Sentences with phrase «most powerful greenhouse gases»

HFCs are some of the most powerful greenhouse gases created by man.

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.

A key reason... it omits the most powerful greenhouse gas... H20.

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.

But the steam arising from the water hitting the magma would contribute to the most powerful greenhouse gas — water vapour!

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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.