Sentences with phrase «total methane in the atmosphere»

See page 485 Livestock produce 18 percent of the total methane in the atmosphere.

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Our target is estimation of global total methane balances, including emission trends in time and their differentiation by region and emission category, with specific interest on methane emissions from northern wetlands, and transport and chemical sink of methane in the atmosphere.

Conversely, the approach used here sees the total directly, based on the amount of methane present in the atmosphere.

They say the total methane in the entire earth's atmosphere right now is around 2 - 3 gigatons.

While the greenhouse gas footprint of the production of other foods, compared to sources such as livestock, is highly dependent on a number of factors, production of livestock currently accounts for about 30 % of the U.S. total emissions of methane.316, 320,325,326 This amount of methane can be reduced somewhat by recovery methods such as the use of biogas digesters, but future changes in dietary practices, including those motivated by considerations other than climate change mitigation, could also have an effect on the amount of methane emitted to the atmosphere.327

The total amount of methane in the Siberian gas fields is several times the amount of methane in the atmosphere of the earth - more than 25 trillion cubic meters of methane.

Other greenhouse gases make up an even smaller portion of the total greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, but are more long - lived and less reactive than methane.