Not exact matches
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.
During the Eocene, the concentration of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere was more
than 560 parts per million, at least twice preindustrial levels, and the epoch kicked off with a global average temperature more
than 8 degrees Celsius — about 14 degrees Fahrenheit — warmer
than today, gradually cooling over the
next 22 million
years.
If these rates continue, emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful
than carbon
dioxide on 100 -
year time scales, will increase 4 percent over the
next decade.
Fact # 1: Carbon
Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon
Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean
Next Year Will Always Be Warmer
Than This
Year
Power plants are expected to pump out more
than 300 billion tons of carbon
dioxide over their expected lifetimes, creating a 4 percent jump in emissions each
year over the
next few decades, according to scientists from Princeton University and University of California at Irvine.
Once the first 20 municipalities take advantage of the program and convert to LED street lighting, greenhouse gas emissions are expected to be reduced by more
than 42,000 metric tons of carbon
dioxide over the
next 15
years, equivalent to removing 8,840 cars off the road over this span.
Over the
next 30
years, their project is slated to prevent the release of more
than 30 million tons of carbon
dioxide and put hundreds of thousands of locals to work.
According to an analysis by the Council on Foreign Relations, «Extension of the tax credits will do far more to reduce carbon
dioxide emissions over the
next five
years than lifting the export ban will do to increase them.»
This involves growing enough plant material in the
next 50
years to more
than completely make up for all the arbon
dioxide lost through deforestation and land use change over the past few centuries, which is really remarkably ambitious, especially if people are still going to have some space to grow food.
Edit 3: The very
next sentence says, «This conclusion ignores the long - lasting, incredibly powerful greenhouse gas discovered 9 December 2013 by University of Toronto researchers: perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA) is 7,100 times more powerful
than carbon
dioxide as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, and it persists hundreds of
years in the atmosphere.»
«Recent studies have estimated that more
than 70 percent of our planet will experience more drought as carbon
dioxide levels quadruple from pre-industrial levels over about the
next 100
years.
Fact # 1: Carbon
Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon
Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean
Next Year Will Always Be Warmer
Than This
Year