Sentences with phrase «emit significant amounts»

Although they are made from natural ingredients, «natural» paints may still emit significant amounts of VOCs from ingredients like turpenes or citrus oil, which can also cause eye or lung irritation in some people.

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing operations, by the oil and gas industries can emit significant amounts of methane.

In which case, does the oxygen and nitrogen in the earth's atmosphere emit significant amounts of radiation (at night for example)?

Marois and his team used ground - based infrared detection to seek out exoplanets around nearby, young, massive stars — those whose planets would have wide orbits and emit significant amounts of radiation as they cool from their relatively recent births millions of years ago.

That running waters emit significant amounts of carbon dioxide is already known.

As long as our transportation network is fueled by petroleum, it will emit significant amount of GHGs.

But China also emits a significant amount of GHGs besides carbon dioxide — methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride and nitrogen trifluoride — collectively referred to as non-CO2 GHG emissions.

I wonder, however, if the visual you present is really analogous to the temperature record over the period of time that humans have been emitting significant amounts of CO2?

A lamp emits significant amount of IR at the 2.7 micron bandwidth and transparency of most glass is quite high at this bandwidth.

Last week, we issued a report revealing that certain plants, primarily in China and likely in Mexico, are emitting significant amounts of HFC - 23 into the atmosphere, making them some of the largest point sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the world.

According to the paper, the results of the radiocarbon data confirm that microbial respiration of «old» carbon (carbon prior to nuclear tests in the 40s and 50s) has the potential to emit a significant amount of carbon into the atmosphere.

Losing these forests emits significant amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere and destroys the safety net.

If the N2 was indeed emitting significant amounts of thermal radiation at those wavelengths, where is it?

Not exact matches

«The 1000 tonnes of CO2 we found are emitted from Sydney Harbour each year is significant — but it's a small amount for an estuary of that size,» said Ms Tanner, who will receive her PhD this year and is the Sydney Institute of Marine Science project manager of the World Harbour Project.

As I recall, I read that the amount of heat from cars was not important in the global heat balance; rather, the CO2 emitted was, by far, the more significant issue.

A new study released by Global Forest Watch Canada finds that significant amounts of greenhouse gases are emitted through the disturbance and / or removal of biocarbon (trees, shrubs, peats), which overlay Alberta's oil sands.

[7] Even the more recently added 12.5 % limit on CERs (a step in the right direction) still allows companies to emit in excess of the cap by a very significant amount.

New research shows that the amount of carbon stored in frozen soils at high latitudes is double previous estimates and could, if emitted as carbon dioxide and methane, lead to a significant increase in global temperatures by the end of this century.