Sentences with phrase «than carbon dioxide as»

According to federal data, however, building solar panels significantly increases emissions of nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), which is 17,200 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas over a 100 - year time period.

Edit 3: The very next sentence says, «This conclusion ignores the long - lasting, incredibly powerful greenhouse gas discovered 9 December 2013 by University of Toronto researchers: perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA) is 7,100 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, and it persists hundreds of years in the atmosphere.»

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.

Venting is particularly problematic because methane is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and venting accounts for about a third of global methane emissions.

Methane is 84 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, and this project ensures the collected methane is destroyed via combustion in the electricity generator and by Peoples Natural Gas customer use.

HCFs are much more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, and that's true of many HFCs, not just HFC - 134a.

Not exact matches

Methane is the second-most prevalent greenhouse gas according to the EPA, and is believed to be 20 times more potent as a heat - trapping greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Chris Severson - Baker, Alberta director of the Pembina Institute, said reducing methane emissions is critical because the gas is 25 times more potent as a climate warming agent than carbon dioxide.

Regulators accused Trader Joe's of failing to promptly fix leaks of R - 22, which is used as a refrigerator coolant but also depletes the ozone and has 1,800 times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide.

As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).

As of September 30, d.light's lanterns have generated more than 57 million kilowatt - hours of renewable energy, offsetting 3.2 million tons of carbon dioxide and generating $ 1.4 billion in energy - related savings, the company says.

«The findings showed no mineralogical evidence for abundant liquid water or its by - products, thus pointing to mechanisms other than the flow of water — such as the freeze and thaw of carbon dioxide frost — as being the major drivers of recent gully evolution,» the team explained in the press release.

The problems are viewed as «environmental,» rather than as, say, questions of carbon dioxide levels.

As a result, the child «rebreathes» his own carbon dioxide rather than breathing in oxygen - rich fresh air, and dies.

The 50 MW is enough to power 6,500 households and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 45,300 tons per year as well as reducing other environmental pollutants.

«Although most of the macrophyte carbon is released back to the atmosphere in the same form that it is assimilated, carbon dioxide, some of it is actually exported to the ocean as dissolved carbon or released to the atmosphere as methane, a gas that has a warming potential 20 times larger than carbon dioxide,» said John Melack, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The world's largest ocean is absorbing carbon dioxide, and turning more acidic as a result, faster than expected

The indirect effects of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, such as changes in soil moisture and plant structure, can have a bigger impact on ecosystems than previously thought.

As temperatures warm, the Arctic permafrost thaws and pools into lakes, where bacteria feast on its carbon - rich material — much of it animal remains, food, and feces from before the Ice Age — and churn out methane, a heat trapper 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Natural gas, which is mainly methane, may generate less carbon dioxide than oil and coal when burned, but as recent research has found, there's more to greenhouse gas emissions than just combustion.

Further tests revealed that the elevated CO2 was responsible, rather than the reduced pH. Although it's unclear exactly how the elevated carbon dioxide leads Daphnia to lower its defenses, the researchers suggest the CO2 acts as a narcotic and blunts the senses.

As city - dwellers and tourists switch from riding fossil fuel - powered vehicles to public bikes, more than 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions is reduced annually, estimates Tao Xuejun, vice president of the program.

Because methane, which makes up about 95 percent of the natural gas in pipelines, is about 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, the leakage raises a troubling climate question: How clean is natural gas?

Experts on greenhouse - gas emissions tell me that every time my car burns a gallon of gasoline, I am putting more than 25 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as well as a smaller amount of methane, nitrous oxide, and various other toxic gases.

Methane is far more damaging as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide — 25 times more so.

Although the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is much higher, at around 385 parts per million, methane is a worry as it is much better than carbon dioxide at locking in heat from solar radiation.

The seven - day rainfall total from Harvey was as much as 40 percent higher than rainfall from a similar storm would have been decades ago, before human activity caused atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to spike, according to a study published yesterday in Geophysical Research Letters.

