Sentences with phrase «greater than the carbon»

Some, like methane, come with the additional downside of having a greenhouse effect 23 times greater than carbon dioxide's.

The warming impact could be 100,000 times greater than the carbon dioxide emitted by the same spacecraft.

Refrigerants (i.e. the chemicals used in refrigeration) have a capacity to warm the atmosphere that is 1,000 to 9,000 time greater than carbon dioxide.

But when unburned methane is released into the atmosphere, it is a potent greenhouse gas with a warming potential 28 to 34 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100 - year timeframe (and up to 84 times more potent over a 20 year timeframe).

The coolants are typically greenhouse gases that, if they escape, have a global warming effect hundreds or thousands of times greater than carbon dioxide's.

Pound for pound, the effect of methane on climate change is more than 20 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100 - year period, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Ministry has added two nitrogen compounds, Nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas with an effect 300 times greater than carbon dioxide; and ammonia, to previous sulphur dioxide and water pollution targets.

With a GWP 22,800 times greater than carbon dioxide (CO2) and an atmospheric life of 3,200, one pound of SF6 has the same global warming impact of 11 tons of CO2.

Since most ODS are «super» greenhouse gases (GHG) with global warming potentials (GWP) hundreds or thousands of times greater than carbon dioxide (CO2), this phase - out has had dramatic impacts on mitigating climate change.

Animal agriculture produces 65 % of the world's nitrous oxide (a gas with the global warming potential 296 x greater than carbon dioxide) and it is estimated that by 2050, this industry will see an 80 % increase, as the demand for meat and dairy continues to rise.

But the measurements to date have not shown whether the carbon emitted was greater than carbon absorbed, or how old the carbon emitted was.

The class of chemicals called hydrofluorocarbons, used in refrigeration, have a greenhouse potency more than 1,000 times greater than carbon dioxide per molecule — but dissipate quickly in the atmosphere once emitted, so reducing them now can help avoid near - term climate impacts more effectively.

«And nitrous oxide is 265 times greater than carbon dioxide, in terms of global warming potential» over 100 years, he added.

Not exact matches

Even though the BFR will spew out tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, the impacts may not be much greater than current global air travel (depending how many flights end up happening).

It lingers in the atmosphere for a shorter period than carbon dioxide, but its radiation - trapping impact is more than 25 times greater than CO2.

Locally grown produce, company leaders maintain, has more than a few selling points: It helps support local economies, it's fresh and it creates a smaller carbon footprint because it isn't shipped great distances.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

He added that scientists need to monitor carbon storage and possible temperature increases in oceans at depths greater than 2 kilometers in addition to adding biogeochemical sensing capacity.

The scientists prepared the molecules so that the temperature — judged by the probability of an atom's nucleus being found in a higher energy state — was greater for the hydrogen nucleus than for the carbon.

Larger aerosol particles greater than 100 nanometers, such as soot or black carbon, are known to help seed clouds.

But the warming that would result from adding such large amounts of carbon to the climate system would be much greater today than during the PETM and could reach up to 10 degrees.

They found that soil in grassy areas had greater carbon storage, greater carbon losses from decomposition and a higher temperature sensitivity of decomposition than shrub soils.

Purified single - walled carbon nanotubes dispersed in water promoted greater plant growth (center) than the nanomaterial - free control (left) after eight days of an experiment at Rice University.

«We can dramatically improve fuel efficiency by making our cars lighter, including the greater use [of] carbon fiber, which is also stronger than metal.

Total annual production emissions, averaged over five years, would equal about 100 grams of carbon dioxide per megajoule — which is 7 percent greater than gasoline emissions and 62 grams above the 60 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions as required by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act.

Because these other stabilization mechanisms are likely much less vulnerable to disturbance than anaerobic microsites, our research suggests that the impact of climate or land use change may release greater amounts of carbon from soils than we expected.»

