Sentences with phrase «much methane on»

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/

They found that wells located within 1 kilometre of an active shale - gas drilling site contained 17 times as much methane on average as those further away.

Not exact matches

Estimates vary widely on just how much methane is leaked from the vast network of oil and gas wells, pipelines and processing plants, but the problem has cast doubt on how much better natural gas is than coal for the environment.

The total biomass of our livestock is almost double that of the people on the planet and accounts for 5 % of carbon dioxide emissions and 40 % of methane emissions — a much more potent greenhouse gas.

CCN is embarking on an environmental initiative that will see it use technology from international green energy leader Global Water Engineering to harvest biogas (methane) energy from waste water to replace fossil fuels and provide reliable base load energy while simultaneously achieving much cleaner effluent.

The idea being raising cattle produces so much methane (which is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2) that the primary contribution to greenhouse gases is actually the cow itself, not shipping, so eating local beef vs generic feed lot beef has little effect on the environmental impact.

«There was so much methane in our water that when you turned the faucet on in the house, it was 90 percent air, the other 10 percent, maybe water,» he said.

The research team led by Walter Anthony focused on methane emissions from lakes, where permafrost thaws much deeper than on land.

Another potential problem with relying too much on natural gas is that the fuel is primarily made up of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

As temperatures warm, the Arctic permafrost thaws and pools into lakes, where bacteria feast on its carbon - rich material — much of it animal remains, food, and feces from before the Ice Age — and churn out methane, a heat trapper 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Concentrating on soot and methane alone is not likely to offer much of a shortcut.»

«Cutting back only on soot and methane emissions will help the climate, but not as much as previously thought,» said the study's lead author, climate researcher Steve Smith of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Methane rain should fall on the lakes but it is vastly more volatile than ethane and propane, so it probably evaporates much faster from lakes, leaving the heavier hydrocarbons behind.

Most biologists typically recognize three official branches of life: the eukaryotes, which are organisms whose cells have a nucleus; bacteria, the single - celled organisms that may or may not possess a nucleus; and archaea, an ancient line of microbes without nuclei that may make up as much as a third of all life on Earth (See «Will the Methane Bubble Burst?»

So much methane accumulated in stagnant seas at the end of the Permian, he argues, that when it finally erupted, it ignited, setting most of the planet on fire.

But based on that data, they estimate that emissions from abandoned wells represents as much as 10 percent of methane from human activities in Pennsylvania — about the same amount as caused by current oil and gas production.

What the findings might actually mean for earth will depend heavily on how much carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases yet gets billowed into the atmosphere, and how quickly.

But if in the process the same carbon is converted from carbon dioxide to methane — a gas with a much higher impact on climate — it is then that we need to worry.»

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

On Earth, microbes have churned out as much as 95 percent of all atmospheric methane, so finding that gas in Mars» air would have been solid circumstantial evidence of life.

Many scientists believe that methane circulates on Titan, much as water does on Earth, in a cycle of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.

In view of these obstacles, a biological explanation for methane is much less attractive on Titan than on Mars.

On Titan, where solar ultraviolet radiation is much weaker and oxygen - bearing molecules are substantially less abundant, methane can last 10 million to 100 million years (which is still a short time in geologic terms).

This gives us better insight into the distribution of how much methane (CH4), nitrogen (N2), carbon monoxide (CO), and water (H2O) is on Pluto's surface.

Perhaps someone with a better background on geology could explain why there's so much more methane extracted per unit of coal resource in coalbed methane than is vented in regular coal mining.

Rivers and streams haven't received much attention in accounting for that budget, Stanley says, because they don't take up much surface area on a global scale and, with respect to methane, didn't seem to be all that gassy.

Makemake is very much a Pluto analog — it has both methane and nitrogen detected on the surface, but unlike Pluto there is less nitrogen, so more methane atoms are in contact with each other.

How much of an effect did the stabilization of methane concentrations have on forcing changes?

In the comparatively brief time that methane is in the atmosphere, it warms the planet about 86 times as much as the same amount of CO2, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Much like submarines on Earth, the sub would explore the depths of one of Titan's methane / ethane seas.

It has gone on to spend more than 14 years gathering a wealth of data from the Red Planet, taking high - resolution images of much of the surface, detecting minerals on the surface that form only in the presence of water, detecting hints of methane in the atmosphere and conducting close flybys of the enigmatic moon, Phobos.

The worry is not so much that there is already an abprupt release (though methane concentrations are on the rise) but that there are pathways for such abrupt release.

In those short decades, methane warms the planet by 86 times as much as CO2, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The likelihood of serious sea level rise under «business as usual», and impacts on water resources may not have the acute drama associated with polar bear population decline or the possibility of massive methane clathrate releases, but they are much more likely to figure on policy makers agendas — just as other long term chronic issues (such as pensions) do.

Perhaps someone with a better background on geology could explain why there's so much more methane extracted per unit of coal resource in coalbed methane than is vented in regular coal mining.

This is a much more serious scenario than «regular» anthropogenic GW, because the warming could be amplified, eventually thawing methane clathrates, and the warming could then really spiral to an massive extinction event level (as happened 251 million years ago when up to 95 % of life on earth died).

Peer - reviewed studies have raised concerns about how much methane is leaking throughout the production and transmission of natural gas, casting doubt on whether it really is better for global warming than coal, which burns 50 percent more carbon than natural gas.

You keep ignoring the fact that there is no evidence for methane burps associated with conditions in the relatively recent past (early Holocene, Eemian) for which there is good evidence for warmer Arctic conditions than now, and you are happy to extrapolate emissions of a few Tg (at most) to values 1000 times larger on the basis of nothing very much.

Consider just how much commercial cred fracked gas & oil had 10 yrs ago, and then look at the current worldwide research efforts both on methane hydrates» extraction and also on coal - seam gasification.

I know, I know, too much bacteria methane gas, Why not run them on Cow farts?

Early on much of it will be in the form of methane.

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.

Too many uncertainties around what we will or won't do on mitigation at this time, as well as when and how much methane will release...

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The Nature commentary by Penner et al. on which this argument is based actually says that on top of the global warming caused by carbon dioxide, other short - lived pollutants (such as methane and black carbon) cause an additional warming approximately 65 % as much as CO2, and other short - lived pollutants (such as aerosols) also cause some cooling.

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.

We push the oil and gas industry to limit methane pollution, which traps more than 80 times as much heat on our planet as carbon dioxide.

I wonder indeed, if these people will read up on the serious nature of that much methane exposure.

Researchers argue that tropical reservoirs in Brazil are a «methane factory, continuously removing carbon from the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and returning it as methane, with a much greater impact on global warming.»

Perhaps Japan is investing so much in methane hydrates because they don't want to be dependent on LNG imports forever, and they don't see any practical renewable alternatives.