Sentences with phrase «common than carbon»

Although less common than carbon dioxide and water vapor, each molecule is far more powerful and potentially as significant for global warming.

Boron is actually only 10 - 20 times less common than carbon on Earth, arguably enough for a sizable biosphere.

Not exact matches

Battisti and Naylor, however, assumed greenhouse gas emissions lower than the present output and the fact that more carbon dioxide (CO2), the most common greenhouse gas, will boost plant growth may not help.

Combining several techniques, Aravind Eye Care System in the south of India emitted 96 percent less carbon than the U.K. while producing comparable or better health outcomes for one of the world's most common surgical procedures, cataract surgery.

Then, rather than looking at all of the asteroids in this region, they narrowed their search to dark, carbon - rich asteroids, which are not as common as bright asteroids in this part of the belt.

It's a good 423 pounds lighter than a base Cayman, but the common Mazda MX - 5 Miata, which is as long as the 4C but narrower, achieves 2,480 pounds — and does so with power steering and without carbon fiber.

You see some rare, one - of - a-kind ABS plastic carbon fiber sheetmetal on the SEMA show floor, but nothing is less common in Vegas this time of year than a completely stock example of one of the hottest cars on the planet.

Late this week, the countries responsible for more than 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions will meet in Paris in the third round of climate and energy discussions organized by the Bush administration, aimed ostensibly at finding a common long - term goal for emissions limits.

By basing the levy on emissions rather than carbon all greenhouse gases stand on a common level, sequestration is strongly encouraged as well as such simple things as capturing methane from oil wells and garbage dumps (that gets built into the cost of disposal).

I suppose the attitude was that in theory diesel had a lower carbon footprint than the equivalent petrol car, so that overruled common sense

For the minority who use common sense, very little data is necessary to know that a «low carbon» economy is far less efficient than an economy run on fossil fuel energy [coal, preferably, because it is the least expensive power].

Another isotope, carbon - 13, captured in tiny shells, is more common in North Atlantic waters than in Southern waters.

It is not common to find this depth of understanding expressed in peer reviewed papers for the IPCC (here more broadly than carbon dating) by authors of diverse backgrounds indulging in statistics.

The simulated three - dimensional spatial pattern of the temperature changes induced by increasing concentrations of a well - mixed greenhouse gas, such as carbon dioxide, is complicated and varies from model to model, but one common aspect is the tendency for the lower to mid-troposphere to warm more rapidly than the surface, except over high latitudes.

For this reason, Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) should identify: (1) tonnes of CO2eq emissions reduced rather than a percent reduction from a baseline year, (b) the temperature limit and associated carbon budget that the INDC is seeking to achieve, (c) the equity principles that the nation relied on to assure the justice of its INDC, and (d) For Annex 1 countries, ghg emissions in 1990, the common baseline year.

In addition, a recent report by Boston Common Asset Management suggested that many banks are starting to perform environmental stress tests — and more than 70 percent of the ones responding to its recent survey about this issue are undertaking them or calculating carbon footprints related to their investment portfolios.

These gases (the most common of which are HFCs) are ultrapowerful greenhouse gases, with thousands of times more heat trapping power than carbon dioxide.

We know the current unnatural normalized trends at the climate kinetic scale are due lucrative activities of a few free riders tyranically consuming more than their share of the carbon cycle commons; we know the right solution for this is privatization of the commons; we don't need to know what British children had for lunch nine centuries ago.

The 40 % of food that gets wasted from farm to plate creates 3.3 billion metric tonnes of greenhouse gases... and much of that is methane, which is much more potent than the more common carbon dioxide.