Category

Carbon dioxide

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chemical compound

international treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

solid carbon dioxide

limnic eruption

very rare type of natural disaster in which dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) suddenly erupts from deep lake waters, forming a gas cloud capable of suffocating wildlife, livestock, and humans

global warming potential

estimate of how an atmospheric gas affects global climate change

graph of the accumulation of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere in Hawaii since 1958

list of countries by carbon dioxide emissions

Wikimedia list article

natural or artificial process in which something absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases

carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Earth

atmospheric constituent; greenhouse gas

euthanasia device

type of fuel which have no net greenhouse gas emissions

supercritical carbon dioxide

carbon dioxide above its critical point

Lake Nyos disaster

1986 disaster in Cameroon due to a limnic eruption of Lake Nyos

direct air capture

method of carbon capture from carbon dioxide in air

carbon dioxide sensor

instrument for the measurement of carbon dioxide gas

carbon dioxide scrubber

device which absorbs carbon dioxide

electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide

TanSat, also known as CarbonSat, is a Chinese Earth observation satellite dedicated to monitoring carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. It is generally classified as a minisatellite, and is the first dedicated carbon mission of the Chinese space program. The mission was formally proposed in 2010, and work began in January 2011. It is funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and was built by the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem And Information Technology (SIMIT).

Round holes in Swiss-type cheese

thumb|Mazuku forming in a low morphological depression on the foothills of Mt. Amiata, Italy, where CO2-rich fog accumulates in a ditch Mazuku (Swahili for "evil winds") are pockets of dry, cold carbon dioxide-rich gases released from vents or fissures in volcanically and tectonically active areas, mixed with dispersed atmospheric air and accumulating in typically low-lying areas. Since carbon dioxide (CO2) is ~1.5 times heavier than air, it tends to flow downhill, hugging the ground like a low fog and gathering in enclosed spaces with poor ventilation—such as lava tubes, ditches, depressions,