Sentences with phrase «common than carbon dioxide»

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.