Sentences with phrase «gasses by a few years»

She seems to have beaten John Tyndall to the discovery of the infrared absorption bands of greenhouse gasses by a few years:

She seems to have beaten John Tyndall to the discovery of the infrared absorption bands of greenhouse gasses by a few years:

Not exact matches

A few years ago, northwest British Columbia seemed headed for boom times, with billions of dollars in projects planned by the liquid natural gas (LNG), mining and other resource sectors.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Let's start by taking a look at what Natural Gas prices have done over the last few years.

It allows greenhouse gases to increase for another decade until the commitments each country made (known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs) mature in 2025 or 2030 and it provides very few specific targets with the exception of a financial target that «strongly urges» wealthy countries to contribute ($ 100 billion / year by 2020) to support developing countries that are suffering the consequences of climate change but don't have the ability to adapt to it.

The draft report by the U.S. Global Change Research Program says it is likely the world will forfeit its ability to meet «rapid emission reduction» scenarios needed to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations «within a few years.»

Observations made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveal gas diving into four small black holes within a few light - years of the galaxy's core, where thousands of other hidden holes may also orbit.

«We're hoping that by using these types of measurements over the next few years, we'll probe precisely how this gas is getting moved around by these very dramatic processes,» says Hill.

According to a summary of Barstow's talk released by the Royal Astronomical Society, the most probable explanation for the missing gas is that the area was swept clear of material by a nearby star that went supernova within the last few million years.

Here's how it might work: Next year and in each year thereafter, Congress would set an overall cap on fossil fuels extracted by upstream energy producers, which David A. Weisbach of the University of Chicago Law School identifies as «fewer than 3,000 entities» — petroleum refiners, coal mines and domestic natural gas processors — «plus imports at a few locations.»

Even under a more moderate scenario where greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2040, 100 - year extreme sea levels could increase by 57 centimeters, or nearly 2 feet, on average, by the end of the century, with these events occurring every few years, according to study's authors.

The joint research team led by graduate student and JSPS fellow Takuma Izumi at the Graduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo revealed for the first time — with observational data collected by ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array), in Chile, and other telescopes — that dense molecular gas disks occupying regions as large as a few light years at the centers of galaxies are supplying gas directly to the supermassive black holes.

Just a few days ago, the ESA released this Hubble image of a pair of barred spiral galaxies some 350 million light years away in the process of merging, their two galactic nuclei still separated by a massive distance but throwing out clouds of hot gas and mid-formation stars.

Astronomers believe that the gas giants in our solar system formed by building up a large core over a few million years and then pulling in a huge amount of hydrogen and other gases to form an atmosphere.

This warming has been linked to a similarly rapid increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere, which acted to trap heat and drive up global temperatures by more than 5 °C in just a few thousand years.

The original owner, California black - plate car was almost completely rust free (the only rusty areas were a few pinholes in the floorboards and the gas tank mounting lip) but because we're going to have the car in our SEMA Show booth and at several shows for the next year or so, it needs to be show quality so we prepped the car for the build by sending it to Superstition Restoration in Mesa, AZ for the fitment of a Mustangs To Fear front fascia and hood, and then a retina - burning Axalta 2017 Mustang Competition Orange paint job.

You'd also cut your gas consumption by a substantial 1,750 gallons over those years, and make far fewer stops to refuel.

Perhaps surprisingly, until only about forty years ago, trading futures markets consisted of only a few commodity farm products, however, now they have been joined by a huge number of tradable financial and other tradable products such as precious metals like gold, silver and platinum; livestock such as hogs and cattle; energy contracts such as crude oil and natural gas; foodstuffs like coffee and orange juice; and industrials like lumber and cotton.

For Dana Gas to suggest that its earlier board was wrong to the tune of $ 700 million, or worse yet that Islamic law had somehow changed in a few years through an abrupt alteration of opinion by the world of respected Islamic scholars is... troubling.

Most of the PNC Cash Reward's competitors, by contrast, offer just 2 to 3 percent cash back on gas station purchases or award 5 percent cash back just a few months out of the year.

Unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases (at least over the last few hundred thousand years) continue to accumulate in the atmosphere and the global climate (land surface, ocean, glaciers, stratosphere) continues to respond as predicted by theory and models.

The video is a fresh take on the enormous body of reporting developed by ProPublica reporters over the last few years on America's gas rush.

This year's Gulf of Mexico gusher seemed to pose potent political perils just a few months ago, but all along its significance was blunted by the reality that it did not affect oil or gas prices, which have stayed relatively low.

As the above video highlights, Washington, D.C. recently implemented a bike - share program known as Smart Bike D.C. And much as cities like New York and Mexico City have been doing, D.C. has been busy adding miles of new bike lanes and cycling infrastructure to accommodate the rise in cycling caused in part by high gas prices.Bike - sharing programs, which have truly gone global the last few years, appear to be putting cycling on the radar of politicians, planning professionals, and commuters.

The assertion is that because individual molecules of CO2 leave the atmosphere within a few years, claims of a building threat from the heat - trapping properties of this trace gas (amplified by feedbacks) are overblown.

In that piece, Davenport observed that the president's attack on coal is not something that would have been politically viable even a few years ago, but she also notes the damage inflicted to the industry by the boom in natural gas:

By the mid-2020s, the United States become the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter and a few years later a net exporter of oil — still a major importer of heavier crudes that suit the configuration of its refineries, but a larger exporter of light crude and refined products.

Assuming the region becomes even more dependent on natural gas, if there were short - term disruptions to other fuels, the region could need about 2,400 MW for a few hours on about nine cold days a year by 2029/2030.

«Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by as much as nine degrees Fahrenheit sometime after the year 2000.»

In 2008, the Bush administration released a new proposal for fuel economy standards that were slightly better but still far too low; they were determined through a fatally flawed analysis employing numerous assumptions defying common sense and the law, such as a prediction that gas will cost $ 2.36 per gallon in 2020 and an assumption that technological solutions available now can't be employed by automakers a few years from now.

Over the past few years, the price of natural gas has been below $ 3.00, actually below $ 2.50 per million BTU during 2016, which has put considerable pressure on both coal - fired and nuclear power pants to compete... especially with the effect of preferential dispatching used by RTO / ISO organizations.

Others have argued that the records were caused by El Nino, a complex natural phenomenon that takes place every few years, and has nothing to do with greenhouse gas emissions by humans.

Second, the rapid and large - scale exploitation of fossil fuels [4]-- a vast stock of nonrenewable resources accumulated by Nature over hundreds of millions of years that are being drawn down in just a few centuries — and the invention of the Haber — Bosch process to use natural gas to produce nitrogen fertilizer [5,6] enabled increasingly higher levels of food and energy production.

By the early 1980s, the Soviet Union became the foremost gas - producing region of the world, a position it has held ever since, except for a few years around 2000.

Not only would an increase in carpooling mean fewer cars on American roads each day, up to 1,600 pounds of greenhouse gasses could be spared each year by carpooling just twice a week.