Sentences with phrase «listed as a greenhouse gas»

CO2 is listed as a greenhouse gas, but it is less than 4 percent of the total, and the human portion is a fraction of that.

Not exact matches

Farmers using climate - smart practices understand that trees do a lot on farms: they can act as windbreaks, reducing soil erosion; they can enrich soil; they can filter water, resulting in higher water quality; they provide shade for workers and shade - loving plants; they create habitat for wildlife and wildlife corridors; they suck up and store greenhouse gasses — the list goes on.

That has squeezed out the Quino checkerspot butterfly's habitat, and with the climate changes coming as a result of human greenhouse gas emissions, its listing as an endangered species by the U.S. government may not be enough to save the pretty little butterfly from extinction.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (2005) has the CO2 lifetime listed as 5 - 200 years, for example [1].

But the list of activities that can be counted as climate mitigation finance is so greenhouse gas (GHG)- emitting, you could combust coal or gas with them.

This is how he obtained his logarithmic law for CO2 as the dominant non-vapor greenhouse gas, which has since been independently confirmed with the help of the absorption lines of CO2 listed in the HITRAN tables, which Arrhenius lacked at the time.

-- At a minimum, the list prepared under this section shall include those practices that avoid or reduce greenhouse gas emissions or sequester greenhouse gases, such as --

A third issue I have with the ICCP is the fact they do not list water vapor as being a greenhouse gas on their list of such gases (see their web site).

-- In this section, the terms «uncapped greenhouse gas emissions» and «uncapped methane emissions» mean those greenhouse gas or methane emissions, respectively, to which section 722 would not have applied if the requirements of this title had been in effect for the same year as the emissions data upon which the list is based.

The Air Office's PSD and Title V Permitting Guidance for Greenhouse Gases, both as proposed in November 2010 and as adopted in March 2011, similarly states that the «initial list of control options for a BACT analysis does not need to include «clean fuel» options that would fundamentally redefine the source.»

[And in Chapter 1 of that very same report, as I listed, they go to great lengths to make sure we all know that their models predict a hot spot and it's due to «greenhouse gases» — they do so again in the IPCC AR4 report as you can see here with a very similar graph.

Fred Palmer, serving as Senior Vice President of Government Relations at Peabody Energy, is listed as one of the authors in a Peabody Energy submission to the White House (PDF) arguing that greenhouse gasses are a «non-existent harm» and a «benign gas that is essential to all life:» [14]

Perhaps the most important issue in all this is, as the Royal Society pointed out in their assessment of geoengineering, the first and foremost thing we have to do to stop climate change is radically limit greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activity — stopping burning fossil fuels and stopping deforestation are at the top of list for how to do that.

They also commit to implement individually or jointly the quantified economy - wide emissions targets for 2020 as listed in appendix l, yielding in aggregate reductions of greenhouse gas emissions of X per cent in 2020 compared to 1990 and Y per cent in 2020 compared to 2005.

As with national emissions, this list would look different if all greenhouse gases were included.

@John Coochey You can prove that Monckton has a case by presenting a list of his most central claims that bring down the foundations of climate science as it concerns the specific issue of enhanced greenhouse effect due to fossil fuel greenhouse gas emissions, and an accompanying list of evidence directly relevant to these central claims, and an accompanying logical argument based upon the current state of scientific knowledge.