Sentences with phrase «molecule than methane»

«Because it's a smaller molecule than methane, for example, it has the potential to leak easier and move faster through the rock,» Lord said.

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To get a different view, astronomer Giovanna Tinetti and her colleagues at the European Space Agency and University College London focused instead on the light grazing the atmosphere of HD 189733 b. Tinetti had predicted that water would absorb more light at the longer wavelength of 5.8 microns (thousandths of a millimeter) than at 3.6 microns, in contrast with other molecules such as methane and ammonia.

By studying the planet's infrared glow, the astronomers discovered that its air abounds with the carbon - bearing molecules carbon monoxide and methane, implying that the planet could have carbide (a compound of carbon and metal) rather than silicate in its interior.

Molecule for molecule, methane traps 20 to 25 times more heat in the atmosphere than does carbon Molecule for molecule, methane traps 20 to 25 times more heat in the atmosphere than does carbon molecule, methane traps 20 to 25 times more heat in the atmosphere than does carbon dioxide.

When he and his colleagues at Scripps and Brigham Young University ran a methane reaction with thallium — a main group metal — alkanes pushed the solvent molecules aside 22 orders of magnitude faster than when the reaction was run with iridium, reducing the overall energy required by about one - third, they report online today in Science.

Since methane, the main molecule in natural gas, is a stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, these leakages may contribute significantly to the greenhouse effect and climate change.

so a single molecule of additional methane has a larger impact on the radiation 5 balance than a molecule of CO2, by about a factor of 24 (Wuebbles and Hayhoe, 2002)...........

It's correct that an extra methane molecule is something like 25 times more influential than an extra CO2 molecule, although that ratio is primarily determined by the background atmospheric concentration of either gas, and GWP typically assumes that forcing is linear in emission pulse, which is not valid for very large perturbations.

It is less prevalent than carbon dioxide in the atmosphere but also more potent: A molecule of methane results in more warming than a molecule of carbon dioxide.

Whether being lesser than CO2 in number of molecules in the atmosphere, methane is a potent greenhouse gas absorbing more infra - red radiation per molecule than CO2.

Hydrogen gets chipped off methane molecules, and you're left with something more carbon - rich than what you'd started with.»

Some trace gases such as methane have a stronger impact on the heat balance of the earth, per molecule, than CO2 does.

But molecule per molecule, methane is only 9 times more potent than CO2.

Yet the paper shows that the consequences of that methane molecule will last for more than a millennium, causing the the seas to rise higher and higher all the time.

Methane traps about 20 times more heat, molecule for molecule, than CO2.

Carbon dioxide is the biggest long - term human - generated contributor to global warming — other molecules like methane and water vapor are also greenhouse gases, but their levels are more or less constant; the amount of anthropogenic CO2 has been going up steadily for decades and is higher now than in any point in human history.

so a single molecule of additional methane has a larger impact on the radiation 5 balance than a molecule of CO2, by about a factor of 24 (Wuebbles and Hayhoe, 2002)...........

It's correct that an extra methane molecule is something like 25 times more influential than an extra CO2 molecule, although that ratio is primarily determined by the background atmospheric concentration of either gas, and GWP typically assumes that forcing is linear in emission pulse, which is not valid for very large perturbations.

To summarize, both the modeling studies mentioned above and the IPCC 2007 report show that where global warming and global climate change is concerned, it is important to consider the impact from molecules other than just CO2 and methane.

If it does, it will be a «tipping point»: methane is 25 times more potent a greenhouse gas, molecule for molecule, than CO2.

Although methane is about 200 times less abundant than carbon dioxide, each incremental molecule of methane has about 20 times the heat - trapping power as each additional molecule of carbon dioxide.

Methane is a greenhouse gas that is 21 times more powerful than carbon dioxide (although its molecules have a much shorter atmospheric life than CO2).