Sentences with phrase «more powerful greenhouse gas»

Moreover shale gas is still a fossil fuel, so burning it produces CO2 - and any leakage from fractured strata could be serious for the climate, since CH4 is a much more powerful greenhouse gas.

Water vapor is a far more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, so its potential strength as a feedback mechanism is high.

Methane is around 30 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

The theory is that the CO2 emitted by burning fossil fuel is the «greenhouse gas» [that] causes «global warming» — in fact, water is a much more powerful greenhouse gas and there is 20 time more of it in our atmosphere (around one per cent of the atmosphere) whereas CO2 is only 0.04 per cent....

«Other research is beginning to show that cyclical changes in water vapour — a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide — may account for much of the 20th - century warming.»

Water vapor is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and this caused temperatures to rise even more.

These models need a more powerful greenhouse gas to magnify the effect of carbon dioxide.

They thought the increased evaporation from CO2 would make things even warmer since water vapor is a more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2.

on your radiative forcings, I thought methane was 24 times more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2

When ruminants digest their feed, methane is formed as a natural by - product of the microbial process in the rumen, and since methane is a 25 times more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, there is a need to devise methods to reduce such emissions from cattle.

And many, such as methane, are far more powerful greenhouse gases in terms of infrared absorption per molecule.

Not exact matches

Some of the nitrogen the crops do not absorb is converted into nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

By contrast, nitrous oxide, a by - product of food production, is both a powerful greenhouse gas and an ozone depleting gas, and is likely to become more important in future ozone depletion.

If these rates continue, emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide on 100 - year time scales, will increase 4 percent over the next decade.

As the climate warms, warmer temperatures and more open water will mean more water vapour entering the atmosphere — itself a powerful greenhouse gas.

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

In a separate study, Katey Walter, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, showed that much of this buried carbon may emerge as methane, a greenhouse gas some 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

The plant, equipped with DNA from barley, emits as little as 1 % of the methane — a powerful greenhouse gas — of a conventional variety, while also producing more rice.

It also can trigger the release of dangerous chemicals such as nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas up to 300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, and toxic hydrogen sulfide.

Others argue that global warming brought on by the increased production of greenhouse gasses will lead to larger hurricane zones and more powerful storms.

Methane (CH4) is an extremely potent greenhouse gas, 20 - 30 times more powerful than carbon dioxide (CO2) on a century timescale.

Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas up to 300 times more effective as an atmospheric warming catalyst than carbon dioxide.

«If California allows credits for reductions in deforestation, it would send farmers and forest communities a powerful signal that living forests can be worth more than dead ones, and contribute to keeping these greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere,» said EDF's Schwartzman.

Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a powerful greenhouse gas — 72 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20 - year time frame.

It's been nice in recent days to see some strong advocates for curbs in emissions of greenhouse gases shift from the more overheated, and unsupported, rhetoric they used earlier this year in attempting a kind of «kitchen sink» argument aiming to tie virtually every recent harmful weather event to warming, even those — like powerful tornadoes — for which there is no link and certainly no trend.

In the meantime, the latest news will serve, I'm sure, to heat up the climate fight, providing powerful imagery for climate campaigners and more ammunition for foes of greenhouse gas restrictions who argue that such imagery belies the marine mammals» resiliency in both watery and frozen seas.

In summary, they wrote: «Together, the illusion of greenhouse - gas reductions and the creation of powerful lobbies seeking to protect newly created profits in permits and offsets would lock in climate degradation for a decade or more.»

The world's most powerful established and emerging nations — together responsible for more than 80 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions — concluded a day - long meeting after the Group of 8 summit in Japan and emerged on Wednesday with a joint statement calling climate change «one of the great global challenges of our time.»

While breaking down, food waste produces methane, which is a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

The second argument is that it is claimed that computer models are now powerful and accurate enough to replicate temperature given the inputs of greenhouse gas forcing and natural forcing (this is what Nordhaus shows in footnote 4) a graph with both is much more accurate than with just natural forcing.

The release of this trapped methane is a potential major outcome of a rise in temperature; it is thought that this is a main factor in the global warming of 6 °C that happened during the end - Permian extinction as methane is much more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (despite its atmospheric lifetime of around 12 years, it has a global warming potential of 72 over 20 years and 25 over 100 years).

These leakages are especially problematic since methane is a much more «powerful» greenhouse gas, with 25 times [pdf] the heat - trapping ability over 100 years of CO2.

But leakage of methane — a more powerful, though shorter - lived greenhouse gas — throughout the production and distribution systems cancels out some of those gains.

Next to carbon dioxide, methane is the most important greenhouse gas, and is 86 times more powerful, pound - for - pound.

Throughout the history of science, monocausal explanations that overemphasize the dominance of one factor in immensely complex processes (in this case, the human - induced emissions of greenhouse gases) have been inevitably replaced by more powerful theories.

What is the evidence that the growing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are changing weather systems in such a way that hurricanes become more powerful, or more frequent?

Used primarily for cooling, these powerful greenhouse gases can have a global warming potential of up to 20,000 times more than CO2.

Methane (CH4) deserves attention it is such a highly potent greenhouse gas — 25 — 33 times more powerful than carbon dioxide (CO2) over a 100 - year time - horizon, but as much as 100 time more potent over 20 years, according to the latest research!

Methane (CH4) is an extremely potent greenhouse gas, 20 — 30 times more powerful than carbon dioxide (CO2) on a century timescale.

Last week, a team of 19 top climate scientists from government labs in the United States and Europe reported that the buildup of human - induced greenhouse gases in the atmosphere appeared to be the primary driving force behind warmer oceans that fuel more powerful hurricanes.

It is a powerful greenhouse gas, and in the short term it does much more damage than the far more abundant carbon dioxide.

HCFs are much more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, and that's true of many HFCs, not just HFC - 134a.

What's more, because ozone - depleting substances are also powerful greenhouse gases, the Montreal Protocol has prevented over 200 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide - equivalent (CO2e) from ending up in the atmosphere.

Note 1: A simple hotspot explanation summarized from this article: Increasing CO2 levels causes atmosphere to warm; then atmosphere causes Earth's surface to warm; warming of oceans cause evaporation; increased evaporation leads to more water vapor in the upper troposphere; water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas that warms the atmosphere even more (positive water vapor feedback); the Earth's surface warms even more; and then auto «repeat and rinse» until Earth's oceans boil, per an «expert.»

«Methane — a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide — is being released from Arctic permafrost at a rate five times faster than thought, according to a study published today in the journal «Nature»...»

Methane is 84 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, and this project ensures the collected methane is destroyed via combustion in the electricity generator and by Peoples Natural Gas customer ugas, and this project ensures the collected methane is destroyed via combustion in the electricity generator and by Peoples Natural Gas customer uGas customer use.

Methane is a greenhouse gas many times more powerful at warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

Throughout the history of science, monocausal explanations that overemphasize the dominance of one factor in immensely complex processes (in this case, the human - induced emissions of greenhouse gases) have been inevitably replaced by more powerful theories.Philp Stott

The regulations will emerge after years of activism and scientific studies on the climate risk posed by methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that's dozens of times more potent that carbon dioxide.

The Montreal Protocol may have prevented the atmospheric concentrations of chlorine from getting worse by getting rid of CFCs in developed countries (but the black market will ensure they are readily available in developing countries for years to come unless more is done soon), and because the CFCs are enormously powerful greenhouse gases (5000 - 11,000 time more powerful than CO2, in round figures) Montreal has done 5 times more to abate emissions than Kyoto will in the first commitment period.