Sentences with phrase «total amount of carbon in the atmosphere»

The current total amounts of carbon in the atmosphere and the ocean surface layer are about 1:1.

Because the total amount of carbon in the atmosphere is the sum of the natural contributions plus the contribution from anthropogenic sources, the same observation would apply to the graph in the AR5.

The new charts also link regional changes in climate directly to the total amount of carbon in the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

These experiments all measured how extra CO2 in the atmosphere affects plant growth, microbial production of carbon dioxide, and the total amount of soil carbon at the end of the experiment.

Humans do emit only a fraction of the 750 gigatons of CO2 that move through the atmosphere each year, but small changes in the total amount can overwhelm so - called carbon «sinks» such as the ocean, resulting in important, and cumulative, changes in the atmosphere.

Although scientists have measured atmospheric CO2 levels for decades, the current network of ground stations, observatories, aircraft and other instruments emerged during an era when researchers were trying to answer questions about the total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The kind of climate we wind up with is largely determined by the total amount of carbon we emit into the atmosphere as CO2 in the time before we finally kick the fossil fuel habit (by choice or by virtue of simply running out).

The amount of carbon that would need to be removed from the atmosphere and stabilized in soils, in addition to the amount required to compensate for ongoing emissions, to attain pre-industrial levels is equivalent to approximately one - half of the total carbon in all of Earth's vegetation.

As I've said many times before, my theories lead to the conclusion that it is not the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere that is important, but the proportion of new hot CO2.If you doubt that, just take a look at the specific heats of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide

«We estimate that the amount of carbon sequestered in the growing forests was about 10 to 50 percent of the total carbon that would have needed to come out of the atmosphere and oceans at that time to account for the observed changes in carbon dioxide concentrations,» said Nevle, a visiting scholar in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at Stanford.

Henry's Law still holds, as the amount of free CO2 in the water follows the increase in the atmosphere, but free CO2 is less than 1 % of the total amount of carbon in the oceans surface layer, the bulk are bicarbonates and carbonates, which don't follow Henry's Law, but influence the amount of free CO2.

If nothing extra is added or substracted (temperature, volcanic vents,... are constant), then the Rin = Rout and nothing happens in the atmosphere with the total amount of carbon / CO2 in the atmosphere.

Obviously it did to some extent, since an amount representing under half of total emitted fossil carbon remains in the atmosphere, but why it didn't take all, or why it took any, are lost in the details of the complex ecological interactions involved in the carbon cycle.

This implies that there is a linear relationship between the CO2 level and the total amount of «carbon» in the atmosphere.

And these vast jamborees — some involving more than 10,000 people — haven't even started to discuss how we are going to limit the total amount of carbon we dump in the atmosphere, which is what we actually need to do to avoid dangerous climate change.

The soils of the world contain more carbon than the combined total amounts occurring in vegetation and 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.

-- If undersea volcanoes emit sufficient amounts of acids (in the enormous carbonate buffer masses of the deep oceans), then the pH of the oceans could lower somewhat, but that would show up in a lower total carbon (DIC: CO2 + - bi-carbonates) content of the oceans as they release CO2 to the atmosphere.

«We estimate that the amount of carbon sequestered in the growing forests was about 10 to 50 percent of the total carbon that would have needed to come out of the atmosphere and oceans at that time to account for the observed changes in carbon dioxide concentrations,» said Richard Nevle, visiting scholar in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at Stanford.