Sentences with phrase «up of carbon dioxide»

Betsy Peabody: From both carbon emissions, from deforestation, and I think initially people thought, «Well, thank goodness the oceans are taking up some of that carbon dioxide.»

Global Warming is the build up of carbon dioxide (greenhouse gases) in the atmosphere trapping heat and causing increase temperature and shifting weather patterns.

What seems to often be neglected by the proponents of growing trees (or bush or forest) as a way of counteracting the build - up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is that trees do not live forever.

Reversing land degradation — 5 billion hectares globally — is the most effective way of reversing the build - up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

In some cases, global warming as a consequence of the build - up of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere because of fossil fuel burning has altered the water chemistry and local climate and food supplies for seabird colonies.

The most recent report of the International Panel on Climate Change says it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of this warming which is driven by the build up of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, cement production, and land use changes.

Are you saying that the industrial revolution was just happened to coincide in time and magnitude to the build - up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but there is some other, unidentified geochemical phenomenon that is responsible?

Yes, I consider the build - up of carbon dioxide to be coincidental with the industrial revolution.

Do not screw a lid onto the jar because it might burst due pressure generated from the build up of carbon dioxide from the fermenting grains.

Blod acidosis can also be caused by respiratory complications where there is a build up of carbon dioxide in the bloodstream which is toxic and potentially fatal.

By the way, yawning excessively without fatigue is an acid - alkaline imbalance usually; as the body is naturally «blowing off» a highly acidic build - up of carbon dioxide.

... up of carbon dioxide, and water vapour was the second most abundant gas.

Despite the strong warming trend of the past 15 years, worldwide temperatures have risen less than models predict, given the build - up of carbon dioxide in the air to 25 per cent above pre-industrial levels.

Since the 1960s, the amount of methane in the air has increased by 1 % per year — twice as fast as the build up of carbon dioxide.

Large build - ups of carbon dioxide would last thousands of years in the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Methane — a compound made up of one carbon atom bonded to four of hydrogen — is, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide.

Even though the BFR will spew out tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, the impacts may not be much greater than current global air travel (depending how many flights end up happening).

But a pilot project at a major producer's well site aims to suck up as much as 20 % of the carbon dioxide produced — using algae.

As carbon dioxide is burned to fuel our lives, a percentage of that carbon ends up in the world's oceans.

One possible strategy for making Mars habitable over the long term is to «terraform» it — manipulate its environment so, in the simplest terms, the planet warms up, ice turns into water, and plants can be introduced, which will convert the atmospheric carbon dioxide into oxygen, with the goal of creating a stable and breathable atmosphere.

They need an atmosphere to breathe, which means that the appropriate amount of oxygen and other gases have to be kept at a constant level, despite being constantly used up while carbon dioxide is constantly exhaled from breathing.

Why does the carbon dioxide increase as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, yet the oxygen which is used up in this burning is not significantly depleted?

Eating less meat will free up a lot of agricultural land which can revert to growing trees and other vegetation, which, in turn, will absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The oxygen removal is performed by a nitrogen or carbon dioxide current, by vacuum, or by a combination of both and has a capacity to process up to 13,200 gallons / hour.

To check if this needs to be done, press the center of the lid, if its bulged up in the center that means carbon dioxide needs to be released so you don't have a chili explosion.

Another research has shown that baby sleeping in the prone position may end up poisoned with too much inhalation of carbon dioxide.

If a baby gets his face up against a bumper he can rebreathe exhaled carbon dioxide instead of fresh air.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

To put these numbers in perspective, the amount of carbon dioxide the state would need to reduce, to make up for Indian Point's closure, is the equivalent of the annual greenhouse - gas emissions of more than 2.4 million passenger cars.

It's no mystery why carbon dioxide (CO2) levels fluctuate with the seasons: As greenery grows in the spring and summer, it soaks up the planet - warming gas, and when trees shed their leaves in the autumn, some of that gas returns to the atmosphere.

There's a concern that those microorganisms will all of a sudden kick on and start chewing up organic matter, making carbon dioxide and methane.

This nourishes phytoplankton, chlorophyll - bearing microorganisms at the base of the ocean's food chain, which suck up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) as they grow.

As trees die and decompose, the concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will increase, potentially speeding up climate change during tropical droughts.»

Rising anthropogenic, or human - caused, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have up to twice the impact on coastal estuaries as it does in the oceans because the human - caused CO2 lowers the ecosystem's ability to absorb natural fluctuations of the greenhouse gas, a new study suggests.

Each one promises to cut wood consumption by half to two - thirds, preventing up to 2 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year and reducing the number of dangerous wood - collecting trips Sudanese women must make.

POCKETING POLLUTION Carbon capture and storage can cut up to 90 percent of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

But researchers have thought there might be one reason to cheer this surfeit of nitrogen: The nutrient should fertilize tree growth, spurring forests to soak up human - made carbon dioxide (CO2) that would otherwise fuel global warming.

At the end of the last ice age, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels shot up by nearly 50 per cent.

Based on extensive forensic testing, its analysis of why the tank of pressurized oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide blew up is thorough, precise, and illuminating.

The seafloor eruptions — big sources of carbon dioxide and other gases — might also help clear up an enduring mystery about ice ages: why they start gradually and end suddenly.

By turning crops such as corn, sugarcane and palm oil into biofuels — whether ethanol, biodiesel, or something else — proponents hope to reap the benefits of the carbon soaked up as the plants grow to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted when the resulting fuel is burned.

Interior Astronomers hoped the probe would confirm that comets fit the popular model of a «dirty snowball»: an icy core made up of a solid mix of water ice, dirt, and frozen gases like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, coated with a thin crust of debris.

And the first thing that begins to happen is carbon dioxide builds up inside the body, and with it there is a rise in acidity; that acidity rise contributes to cellular membranes decaying and then collapsing and then digestive enzymes that were already always present in the cells begin to slosh around to the body and [it] begins a state of what's called self digestion, so the body begins to liquefy inside rather literally.

According to the new calculations, the bits of magnesium clump with carbon dioxide gas — which makes up about 95 percent of Mars» atmosphere — to produce magnesium carbonate molecules.

During the dry season, scientists have noticed a peculiar rise in the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) they suck up.

These C3 grasses and legumes have been shown to lose up to 15 percent of zinc and iron, the top two minerals in the human body, in experiments that artificially enhanced the concentration of carbon dioxide.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that current carbon - sequestration technologies may eliminate up to 90 percent of carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants.

Phytoplankton, tiny photosynthesizing organisms that bloom in the nutrient - rich waters of the Southern Ocean, suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

But the Southern Ocean plays a more benign role in the global carbon budget: Its waters now take up about 50 % of the atmospheric carbon dioxide emitted by human activities, thanks in large part to the so - called «biological pump.»

The ability of the oceans to take up carbon dioxide can not keep up with the rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which means carbon dioxide and global temperatures will continue to increase unless humans cut their carbon dioxide emissions.