Sentences with phrase «co2 as a greenhouse gas»

Given that methane has 20 times the impact of CO2 as a greenhouse gas, such a release could have accelerated global warming at that time.

Similar frozen methane hydrates occur throughout the same arctic region as they did in the past, and warming of the ocean and release of this methane is of key concern as methane is 20x the impact of CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

Here they are protected against further oxidation into unwanted CO or CO2 as greenhouse gasses.»

Be that as it may, all these studies, despite the large variety in data used, model structure and approach, have one thing in common: without the role of CO2 as a greenhouse gas, i.e. the cooling effect of the lower glacial CO2 concentration, the ice age climate can not be explained.

We were trying to see the potency of CO2 as a greenhouse gas in trapping heat.

The power produced is triple carbon negative because methane is 23 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas and this project destroys it.

Others are a-biological, such as ocean degassing from the lower solubility of CO2 in warm versus cool water and also melting of methane clathrates (ice with trapped methane, which is more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

I, my work, this site, the whole debate is about the role of CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

Instead of waving your hands, you might try to address the point raised about the role of CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

The reality is that these views tend to ignore the known properties of CO2 as a greenhouse gas and require a theory along the lines of Miskolczi to explain why it would not have an effect.

This is commonly known as the greenhouse effect, and hence CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

Yes, molecule by molecule CH4 is 20x stronger than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

Which I consider to be good evidence that CO2 as a greenhouse gas is a bit player.

The entire exercise of the IPCC was to make unfounded assumptions about CO2 as a greenhouse gas and then manufacture mechanisms to try and maintain the charade when the evidence consistently contradicts.

I was criticized for participating in the book «Slaying the Sky Dragon» but did so because they were tackling a question that few, including most of the skeptics, ignore; the actual role of CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

Several years ago at a conference someone questioned CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

Early work at GFDL relating to carbon focused on CO2 as a greenhouse gas and it's potential for doubling in response to human activities, through water vapor and other atmospheric feedbacks in the context of latitudinal, land - sea and other inhomogeneities influencing climate (e.g. Manabe 1968, 1986, 1987).

It was interesting, because behind the open discussion about global warming and climate change, there was a growing discussion about the actual role of CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

As I understand your position, there is plenty of room in the mechanisms of climate dynamics for possible positive temperature feedbacks which are larger than the first - order effect of CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

The inclusion of CO2 as a Greenhouse Gas (by not excluding it) gave the EPA the legal authority to regulate CO2 as «pollutant» and therefore to regulate it, and thereby control «the Means of Production».

They used to be chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) that were banned for damaging the ozone layer, and were replaced by HFCs don't cause ozone damage, but are more than a thousand times worse than CO2 as greenhouse gases.

Tyndall's lab gear lacked the sensitivity to identify CO2 as a greenhouse gas becuase it's so pathetically weak compared to water vapor but the principle remains the same.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, a group of 20 scientists studying the Otway Project in Australia since 2008 confirmed Dec. 14 that the CO2 there was behaving as it was expected to and the practice is indeed an effective way to keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere for thousands and perhaps millions of years.

We also know CO2 causes climate change - but vented gas (methane - the prime component of your home heating gas) is many times stronger as a greenhouse gas.

The current Wikipedia entry on air pollution, for example, now asserts that pollution includes: «carbon dioxide (CO2)-- a colorless, odorless, non-toxic greenhouse gas associated with ocean acidification, emitted from sources such as combustion, cement production, and respiration.»

the US would reduce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of CO2, as much as produced by all of France.

This nourishes phytoplankton, chlorophyll - bearing microorganisms at the base of the ocean's food chain, which suck up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) as they grow.

Rising anthropogenic, or human - caused, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have up to twice the impact on coastal estuaries as it does in the oceans because the human - caused CO2 lowers the ecosystem's ability to absorb natural fluctuations of the greenhouse gas, a new study suggests.

Keeping atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases below 550 ppm, let alone going back to 350 ppm or below, will not only require a massive shift in human society — from industry to diet — but also, most likely, new technologies, such as capturing CO2 directly from the air.

