Sentences with phrase «time global carbon dioxide»

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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.

When food waste decomposes in a landfill, it generates methane, a potent greenhouse gas with 21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.

The gas has a global warming potential 86 times that of carbon dioxide on a 20 - year time scale.

Molecule for molecule its potential to cause global warming is 300 times more than carbon dioxide.

Based on a unique model that links China's energy system and economy, the study finds that China's coal use, a major source of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, should peak some time around the year 2020, while the country's overall CO2 emissions would peak around 2030, or perhaps sooner.

While scientists and policy experts debate the impacts of global warming, Earth's soil is releasing roughly nine times more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than all human activities combined.

Increased carbon dioxide levels seem to affect the timing of leaf coloration both through global warming and directly chemically.

Total global carbon dioxide emissions could see a boost as flight times increase in the stronger winds.

The air holds virtually no oxygen but has between a hundred and a thousand times more carbon dioxide than today, a global greenhouse so effective that the waves below may be near boiling point.

They believe this caused global climate change at that time, not carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The global warming potency of HFC - 134a, commonly used in vehicle AC units, is 1300 times that of carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide gets more press, but methane is the more powerful agent of global warming, 21 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.

Since methane can cause about 20 times as much atmospheric warming as carbon dioxide, curbing methane would help slow global warming.

CSIRO scientist Barrie Pittock presented a paper showing that stabilising the global level of carbon dioxide at three times the pre-industrial level will require reducing emissions below half the present level.

To make matters worse, some of those excess nitrate molecules in the soil undergo another chemical change: Microbes help turn nitrate into gaseous nitrous oxide, which has roughly 300 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.

The coolants are typically greenhouse gases that, if they escape, have a global warming effect hundreds or thousands of times greater than carbon dioxide's.

The largest contributor to global warming is carbon dioxide and as it remains in the atmosphere for a long time, it works cumulatively.

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.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide reached (another) all - time peak in 2010.

Fake paper fools global warming naysayers The man - made - global - warming - is - a-hoax crowd latched onto a study this week in the Journal of Geoclimatic Studies by researchers at the University of Arizona's Department of Climatology, who reported that soil bacteria around the Atlantic and Pacific oceans belch more than 300 times the carbon dioxide released by all fossil fuel emission, strongly implying that humans are not to blame for climate change.

As it does, it could release tons of additional methane gas, which has 20 times the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide, possibly increasing the rate of global warming.

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.

Natural gas is primarily composed of methane, a gas with about 30 times the global warming power of carbon dioxide.

That's because methane (or CH4) has more than 30 times the global warming impact of carbon dioxide (CO2) over 100 years (and its more than 80 times more powerful over 20 years, since methane disappears from the atmosphere far more quickly than CO2).

A greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, methane in the atmosphere would accelerate global warming even further.

«It only makes up 9 % of total greenhouse gas emissions, but it's got 300 times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide», says Prof Richardson.

It was the first time in recorded history and at least one million years that global carbon dioxide concentrations in our earth's atmosphere were measured at or above 400 parts per million (ppm).

It has a high global warming potential: 72 times that of carbon dioxide over 20 years, and 25 times over 100 years, [43] and the levels are rising.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the greenhouse gas methane is highly efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere and a significant contributor to global warming, over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

-LSB-...] The CAA as amended in 1990 does mention «carbon dioxide» and» global warming potential,» but only once, in the context of non-regulatory provisions, and each time followed by a caveat admonishing EPA not to infer authority for «pollution control requirements» or «additional regulation.»

Pierrehumbert said Howarth uses the figure for methane's 20 - year global warming potential — 86 times that of carbon dioxide — without seriously discussing the magnitude of warming caused by those methane emissions compared to warming prevented by the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

My simple regression - based statistical climate model predicts global carbon dioxide, surface temperature & sea level at yearly time steps.

The real forecast is 383 ppm rising at 2 ppm / year, a minimum carbon dioxide sensitivity to doubling of 3 C, adding positive feedbacks, some of which are unknown, yields a 5 C increase in global average temperatures by 2100, and of course, time does not stop in 2100.

Essentially, China and India, the emerging giants in the global greenhouse, are saying that any extra costs for them to divert from established trajectories for carbon dioxide emissions as they pursue prosperity must be covered by the established industrial powers, which still have many times greater emissions on a per - capita basis and spent a century freely adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in building their wealth.

Bill McKibben writes on body of science pointing to a very low «safe» long - term threshold for carbon dioxide concentrations — 350 parts per million — which was hit and passed in 1988, around the time McKibben and I began writing on global warming.

In order to replace these industries, which are some of the biggest in the World, there is probably only one yearly renewable source of energy which can meet the global energy need, replace the cotton, provide paper and on the same time clean the atmosphere by discharging it of carbon dioxide and replacing it with oxygen.

But the report's author, Thomas Kerr, warned that this was a transitory pulse when sustained growth was needed, particularly given signs that no global price on carbon dioxide emissions was likely any time soon.

My point is this: In my view, the Times should find out, and convey to the public (in one place and in organized fashion), the views of each and every Congressperson, and person running for Congress, regarding a moratorium on coal - fired power plants (until their carbon dioxide emissions can be eliminated), a carbon «cap - and - auction» or «cap - and - trade» system, or carbon tax, and related matters having to do with global warming.

Parties to the Montreal Protocol met last month in Vienna to negotiate a global phase down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), super-greenhouse gases that are thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

-- Carbon dioxide is increasing in the atmosphere due to human activity; — Carbon dioxide is an excellent infrared absorber, and therefore, its increasing presence in the atmosphere contributes to global warming; and — The dwell time of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is hundreds of years.

A pound of HFCs has up to 14,000 times the global warming potential as a pound of carbon dioxide.

For the first time since the federal government began tracking carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere, the monthly average concentration of this greenhouse gas surpassed 400 parts per million in March 2015, according to latest results.

Nitrous oxide is a very potent GHG, with about 310 times the global warming potential (molecule per molecule) of carbon dioxide.

Karlsson also refers to «natural variability during the Cambrian», but fails to inform his readers that at that time atmospheric carbon dioxide levels exceeded the pre-industrial level of 280 ppm by 15 - times (yes, fifteen times) without any known parallel dangerous global warming.

Yesterday, NOAA scientists reported that in March 2015 the monthly average global carbon dioxide level went above 400 parts per million for the first time.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas pollutant, with up to 34 times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide, and it accounts for roughly one - quarter of human - made global warming.

«This marks the fact that humans burning fossil fuels have caused global carbon dioxide concentrations to rise more than 120ppm since pre-industrial times,» Pieter Tans, lead scientist of NOAA's greenhouse gas network, said in an interview to The Guardian Wednesday.

In May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the monthly global average concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had exceeded 400 parts per million for the first time since it had been compiling the data in 1979.

They report that stopping deforestation and allowing young secondary forests to grow back could establish a «forest sink» — an area that absorbs carbon dioxide rather than releasing it into the atmosphere — which by 2100 could grow by over 100 billion metric tons of carbon, about ten times the current annual rate of global fossil fuel emissions.

The belief that the world can drastically cut global carbon - dioxide emissions at a time when about half of the people on the planet are still living in relative energy poverty borders on fantasy.