Taking each factor independently, the team found that CCS only achieves the necessary deployment under one of the following conditions: the price of oil is greater than $ 85 / barrel; the carbon tax incentives increase dramatically to above $ 75 per tonne of carbon dioxide by 2050; or learning rates for technology deployment are sustained at a high rate, with 14 % cost reduction for every doubling of deployment.

«It's a bitter irony that western conservation scientists who are working on providing the information needed to protect tropical forests have a much greater personal carbon footprint than almost anyone they will meet abroad,» says Ben Phalan, a postdoc at the University of Cambridge.

According to the experiments of Langley, the carbon dioxide and the water vapor, which the atmosphere contains, are more opaque to the heat rays of great wave lengths which are emitted by the earth, than to the waves of various lengths which emanate from the sun.

Think of a holiday road trip's effect on the climate this way: The amount of heat a car contributes to the atmosphere because of its carbon emissions may be 100,000 times greater than the actual heat given off by its engine.

That's orders of magnitude greater than the social cost of carbon — about $ 50 per metric ton.

Climate Change: The Last Great Global Warming (p 56) The levels of carbon dioxide release and current speed of warming across the globe could lead to extinctions on a scale worse than previously thought, an article in this month's Scientific American suggests.

«(B) international offset credits may be sold at a strategic reserve auction under this subsection only if the Administrator determines that it is highly likely that covered entities will, to cover emissions occurring in the year the auction is held, use offset credits to demonstrate compliance under section 722 for emissions equal to or greater than 80 percent of 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent;

«(ii) include at least 2 electric generating units, each with a nameplate generating capacity of 250 megawatts or greater, that capture, inject, and sequester carbon dioxide into geologic formations other than oil and gas fields; and

«Our work shows that the terrestrial biosphere might have greater potential than previously thought to mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon emissions from fossil fuels.

«This will release an estimated 87 to 130 billion tonnes of carbon by 2100, which is greater than the amount of carbon that would be released by 13 years of global fossil fuel combustion.

That is, Mars's atmosphere in this era, a period of great bombardment, had much less carbon - 13 than it does today.

With JWST, a few hours of integration time will be enough to detect Earth - like levels of water vapor, molecular oxygen, carbon dioxide and other generic biosignatures on planets orbiting a white dwarf; beyond that, observing the same planet for up to 1.7 days will be enough to detect the two CFCs in concentrations of 750 parts per trillion, or 10 times greater than on Earth.

, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116 This one finds found that North Atlantic oceanic currents play a greater role in the absorption of carbon than previously thought by the IPCC report 2.

There would be more open ocean, and cold water absorbs carbon dioxide at a greater rate than warm water.

If the Arctic Ocean is losing ice at a greater rate than previously thought, won't this increase the rate at which carbon dioxide is absorbed?

The new non-legally binding agreement could save more than 350 million hectares of forests and croplands - an area greater than the size of India - while also reducing the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere.

Carbon fibres are made up of strands of carbon atoms and have greater strength than steel despite being significantly lighter in weight.

«The forces measured for nitrogen atoms are greater than for a carbon atom,» explains Dr. Shigeki Kawai, lead author of the study and former postdoc in Meyer's team.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have become the first to 3D print aerospace - grade carbon fiber composites, opening the door to greater control and optimization of the lightweight, yet stronger than steel material.

It would further allow for greater use of biofuels, which combined with carbon capture and sequestration techniques could drastically reduce the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere and keep global temperature increases to less than two degrees Centigrade in 2100.

Many scientists and ecologists now believe that keeping those ecosystems intact offers a far greater greenhouse gas - reducing benefit — by not disturbing the carbon stored within native plants and in untilled soil — than any benefit which might be conferred by burning ethanol instead of petroleum.

Responsible for more than 70 percent of global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions, cities represent the single greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.

On that note, cycling is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint and also allows you to explore the great outdoors, providing a more enjoyable and intense workout than gym - bound spin classes on a stationary bike.

The latest generation of carbon - ceramic brakes do a great job, even if the pedal travel is a little long, but the simple fact remains that you enter these braking zones — places with no runoff and minimal margin for error — 20 mph faster than in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 RS.