Sentences with phrase «global warming gases»

And then there's methane, a more potent global warming gas than CO2.

They assumed that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide — the main global warming gas — will increase by 1 percent per year, compounded yearly.

But with added global warming gases, each heating event could be hotter than the last.

It is entirely due to excess global warming gases.

That should be cleaner, more efficient cars that cut global warming gases, wean the nation from its oil addiction and save money at the pump.

The negotiations over a worldwide treaty to limit global warming gases, which were supposed to have ended the evening before, had gone on through the night.

In open - loop geothermal systems, approximately 10 percent of the air emissions are carbon dioxide, and a smaller amount of emissions are methane, a more potent global warming gas.

Oil products used in transportation provide a major share of U.S. man - made global warming gas emissions.

Each sticker will include an index that compares the emissions of global warming gases from the vehicle with the average projected emissions from all vehicles of the same model year, and identifies the vehicle model within its class with the lowest emissions of that model year.

Even more concerning is that the extraction, distribution, and combustion of natural gas result in the leakage of methane, a powerful global warming gas 34 times stronger than carbon dioxide at trapping heat over a 100 - year period.

«WASHINGTON — The world pumped up its pollution of the chief man - made global warming gas last year, setting a course that could push beyond leading scientists» projected worst - case scenario, international researchers said Thursday.

In 2009 Girl Scouts in the San Francisco Bay area gave away 5000 compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs to raise awareness about energy conservation and give people an opportunity to do something about global climate change by reducing their carbon footprint The Sierra Club procured the bulbs from the utility PG&E and the girls went door to door giving out the bulbs and a booklet educating people about how to save energy and produce less global warming gases.

The «equivalent» part happens because of global warming gasses other than CO2.

The fear is that this could lead to a vicious spiral - fewer trees to soak up CO2 means more global warming gases in the air, which means higher temperatures and therefore fewer trees.

Methane, a major global warming gas, is often found with oil.

In December 2007 consulting firm McKinsey & Company determined that the U.S. could cut its output of global warming gases by more than 11 percent using conservation steps that were better than free: they would pay for themselves and earn a profit.

I also applaud this new research, although the intent is to create a fuel that can be burned, which generates global warming gasses.

Did you know, composting at home for just one year can save global warming gases equivalent to all the CO2 your kettle produces annually, or your washing machine produces in three months?

There is also a common and erroneous impression that ethanol generally requires as much energy to produce as one obtains from using it and that its use does not substantially reduce global warming gas emissions.

It produces more than a quarter of the world's human - caused global warming gases, nearly as much as North America and Europe put together.

The first article linked below reports on a recent study that says that «Global warming gases traped in the soil are bubbling out of the thawing permafrost in amounts far higher than previously thourght and may trigger what researchers warn is a climate time bomb

Visibility (particulates and nitrous oxides) and acid rain (sulfur dioxide) dominated in the formation of policy established via the 1970 Clean Air Act and subsequent Clean Air Act Amendments in 1977 and 1990, while global warming gases remained unregulated.

SAN FRANCISCO — NASA revealed the first - ever images of the global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the key long - lived global warming gas.

The US has a bi-lateral agreement with China that has already yielded a commitment to phase out the hydrofluorocarbon family of super global warming gases.

- could be in place.The second is that the subsequent global warming gas methane being belched from permafrost defrosting and burped up from the warming Arctic sea bottom are not included in official IPCC predictions, and researchers are discovering there's more GHGs stored in permafrost than we thought.

Get Counted in the Fight Against Global Warming Global Warming and Tornado's Report: Global Warming Disproportionately Affects African Americans, Low - Income Communities Global Warming: Discovery Channel Global Warming Gas Emissions Jumped

That's a big reason why Americans now produce 12 percent more C02, the main global warming gas, than they did when Bill Clinton took office.

A study under the auspices of University of Alaska Fairbanks doubles estimates of methane released from an important oceanic source which may be «leaking» the potent global warming gas as permafrost melts.

The entire country of China has banned plastic bags, thereby saving China hundreds of thousands of gallons of fossil fuel and preventing thousands of tons of global warming gas from entering the atmosphere.

Couric: John McCain proposed legislation calling for mandatory caps on global warming gases or CO2 emissions.

The average new vehicle sold by Honda in MY01, for example, emitted 21 percent less global warming gases and 31 percent less smog - forming pollution than the average for the Big Six automakers.

As a result, the average MY01 truck emitted 2.4 times more smog - forming pollution and 1.4 times more global warming gases than the average MY01 car.

it would be more inresting when we invent something new like car runs onbiofuel instead of oil and gas because it save lot of sphere above the earth surface and also help from the global warming

In a press release, the group Amazon Watch said the dam would also release vast amounts of methane, a global warming gas, offsetting environmental benefits.