Sentences with phrase «to reach the atmosphere»

The power plant proposal will prevent about 430 million tons of carbon dioxide from reaching the atmosphere, based on the 30 percent figure and what power plants have already reduced since 2005.

Surprisingly, very little of the methane gas rising up through the sea appears to reach the atmosphere in the summer.

But, also surprisingly, very little of the climate gas rising up through the sea reaches the atmosphere.

These clouds vary with the intensity of cosmic rays reaching the atmosphere and act like a shade in the global greenhouse to control temperature.

Even within hours of the station reaching the atmosphere, the final hit zone predictions will cover thousands of kilometers.

Scientists are somewhat concerned that this leaking methane may eventually reach the atmosphere, contributing to climate change, but only time will tell.

CCS is an emerging suite of science and technologies designed to capture carbon dioxide from power plants and store it underground, preventing greenhouse gases from reaching the atmosphere.

But surprisingly, very little of the climate gas rising up through the sea reaches the atmosphere.

Scientists have found that ancient reservoirs of methane do not reach the atmosphere due to a role played by ocean waters.

«We (and others) have seen CH4 reaching the atmosphere from seafloor sources, notably on the East Siberian Arctic shelf, and smaller amounts elsewhere.

Most methane hydrates are buried in ocean water so deep that the journey through the water column is too far for the gas to ever reach the atmosphere, according to Ed Dlugokencky, a researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

However, current scientific results show diversity in the flux of CH4 that actually reaches the atmosphere.

Furthermore, the data reveal that the methane - derived carbon was mixed from the surface ocean downward, suggesting that a significant fraction of the initial dissociated hydrate methane reached the atmosphere prior to oxidation.

But according to the report, water droplets started by salt that reaches the atmosphere grow by attracting these smaller, pollution - initiated drops.

Now, a new study suggests that one such «coronal mass ejection» in 2015 temporarily weakened Earth's protective magnetic field, allowing solar plasma and radiation from the same storm to more easily reach the atmosphere, potentially posing a danger to astronauts.

Light, x-rays and the CMEs themselves can reach the atmosphere anywhere between a few minutes and a few days after a solar outburst.

«No one has yet shown that CH4 [methane] from hydrates is reaching the atmosphere today,» Thornton says.

(Methane forms as a by - product of anaerobic bacterial decomposition of organic matter in the soil and reaches the atmosphere through the roots and stems of the rice plants.)

I'm interested in some practical aspects of placing sunshades to reduce the solar heat reaching our atmosphere.

That carbon has not yet reached the atmosphere.

Brazil has been recognized as a leader in global efforts to reduce deforestation and associated greenhouse gas emissions — mostly due to the successful implementation of forest conservation policies that reduced deforestation in the Amazon by 80 % below historical levels, and prevented more than 5 billion tons of CO2 from reaching the atmosphere over the last decade.

Without this robust rock layer, carbon dioxide could seep out and leak to the surface, reaching the atmosphere anyway.

Exponentially less methane would be able to reach the atmosphere in waters that are thousands of feet deep at the very edge of the shallow seas near continents, which is the area of the ocean where the bulk of methane hydrates are,» Sparrow says.

As it does so, it oxidises to CO2, dissolving in seawater or reaching the atmosphere as CO2 which causes far slower warming, but can nevertheless contribute to ocean acidification.

The study observed active methane plumes rising from the seabed, but most of the gas was not from hydrates and much of it did not reach the atmosphere.

In places where methane is produced, such as wetlands, methanotrophs consume huge quantities of methane before they ever reach the atmosphere.

However, current scientific results show diversity in the flux of CH4 that actually reaches the atmosphere.

As the Sun dims magnetic shielding of the atmosphere is diminished and more cosmic rays reach the atmosphere.

Apart from preserving the national park, UNDP said the preservation will keep more than 400 million tons of harmful emissions from reaching the atmosphere.

It remains to be seen whether such abrupt and massive methane release could have reached the atmosphere.

But so far, as Dickens says, no one has shown that quantities of methane large enough to change the climate would reach the atmosphere.

By preventing carbon dioxide from reaching the atmosphere, CCS can help slow global warming and is recognized as a key technology to meet the Paris Climate Agreement.

The commercial turbine burns coal, the dirtiest of fossil fuels, but it traps nearly all the resulting carbon dioxide underground before it reaches the atmosphere.

Although the researchers did not examine in this study what prevents methane released from the seafloor from reaching the atmosphere, they suspect it is biodegraded by microorganisms in the ocean before it hits the surface waters.

However, methane only acts as a greenhouse gas if and when it reaches the atmosphere — a scenario that would occur only if the liberated methane travelled from the point of release at the seafloor to the surface waters and the atmosphere.

One reason is to prevent nitrogen - cutting «solutions» from causing inadvertent problems; for example, when manure is treated to prevent nitrogen from reaching coastal waters, the molecule can become more likely to reach the atmosphere and cause trouble there.

Undersea volcanoes could not produce this effect because the dust and aerosols would be absorbed by the sea before they reached the atmosphere.

An important question is how that coal bed gas is reaching the atmosphere.

Perhaps most importantly, from a climate perspective, some of the revenue could be used to buy back any carbon produced from energy consumption that was successfully captured and sequestered before it reached the atmosphere.