Sentences with phrase «attention than carbon dioxide»
Researchers say the slow digestive system of cows makes them a producer of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that gets far less public attention than carbon dioxide in efforts to fight global warming.
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«Scientists have paid a lot of attention to potential climate change signals in forests — like them growing faster than expected due to an overabundance of carbon dioxide, or slower due to climate change - induced extreme temperatures.
They come from faraway places like Sweden, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands and produce all - conquering, supercar - slaying hyperexotics that generate far more horsepower, carbon dioxide, and attention than they do sales.
And although recognized that there also has been an enormous increase of nitrogenous oxides (reactive nitrogen) in the atmosphere (molecules that can adsorb much more energy than carbon dioxide) their much lower concentrations is hardly getting any attention, when global warming is discussed.
Methane (CH4) deserves attention it is such a highly potent greenhouse gas — 25 — 33 times more powerful than carbon dioxide (CO2) over a 100 - year time - horizon, but as much as 100 time more potent over 20 years, according to the latest research!
This past week has brought some attention to a much earlier «let's pretend» — that global climate is influenced primarily by human - caused carbon dioxide emissions rather than changes in the sun, our source of heat and light.
As my article directs the reader's attention to, nitrogen and oxygen are approximately one - third greater in volume than carbon dioxide, that volume, of course, constituting heat energy.
While carbon dioxide receives most of the attention in the debate over greenhouse gas emissions, climate scientists warn that methane is about 30 times more potent than CO2 in terms of contributing to a warmer climate.
To understand the new study, you have to consider that greenhouse gases that warm the planet are far more numerous than carbon dioxide, which gets the lion's share of the attention.