Sentences with phrase «than carbon dioxide does»

Indeed, according to the EPA, so - called «enteric fermentation» in cows and other ruminant animals, like sheep and goats, contributed 26 percent of the country's total emissions of methane, a hard - hitting greenhouse gas with much greater short term warming consequences than carbon dioxide does (though the latter packs a far greater long - term punch).

That's six billion bloated bags of good and bad bacteria, some of which aids digestion but some of which steals the cows» half - chewed grass and corn and emits massive amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that captures about 80 times more heat in a 20 - year period than carbon dioxide does.

There is an enormous amount of methane at the bottom of the oceans; and methane reflects heat far better than carbon dioxide does.

Not exact matches

Some of the nitrogen the crops do not absorb is converted into nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

The fires were costly for the rest of the planet, too: At their peak, the blazes belched more climate - warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each day than did all U.S. economic activity.

The analysis also showed that elevated carbon dioxide significantly enhanced soil water levels in drylands more so than it did in non-drylands, with soil water content increasing by 9 percent in non-drylands compared to 17 percent in drylands, Wang said.

Despite the size of the bloom, however, the plankton did not take in a record - breaking amount of carbon dioxide — only about 20 % more carbon than that part of the ocean sequesters biologically each year.

Coal - burning power plants in the United States emit about 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — nearly 17 percent of worldwide coal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warming.

Not only does it come from renewable resources, but it's better than PET at sealing out gases like oxygen and carbon dioxide, which is critical for preserving foodstuffs.

Although CFCs are extremely persistent, remaining in the upper atmosphere for decades, and although they are 10,000 times more efficient than carbon dioxide at trapping heat, the process of controlling them has been under way for years, for reasons having nothing to do with the greenhouse effect.

Scientists estimate the pollutant was responsible for half the warming in the Arctic since 1890, and could be warming the globe with more than half the so - called «forcing» that carbon dioxide does.

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.

«I don't feel that we should be anywhere higher than 550 parts per million of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere,» David King, chief scientific adviser to the UK government, said in a speech earlier in 2004.

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.

When carbon dioxide levels were doubled in the modified model, temperatures rose by at least a quarter more than they did when the unmodified model was used — to at least 5 °C (9 °F).

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.

Molecule for molecule, methane traps 20 to 25 times more heat in the atmosphere than does carbon dioxide.

«If a power plant is burning continuously, within three to five months, depending on the type of power plant, the carbon dioxide from the power plant is doing more to heat the earth than the fires in its boiler,» Ken Caldeira, a climate scientists at the Carnegie Institute and the study's co-author, said.

Overturning textbook knowledge, the researchers discovered that the trees «exhale» less carbon dioxide during the day than previously thought, and that forest photosynthesis doesn't decline over the course of the summer.

Methane doesn't last as long in the atmosphere, but it is much more efficient than carbon dioxide at trapping heat.

Now, if you have all this very cold, nearly freezing water surrounding these ice caps, sucking up carbon dioxide out of the polar atmosphere, at nearly the highest possible rate, 30 times faster than oxygen, and 70 times faster than nitrogen, doesn't it stand to reason that the air that remains might just have a lot less carbon dioxide in it than the atmosphere across the rest of the planet?

They come from faraway places like Sweden, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands and produce all - conquering, supercar - slaying hyperexotics that generate far more horsepower, carbon dioxide, and attention than they do sales.

Researchers at Stanford University who closely track China's power sector, coal use, and carbon dioxide emissions have done an initial rough projection and foresee China possibly emitting somewhere between 1.9 and 2.6 billion tons less carbon dioxide from 2008 to 2010 than it would have under «business as usual» if current bearish trends for the global economy hold up.

Meanwhile, forests and oceans, which suck up carbon dioxide, are doing so at lower rates than in the 20th century, scientists said.

-- Every human appears to have 10, 20 or more horses yoked with him (the primemovers that burn fossil fuels and make our current lives comfortable) which consume oxygen and spew out far more carbon - dioxide than man would do alone.

