huge in volume when it's less than 0.04 per cent.»

Lets see them talk about carbon footprints after they have been denied computers, air conditioning, guns to defend themselves, food grown without pesticides, no modern medicine, etc..

Offering an inspiring model for climate action begins with changing the way we talk about carbon.

If we are going to talk about carbon feedbacks, we need to include clathrates and free methane capped by permafrost.

The thing is this Michael — You can not talk about carbon and CO2 in the same breath.

Obvisouly they can not power the entire factory with PV due to space limitations, but it would be really cool to see a factory running 100 % off of PV, talk about carbon netural.

This is because, when we talk about carbon emission scenarios and climate sensitivity, we are ultimately talking about future risk management.

You can talk about carbon levels or glucose levels, but they change based on human behavior.

The answer, of course, is that Pieter is talking about carbon particles (aerosols, often called black carbon) and the post is talking about carbon atoms in principally CO2, but also methane and organic volatile moleclues.

When we say «positive» and «negative» feedbacks in the sense of radiation (so I'm not talking about carbon - cycle responses such as methane release from the oceans or such) we're referring to temperature - sensitive variables which themselves affect the radiation budget of the planet.

But since we're talking about carbon forming late in the Carboniferous Period (good choice of a technical word, isn't it?)

Without talking about carbon removal, however, we can't explain climate change as a clean - up problem — we can only describe it as a stop - making - a-mess-problem.

In science when talking about the carbon cycle it is the carbon that is important, as the carbon takes on many forms depending on where it goes, it does not stay as CO2.

No Heywood, the cycle is the carbon (the element) cycle and when talking about the carbon cycle it is not incorrect to talk about where the carbon is located: whether that be dissolved in water, as part of a large carbon based life form or in a gaseous atmospheric compound.

I certainly talked about the carbon caps before, and I went over to the first G8 meeting in Trieste, [Italy, in March 2001].

We are talking about the carbon cycle here.

No - one's talking about carbon footprints.

He was talking about the carbon footprint.

Then he gets on the plane and he flies to Hawaii to play golf and he flies back and he talks about the carbon footprint.

California policymakers are drafting plans to cut the state's emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020 and are also engaging in talks about carbon capping and trading.

I am here to learn, and what this article has taught me is how unbelievable silly it is to start talking about the carbon footprint of a cavemen.

Although the coal industry talks about carbon capture and storage (CCS), it is too expensive and there are not enough places to store the captured CO2, Smith told IPS.

(except in Kyoto they were not talking about construction, they were talking about carbon offsets.)

Not exact matches

One was Tina Reine, a Miami - based carbon commodities trader and aerialist who once delivered a TEDx talk about dancing as a springboard to girls» self - confidence.

The next time the premiers huddle together they should start talking about how to wean our economy off its overreliance on high - cost carbon fuels that the rest of the world has little need for today and will need even less of tomorrow.

Earlier this week, he suggested that talk from other countries about mitigating carbon pollution is disingenuous.

Instead of hearing about billion dollar gun - registries or carbon taxes, we all get to spend four weeks talking about potholes and roads, garbage pickup, traffic congestion, and other issues that affect people literally where they live.

She should speak out against the climate change denial rampant in opposition circles and talk about the benefits of the carbon tax, the transition to renewable energy and her government's investments in public services and infrastructure.

I never heard of that carbon dating stuff before but did a quick google search and found out that you all know what you're talking about.

«The carbon footprint story is not very pleasant when you talk about flying fish in from Alaska or Norway,» Swanes concedes.

Knife geeks will talk your ear off about different types of steel, but you can basically break it down into two categories: carbon and stainless.

3) Anthea from Blue Bear Wood talks about the gas released from a baking soda and vinegar reaction and shows us how to use the carbon dioxide to blow up a balloon and put out a candle.

Following three carbon monoxide deaths in Newburgh in March, county and city officials recently gathered to talk about preventing such a tragedy from happening again.

Governor Cuomo talked about the importance of temporarily relying on what he calls «carbon free» nuclear power during an appearance at the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego in August.

Governor Cuomo talked about the importance of temporarily relying on what he calls «carbon - free» nuclear power during an appearance at the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego in August.

«If you really want to get the reduction people are talking about, 80 percent by 2050, it's going to take some sort of price on carbon to get there,» Thornton said.

So for nuclear to gain ground, President Barack Obama will have to back up his tough talk about legislation mandating carbon cuts with economic incentives.

«When you start talking about climate change and the need for major changes, carbon taxes and lifestyle changes, [conservatives] see this as a threat to capitalism and future prosperity,» said McCright.

Coal companies should take a proactive strategy and talk about solutions, such as carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) technology, Reavey said.

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.

Just talk a little bit about how this particular carbon atom that you've named Dave travels around the globe and what kind of adventures it has as a member of the biosphere, or, you know, occasionally not in the biosphere.

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.

«People have been talking about a new era of carbon nanotube electronics moving beyond silicon,» said Mitra, an electrical engineer and computer scientist and Chambers Faculty Scholar of Engineering.

Plus, Science's Alexa Billow talks to Christian Koerner about why just planting any old tree isn't the answer to our carbon problem.

These are just a few obvious examples, but because the future Fox News pundit was talking about climate change let's consider something that is indisputable: the measured rise of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere is numerically consistent with that predicted from the output of human industrial activity.

When you hear Dave and Bill Gates talk about CCS, that's carbon capture and storage; TerraPower is a nuclear reactor design company.

«Once we've got all the things that we're talking about in place, we're going to have a lot of carbon - free flexibility.»

Inslee, Jerry Brown and Kate Brown talked about the efforts underway in each of their states to curb greenhouse gas emissions through initiatives such as renewable energy and grid modernization, electrification of transportation infrastructure, energy efficiency and policies to price or cap carbon emissions.

This year we head to Nashville to talk about dinosaurs ancient and otherwise, exoplanets, carbon cycling, pictures from Pluto, metallic hydrogen, photon pressure, and methane on Mars, among other things.

«Understanding the global carbon cycle is really important, especially when talking about climate change,» says Catherine Drennan, an MIT professor of chemistry and biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.