Sentences with phrase «much methane comes»

The issue of how much methane comes from fossil sources crosses both onshore and marine environments of the permafrost region and includes both natural sources and losses of methane from oil and gas exploration and transport.

«We know rather little about how much methane comes from different sources and how these have been changing in response to industrial and agricultural activities or because of climate events like droughts,» says Hinrich Schaefer, an atmospheric scientist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand, who collaborates with Petrenko.

Curbing these emissions would help reduce warming, but scientists have found it difficult to determine exactly how much methane comes from human sources.

How much methane came out of that hole in Siberia?

Not exact matches

The study comes amid a national debate over whether and how much methane should be regulated.

Even though the bulk of the added greenhouse gas effect in our atmosphere comes from carbon dioxide, methane — which is rarer — is much more potent.

The state's Air Resources Board says that much of the reduction should come from converting methane from cow manure into energy.

The state's Air Resources Board suggests much of that reduction should come from converting methane from cow manure into energy.

«This study provides a key snapshot of Bakken methane emissions that will help answer the bigger question: How much methane is the U.S. emitting, where it is coming from and how is that changing over time?»

Much of this methane comes from the guts of ruminating cattle, but some escapes from dung pats on pastures.

if is too much methane on and around Arctic — you should blame Santa and charge him methane tax; because all that methane comes from Rudolf and the other rain - dears, and from the old fatso himself: http://globalwarmingdenier.wordpress.com/methane-ch4/

It takes a long time to warm the deep ocean and the clathrate zone, and no one has proposed a mechanism for getting much methane release from hydrates in the coming century.

A few days ago the «shocking» headlines came out, describing some new research on how much methane is now seeping out of the Arctic seafloor — a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide, but much shorter lived in the atmosphere — as the region warms and permafrost melts.

13) Much of the concern re dramatic changes in Arctic methane come from one off surveys and poorly calibrated remote sensing

More than half of China's non-CO2 GHG emissions come in the form of methane, which can trap 28 times as much heat as carbon dioxide on a per metric tonne basis.

Melting permafrost will emit methane, and methane is an ultra-potent greenhouse gas, but scientists do not think so much it will escape in the coming century.

Methane, which comes from the stomachs of cattle and sheep, from thawing tundra, from food rotting in landfill and from drilling for oil and mining, is a greenhouse gas that is much more dangerous than carbon dioxide.

But again and again I just see the same shit come out of you people «air temps, air temps, air temps» is all you know how to fucking look at, and the actually CO2 and methane levels, you don't have a clue how much society produces compared to natural causes, right now people make about 50x as much as nature puts out.

Most of the methane in the atmosphere is still coming from leaky pipes and rotting vegetation — and either of those could also have a much larger outburst if we screw things up badly enough.

When a new study about methane comes out, the instinct at RC is a bit too much on the cautious side, even if the relevant data (Shakova, Walter) is solid.