Sentences with phrase «to increase the methane»

In the longer - term, a crucial question that remains is whether methane oxidation in natural environments can match potentially increased methane production in response to predicted climate change.

We've increased the methane content by, what, 150 percent?

Note that increased methane also leads to increased ozone concentrations, for added radiative forcing bang for your methane buck.

A number of equipment changes could also help prevent methane leaks and increase methane capture.

Similarly, expected future increases in precipitation and length of growing season would tend to increase methane production.

My belief, reinforced by recent, and as yet unpublished, research by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists, is that we have just entered the phase of super-exponentially increasing methane releases from the Arctic.»

Sorry to veer off topic slightly but this is a request that the good folk of realclimate consider offering their perspective on the news about increasing methane levels.

A Primer On Methane Leaking From The East Siberian Shelf Reaction to the news that there is increased methane leaking from the seafloor on the East Siberian Shelf in the Arctic has ranged from near panic to a near impersonation of Alfred E Neuman's «What - Me Worry?»

Opponents raise concerns about increasing methane gas levels (a powerful greenhouse gas) and other contamination involving the spillover of fracking wastewater in the groundwater of shale - rich regions.

But because there's not much methane to begin with, it's not true that 1.33 x methane has more impact than a doubling of CO2 (we've already increased methane by well over this amount)... a doubling of methane doesn't even have nearly as much impact as a doubling of CO2.

But because there's not much methane to begin with, it's not true that 1.33 x methane has more impact than a doubling of CO2 (we've already increased methane by well over this amount)... a doubling of methane doesn't even have nearly as much impact as a doubling of CO2.

«With increased methane into the atmosphere, the climate gets warmer faster, and early on it has a more intense effect on the whole climate.»

Isotope Data Suggests Fossil Fuels Not to Blame for Increase Methane bubbles up from swamps and rivers, belches from volcanoes, rises from wildfires, and seeps from the guts of cows and termites (where is it made by microbes).

Half of the cultured algae can be pumped down within the landfill to further increase methane output, while the other portion of algae could go toward creating biodiesel fuels.

The study suggests that future warming in the Arctic could expand the active layer and increase methane transport to lakes, and from lakes into the atmosphere, exacerbating global warming.

They also note that CO2 fertilization resulting in increases in NPP would likely increase methane emissions.

Dairy manure mixed with no biochar and 0.1 - 1 percent biochar showed that adding biochar increased methane production by approximately 40 percent and reduced the production time to achieve target biogas production by 50 - 70 percent.

Does your study take into account increased methane releases from the artic as temperatures warm?

It'll increase methane leakage, which put the equivalent of a half million cars on the road from Aliso Canyon.

So I think it's really a testament to how far lost the environmental movement is that so many of these groups have signed off on this deal that would increase methane leaks, increase carbon pollution.

Were increasing methane levels included in the projections?

Since methane is a greenhouse gas 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide, such a scenario would trigger a «climate catastrophe», they say, increasing the methane content of the planet's atmosphere twelve-fold, and raising temperatures by 1.3 ˚C.

Indeed, increased methane emissions lead to decreased hydroxyl concentrations, but it isn't a straightforward calculation to determine exactly how much hydroxyl disappears, or how much methane lifetime increases due to that.

Codigestion can increase methane production from low - yielding or difficult to digest farm - based feedstocks.

Methane gas released from the seabed during the summer months leads to an increased methane concentration in the ocean.

I sent a comment encouraging Real Climate to blog on the increasing methane levels papet that seems to be getting a bit of press but I supplied the wrong link.

The impact of policies which involve trade - offs between one GHG and another (such as replacing coal with natural gas, which would reduce CO2 but might increase methane emissions) is especially uncertain, since current models of both gases» life - cycles (and thus their relative GWPs) may need to be revised in the future.

Likely impacts include large - scale disintegration of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice - sheet; the extinction of an estimated 15 — 40 per cent of plant and animal species; dangerous ocean acidification; increasing methane release; substantial soil and ocean carbon - cycle feedbacks; and widespread drought and desertification in Africa, Australia, Mediterranean Europe, and the western USA.

«A higher feed intake will increase methane production.

«Science is unable to keep up with the rate of change in the climate, the arctic heating and melting, and the increasing methane emissions.

Whether climate change will increase methane emissions will depend on soil moisture, said Professor Turetsky.

The researchers found that these effects are linked to increased methane emissions from peat with higher bulk densities.

Most studies also point to increased methane emissions from wetlands in a warmer, wetter climate (Denman et al., 2007 Section 7.4.1.2).

Methane gas released from the Arctic seabed during the summer months leads to an increased methane concentration in the ocean.

«I really think it's really a testament to how far lost the environmental movement is that so many of these groups have signed off on this deal that would increase methane leaks, increase carbon pollution,» Shellenberger says.