Sentences with phrase «acts as a greenhouse gas»

That makes them either a potent energy source, or if they melt as the permafrost melts, a potent source of methane, which will act as a greenhouse gas.

There is no fundamental difference between the ways that H20 and C02 act as greenhouse gases to imply one should be a forcing and the other a feedback, it is purely a matter of convenience.

My point is that to act as a greenhouse gas, a molecule must be IR - active.

In the (very good) explanation of the effect of greenhouse gases that begun this thread, we read that «Molecules composed of three or more atoms tend to act as greenhouse gases because they can possess energy in terms of rotation and vibrations which can be associated with the energy of photons at the infra - red range.»

Molecules composed of three or more atoms tend to act as greenhouse gases because they can possess energy in terms of rotation and vibrations which can be associated with the energy of photons at the infra - red range.

That CO2 acts as a greenhouse gas and can increase global temperatures as concentrations increase

Unfortunately, this is still cold, so the CO2 acts as a greenhouse gas to raise it to our livable 288K.

For example, I will contend that warmer is better for known physical reasons, just as sure as CO2 acts as a greenhouse gas.

• Accelerated warming because of decreased ocean uptake of CO2 from atmosphere by phytoplankton and CFCs acting as greenhouse gases

Air Pollution and Materials • Increased acid deposition • Increased photochemical smog • Degradation of outdoor paints and plastics Fig, p. 488 Global Warming • Accelerated warming because of decreased ocean uptake of CO2 from atmosphere by phytoplankton and CFCs acting as greenhouse gases

Reducing soot (and also ozone, an industrial pollutant that acts as a greenhouse gas) would not stop the summer sea ice disappearing, but it might delay the process by a decade or two.

I think your somewhat confused about the way CO2 and water acts as greenhouse gases.

Maybe you don't believe that website, so here is better one: From: http://www.temis.nl/products/o3tropo.html «Ozone in the upper troposphere acts as a greenhouse gas by absorbing long - wave terrestrial radiation.»

This paper will show that despite good evidence that global temperatures are rising and that CO2 can act as a greenhouse gas and help to warm the Earth, we are a long way from attributing all or much of current warming to man - made CO2.

Is the heat that is generated from the combustion process less than the heat that results from CO2 acting as a greenhouse gas?

While methane can act as a greenhouse gas, the IR spectrum it absorbs in is already saturated by water vapor.

The issue is that it acts as a greenhouse gas.

Therefore, water alone is about 50 x as important as CO2 in terms of acting as a Greenhouse Gas (GHG).

«[D] espite good evidence that global temperatures are rising and that CO2 can act as a greenhouse gas and help to warm the Earth, we are a long way from attributing all or much of current warming to man - made CO2.»

The additional water vapor, acting as a greenhouse gas, absorbs energy that would otherwise escape to space and so causes further warming.

The fact that it was low humidity meant that there was little water vapour in the air to act as a greenhouse gas.

Moreover, we have known since the mid-nineteenth century that CO2 absorbs infrared radiation and thus acts as a greenhouse gas which impedes planetary heat loss and thus warms up the surface.

Above the ground layer it acts as a greenhouse gas which, when it chemically breaks up, initiates the removal of methane (an even stronger greenhouse gas) and other hydrocarbons from the atmosphere.

Slightly warmer ocean water may also release frozen natural gases in the sea floor, all of which act as greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, says Rind.

When we burn coal, oil, or gas, the resulting carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere where it acts as a greenhouse gas.

The video begins by accepting that CO2 acts as a greenhouse gas and that increased atmospheric concentrations can cause some incremental warming, on the order of magnitude of 1C per doubling of concentrations.

Not exact matches

In the case of the U.S., our own Supreme Court has already defined greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act as dangerous pollutants that must be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Farmers using climate - smart practices understand that trees do a lot on farms: they can act as windbreaks, reducing soil erosion; they can enrich soil; they can filter water, resulting in higher water quality; they provide shade for workers and shade - loving plants; they create habitat for wildlife and wildlife corridors; they suck up and store greenhouse gasses — the list goes on.

Feedstock is defined in the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989 as «an intermediate substance which is used to manufacture other chemicals».

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Overwhelming disapproval was launched at the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases, with claims that it was acting fecklessly rejecting what many nations see as necessary progression towards a greener planet.

The governor highlighted the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as one of the ways his administration will act, pushing for a more aggressive cap on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Greenhouse gases add those watts by acting as a blanket, trapping the sun's heat; they have warmed Earth by roughly 0.75 degree Celsius over the last century.

«Tropical forests act as a sink that reduces global greenhouse gases.

The CEQ also helped shape the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) declaration that it did not have the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as well as its decision not to declare them a danger to public health under the Clean Air Act, despite an internal EPA analysis noting that greenhouse gas emissions endangered public welfare.

All the greenhouse gases absorb infrared, and they also release the infrared, so these act as blockades to the infrared, leaving the atmosphere and going off into space; and the Earth warms up to send off even more infrared from the surface in order to reach its state, sort of a steady state with regard to space.

This effect makes the atmosphere act somewhat like a blanket that becomes thicker when amounts of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, such as methane and nitrous oxide, increase.

Total annual production emissions, averaged over five years, would equal about 100 grams of carbon dioxide per megajoule — which is 7 percent greater than gasoline emissions and 62 grams above the 60 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions as required by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act.

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.

Those chemicals also act as potent greenhouse gases, so the agreement also makes him the negotiator of one of the most effective global climate treaties ever, despite being part of an administration that famously removed solar technology from the White House roof.

In this sense, the ocean has acted as a buffer to slow down the greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere and, thus, global warming.

When he challenged the Obama rule in court as Oklahoma's attorney general, Pruitt was one of the leading voices for the legal argument that EPA can't regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants because it already has a standard for mercury and air toxics emission from generators — known as the 112 exclusion, referring to a section of the Clean Air Act.

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«(B) If as a result of such a study, the Administrator determines that the use of such products by noncovered sources results in substantial emissions of greenhouse gases and that such emissions have not been adequately addressed under other requirements of this Act, the Administrator may, after notice and comment rulemaking, promulgate a regulation reducing compensatory allowances commensurately if doing so will not result in shifting such emissions to noncovered sources.

The delayed action is a property of the climate system, which also affects greenhouse gases, and is caused by the oceans which act as a flywheel due to their great heat capacity and thermal inertia.

It was as if these non-condensing greenhouse - gases were acting as the planet's thermostat.

Train also cites the Supreme Court's 2007 ruling, Massachusetts v. EPA (549 U.S. 497, 2007), as proof that Congress intended to regulate greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act.

But when Congress enacted and amended the Clean Air Act, it never specified greenhouse gases as a class of substances to be regulated.

This could be explained by the role of the greenhouse gas CO2, which varies in abundance in the atmosphere in sync with the glacial cycles and thus acts as a «globaliser» of glacial cycles, as it is well - mixed throughout the atmosphere.

I know that you serve (d) as a federal expert reviewer of the EPA's «Technical Support Document for Endangerment Analysis for Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act,» but it was my impression (actually, it is a fact) that the Public Comment period is still wide open on the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking of Regulating Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act.