Sentences with phrase «potent greenhouse»

FThough livestock production only contributes 9 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, the sector is responsible for 37 percent of methane and 65 percent of nitrous oxide, both potent greenhouse gases.

Methane is at least 34 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, so methane leakage erodes the climate advantage natural gas has over coal.

CFCs The short name for chlorofluorocarbons - a family of gases that have contributed to stratospheric ozone depletion, but which are also potent greenhouse gases.

The second study's findings are even more alarming: Oil and gas operations in North Dakota and eastern Texas leaked roughly 10 percent of the natural gas they produced between 2006 and 2011, spewing methane — a potent greenhouse gas — into the atmosphere.

If it does, it will be a «tipping point»: methane is 25 times more potent a greenhouse gas, molecule for molecule, than CO2.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas.)

And that's a big problem because they are very potent greenhouse gases: roughly 6,500 times more so than carbon dioxide.

I write «most» because there is some portion of caloric energy that can be attributed to synthetic fertilizers and the production of some foods results in emissions of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), which are both much more potent greenhouse gasses than carbon dioxide is (21 and 310 times as potent, respectively).

Using landfill gas for energy puts methane, a potent greenhouse gas, generated during the decomposition of waste in landfills to good use.

Scientists studying methane leaking from the Arctic seafloor off Norway near Spitsbergen say, with the usual caveat that more research is needed and the specific details not yet known, it does not appear that the potent greenhouse gas is being released because of human - caused climate change.

He makes the point that many insulations use potent greenhouse gases as blowing agents.

SF Public Press reports that clean tech firms are beginning to look into how to reuse the rare and potentially toxic material used in solar cell processing, including cadmium, selenium, silicon tetrachloride and sulfur hexafluoride, which is a potent greenhouse gas.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas (23 times more potent than carbon dioxide) and best landfill management practice says that landfills should be kept dry to avoid its creation.

Carbon dioxide is a potent greenhouse gas which makes the atmosphere warmer — the more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the warmer it is, and the less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere the colder it is.

«It's a good time to be vegetarian,» admits Somerville who recognizes that methane gas is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Soils are providing an environmental service of sequestering this potent greenhouse gas, but the trunks are releasing methane equivalent to 4 percent of what could be captured by CWD and soils at the ecosystem scale,» said Rodrigo Vargas, assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at UD's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and lead investigator of the study, in a press release.

Depends on the feedback mechanisms between CO2 and the really potent greenhouse gasses.

The Obama administration is poised to release a national action plan on methane, a potent greenhouse gas leaked from fracking, coal mines, and oil and gas development.

Atmospheric methane is a potent greenhouse gas (GHG) that contributes to global warming.

This includes methane - munching microbes that live in rocks in the deep sea, helping to control this potent greenhouse gas.

The California Air Resources Board agreed to a strategy to phase down potent greenhouse gases, including HFCs.

In another prong of that plan, the Energy Department today will announce measures to curb methane releases, a less ubiquitous yet more potent greenhouse gas, said Dan Utech, a White House energy adviser.

Animal manure is a source of methane, the main component of natural gas and a potent greenhouse gas when released to the atmosphere.

In addition, methane is itself a potent greenhouse gas, remaining in the atmosphere for about a decade before it is converted to carbon dioxide.

In particular the project recognised that animal manure is a source of methane, the main component of natural gas and a potent greenhouse gas when released to the atmosphere.

However, the report also warned that while natural gas has carbon advantages over coal as a fuel source, the potential for leakages of methane may erode this benefit, as methane is a more potent greenhouse gas.

If it escapes into the atmosphere instead, methane acts as a potent greenhouse gas — in fact, it is over 20 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide is neither the most abundant nor the most potent greenhouse gas, but it is the most important greenhouse gas because it is substantially responsible for the enhanced greenhouse effect that causes global warming and climate change.

Landfills don't burn fossil fuels, but they do spew methane pollution, a potent greenhouse gas.

Seeping methane is worrisome because it is a potent greenhouse gas.

Oxidizing methane also releases CO2, but that is 25 times better than releasing methane, itself an even more potent greenhouse gas.

The organic - grass - fed - gluten free - cold pressed turkey in your shopping cart is being refrigerated with some of the most potent greenhouse gases in the world called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)-- gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners with global warming potentials hundreds to thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide.

After it is spread on farmers» fields, a portion of it turns into a potent greenhouse gas that escapes into the atmosphere.

In addition, variable amounts of soil carbon are lost to oxidation and erosion, and nitrogen oxides (potent greenhouse gases) are emitted.

The oil and gas industry is the United States» biggest emitter of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Current official inventories of methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas released from landfills, livestock ranches and oil and gas facilities, may be underestimated both nationally and in California by a factor of about 1.5, according to new research from Berkeley Lab and others.

Just last week, President Obama and President Xi made a landmark agreement to work towards reducing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a potent greenhouse gas.

Today, HFCs are the most commonly used refrigerants in new refrigeration and air - conditioning systems in the United States and increasingly in developing countries, but these refrigerants are potent greenhouse gases (GHGs) with global warming potentials (GWPs) ranging from hundreds to thousands of times higher than CO2.

Natural gas (including shale gas and coal seam gas) is largely methane, which is, volume for volume, a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Alternately, POME is stored in open lagoons, generating a bio-gas that contains about 65 % methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases.

HFCs are some of the world's most potent greenhouse gases with hundreds to thousands of times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide and are commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners.

These new units are HFC - free, which means the cooling system within the unit does not use HFCs — those super potent greenhouse gases.

Both create methane, a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

, but it is a potent greenhouse gas.

And there are suggestions that subterranean microbes might turn the carbonate back into methane — a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

«If the largest consumers of HFCs are agreeing to phase down these potent greenhouse gases, other countries should join the consensus and take real action to combat climate change.»

But HCFCs are potent greenhouse gases, as well as a threat to ozone, and they are now being phased out under a 2007 amendment to the protocol.

China and Brazil, two of the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the world, have both made significant policy announcements to curb the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)-- super potent greenhouse gases — in advance of the upcoming Open - Ended Working Group (OEWG) meeting of the Montreal Protocol in Paris later this month.

They don't eat ozone but, they are potent greenhouse gases.

The environmental impacts of Amazon hydropower projects are many and varied, from inundating primary rainforest, driving deforestation, and releasing the potent greenhouse gas methane, to interrupting long - distance aquatic migrations, altering sediment flows and attenuating flood cycles.