Sentences with phrase «impact of greenhouse gases released»

«The impact of greenhouse gases released since then,» notes the paper, «measured over a 20 - year time frame, is the equivalent of emissions from six coal - fired power plants or 7 million automobiles.»

Impact of greenhouse gases released since October measured over a 20 - year time frame is equivalent to emissions from 7 million cars.

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A draft environmental impact study released by the department in March concluded construction of the pipeline would not add to greenhouse gas emissions because the oil would find other ways to market regardless of Keystone XL's fate.

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.

Greenhouse impact In 2011 U.S. ammonia - producing facilities released 25 million tons of greenhouse gases (nearly all of it CO2)-- just under 14 percent of the chemical - manufacturing sector's total carbon footprint (and about 0.1 percent of total U.S. eGreenhouse impact In 2011 U.S. ammonia - producing facilities released 25 million tons of greenhouse gases (nearly all of it CO2)-- just under 14 percent of the chemical - manufacturing sector's total carbon footprint (and about 0.1 percent of total U.S. egreenhouse gases (nearly all of it CO2)-- just under 14 percent of the chemical - manufacturing sector's total carbon footprint (and about 0.1 percent of total U.S. emissions).

Minimizing your carbon footprint — the amount of greenhouse gases you're responsible for releasing each year — is a good way to reduce your impact on the health of the planet.

In advance of President Obama's speech Tuesday afternoon laying out his three - pronged plan to cut releases of greenhouse gases and the impacts of global warming, White House officials circulated detailed fact sheets and discussed the plans with journalists, including me, last night.

Polar amplification is the phenomenon that any change on the impact of sunlight on the Earth, for example through the release of greenhouse gases, tends to have a larger effect on the poles than the equator.

«A big take home message for me is the fact that high - impact diets are such a large part of the overall contribution to food - related greenhouse gases,» the study's lead author and University of Michigan researcher Martin Heller said in the release.

Reducing methane releases from landfills is critical due to its impact of over twenty times the effect of a greenhouse gas.

This study provides new evidence that the contemporary release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases could have a profound impact on climate in Africa.

The environmental impacts of Amazon hydropower projects are many and varied, from inundating primary rainforest, driving deforestation, and releasing the potent greenhouse gas methane, to interrupting long - distance aquatic migrations, altering sediment flows and attenuating flood cycles.

Commenting on the release of the emissions figures, Dr Mary Kelly, Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency stated, «the Emissions Trading Scheme is designed to bring about reductions in emissions at least cost, and is seen to play an increasingly important role in assisting European industry implement the type of reductions envisaged in the EU Commission's recent decisions on an overall 20 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 2020... While no doubt some of the reduction reflects the economic downturn which began to have significant impact during 2008, nonetheless the overall picture is one of progressive annual GHG emission reductions.»

In addition to immediate release of greenhouse gases from seafloor eruptions, the subsequent increased high and low temperature hydrothermal venting may impact the CO2 output.

In effect, the UK is exporting the environmental impact and leaving producer nations with the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions released in the service of the British supper table.

Climate hard - liners in developing countries have long argued that keeping global temperatures to a 2 degree C rise over pre-industrial levels was simply too hot, and would risk unleashing many of the worst destabilizing impacts of global warming — including perhaps the triggering of cascading effects and warming amplifications within nature, such as the melting of Arctic permafrost, that could release more greenhouse gases and push temperatures even higher.

For the U.S., carbon dioxide released by burning oil, coal and natural gas makes up 82 % of total greenhouse gas emissions (weighted by climate - change impact), according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

The idea here is that you «negate» the impact of your emissions by absorbing carbon from the air, or by avoiding the release of greenhouse gas elsewhere.

Not only is the atmospheric impact of the current leak considerable (in three months the well had already released «more greenhouse gases than any other facility in California,» and already «more than doubled the methane emissions of the entire Los Angeles Basin and surpassed what is released by all industrial activity in the state.»)

Gagné and colleagues showed that sulfate aerosol particles, which are released by the burning of fossil fuels, may have disguised the impact of greenhouse gases on Arctic sea ice.