Sentences with phrase «climate than carbon dioxide»

In 2000 they subverted a Coca Cola advert using polar bears to suggest that Coke's vending machines used HFC gases that were up to 11,000 times more harmful to the climate than carbon dioxide (CO2), And that polar bear's ice floes were melting as result.

Since HFCs are hundreds and thousands of times more damaging to the global climate than carbon dioxide, more than 100 countries, including the United States, support an amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase - down HFCs.

It also will lead to a phase - down of the «super» greenhouse gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are hundreds and thousands of times more damaging to the global climate than carbon dioxide.

HFC - 23 is a byproduct of HCFC - 22 production, and is 14,800 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide (CO2).

HFCs are included among the basket of seven GHGs targeted by the UNFCCC as they are super GHGs hundreds to thousands of times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide.

It may seem like a no - brainer to you and me: stop using gases that destroy our climate — HFCs are hundreds to thousands of times worse for the climate than carbon dioxide, and they are replaceable with gases that don't harm the climate!

HFCs — used in refrigeration, air conditioning, and other industrial applications — are hundreds to many thousands of times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide and were commercialized as replacements to ozone depleting substances (such as HCFCs), which are being phased out under the Montreal Protocol.

And their high - GWP HFCs (hydroflourocarbons) that do not harm the ozone layer, but are hundreds and thousands of times more damaging to the global climate than carbon dioxide (CO2).

HFCs do not affect the ozone layer, but are hundreds to thousands of times more dangerous to the climate than carbon dioxide.

HFCs are hundreds and thousands of times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide.

Methane is 84 times more dangerous to our climate than carbon dioxide in the short term, and it accounts for about 25 percent of the warming we're experiencing today.

However, in phasing out CFCs, humans created new gases, HFCs, which do not deplete the ozone layer, but are hundreds to thousands of times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide.

Not exact matches

Chris Severson - Baker, Alberta director of the Pembina Institute, said reducing methane emissions is critical because the gas is 25 times more potent as a climate warming agent than carbon dioxide.

Hemp could help address climate change, since it absorbs four times more carbon dioxide than trees while growing in just a fraction of the time.

As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objeClimate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objeclimate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).

But HFCs are thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide on a pound - per - pound basis, making them an obvious target for international efforts to combat climate change.

Erie County and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority («NYSERDA») have announced the development of a Climate Action and Sustainability Plan for internal county operations which is expected to save more than $ 700,000 in energy costs and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 5,300 metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2020, equivalent to taking 925 cars off the road.

Methane or natural gas is 72 times more potent at capturing heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after release - and to deal with climate change, we need to focus on the next few decades.

The fires were costly for the rest of the planet, too: At their peak, the blazes belched more climate - warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each day than did all U.S. economic activity.

Climate change experts want more certain actions than are called for in the new proposed rule to cut carbon dioxide from power plants

The agency then offered a singular solution: Rather than ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change or reduce carbon dioxide emissions, Americans should simply adapt.

Rather than looking to forests to solve the current climate crisis by capturing carbon dioxide, he suggests targeting our «energy system,» which continues to create the pollutant.

Because methane, which makes up about 95 percent of the natural gas in pipelines, is about 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, the leakage raises a troubling climate question: How clean is natural gas?

Short - lived climate pollutants are so called because even though they warm the planet more efficiently than carbon dioxide, they only remain in the atmosphere for a period of weeks to roughly a decade whereas carbon dioxide molecules remain in the atmosphere for a century or more.

But if humans, through carbon dioxide emissions, are affecting climate less than we think, would that mean we may have more time to reduce the harmful effects?

«As remarkable as it is that climate can change that quickly naturally, what is even more remarkable is that some of the rates of change we're experiencing today — increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide for example — are faster than anything we've been able to find in the past several million years of geologic history.

Even the 350 - ppm limit for carbon dioxide is «questionable,» says physicist Myles Allen of the Climate Dynamics Group at the University of Oxford, and focusing instead on keeping cumulative emissions below one trillion metric tons might make more sense, which would mean humanity has already used up more than half of its overall emissions budget.

Human - caused climate change caused the storm to drop significantly more rain than storms would have before atmospheric carbon dioxide levels spiked from the consumption of fossil fuels, according to research published yesterday.

They used two different climate models, each with a different sensitivity to carbon dioxide, to project California's future under two scenarios: an optimistic one, in which we only double the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — since the 19th century we've already increased it by about a third — and a pessimistic scenario, in which we more than triple CO2.

«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.

More than 40 mainly developed countries, including New Zealand and members of the European Union, have, or are in the process of developing, markets to help cut their output of climate - warming emissions by putting a price on carbon dioxide.

These chemicals can be tens of thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat, so even small amounts leaking into the atmosphere could have an outsized impact on the climate.

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.

Although fossil - fuel combustion has generated most of the buildup of climate - altering carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, effective solutions will require more than just designing cleaner energy sources.

Yang Fuqiang, a senior adviser on energy, environment and climate change at the Natural Resources Defense Council, agrees that in 2015, China's carbon dioxide emissions dropped for the first time, signaling that the country's emissions peak may come earlier than previously thought.

The work, published yesterday in Science, finds evidence that Earth's climate is more sensitive to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than some earlier studies had suggested.

HFC - 23, an industrial greenhouse gas thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide, is produced as a by - product in the manufacture of refrigerant, and a number of major offset projects capture and destroy HFC - 23, doing a huge service to the climate.

«With a warming climate, rising carbon dioxide levels, dams on more rivers than not, and overloading of nutrients into our waterways, the magnitude and duration of toxic cyanobacterial blooms is only going to get worse.»

Fake paper fools global warming naysayers The man - made - global - warming - is - a-hoax crowd latched onto a study this week in the Journal of Geoclimatic Studies by researchers at the University of Arizona's Department of Climatology, who reported that soil bacteria around the Atlantic and Pacific oceans belch more than 300 times the carbon dioxide released by all fossil fuel emission, strongly implying that humans are not to blame for climate change.

But today their influence is far less than that of manufactured greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and the CFCs, according to two new studies of the link between solar activity and climate.

Scientists found global climate is more sensitive to carbon dioxide than most previous estimates.

The oxygen temperature curve said that the climate in central Greenland was colder around 12,000 years ago than around 15,000 years ago, despite the fact that two key climate drivers — carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and solar radiation — would suggest the opposite.

SAN DIEGO — For more than 30 years, scientists have understood the link between rising carbon dioxide emissions and climate change.

In the time since the 2007 version of this report, the human effect on the climate has grown more than 40 percent stronger, thanks to continued emissions of greenhouse gases and more precision in measurements, with carbon dioxide leading the charge.

Stute said the process could eventually be used for direct removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, something that may become necessary if climate change proves to be more catastrophic than scientists fear.

«If a power plant is burning continuously, within three to five months, depending on the type of power plant, the carbon dioxide from the power plant is doing more to heat the earth than the fires in its boiler,» Ken Caldeira, a climate scientists at the Carnegie Institute and the study's co-author, said.

Earth's climate may warm considerably more than expected in response to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide, a new study hints.

Since methane, the main molecule in natural gas, is a stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, these leakages may contribute significantly to the greenhouse effect and climate change.

However, a new University of Minnesota study with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than scientists previously believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open - air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.

Oxford University atmospheric physicist Raymond Pierrehumbert, who is among the scientists who believe cutting methane should be less of a priority than cutting carbon dioxide to tackle climate change, said the study is useful in evaluating methane capture systems at landfills.