Sentences with phrase «than the atmosphere does»

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New natural gas pipelines do not face the same kind of opposition as oil pipelines because the product is a gas and, in case of a leak, it escapes into the atmosphere rather than fouling waterways and soil.

The authors conclude that there is a general atmosphere of consolidation in which older, larger businesses are doing increasingly better than new ones.

You do realize that it was less than 1 million years ago when the CO2 levels in the atmosphere were thousands of times greater than they are now?

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.

If we all concentrated on showing God's love, and bringing people into an atmosphere of unconditional love we would bear much more fruit than if we concentrate on what someone is doing wrong.

Something I learned that surprised me is that factory farming of animals causes something like 3x more emissions into the atmosphere than a car does!

Youths are usually louder and more emotional than grown ups also their is the prawn sandwich fans the ones with no monetary troubles and you don't need to be Einstein to work out which one of those two types makes for a better atmosphere.

A great stadium (much better than Wembley) even if it does not have the atmosphere of the old Highbury in the days of terracing.

If Arsenal doesn't pull a remarkable surprise within the next 18 hours, then the fans MUST force change and make the atmosphere in the Emirates too hot to handle for Wenger and co. (worse than last season) because that is what they deserve.

We as the Arsenal need to do our part in becoming a place where the highest dreams of players are realized, even if we don't always win trophies, we need to at least always have a «Genuine» fighting chance, Real Madrid went a number of seasons chasing La Decima, spent loads of cash, played second fiddle to Barca for a few seasons even but still players still dreamed of playing for them in that period, we as fans need to grow up too and stop bitching and whining especially about our players, we create a toxic atmosphere for these guys when we do so and it doesn't help nobody, little wonder our players perform better away than they do at home.

They're too busy giving it large on social media and taking bloody selfies rather than putting in a shift on the pitch, believe me, I know, I've been to every game this season except the Hull replay, I've sold my 3 tickets for the Camp Nou to one of the Directors at work, he doesn't support Arsenal but wants experience the atmosphere, I couldn't be bothered to go quite frankly.

For all we know he could have signed a contract extension already and might be waiting till the end of the season to tell us so we don't riot and effect the atmosphere at the games any more than we have been with the protests.

The visitors may indeed have other priorities — i.e staying in the division but they will fancy themselves to get something from Old Trafford to take back to the KCOM stadium, as nothing beats reaching a cup final than beating one of the favourites, which could do a world of good for the atmosphere around the club, which at the moment is nothing but toxic

That atmosphere that will give room for graduates to manifest their potentials and do something for themselves rather than depending on the institutions that government has provided by itself», he emphasized.

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.

In another approach, called aerocapture, an arriving spacecraft dives into the Martian atmosphere and lets friction eat away at some of its excess velocity, rather than relying solely on a big fuel burn to do the trick.

Incorporating this kind of data into the models has been difficult in part because geostationary data provide fewer measurements for any given vertical slice of the atmosphere than do polar orbiters, which circle Earth at lower altitudes.

Scientists could seek to understand the subtle pressure of light that causes asteroids to change their spin, and could retrieve samples for dating and chemical analysis that would offer a clearer picture of Solar System material than do meteorites, which, although they are pieces of asteroids, are altered during their fall through Earth's atmosphere.

Their finding that the lunar rocks are enriched in the heavier potassium isotope does not favor the silicate atmosphere model, which predicts lunar rocks will contain less of the heavier isotope than terrestrial rocks, the opposite of what the scientists found.

FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE — After more than a month of attempts to contact the reclusive hero, reports are coming in today from the icy home of global do - gooder Superman that he intentionally let the meteor that impacted Chelyabinsk, Russia on February 15th enter the atmosphere and explode.

But for planetary scientists, Jupiter's most distinctive mystery may be what's called the «energy crisis» of its upper atmosphere: how do temperatures average about as warm as Earth's even though the enormous planet is more than fives times further away from the sun?

TESS would not do spectroscopy itself; that job would be left to observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope or the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope — which will be larger and more powerful than Hubble and have a spectrograph tailored to the study of planetary atmospheres.

