Sentences with phrase «third less greenhouse gases»

Ironically, despite a reputation for being dirty, diesel engines produce one - third less greenhouse gases than their gasoline siblings do.

Not exact matches

The other two gases have significantly less impact: isoflurane is only a third as powerful a greenhouse gas as is desflurane and sevoflurance has only an eighth of desflurane's effect.

Reducing the need for paper products means less demand for tree cutting — this prevents deforestation, protects wildlife habitats, reduces pollution and other negative effects of paper industry, the third - largest industrial emitter of greenhouse gasses.

By «using more reasonable» data, Cathles and his colleagues confirm that «gas has less than half and perhaps a third the greenhouse impact as coal.

This decline is one - third less than the decline experienced by the nation as a whole, which saw greenhouse gas emissions drop 9.3 percent during the same time period.

But the study finds one - quarter to one - third less severe climate change when greenhouse gas emissions follow the alternative scenario.

However, the study finds much less severe climate change — one - quarter to one - third that of the «business - as - usual» scenario — when greenhouse gas emissions follow the alternative scenario.

Experts stressed that the volcano contributed just a tiny amount — less than a third of one percentage point — of global emissions of greenhouse gases.