Sentences with phrase «future global methane»

We emphasize the importance of considering methane dynamics at all scales, especially its production and consumption and the role microorganisms play in both these processes, to our understanding of current and future global methane emissions.

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«For example, in the future methane levels could increase as a result of increased natural gas and energy use, climate change feedbacks and / or a decrease in the global abundance of the hydroxyl radical, which chemically removes methane from the atmosphere.»

4 Global Warming Makes the Arctic Hot Property Countries from Russia to Canada are eyeing Arctic territory that are expected to thaw in the future, freeing up its methane riches, which could be used as an alternative energy source.

«This study furthers the understanding of the global methane budget and may have ramifications for the development of future greenhouse gas models,» said study co-author Katherine Segarra, an oceanographer at the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

Deep - sea oil exploration will probably release future spills, Solomon says, and global warming could destabilize large undersea deposits of frozen methane, leading to local ocean acidification or oxygen depletion (SN 7/31/2010).

The study suggests that future warming in the Arctic could expand the active layer and increase methane transport to lakes, and from lakes into the atmosphere, exacerbating global warming.

One is that the risk that future global warming will trigger methane release from these large natural reservoirs of old carbon seems to be low.

The Op - Ed «Gangplank to a Warm Future» by Anthony Ingraffea contains a correct but highly misleading number — the value of the «global warming potential,» or GWP, for methane.

This is because over the past three years, hundreds of new scientific field accounts of global warming's impacts, as well as improved peer - reviewed analyses of global warming itself in both the deep past and the very near future, have depicted earth's atmosphere as far more «sensitive» to the invisible CO2, methane and other human - sourced greenhouse gases than had been hoped.

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«We have to control methane immediately, and natural gas is the largest methane pollution source in the United States,» said Robert Howarth, the David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology, who explains in an upcoming journal article that Earth may reach the point of no return if average global temperatures rise by 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius in future decades.

The huge global estimates of hydrate methane are suspicious at best, and have nothing to do with the likelihood that hydrates will provide energy supply assurance for the future.

«We have to control methane immediately, and natural gas is the largest methane pollution source in the United States,» said Howarth, who explains in an upcoming journal article that Earth may reach the point of no return if average global temperatures rise by 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius in future decades.

Harvey, L.D.D., and Z. Huang, Evaluation of the potential impact of methane clathrate destabilization on future global warming, J. Geophysical Res., 100, 2905 - 2926, 1995.

1995 L.D. Danny Harvey and Zhen Huang, «Evaluation of the Potential Impact of Methane Clathrate Destabilization on Future Global Warming.»