Sentences with phrase «very powerful greenhouse gas»

At lower altitudes, however, it is a very powerful greenhouse gas.

But this new study estimates that as much as 8 % of all methane in shale gas escapes into the atmosphere - and methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas.

Methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas, accounting for about 18 percent of the current warming.

If there were no CO2 at all, H20 would still be a very powerful greenhouse gas raising the Earth's temperature by some 30 degrees.

As you see, food waste is the largest waste stream going to landfills in the US, accounting for 21 percent of the American waste stream and contributing to climate change as food waste in landfills decomposes and generates methane, a very powerful greenhouse gas.

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Programs to reduce greenhouse gases can change the climate as we are using a very powerful lever which amplifies our small efforts.

We now know that for a decade the Howard Government's policies have been not so much influenced but actually written by a tiny cabal of powerful fossil fuel lobbyists representing the very corporations whose commercial interests would be affected by any move to reduce Australia's burgeoning greenhouse gas emissions.

Edit 3: The very next sentence says, «This conclusion ignores the long - lasting, incredibly powerful greenhouse gas discovered 9 December 2013 by University of Toronto researchers: perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA) is 7,100 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, and it persists hundreds of years in the atmosphere.»