Sentences with phrase «trapping effects of carbon dioxide»

But when it leaks into the air before it gets to the pilot light, methane has 30 times the short - term heat - trapping effects of carbon dioxide.

Not exact matches

Hwang also considered metal oxide frameworks that trap carbon dioxide molecules, but they had the unfortunate side effect of capturing the desired methane as well and they are far too expensive to make for this application.

So this effect could either be the result of natural variability in Earth's climate, or yet another effect of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases like water vapor trapping more heat and thus warming sea - surface temperatures.

Hansen has studied other effects of seasonal carbon - dioxide ice on Mars, such as spider - shaped features that result from explosive release of carbon - dioxide gas trapped beneath a sheet of dry ice as the underside of the sheet thaws in spring.

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.

Greenhouse effect The warming of Earth's atmosphere due to the buildup of heat - trapping gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane.

[UPDATE 5:30 p.m. Voices added below] Most concerns about growing emissions of carbon dioxide have focused on the gas's heat - trapping effect on climate.

... In the late 1980s, there was a sense of the new about the greenhouse effect, even though scientists had been positing since the 1890s that heat - trapping gases, particularly carbon dioxide released by burning coal and other focal fuels could raise global temperatures.

In addition to stopping the seas from rising we shall undertake to protect protect our children and future generations of unaborted from the effects of climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping pollutants and by taking sensible steps to prepare for changes in climate that are no longer avoidable.

Around 1850, physicist John Tyndall discovered that carbon dioxide traps heat in our atmosphere, producing the greenhouse effect, which enables all of creation as we know it to live on Earth.

In this stylized representation of the human - intensified greenhouse effect, human activities, predominantly the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), are increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases, increasing the natural greenhouse effect and thus Earth's temperature.

Global Warming is the increase of Earth's average surface temperature due to effect of greenhouse gasses, such as carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels or from deforestation, which trap heat that would otherwise escape from Earth.

This heat - trapping, warming influence of the blanket of air over the Earth's surface is called the greenhouse effect, and it will become even stronger as greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor increase in concentration.

The debate over global warming centers on the extent to which gases released from the burning of fossil fuels — mainly carbon dioxide — are trapping the sun's heat in the Earth's atmosphere, creating a greenhouse effect.

as for carbon dioxide and nitrogen gas and oxygen gas and the collisions you mention — the concentration by volume of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is very small — the most significant effects in the bottom layer of the atmosphere (troposphere) will surely be the heat trapping effect of increased carbon dioxide combined with the pressure - height changes of concentrations of carbon dioxide due to the warming effect.

I could begin a story about the growing human influence on earth's climate system with a recap of the effects of an unabated rise in concentrations of heat - trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.