Sentences with phrase «emissions of methane from»

That has some scientists worried that powerful emissions of methane from permafrost peatlands as well as from the warming Arctic ocean bottom are already upon us.

Gregory, K., 1998: Factors affecting future emissions of methane from non-land - use sources.

Present measurement and accounting of fugitive emissions of methane from unconventional gas extraction is inadequate.

The analysis also included calculations of a producer's direct emissions via flaring and venting processes, emissions from entities using their own fuel, and fugitive emissions of methane from oil and gas operations and coal mining.

Dr Gerrit van der LIngen explains why emissions of methane from cattle and sheep should not be part of any emissions trading system in New Zealand.

This shows U.S. emissions of methane from the natural gas sector decreased noticeably during one of the largest increases in natural gas production in the nation's history.

Fast Mitigation: «If we want to reduce the threat of climate change in the near future, there are actions to take now: reduce emissions of short - lived pollutants such as black carbon, cut emissions of methane from natural - gas fields and landfills, and so on,» says Stanford climate scientist Ken Caldeira.

As John F. Harkness pointed out in the comments section of a recent NY Times Green Blog (Justin Gillis was mustering scientific research to downplay the recently reported emissions of methane from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf):

Related Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations has a paper in press in the Journal of Geophysical Research challenging a widely covered «bombshell» study in that journal estimating very high rates of emissions of methane from Colorado gas and oil wells.

It seems quite likely that continued global warming will increase the emissions of methane from permafrost deposits and marine hydrates.

That has some scientists worried that powerful emissions of methane from permafrost peatlands as well as from the

The agency also took an overdue step to clarify how to curb emissions of methane from the hundreds of thousands of wells, compressors and other leaky parts of the nation's sprawling oil and gas industry, issuing an «Information Collection Request» requiring companies, among other things, to describe the types of technologies that could be used to reduce emissions.

Regulating emissions of methane from fracking to free natural gas will have important co-benefits in slowing climate change

The simple fact is that every scientist now involved in climate science, from the study of isotope ratios in deep ice cores to the emission of methane from tropical forests, is not only a scientist, but a political commentator and activist.

The tar sands in Canada are an environmental disaster in other ways, but the incremental emissions of greenhouse gases are small compared to the far greater threat of massive coal expansion in China, or potential fugitive emission of methane from fracking, or massive deforestation in Indonesia and Latin America, or any number of other major sources of greenhouse gases.

Not exact matches

In Ottawa this past June, the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico pledged to work together to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry between 40 % and 45 % by 2025.

«The other emissions come from things like landfill gas emissions, agriculture tilling — the release of methane through soil — those types of emissions are really difficult to measure and calculate, so generally for carbon pricing programs you don't cover those emissions.»

But the livestock sector is responsible for about 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, through cows producing methane and production processes - comparable to all the direct emissions from cars, planes, ships and other transport.

with carbon pricing and other measures, including eliminating coal - fired power plants, cutting methane emissions from the oil industry, and making cleaner fuels, Canada will still be 90 million tonnes shy of its international emissions targets set in 2015 under the Paris agreement

Disclosing the Facts: Transparency and Risk in Methane Emissions focuses on the critical risk of methane emissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy mMethane Emissions focuses on the critical risk of methane emissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energyEmissions focuses on the critical risk of methane emissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy mmethane emissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energyemissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy mmethane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy mmethane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energyemissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy markets.

«Greenhouse gas emissions are going to go through the roof with a project of this kind,» said Wilderness Committee National Campaign Director Joe Foy «From escaped methane at the drill sites to the massive carbon emissions required to cool the gas, to more escaped methane on the long trip across the ocean to Asia and then the emissions from burning the From escaped methane at the drill sites to the massive carbon emissions required to cool the gas, to more escaped methane on the long trip across the ocean to Asia and then the emissions from burning the from burning the gas.

Reduction of non-carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrialized agriculture systems, such as methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O)

The livestock methane research includes development of algae - based functional foods for reducing intestinal methane emissions from ruminants (such as cattle, sheep, goats and deer).

Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons is that the methane biogas produced within them is not only prevented from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to generate energy — rather than waste water being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.

Most farm - related emissions come in the form of methane (cattle belching) and nitrous oxide (from fertilizers and the like).

