Sentences with phrase «worry about the carbon dioxide»

«Everyone is worried about carbon dioxide but plants remove carbon dioxide from the air all the time so it makes sense that we can do the same thing.

«They found no need to worry about the carbon dioxide fuel - burning puts in the atmosphere,» the Post said in the story, which was spotted last week by Washington resident John Lockwood, who was doing research at the Library of Congress and alerted the Washington Times to his finding.

Not exact matches

While rising carbon dioxide emissions are a primary concern of those worried about climate change, emissions of methane, another potent greenhouse gas, have also risen in recent years.

So far, the climate system has responded to rising carbon dioxide levels at a fairly steady rate, but many scientists worry about possible nonlinear effects.

We are all worried about a possible mass release of carbon dioxide and methane from thawing permafrost.

If carbon dioxide and other long - lived greenhouse gases were not building up in the atmosphere, we would not be particularly worried about the climate effect from the short - lived gases and aerosols.

However, worried about the verifiability and permanency of carbon dioxide stored in trees, the European Union does not allow credits generated that way to be traded in its emissions trading scheme.

While discussing a UN report about rising carbon dioxide levels, chief environmental affairs correpondent Anne Thompson said that many scientists are worried about these CO2 levels but «some disagree, saying those fears are wildly overblown.»

Carbon capture, though, has attracted opposition from people who oppose coal mining, itself environmentally damaging, and others who worry about injecting carbon dioxide deep below the earth's surface.

The old story line: People need to worry about climate change because doubling the atmosphere's concentration of carbon dioxide relative to its preindustrial level would probably raise global average temperatures by 2.7 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit.

Perhaps the time is ripe to really start worrying (again) about the fact that for the last 200 million years the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has been falling.

Consequently, anyone seriously worried about taking the precautions mandated by an application of a precautionary principle must look at preventing the colder temperatures and lower carbon dioxide levels which have always resulted in catastrophic extinctions of 40 percent, 60 percent, or even 90 percent of all species of life on the Earth.

Somehow the megacaldera events dwarf the entire human output for carbon dioxide and particulates... * that * is something to worry about and until someone does a real good job defining subsurface structures, water infiltration, crustal stress, and magmatic uplift and composition, the actual, real problems of this planet will not be addressed.

But if we're worried about warming over the very long term, of the sort that causes seas to rise and ice sheets to melt, carbon dioxide surges in importance.

That growth in coal consumption was the primary driver of the record levels of global carbon dioxide emissions in 2011, causing a leading energy economist to worry that «the door to a 2 °C trajectory is about to close.»