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.

Oonincx says that based on these results, insects do seem to put more of their food into growing plump and less into polluting the atmosphere than do traditional livestock.

The researchers found that during glacial periods when the atmosphere was colder and sea ice was far more extensive, deep ocean waters came to the surface much further north of the Antarctic continent than they do today.

By the way, this effect is most prevalent when the particles that do the scattering are smaller than the wavelength of light, as is the case for the nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere.

«It is true that they do warm climate by strong methane emissions when they first form, but on a longer - term scale, they switch to become climate coolers because they ultimately soak up more carbon from the atmosphere than they ever release.»

«If we had wind machines in the upper atmosphere, we could generate power ten times greater than we do with wind turbines here on Earth,» says Hendrix.

One thing is already clear: A warmer global atmosphere currently holds about 3 to 5 percent more water vapor than it did at the beginning of the 20th century, and that can contribute to heavier precipitation.

The problem is that none of this technology exists or, where it does as in the case of CCS, has not been deployed at a large enough scale, because it costs much more than the alternative: freely polluting the atmosphere.

Signs of water in a gas giant exoplanet's atmosphere suggest the world formed much closer to its star than gas giants in our solar system did

Microbes seem far - fetched at this point, but the other alternative — that the Martian atmosphere contained more oxygen in the past than it does now — seems possible, Lanza said.

Chemicals found in Martian rocks by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover suggest the Red Planet once had more oxygen in its atmosphere than it does now.

«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.

«Rather than building a time machine and comparing how ecosystems behave in 2070 — which is hard to do — we basically create the atmosphere of 2070 above our plots,» says Reich.

Whereas the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere will contribute to warming the planet for many decades to come, Ramanathan says, the good news about warming agents such as black carbon is that they don't linger in the atmosphere for more than a few weeks.

Water pressure at those depths is more than 200 times that of the atmosphere at the surface, and no one knew what all the heat, gas, and salt below the seafloor might do to the drilling equipment.

Typically, industrial nations today create a fifth more wealth from every tonne of carbon unleashed into the atmosphere than they did two decades ago.

With an atmosphere of much less than one percent oxygen, scientists have presumed that there were things living in deep water in the mud that didn't need sunlight or oxygen, but Czaja says experts didn't have any direct evidence for them until now.

One big reason the sea level dropped for so long: Only 6 % of the rainfall in Australia runs directly back to the sea, and the rest runs inland to lowlands (image depicts a normally dry area in eastern Australia flooded by rains in late November 2011) where it either soaks into the ground or evaporates back into the atmosphere — a process that returns moisture to the sea far more slowly than the rivers draining other continents do.

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

Spencer and Braswell had drawn on NASA satellite data to try to show that the atmospheres in climate models retain more heat than the real atmosphere does, causing the models to predict too much warming under a strengthening greenhouse.

Atmospheric scientist Junjie Liu of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and her colleagues report that the tropics of Asia, Africa and South America together released about 2.5 gigatons more carbon into the atmosphere in 2015 than they did in 2011, a cooler and wetter La Niña year.

And more water vapor worldwide is related to the atmosphere being warmer — we have about 7 percent more water vapor in the atmosphere now than we did in the 1950s, which is directly linked to the increase in heavy precipitation events.

OBSERVATIONS of a Neptune - like exoplanet show that it has a watery atmosphere — suggesting it formed closer to its star than did the gas giants in our solar system.

The study also found that open landfills emit 91 percent of all landfill methane emissions, while closed landfills are 17 percent more efficient than open landfills at capturing methane so it does not escape into the atmosphere.

He and his team modelled Earth's climate, and found that adding large quantities of CO2 to the atmosphere — far more even than what we're doing now — could also heat the planet until it leaks water.

More than 50 years later, scientists have found a way to use radioactive carbon isotopes released into the atmosphere by nuclear testing to settle a long - standing debate in neuroscience: Does the adult human brain produce new neurons?

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

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