Sentences with phrase «vast amounts of carbon from»

However, for the remainder of the Phanerozoic ca was less than 1000 ppm, consistent with the emergence of global forests that captured and sequestered vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere [Berner, 2003].

Yet these properties of the solar system must now compete against a new force — a creature that shifts vast amounts of carbon from deep underground storage into the atmosphere.

Flannigan refers to it as «legacy carbon,» an accumulation of centuries of plant matter that sequesters vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.

The only way the world is going to be able to limit warming to 2 °C is by sucking vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere, using technology that does not yet exist.

Not exact matches

Each spring in the Arctic, the freshet — flooding triggered by melting snow — washes vast amounts of carbon - rich soil from the land into the water — both fresh water and the ocean.

Assistant Professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science Robert Spencer and a team of researchers traveled to Siberia from 2012 to 2015 to better understand how thawing permafrost affected the carbon cycle and specifically to see if the vast amounts of carbon stored in this permafrost were thawing and how it w transferring to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

For anyone who cares about the climate, the bottom line there — because natural gas emits nearly half the carbon dioxide as coal for the same amount of produced heat — is finding a way to manage risks from harvesting vast deposits of gas without rejecting that resource altogether.

If the fossil records and vast amounts of scientific results derived from them prove anything, they provide irrefutable evidence that maximum production of the essential bulk components of life such as proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids coincided with significantly more carbon in the biosphere than we currently have.

I reached out to Pierrehumbert because he is one of many authors of «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful energy.

To cover this vast amount of ground, it discusses, at a high level, subjects ranging from observations of various parts of the climate system and climate modelling to the limits of economic assessments, the different pathways of greenhouse gas emissions considered, adaptation response strategies and methods of mitigation that include everything from from taxing greenhouse gas emissions to removing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere.