Dioxide
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When carbon
dioxide
dissolves in seawater, it undergoes a number of chemical reactions.
But I'll tell you as more carbon
dioxide
enters the ocean, the seawater pH goes down.
This figure is an important time series in Hawaii, and the top line shows steadily increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide, or CO2 gas, in the atmosphere.
The line underneath shows the increasing concentrations of carbon
dioxide
that is dissolved in the surface of the ocean which you can see is increasing at the same rate as carbon
dioxide
in the atmosphere since measurements began.
As more carbon
dioxide
has entered the ocean, the seawater pH has gone down, which basically means there has been an increase in ocean acidity.
Unless we can start slowing down our carbon
dioxide
emissions, we're expecting an increase in ocean acidity of 170 percent by the end of this century.
We have already put too much carbon
dioxide
into the atmosphere.
The only way of doing that is by reducing our carbon
dioxide
emissions.
So we built an illegal genetic clinic, a DIY carbon
dioxide
incubator, and even bought frozen mice on eBay.
All told, cremations in the US emit a staggering 600 million pounds of carbon
dioxide
into the atmosphere annually.
About 55 million years ago, there was a really abrupt warming event, and what happened was a whole bunch of carbon
dioxide
was released into earth's atmosphere, and it caused a rapid and pretty extreme global warming event.
Carbon
dioxide
is a greenhouse gas, we're emitting a lot of it, and the planet is heating up.
We don't know everything, but we don't know nothing, and we know what carbon
dioxide
does.
The blood circulatory system, while seemingly mundane, is essential for you to survive, providing oxygen and nutrients to your cells, and removing waste and carbon
dioxide.
From there, the salt circulates to a storage tank underground, where it produces steam, which spins turbines and generates enough electricity to power 70,000 homes and offsets 30,000 tons of carbon
dioxide
emissions every year.
I always think that first you have to feel it, and then you can measure it; you need to hear the sounds of the atmosphere, of the climate, of the hot air, in order to then measure the ozone, the carbon
dioxide.
These are the bubbles filled with carbon dioxide, a gas that's been produced during the fermentation process of the wine.
Human breath is essentially composed of five components: nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and argon.
For example, one half of the carbon equation is how much we emit, and the other half of the carbon equation, as I'm very conscious as a trustee of Kew, is how much things soak up, and they soak up carbon
dioxide
out of the atmosphere.
We need to not only cut emissions extremely rapidly, we also need to take carbon
dioxide
out of the atmosphere.
I'm working independently on one particular idea which uses natural gas to generate electricity in a way that takes carbon
dioxide
out of the air.
About half the chemical energy is converted into electricity, and the remainder into heat, which is used to break down limestone into lime and carbon
dioxide.
It's actually generating carbon
dioxide.
But the key point is, all of the carbon
dioxide
generated, both from the fuel cell and from the lime kiln, is pure, and that's really important, because it means you can either use that carbon
dioxide
or you can store it away deep underground at low cost.
It removes carbon
dioxide
from the air.
At the moment, power generation is responsible for about a quarter of all carbon
dioxide
emissions.
You absorb about twice as much carbon
dioxide
when you add it to seawater as when you use it industrially.
We need the ambition to restore the atmosphere, to draw down carbon
dioxide
back to a level that is compatible with a stable climate and healthy oceans.
These openings allow oxygen and carbon
dioxide
in and out of the leaf, but they also create an opening through which water evaporates.
Yeast is eating sugar and turning it into carbon
dioxide
and alcohol.
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