Sentences with phrase «than carbon»

It is 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat.

It is also a greenhouse gas 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide over the course of a century.

• The main component of natural gas, methane, is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

A note on units: Because carbon dioxide is the main contributor to warming, the budget is sometimes expressed in terms of tonnes of carbon dioxide rather than carbon.

Of course it is possible that targets could be met via creative strategies such as the use of offsets or the counting of emissions reductions in gases other than carbon dioxide.

If these rates continue, emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide on 100 - year time scales, will increase 4 percent over the next decade.

While not as impactful, it does start at a higher price than the carbon tax's listed above making it an interesting complement to one of these true carbon taxes.

The warming impact could be 100,000 times greater than the carbon dioxide emitted by the same spacecraft.

Over a 100 - year timeframe, methane is about 34 times as potent at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, and over 20 years, it's 86 times more potent.

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.

They happily convert carbon compounds in their food to carbon dioxide, and also to very substantial quantities of methane, which is much worse than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.

This is significant because methane's effect on global warming is 21 times stronger than carbon dioxide's.

Although there is much less of it in the air, it is 33 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere and adding to greenhouse warming.

Although methane is about 200 times less abundant than carbon dioxide, each incremental molecule of methane has about 20 times the heat - trapping power as each additional molecule of carbon dioxide.

These three chemical elements are interesting because they belong to the subset of chemical elements heavier than carbon and nitrogen which form the bulk of all the rocky planets.

This construction is lighter than carbon fiber yet equally strong.

The poorer you are the more likely you are to use carbon cycle fuels rather than carbon sink fuels.

A composite material, it is said to be lighter than carbon fiber yet equally strong.

These gases are not only damaging to the ozone layer, but are super greenhouse gases, thousands of times more damaging than carbon dioxide (CO2).

In addition, we need to fund and protect forests that provide global ecosystem services other than carbon sequestration.

What if we build cells with nitrogen atoms rather than carbon atoms?

But in general, the results show that most of the other methods of raising revenue are less harmful than a carbon tax.

It's very powerful, trapping heat 25 times more efficiently than carbon dioxide, but it's also ephemeral.

Although less common than carbon dioxide and water vapor, each molecule is far more powerful and potentially as significant for global warming.

However, our study suggests that in the field, other factors than carbon or water are limiting tropical tree growth.

There are far more atoms involved than carbon and nitrogen.

Still a good idea balancing all that silicon with some organic compounds other than your carbon structure, because haven't you heard?

But the measurements to date have not shown whether the carbon emitted was greater than carbon absorbed, or how old the carbon emitted was.

Natural gas consists mainly of methane, a greenhouse gas that has much more powerful heat - trapping properties than carbon dioxide.

Or go for broke and develop a material that absorbs more lithium ions than carbon, air, or any material we know.

The development of natural gas, far from being a bridge fuel, makes climate change worse because it is so much more potent than carbon near term.

It is less prevalent than carbon dioxide in the atmosphere but also more potent: A molecule of methane results in more warming than a molecule of carbon dioxide.

They can get much hotter than a carbon heater and have a longer warm up time to reach their optimal temperature.

Researchers say the slow digestive system of cows makes them a producer of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that gets far less public attention than carbon dioxide in efforts to fight global warming.

There is, anyway, no certainty that an emissions - cap policy would have more political appeal than a carbon tax.

It's hard to imagine a better leverage point than carbon dioxide to assume control over a society.

Probably more important than a carbon tax on liquid fuels would be a tax on coal.

This is no laughing matter: As a greenhouse gas, methane is 34 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 100 - year time horizon.

While this represents a much smaller percentage of overall greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide, methane is about 20 times more effective at trapping heat.

As a greenhouse gas, methane is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide over 20 years.

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.