But the steam arising from the water hitting the magma would contribute to
the most powerful greenhouse gas — water vapour!
As such, we can reasonably expect that the hotter the air is, the more humid it can be and, because water vapor is
the most powerful greenhouse gas, the hotter the air will get.
A key reason... it omits
the most powerful greenhouse gas... H20.
Its warming effect, however, is simultaneously amplified and dampened by positive and negative feedbacks such as increased water vapor (
the most powerful greenhouse gas), reduced albedo, which is a measure of Earth's reflectivity, changes in cloud characteristics, and CO2 exchanges with the ocean and terrestrial ecosystems.
HFCs are some of
the most powerful greenhouse gases created by man.
Not exact matches
Most of it ends up in landfills where it biodegrades over time, producing biogas, a
powerful greenhouse gas largely composed of carbon dioxide, methane and hydrogen sulfide.
Most end up in landfills, where they decompose and release methane, a
powerful heat - trapping
greenhouse gas.
Petrenko's
most recent research focuses on methane, a
powerful greenhouse gas second only to carbon dioxide in its contribution to human - driven global warming.
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.»
Energy efficiency is the
most powerful way to cut down
greenhouse gas emissions: it could make up to two - thirds of cuts according to the IEA.
Next to carbon dioxide, methane is the
most important
greenhouse gas, and is 86 times more
powerful, pound - for - pound.
Mr. Modi and Mr. Obama also agreed to limit hydrofluorocarbons,
powerful greenhouse -
gas emissions, through the Montreal Protocol, which is perhaps the
most effective environmental treaty ever signed.
In the end, we all lose — because carbon finance is emerging as one of the
most powerful tools for reducing
greenhouse gasses in the near term and saving endangered rainforest in the long term.
Released from the pressures of the ocean depths, methane hydrate expands to create huge volumes of methane
gas, one of the
most powerful of the
greenhouse gases.
It's practically a cliche by now, but it's also the
most powerful principle we've got: if we're going to keep
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from warming the planet, we need to stop pouring
greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Contrarians frequently object that water vapor, not CO2, is the
most abundant and
powerful greenhouse gas; they insist that climate scientists routinely leave it out of their models.