Sentences with phrase «unusually high gas»

Despite efforts to reduce emissions, unusually high gas prices in 2006 meant more electricity was generated by coal, the environment secretary explained.

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This crustal weakness allowed unusually high heat flow from deeper mantle sources to «super-heat» the highly organic Niobrara source rocks, which in turn generated the significant oil and gas deposits now contained in the Niobrara and Codell formations.

The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.

In the Gulf War, soldiers were both exposed to stress and given AChE inhibitors to prevent nerve gas damage, which might combine to create a brief burst of unusually high acetylcholine levels — and a long - term acetylcholine deficit, Soreq points out.

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

Discovered by John Herschel in 1835, NGC 3125 is a great example of a starburst galaxy — a galaxy in which unusually high numbers of new stars are forming, springing to life within intensely hot clouds of gas.

It also offers a sizable number of bonus points when you use your card for purchases at U.S. gas stations, restaurants and supermarkets, and an unusually high rewards rate for everyday purchases.

Factors # 1, # 2, and # 3 are easy to calculate with maths, while computer modeling and the geological record make it possible to work out # 4, so scientists have a fairly confident grasp on the rhythms that dictate ice ages — absent extreme periods of volcanism or other sources of unusually high quantities of greenhouse gasses.

The solution to this «faint young Sun paradox» appears to lie in the presence of unusually high concentrations of greenhouse gases at the time, particularly methane and carbon dioxide.

In 2011 API brought suit with other parties against the EPA over its authority to regulate greenhouse gases, stating that «EPA professes to be 90 to 99 % certain that «anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are primarily responsible for «unusually high planetary temperatures», but the record does not remotely support this level of certainty» (Goldman and Rogerson 2013), a statement that flew in the face of the prevailing scientific consensus (IPCC 2007).