Carbon in sentence

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It cuts fuel poverty, it cuts their bills, and it cuts carbon emissions at the same time.

I'm an organic food-eating, carbon footprint-minimizing, robotic surgery geek.

Grassland fixes carbon.

Tundra, in a warming world, is thawing and releasing a lot of carbon dioxide and also methane.

But if you take the same carbon atoms and interconnect them a different way, you get diamond, which is clear and hard.

And those properties of softness and hardness and darkness and clearness do not reside in the carbon atoms; they reside in the interconnections between the carbon atoms, or at least arise because of the interconnections between the carbon atoms.

You take about eight or so carbon atoms, about 20 hydrogen atoms, you put them together in exactly the right way and you get this marvelous liquid: very energy-dense and very easy to refine into a number of very useful products and fuels.

We have a program with Exxon Mobile to try and develop new strains of algae that can efficiently capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or from concentrated sources, make new hydrocarbons that can go into their refineries to make normal gasoline and diesel fuel out of CO2.

Now, there was no carbon and oxygen in the universe at the Big Bang.

And there was no carbon and oxygen in the universe throughout the first generation of stars.

A classic example is James Hansen, a NASA climatologist pushing for 350 parts per million carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

But one day of coal adds up to one hell of a lot of carbon dioxide in a normal one-gigawatt coal-fired plant.

So my premise here is that nuclear energy puts out more carbon dioxide, puts out more air pollutants, enhances mortality more and takes longer to put up than real renewable energy systems, namely wind, solar, geothermal power, hydro-tidal wave power.

However, I think there may be a win-win solution here where both parties can win this debate, and that is, we face a situation where it's carbon caps on this planet or die.

Just from the perspective of climate change, the average urban dweller in the U.S. has about one-third the carbon footprint of the average suburban dweller, mostly because suburbanites drive a lot more, and living in detached buildings, you have that much more exterior surface to leak energy out of.

And you can have a hundred million of these homes, and it's great because they suck carbon.

Carbon dioxide level has gone up and up and up.

We can find what they're made of, would their atmospheres have water, carbon dioxide, methane.

But they're not just buying the juice; they're also buying the carbon in the trees to offset the shipment costs associated with carbon to get the product into Europe.

There's carbon that's being bought with sugar, with coffee, with beef.

We banned those chemicals, and we replaced them, unknowingly, with other substances that, molecule per molecule, are a hundred times more potent as heat-trapping, greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide.

Then there's all sorts of intermediate ones with middle amounts of carbon.

Their government is one of the first to commit to be carbon neutral by 2021.

This is what the U.K. government target on carbon and greenhouse emissions looks like.

Did we meet our three percent annual target on reducing carbon emissions?

They don't have any carbon content.

It's not only carbon dioxide that has this hockey stick pattern of accelerated change.

There's good news here, for example, from Latin America, where plow-based farming systems of the '50s and '60s led farming basically to a dead-end, with lower and lower yields, degrading the organic matter and fundamental problems at the livelihood levels in Paraguay, Uruguay and a number of countries, Brazil, leading to innovation and entrepreneurship among farmers in partnership with scientists into an agricultural revolution of zero tillage systems combined with mulch farming with locally adapted technologies, which today, for example, in some countries, have led to a tremendous increase in area under mulch, zero till farming which, not only produces more food, but also sequesters carbon.

We've also talked about concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

But to answer that question, to make a clear attribution to carbon dioxide, you have to know something about all of these other agents of change.

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