Sentences with phrase «maintain methane in the atmosphere»

Not exact matches

Regarding the possible role hydrogen sulfide in the major extinctions you might want to check out another book, one which places it in the context of the methane clathrate gun, the destruction of the coccolithophores which help to maintain an oxygenated atmosphere by ocean acidification, the role of algae blooms, etc...

That's because reorganization likely wouldn't maintain the same average amount of water vapor in the atmosphere (it's the most important «greenhouse gas,» not carbon dioxide or methane).

«We show that methane mixing ratios greater than 10 - 3 are potentially biogenic, whereas those exceeding 10 - 2 are likely biogenic due to the difficulty in maintaining large abiotic methane fluxes to support high methane levels in anoxic atmospheres,» the researchers wrote in their study.