Sentences with phrase «warm gas»

Some of the budget estimates also make an allowance for the effects of anthropogenic emissions of warming gases other than CO2, such as methane.

Many analysts say such a tax would be a more straightforward way of limiting planet - warming gases from industry.

Then: the super warming gas methane only lasts 10 years.

The sum of these efforts in developing countries will reduce growth in warming emissions by billions of metric tons of warming gases per year over the coming decade.

But effects of this global - warming gas go beyond the air and land.

Warm gas cleanup may be used in the economic analysis to demonstrate integrated technology value.

They assumed that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide — the main global warming gas — will increase by 1 percent per year, compounded yearly.

They now account for half the emissions of warming gases — and rising.

The fear is that this could lead to a vicious spiral - fewer trees to soak up CO2 means more global warming gases in the air, which means higher temperatures and therefore fewer trees.

Nitrogen used in fertilizer also tends to produce nitrous oxide, which is 300 times as potent a global warming gas as carbon dioxide.»

The grand living room has plenty of seating, lots of light, a 70» HD TV, warm gas fireplace, and ceiling fan.

For energy companies willing to accept some limits on warming gases, one goal is to firm up a market for tradeable credits earned by companies that make sharp cuts in emissions or plant or protect forests, which absorb carbon dioxide.

Physicist Ronald Walsworth of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics initially brought light to a standstill by trapping it inside a glass bottle filled with warm gas atoms.

Viruses hijacking these microbes could be an important overlooked factor in tracing how living things trap — or in this case, fail to trap — the climate - warming gas carbon dioxide.

Meanwhile, most researchers believe that ever warmer years will become routine as humans pump more carbon dioxide and other warming gases into the atmosphere.

The party opposes «any and all cap and trade legislation» that would create a system of tradable pollution permits designed to reduce industrial emissions of warming gases such as carbon dioxide.

As the United Nations became involved in efforts to curb climate change in the last 20 years, it relied on a scientific formula: Carbon dioxide, the most prevalent warming gas, released by smokestacks and vehicles, is given a value of 1.

In the past, Sessions has acknowledged that human activity may be warming the planet but has fiercely fought government efforts to curb emissions of warming gases including carbon dioxide and methane.

But all our furnaces, cars, and factories churn out even more warming gases day in and day out.

According to a paper his group published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2007, humans are now pumping out climate - warming gases nearly three times faster than the IPCC authors anticipated in their worst - case scenario.

Did you know, composting at home for just one year can save global warming gases equivalent to all the CO2 your kettle produces annually, or your washing machine produces in three months?

«WASHINGTON — The world pumped up its pollution of the chief man - made global warming gas last year, setting a course that could push beyond leading scientists» projected worst - case scenario, international researchers said Thursday.

Since most of these safety devices use the global warming gas CO2 in small cartridges for inflation, I am wondering if there's any way we can reduce climate change by all have lots of personal airbags, everywhere.

IBM achieved its initial goal by reducing total global energy - related greenhouse gas emissions by an average of six percent per year and emissions of the potent climate - warming gases perfluorocompounds by 58 percent from 2000 to 2005.

For any nation, that's definitely a huge step forward in reducing planet warming gasses in the ongoing fight to curb climate change.

However, Connie Hedegaard, the Danish minister for climate and energy, told the Associated Press the most workable solution would be global limits on the pollution blamed for global warming, rather than an outright tax on carbon dioxide and other major industrial warming gases.

Heat from the interior of Jupiter causes circulation patterns in the atmosphere, with warm gas rising and cooling, before sinking back into the depths of the planet.

Visibility (particulates and nitrous oxides) and acid rain (sulfur dioxide) dominated in the formation of policy established via the 1970 Clean Air Act and subsequent Clean Air Act Amendments in 1977 and 1990, while global warming gases remained unregulated.