This is because firstly, the micro-organisms that break down dead trees produce copious amounts of CO2, and secondly, there is less vegetation remaining that can remove the greenhouse gas from the air by capturing the carbon in leaves, trunks and roots as part of its growth cycle.

Decomposing submerged vegetation burps methane — a greenhouse gas which traps 25 times as much heat as CO2 over a century.

CO2 emissions rise as natural sinks slow, but how can scientists precisely track this greenhouse gas, especially in advance of a potential global treaty to reduce its emissions?

Other scientists have criticized the planetary boundaries as too generous (for example, allowing too much human appropriation of freshwater flows) or employing the wrong metric (atmospheric concentrations of CO2 rather than cumulative emissions of greenhouse gases).

As CO2 levels in Earth's atmosphere top 400 parts per million, options such as storing the greenhouse gas in porous sandstone rock formations found in abundance on the sea floor are of increasing interesAs CO2 levels in Earth's atmosphere top 400 parts per million, options such as storing the greenhouse gas in porous sandstone rock formations found in abundance on the sea floor are of increasing interesas storing the greenhouse gas in porous sandstone rock formations found in abundance on the sea floor are of increasing interest.

Volk: Yeah, yeah that's becoming more and more of a concern as people are realizing that there is not just the greenhouse effect of CO2 being a greenhouse gas and warming the Earth up, but there is a direct chemical effect of its dissolving in the ocean as carbonic acid, and this is going to affect many marine creatures in the coming decades.

To make matters worse, German and Japanese researchers recently increased CO2 levels in seawater and found that the greenhouse gas can damage some marine organisms directly: Squid slowly asphyxiated as the excess CO2 crowded out oxygen in their blood, and fish embryos and larvae were abnormally small and less likely to survive.

On Tuesday, the governments of California and six other western states as well as four Canadian provinces proposed a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 using a similar cap - and - trade market — and would expand such regulations to encompass not just CO2 from power plants but also cars and trucks as well as other greenhouse gases, such as potent methane.

If the process can be scaled up to commercially viable scales, it would not only save oil, but use up CO2 — a greenhouse gas — as a raw material.

There have been other large - scale injections of CO2 in the United States in oil fields, where the greenhouse gas is used to push out more crude in a process known as enhanced oil recovery.

Warming of arctic soils and thawing of permafrost thus can have substantial consequences for the global climate, as the large C and N stores could be released to the atmosphere as the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O).

«Many impacts respond directly to changes in global temperature, regardless of the sensitivity of the planet to human emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases,» says geoscientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, a co-author of the report, excluding effects such as ocean acidification and CO2 as a fertilizer for plants.

Currently, as part of long - standing pollution regulations, EPA monitors CO2 emitted from power plants — which make up 35 % of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

The research suggests that — contrary to some prior findings — CO2 led the prior round of global warming rather than vice versa, just as it continues to do today thanks to rising emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

To scale the calculations to ocean - wide estimates, the team crosschecked the amount of mercury they derived with the extensively studied greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) as a proxy.

Harvesting that landfill methane for use as a fuel also offers greenhouse gas reductions, since methane traps 23 times as much heat in the atmosphere as CO2 over a century.

Wind strength varies from year to year, but greenhouse gases, such as CO2, act like an amplifier to Antarctic coastal winds, boosting their intensity and allowing them to bring up warm water from the depths more frequently.

However, as the atmospheric CO2 rises — due to the almost exponential increase in emissions from industrial sources — the influence of solar variability on the Earth's climate will most likely decrease, and its relative contribution will be far surpassed by «greenhouse» gases.

Twenty years after such a release, methane is 72 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) as a greenhouse gas (after 100 years it remains 25 times more potent than CO2), so if the methane is released, the planet risks a runaway climate catastrophe.

In addition, «BioElectroPlast» is aimed at using the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) as an inexpensive and generally available raw material in the chain of values added and at applying renewable power.

In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.