Sentences with phrase «nothing about methane»

The problem with this, of course, is that we know next to nothing about the methane cycle, and are mystified even by the modern behavior of the gas, as it has been declining for no (apparent) cause.

In contrast, if we eliminated carbon dioxide emissions but did nothing about methane and black carbon emissions, threats posed by long - term climate change would be markedly reduced.

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The article mentions nothing about the amount of energy that it takes to free the methane from the rock where it is held.

David Archer's argument that there's nothing to worry about methane is based on the continued existence of the sea ice.

If we eliminated emissions of methane and black carbon, but did nothing about carbon dioxide we would have delayed but not significantly reduced long - term threats posed by climate change.

«Until we do something about CO2, nothing we do about methane or these other things is going to matter much for climate»

For example, because the mass balance argument says nothing about absolute numbers or attribution it may be that we are also — for example — destroying carbon - fixing plankton, reducing the breaking of waves and hence mechanical mixing with the upper ocean, releasing methane in the tundra which was previously held by acid rain and which can now be converted to CO2, or it may be we are just seeing a deep current, a tiny bit warmer than usual because of the MWP, heating deep ocean clathrate so that methanophage bacteria can devour it and give off CO2.

Finally, while economics may be critical to your definition of «catastrophic» anthropogenic global warming, economics says nothing about the science underlying the projections of sea level rise, the physics of Arctic amplification, changes to albedo that lead to greater warming that may lead to significant releases of methane clathrate deposits, regional projections of reduce (or enhanced) precipitation, and so on.

What about the cattle industry; I hear methane GHG is also on the rise and cattle flatulence is an increasing contributor http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/832/do-cow-and-termite-flatulence-threaten-the-earths-atmosphere Last thought; what about the do nothing approach?

The Sierra Club's willful dismissal of this fact further illustrates that its «Beyond Dirty Fuels» campaign has nothing to do with methane reductions — it's all about imposing as many regulatory hurdles as possible.