I have yet to see a serious challenge to the math on this done by Vaclav Smil of the University of Manitoba, who has noted that handling just 10 percent of today's carbon dioxide emissions would require more pipelines and other equipment than is now used worldwide to extract oil — a precious commodity — from the ground.

While a handful of projects have captured carbon dioxide, compressed it, and pumped it into the ground, they have done so on a scale of no more than about 1 million tons a year.

The gasoline also did contain some hydrogen that burned to form water, so the 3:1 ratio Jeff references probably was for gasoline (not containing ethanol) but adjusted for the mass content of the hydrogen in the gasoline and is likely more accurate than the 3.67 ratio of carbon to carbon dioxide masses.

But even when carbon dioxide does make its way out of the atmosphere, Earth's natural systems can release other carbon dioxide molecules that were previously stored in the oceans / land back into the atmosphere, making the full effect of carbon dioxide emissions on surface temperatures much longer than this 5 - 200 year average.

However, in phasing out CFCs, humans created new gases, HFCs, which do not deplete the ozone layer, but are hundreds to thousands of times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide.

«While the Paris Agreement does not address the issue of climate engineering expressly, the target of limiting global average temperature rise to no more than 2 °C (a goal that appears unlikely to be achieved in the absence of significant amounts of carbon removal) raises questions with respect to how the issue of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM) technologies may be addressed under the Paris Agreement.

Because the day's heat takes longer on average to pass through all those layers than it did when there was less carbon dioxide, Earth's average temperature has gone up.

«It makes far more sense,» he said, «to keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in the first place than it does to put faith in speculative schemes to draw down carbon once it has already been emitted.»

We don't get any closer to science by denying the significant possibility that we are causing significantly adverse changes in climate than we do by the ridiculous assertion that we understand the chaotic complexity of climate well enough to say with certainty how many parts per millions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will lead to how many degrees of global warming.

To increase supplies, most companies are looking to tar sands in Canada or converting coal or natural gas into liquid fuels, technologies that emit far more carbon dioxide than conventional oil does.

And speaking of deniers, a claim I've heard bandied about is that a single volcano eruption pours more carbon dioxide into the air than humans do over the course of a year (the time scale may vary depending on the claimant, but as you'll see it doesn't matter).

Keep in mind that humanity does other things than merely emitting carbon dioxide such as reducing poverty.

Furthermore, the CMIP3 archive does not include diagnostics of radiative forcing from aerosols, ozone, or greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide.

As a result, today's atmosphere contains 42 per cent more carbon dioxide than it did before the industrial era.

Now, there are a lot of environmentalists who absolutely object to fracking because their attitude is sometimes it's done really sloppy and releases methane that is even a worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

The specific heat of water vapour is higher than that of carbon dioxide, so it will reduce the gradient slightly, and thus have a cooling effect, just as it does by reducing the gradient to the «wet adiabatic lapse rate» on Earth.

Even worse, it's all for nothing — even if carbon dioxide plays a bigger role in climate change than many scientists believe it does.

This momentous switch from coal to lower - CO2 gas as a source of energy has done far more to drive down carbon dioxide emissions than any recent government climate policy,» he writes.

«(i) a determination that 1 metric ton of the gas does not make a contribution to global warming over 100 years that is equal to or greater than that made by 1 metric ton of carbon dioxide; and

Doing that may have just gotten a lot tougher — a new study says atmospheric carbon dioxide levels haven't been this high in more than two million years.

It is a powerful greenhouse gas, and in the short term it does much more damage than the far more abundant carbon dioxide.

Once again water vapor (H2O) does exactly the same thing; only moreso than carbon dioxide; and it is also much more abundant in the atmosphere; even over the most arid deserts.

As a real gas carbon dioxide is of course one and half times heavier than air, so will always sink displacing air unless their is some work being done to change that, and it's not always windy..

Warmer winters (if they have lots of clouds... in winter thick clouds actually warm since there is less daylight and there cooling effect is now reversed to warming by retaining the heat... reflecting more IR than carbon dioxide can do, depending upon the type of cloud).

But under exertion, he probably breaths out more carbon dioxide than the average engine doing the same amount of work.