As a result — and for reasons that remain unexplained — the waters of the Southern Ocean may have begun to release carbon dioxide, enough to raise concentrations in the atmosphere by more than 100 parts per million over millennia — roughly equivalent to the rise in the last 200 years.

«As remarkable as it is that climate can change that quickly naturally, what is even more remarkable is that some of the rates of change we're experiencing today — increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide for example — are faster than anything we've been able to find in the past several million years of geologic historAs remarkable as it is that climate can change that quickly naturally, what is even more remarkable is that some of the rates of change we're experiencing today — increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide for example — are faster than anything we've been able to find in the past several million years of geologic historas it is that climate can change that quickly naturally, what is even more remarkable is that some of the rates of change we're experiencing today — increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide for example — are faster than anything we've been able to find in the past several million years of geologic history.

The U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification estimates that soil, as a sink for carbon dioxide, provides a larger reservoir than either vegetation or the atmosphere, calling its sequestration capabilities «unparalleled.»

They argue that there is something wrong with a world in which carbon - dioxide levels are kept to 450 parts per million (a trajectory widely deemed compatible with a 2 degree cap on warming) but at the same time more than a billion of the poorest people are left without electricity, as in one much discussed scenario from the International Energy Agency.

They would also do something to help Australia meet its target of cutting carbon dioxide emissions, as most would have more impact than the small carbon tax which has been proposed.

Total annual production emissions, averaged over five years, would equal about 100 grams of carbon dioxide per megajoule — which is 7 percent greater than gasoline emissions and 62 grams above the 60 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions as required by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act.

However, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere — roughly 290 ppm (parts per million)-- was ca. 110 ppm lower than the current level, as ice core data from the Antarctic shows.

Twenty years after such a release, methane is 72 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) as a greenhouse gas (after 100 years it remains 25 times more potent than CO2), so if the methane is released, the planet risks a runaway climate catastrophe.

HFC - 23, an industrial greenhouse gas thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide, is produced as a by - product in the manufacture of refrigerant, and a number of major offset projects capture and destroy HFC - 23, doing a huge service to the climate.

In a separate study, Katey Walter, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, showed that much of this buried carbon may emerge as methane, a greenhouse gas some 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

But every person in Britain uses more than 80 times as much fossil fuel as a Bangladeshi, so Britain's population growth effectively contributes 3.5 times as much carbon dioxide to the global atmosphere as Bangladesh's.

Because there is no combustion, fuel cells run extremely cleanly: Their emissions are just water and carbon dioxide, and they produce less than half as much CO2 per kilowatt - hour as do traditional power plants.

But today their influence is far less than that of manufactured greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and the CFCs, according to two new studies of the link between solar activity and climate.

When ruminants digest their feed, methane is formed as a natural by - product of the microbial process in the rumen, and since methane is a 25 times more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, there is a need to devise methods to reduce such emissions from cattle.

It was evidence that the Bakken was leaking raw natural gas, including huge amounts of methane, which is 86 times more potent as a global warmer than carbon dioxide during the first nine years of its life.

As rumored, EPA will require that all new natural gas - fired plants emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt - hour, and coal plants no more than 1,100 pounds per megawatt - hour.

Hydrogen can also be split from water in high - temperature nuclear reactors or generated from fossil fuels such as coal or natural gas, with the resulting carbon dioxide captured and sequestered rather than released into the atmosphere.

To heat that boiler, the damp, crumbly brown coal known as lignite — which is even more polluting than the harder black anthracite variety — burns in the presence of pure oxygen, a process known as oxyfuel, releasing as waste both water vapor and that more notorious greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).

Doniger notes that Bush has refused to sign on to a plan that calls for a 50 percent cut in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 2050 or to an effort to hold average temperatures from rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, as have been proposed by other countries.

According to some accounts, the rise in carbon dioxide will usher in a new golden age where food production will be higher than ever before and most plants and animals will thrive as never before.

However, a new University of Minnesota study with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than scientists previously believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open - air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.

Coastal portions of the world's oceans, once believed to be a source of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere, are now thought to absorb as much as two - thirds more carbon than they emitted in the preindustrial age, researchers estimate.

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