Digging deeper: Methane from microbial fermentation represents 30 % and manure management 26 % of total methane emissions in the Golden State, according to 2016 boarMethane from microbial fermentation represents 30 % and manure management 26 % of total methane emissions in the Golden State, according to 2016 boarmethane emissions in the Golden State, according to 2016 board data.

Finnish dairy company Valio invited teams from around the world to enter a hackathon competition to find ways of making use of the methane cows produce, and to reduce methane emissions.

California dairy farmers — from the nation's leading agricultural state — are facing pressure to lower methane emissions under the state's ambitious new greenhouse gas reduction laws, which include methane emission reduction targets of 40 percent below 2013 levels by 2030.

They're dairy free (because methane emissions from cows is a serious problem) and use a mixture of Einka flour (which is high in protein and vitamins and grown and milled right here in the Methow Valley) and buckwheat flour for a hearty, rich flavor.

Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons with efficient green energy storage is that the methane biogas produced is not only prevented from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to generate energy — rather than waste water plants being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.

The digester has significantly reduced methane emissions by over 1,600 metric tons of CO2e each year — equivalent to eliminating the annual greenhouse gas emissions from about 350 passenger cars.

Reducing food waste also impacts climate change as 20 percent of total U.S. methane emissions come from landfills.

Because methane emissions from a cow's manure are typically lower than those released from its belching, future studies should look at the effect of antibiotics on that source of the greenhouse gas, too, the researchers suggest.

Over the course of the experiment, emissions of planet - warming methane from the dung of antibiotic - dosed cows were, on average, 80 % higher than those from the manure of untreated cattle, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The findings are the first to note increased greenhouse gas emissions due to antibiotic use in cattle; a recent study suggests that methane emissions from cud - chewing livestock worldwide, including cows, account for about 4 % of the greenhouse gas emissions related to human activity.

Headed toward an 8 F rise in warming Other such low - probability but high - risk scenarios mentioned in the report include ecosystem collapses, destabilization of methane stored in the seafloor and rapid greenhouse gas emissions from thawing Arctic permafrost.

ClimateWire ranked only the top 40 U.S. oil and gas companies by assets, who together contributed 67 percent of the methane emissions from the production sector.

Most of ConocoPhillips» emissions in the San Juan Basin are from venting of methane to the atmosphere during a well cleaning process called «liquids unloading.»

Global annual emissions calculated from laboratory measurements could reach 1.5 x 1014 grams of methane and 5 x 1016 grams of carbon dioxide.

Field measurements of methane emissions from two termite nests in Guatemala corroborated the laboratory results.

«The methane emissions from the gas wells... are surprisingly high considering that all of these wells were still being drilled, had not yet been hydraulically fractured, and were not yet in production,» the paper reports.

A team of researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and environmental testing firm URS reports that a small subset of natural gas wells are responsible for the majority of methane emissions from two major sources — liquid unloadings and pneumatic controller equipment — at natural gas production sites.

The study team believes this research, published Dec. 9 in Environmental Science & Technology, will help to provide a clearer picture of methane emissions from natural gas production sites.

The study team hopes its measurements of liquid unloadings and pneumatic devices will provide a clearer picture of methane emissions from natural gas well sites and about the relationship between well characteristics and emissions.

The researchers estimate that methane emissions from the distribution system range from approximately 393 to 854 gigagrams per year, which is between 0.1 and 0.2 percent of the methane delivered nationwide.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

In late March, the Obama administration released guidance directing U.S. EPA to address methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, after a number of studies measuring emissions from the air, known as «top - down» measurements, showed that the agency's emissions estimates for the industry were too low (ClimateWire, March 31).

Lamb's methane emissions project is part of a group of ongoing studies that are looking at the entire natural gas supply chain, from the production wells to the transmission pipeline system to local distribution systems.

He also models the global warming that would occur if concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere were to be doubled (due to increases in carbon dioxide and methane emissions from dragons and the excessive use of wildfire).

A new study provides one of the first quantitative estimates of the methane leak rate from the blowout of a natural gas well in California in 2015, suggesting that emissions from this event temporarily doubled those from all other sources in the entire Los Angeles Basin, including landfills, dairies, and other leaks.