Sentences with phrase «vast quantities of carbon»

Since the industrial revolution civilization has been pouring vast quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels.

High - latitude soil such as permafrost hold vast quantities of carbon that could speed up global warming if it enters the atmosphere.

Not only are such fires more likely as the climate changes but they also release vast quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide, contributing to climate change themselves.

Public lands are considered one of America's best defenses against rising greenhouse gas emissions because the forests there pull vast quantities of carbon from the atmosphere and store it in tree trunks and roots.

Public lands are considered one of America's best defenses against rising greenhouse gas emissions because the forests there pull vast quantities of carbon from the atmosphere and store it in tree trunks and roots.

Tropical forests, such as this swath of Amazon rainforest, near Manaus, Brazil, store vast quantities of carbon

Now, White House science adviser John Holdren is renewing his call for a new nomenclature to describe the end result of dumping vast quantities of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases into Earth's atmosphere: «global climate disruption.»

Just look at the absurd situation (my view) as Australia enacts modest carbon restrictions at home while exporting vast quantities of carbon - rich coal to the world's Asian manufacturing hub to be burned.

Decomposed vegetation in Siberia, previously buried under permafrost, about to release vast quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?

They soak up vast quantities of carbon dioxide, hold the world's greatest diversity of plants and animals, and employ millions of people.

Planetary scientists believe that the early Earth was bombarded with comets; the vast quantities of carbon - rich compounds released by those impacts could have influenced the origin of life.

One thing is clear: given the vast quantity of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere, with more still to come, limiting warming to 1.5 degrees will require «negative emissions».

Waters percolating in soil dissolve tons of organic materials and hold a vast quantity of carbon dioxide and other gases in solution.

In a paper published in the latest edition of Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Dr Canadell says frozen high - latitude soils have the potential to release vast quantities of carbon and methane into the atmosphere and subsequently influence carbon - climate feedbacks.