Sentences with phrase «stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide»

Mars has almost no water vapor (about 210 ppmv), and water vapor is a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Since methane, the main molecule in natural gas, is a stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, these leakages may contribute significantly to the greenhouse effect and climate change.

That's bad news for the atmosphere when the gas in question is methane, the primary component in natural gas that is a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Not exact matches

In the time since the 2007 version of this report, the human effect on the climate has grown more than 40 percent stronger, thanks to continued emissions of greenhouse gases and more precision in measurements, with carbon dioxide leading the charge.

But there are two greenhouse gases, which are actually much stronger than carbon dioxide: Methane, with a warming potential 30 times as strong as carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide, -LSB-...]

Changes to the temperature and pressure of permafrost soils (and ocean waters) could lead to methane, a gas with a much stronger greenhouse warming potential than carbon dioxide, being released.

While carbon dioxide (CO2) usually takes the spotlight among greenhouse gases, the impact of methane on climate change is in fact 20 times stronger than CO2 (over a 100 - year period).

While methane and nitrous oxide make up much smaller portions of total greenhouse gas emissions, these gases are still important factors in the climate crisis, in part because they each have stronger global warming effects than carbon dioxide and also because they constitute an increasing portion of total emissions.

To make matters worse, the towering Kunlun, Himalayan and Karakorum ranges that surround the plateau act as a chimney for water vapour — which has a stronger greenhouse gas effect than carbon dioxide — to be convected high into the stratosphere.