Sentences with phrase «more greenhouse gases»

A further problem is that the harvesting of standing forests reduces carbon storage opportunities, resulting in more greenhouse gas emissions.

But one thing remains clear: More greenhouse gases in the atmosphere equals more warming.

This produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all cars and trucks combined.

Beef generates 20 times more greenhouse gas emissions than beans, for example.

This marine methane could contribute to global warming by adding more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

Coal - fired power plants release more greenhouse gases per unit of energy produced than any other electricity source (1).

They also though mean more greenhouse gas emissions, as CO2 and methane stored in soil get released.

As the world has developed and demand for energy has grown, we've burned more fossil fuels, causing more greenhouse gases to be trapped in the atmosphere and air temperatures to rise.

In general, animal - based foods are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions per pound than plant - based foods.

In fact, if it fulfill its commitment in 2020, it will still be emitting about 16 percent more greenhouse gas that year than it did in 2010.

Our giant empty homes require a staggering amount of energy and they produce far more greenhouse gases than any automobile on the road.

«Because they are inefficient they consume more energy, and therefore create more greenhouse gases,» she said.

The question is not just a scientific curiosity, but has real world applications because one mechanism contributes more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than the other.

Similarly, we still have a lot to learn about the climate but that doesn't make pumping ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere a good idea.

And I think it would be accepted by most people that the rich countries should take on much more of that responsibility because they have contributed much more greenhouse gas.

We're putting more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the planet can absorb.

It was crystal clear then as now that we need to commit fully to clean energy, not more greenhouse gases.

As more greenhouse gases enter the atmosphere, more heat is trapped and temperatures go up — but by how much?

The long term target means that the company will reduce more greenhouse gas emissions than it its value chain emits.

Since our agriculture system emits more greenhouse gases than the transportation sector, educating kids about how their food choices impact the planet is an important key to mitigating climate change.

More electricity means more coal and natural gas burning, which, according to green dogma, means more greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.

What's more, the animal agriculture industry is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector combined.

But the equipment still results in the emission of far more greenhouse gases than newer technologies or alternative energy sources.

Humans are pumping more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

In some cases, producing electricity by solar panels releases more greenhouse gases than producing electricity by gas or even coal.

More greenhouse gas in the atmosphere means less heat escaping and a warming planet.

So they are shipped by air, which produces more greenhouse gases.

As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector.

New research finds that livestock emissions are on the rise and that beef cattle are responsible for far more greenhouse gas emissions than other types of animals.

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, meat production alone now generates more greenhouse gas emissions than all the world's transport combined.

Fifty US power plants emit more greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels than all but six nations, says a new report.

That's because the additional processing and shipping of liquefied gas would put even more greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere.

Three meat companies - JBS, Cargill and Tyson - emitted more greenhouse gases last year than all of France and nearly as much as some of the biggest oil companies like Exxon, BP and Shell.

1 / there is now considerably more greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere to cause catastrophic and permanent climate change.

Many of us who follow climate change news are aware that Greenland's ice is melting away, the Antarctic is cracking, and some Pacific islands are going underwater as seas rise — all because we are pumping more greenhouse gases into the thin layer of atmosphere in which we live.

As well as pumping much as 600 million tonnes more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the carbon

Scientists have assembled plenty of evidence that adding more greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will heat up the Earth over time.

A $ 500,000 study paid for by the federal government and released Sunday in the peer - reviewed journal Nature Climate Change concludes that biofuels made with corn residue release 7 per cent more greenhouse gases in the early years compared with conventional gasoline.

While the new President can certainly help reduce industry costs by, among other things, canceling Obama's Clean Energy Plan, which would force power plants to capture more greenhouse gases, it is not clear if this will be enough.