Dioxide
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This time series has documented the rapid increase in carbon
dioxide
in the atmosphere.
The rate of carbon
dioxide
increase in our atmosphere is unprecedented for our planet.
In fact, oceans absorb about 90 percent of the heat that's generated by greenhouse gas emissions and about 40 percent of the carbon
dioxide.
And it puts 18 thousand tons of carbon
dioxide
in the air.
To put sulfur
dioxide
in the stratosphere would cost on the order of a billion dollars a year.
Number one: temperature and carbon
dioxide
in the atmosphere go up and down basically in sync.
Nature naturally has allowed carbon
dioxide
to go up to 280 parts per million.
This blood absorbs oxygen from the inflated alveoli and leaves behind carbon
dioxide.
Now very recently, very recently, I'm talking about last six, seven, eight months, water, methane, carbon
dioxide
have been detected in the spectrum of a planet outside the solar system.
It is the spectrum of a planet like Earth, showing a presence of nitrogen dioxide, as a clear signal of life, and oxygen and ozone.
And if we see the nitrogen
dioxide
and oxygen, I think we have the perfect E.T. Thank you very much.
Here, we've got a protocell to extract carbon
dioxide
out of the atmosphere and turn it into carbonate.
Maybe they could extract carbon
dioxide.
An accretion itself is a huge sink of carbon
dioxide.
Very nice, and there my older, senior lungs, as I like to call them, I filled with particulate matter, carbon
dioxide
and very high doses of ozone.
Tundra, in a warming world, is thawing and releasing a lot of carbon
dioxide
and also methane.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's not only carbon
dioxide
that has this hockey stick pattern of accelerated change.
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.
Right now, about a third of that carbon
dioxide
is dissolving straight into the sea, right?
Let's say my left shoe corresponds to a sustainable footprint, meaning we humans consume less natural resources than our planet can regenerate, and emit less carbon
dioxide
than our forests and oceans can reabsorb.
Meanwhile, forest and agricultural lands would have to be restored, so that they could capture and sequester greater amounts of carbon
dioxide.
The case for reducing carbon
dioxide
emissions – and slowing the rate of anthropogenic warming – grows stronger with every new catastrophe.
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