Sentences with phrase «stronger than carbon dioxide»

It's about 25 to 33 times stronger than carbon dioxide.

Even more concerning is that the extraction, distribution, and combustion of natural gas result in the leakage of methane, a powerful global warming gas 34 times stronger than carbon dioxide at trapping heat over a 100 - year period.

Methane is 34 times stronger than carbon dioxide at trapping heat over a 100 - year period and 86 times stronger over 20 years; roughly 10 percent of all US methane emissions come from coal mining.

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-...]

Not exact matches

Binns said there was strong interest in the new aircraft, which are far quieter and produce far less carbon dioxide than fixed - wing aircraft, but he declined to predict when the companies would be able to announce a launch customer.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

The tropics of Asia, Africa and South America all puffed out more carbon dioxide during the strong 2015 — 2016 El Niño than during the 2011 La Niña, new satellite data show.

According to the accepted view, the formation of the Earth released vast amounts of water vapour and carbon dioxide, which formed a thick atmosphere and caused strong greenhouse warming at a time when the Sun was 15 to 20 per cent fainter than today.

Despite the strong warming trend of the past 15 years, worldwide temperatures have risen less than models predict, given the build - up of carbon dioxide in the air to 25 per cent above pre-industrial levels.

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.

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.

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.

In the UK, carbon pricing — charging those who emit carbon dioxide — has become much stronger in recent years, making it more profitable for power companies to use natural gas generation rather than coal.

This is the science behind Peter Cox's interview and why he says that «If it turns out that the cooling is stronger than we thought... that means the climate's more sensitive to carbon dioxide than we originally thought, and it means our models may be under sensitive to carbon dioxide.»

There's another advantage to this approach, which is that there is far stronger public support for advancing and disseminating low - carbon energy sources than there is for restricting emissions of carbon dioxide using a rising cost through a cap.

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

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).

The warming effect of carbon dioxide is strongest where air is cold and dry, mainly in the arctic rather than in the tropics, mainly in mountainous regions rather than in lowlands, mainly in winter rather than in summer, and mainly at night rather than in daytime.

We know this because we can measure the effect of man - made carbon dioxide and it is much stronger than that of the sun, which we also measure.:»

But J. Philip Peterson is right — water vapor is a stronger IR absorber, and is usually present in much higher concentrations than carbon dioxide.

Thawing permafrost also delivers organic - rich soils to lake bottoms, where decomposition in the absence of oxygen releases additional methane.116 Extensive wildfires also release carbon that contributes to climate warming.107, 117,118 The capacity of the Yukon River Basin in Alaska and adjacent Canada to store carbon has been substantially weakened since the 1960s by the combination of warming and thawing of permafrost and by increased wildfire.119 Expansion of tall shrubs and trees into tundra makes the surface darker and rougher, increasing absorption of the sun's energy and further contributing to warming.120 This warming is likely stronger than the potential cooling effects of increased carbon dioxide uptake associated with tree and shrub expansion.121 The shorter snow - covered seasons in Alaska further increase energy absorption by the land surface, an effect only slightly offset by the reduced energy absorption of highly reflective post-fire snow - covered landscapes.121 This spectrum of changes in Alaskan and other high - latitude terrestrial ecosystems jeopardizes efforts by society to use ecosystem carbon management to offset fossil fuel emissions.94, 95,96

The only way to get scary warming projections from carbon dioxide (more than 1 °C / doubling) is by supposing a strong positive water vapor feedback, which is not supported by observations.

Global warming due to humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide, he wrote, was likely to «gain the upper hand in the next century unless stronger controls are instituted than any that are believed to be contemplated...» (p. 677).

The mixing inferred from observations appears to be sufficiently strong to imply a climate sensitivity of more than 3 degrees for a doubling of carbon dioxide.

For example, the direct radiative effect of a mass of methane is about 84 times stronger than the same mass of carbon dioxide over a 20 - year time frame [22] but it is present in much smaller concentrations so that its total direct radiative effect is smaller, in part due to its shorter atmospheric lifetime.

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.

The upwelling may have been so strong, however, that the phytoplankton did not keep pace with the upwelling — that is, more carbon dioxide upwelled than was used by the phytoplankton.

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.

In fact, molecule - for - molecule some gases containing lots of fluorine are 10,000 times stronger at absorbing radiation than carbon dioxide.