Sentences with phrase «with huge amounts of carbon»

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With huge stores of carbon in peat, the fear is that rising global temperatures could cause the release of massive amounts of CO2 from the peatlands into the atmosphere — essentially creating a greenhouse gas feedback loop.

«By continuing to put these huge amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we're gambling with climate and the outcome is still uncertain,» Zeebe said.

Tropical rainforests, and especially the Amazon, are another major worry — they, too, store huge amounts of carbon, but are already being heavily deforested, with concerns that climate change could also increase their vulnerability.

But soil with 15 % carbon holds a huge amount of water compared to the current levels of closer to an average of 1 or 2 %, thus mitigating most extreme events.

Rural India and Africa require huge amounts of development and that development has bog all to do with developed world attempts to move to less carbon - intensive energy sources.

Which is a good job, given the shortage of high - grade uranium ore, the huge unmanageable risks associated with nuclear plants and nuclear proliferation, the large amounts of embedded carbon in uranium refining and processing (and other GHG emissions from the nuclear industry), and the insanity of developing a huge strategic fuel dependence on countries such as Russia.

At the end of this post, there's more on one facet of the climate question that Mr. Dyson did examine in some depth back in 1976 — the prospect of pulling huge amounts of carbon dioxide out of the air with specially bred trees.

With carbon dioxide levels shooting up to unprecedented levels, it is high time we group together for a concerted action against the huge amounts of climate - change - inducing emissions from fires in Hell.

That's troubling because a huge amount of dead plant life, packed with carbon, is frozen in Arctic soils.

But our human waste system with huge amounts of paper and other cellulose products have 5 - 10 times more biocarbon that we let get degraded to reemit GHGs when we could be converting them to inert carbon.

With the stroke of a pen the technocrats quietly absolved government of all responsibility to reduce emissions from some of the most obvious and most tractable sources of pollution in the land: the fossil - fuel devouring power stations and factories whose smokestacks belch millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year — not to mention huge amounts of other pollutants which damage our health more directly than CO2.