Sentences with phrase «think about carbon dioxide»

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Rohling: Okay, so I think the first number, really, to take into account is the preindustrial carbon dioxide value, which is round about 280 parts per million in the atmosphere.

«If you know carbon dioxide is a «greenhouse gas» but think it kills the things that live in greenhouses,» Kahan said, «then it's safe to say you don't know much about climate science.»

The CO2 Coalition was established in 2015 as a 501 (c)(3) for the purpose of educating thought leaders, policy makers, and the public about the important contribution made by carbon dioxide to our lives and the economy.

The CO2 Coalition, founded in 2015, describes its mission as «educating thought leaders, policymakers, and the public about the important contribution made by carbon dioxide to our lives and the economy.»

It was thought C3 grasses are more sensitive to carbon dioxide Read more about Plants show surprise response to more CO2 - Scimex

While retaining a technical question about aviation law, the half - hour excerpt from the 75 - minute discussion did not include Mr. Branson's comments about what he said was his most important public priority — working for peace in conflict zones — and his long, and provocative, statements on carbon dioxide and climate, including his thoughts on geo - engineering, his big prize for removing CO2 from the air and the climate treaty.

When I was at the zoo last week, I asked a lawyer from the conservation society whether it might be best to think of these credits as «conservation credits,» given the persistent questions about the utility of carbon trading in limiting the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

As signs grew that the Senate was in no mood to set up a trading system for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, as I noted how the climate policy debate had circled back lately to the emissions - capping plan for power plants that had been proposed in the 2000 Bush campaign for the presidency, I found myself thinking about the vacuum that's persisted where President Obama should have been on this issue (if he planned to live up to his campaign commitments).

I do go on about how I think that wood is the most sustainable building material; instead of creating carbon dioxide, it absorbs it and stores it.

Aspects of his comment may be unwelcome to just about everyone in one way or another, but I think it is worth noting that he says that the data issues don't detract from clear evidence of a long - term warming trend and that carbon dioxide is «a major climate forcing» (along with many others):

I still think this 2010 paper by Howard J. Herzog at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology very nicely lays out what to look for to gauge if countries are serious about this issue: «Scaling up carbon dioxide capture and storage: From megatons to gigatons.»

When you think about greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide usually comes to mind.

The CO2 Coalition was established in 2015 as a 501 (c)(3) for the purpose of educating thought leaders, policy makers, and the public about the important contribution made by carbon dioxide to our lives and the economy.

This rise of temperature could honcvcr he explained, qualitatively if not quantitatively, by changes in the atiiiospheric circulation, arid in those regions where a change in the circulation aould be expected to cause a fall of temperature, there had actually been a fall; moreover the rise of temperature \ vas about ten times as great in the arctic regions as in middle or low latitudes, and he cliil not think that a change in the amount of carbon dioxide could cause such a differential effect.

Dr. Theodore A. Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, said the long life of Larsen B «makes you think there's something particularly unusual about this warming» — perhaps evidence that the warming has been brought on by artificial emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.

The President - elect told The New York Times in an interview after the election, «I think there is some connectivity,» when asked about the role that carbon dioxide produced by humans plays in climate change.

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Due to the chemistry of their magmas, the carbon dioxide they are thought to emit is currently about the same as, or perhaps a little less than, from land volcanoes — about 88 million metric tons a year.

«the carbon dioxide [seafloor volcanoes] are thought to emit is currently about the same as, or perhaps a little less than, from land volcanoes — about 88 million metric tons a year.»

That's what two men named David thought, too, when they first met in 2008 to talk about a climate policy with very little support: a national tax on industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

But he no longer thinks global warming is caused by our carbon dioxide and so isn't concerned about his or any one else's carbon footprint.

And if we are going to think that expansively about how we might use our streetscape, we might go even further, to imagine a few parking spaces per building permanently turned into «eco-spaces,» with islands bulging into the streets to calm traffic, with plantings to absorb rainfall that would otherwise flow into the sewers and to absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, perhaps with small - scale rat - proofed composting receptacles, or igloos for depositing recyclables, or... the mind reels.

Similarly, the authors went out of their way to include recent papers suggesting that the earth might be less sensitive to carbon dioxide emissions than previously thought, even though serious questions have been raised about the validity of those estimates.