Sentences with phrase «worse than carbon dioxide»

CO2e is derived by first determining how many times worse than carbon dioxide a given greenhouse gas is over the next century, and using that as a multiplier.

Remember, methane's greenhouse effect potential is significantly worse than carbon dioxide.

Over 50 percent of the waste created in Europe is thrown away in landfill sites, generating climate damaging methane emissions, which are 20 times worse than carbon dioxide.

They happily convert carbon compounds in their food to carbon dioxide, and also to very substantial quantities of methane, which is much worse than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.

Methane is roughly 84 - times worse than carbon dioxide in the short (20 - year) term, so EDF's counter translates methane emission to carbon - dioxide equivalent (CO2e), which is the standard measure of greenhouse gases.

Those trees are going to fall down and rot and turn into methane, which is much worse than carbon dioxide,» he said, noting that by turning wood chips into biofuel, his company would actually be reducing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

This gets even worse the closer plants are to sources of carbon dioxide — ragweed growing next to highways produces more potent pollen than ragweed growing away from large roads.

«With a warming climate, rising carbon dioxide levels, dams on more rivers than not, and overloading of nutrients into our waterways, the magnitude and duration of toxic cyanobacterial blooms is only going to get worse.»

That's bad news for the atmosphere when the gas in question is methane, the primary component in natural gas that is a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Climate Change: The Last Great Global Warming (p 56) The levels of carbon dioxide release and current speed of warming across the globe could lead to extinctions on a scale worse than previously thought, an article in this month's Scientific American suggests.

Meanwhile the environmental situation is much worse today than that report would have us believe as the human impact is not simply limited to carbon dioxide release in the atmosphere.

Beyond local impacts like bad air quality and ecological issues, wildfires also emit large amounts of carbon dioxide, rather than those trees sucking carbon out of the air.

Worse, thawed permafrost can release its carbon as methane, which is more than 20 times as potent a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide.

(Paper abstract) Soot from ships worse than expected Produced during combustion of fossil fuels and biofuels, light - absorbing carbon (soot) creates haze and absorbs light with an efficiency nearly one third that of carbon dioxide.

Meanwhile the environmental situation is much worse today than that report would have us believe as the human impact is not simply limited to carbon dioxide release in the atmosphere.

It is bad enough that they are in sight of fresh water and have access to canals, railroads and highway infrastructure galore; a new British study, «New Tricks With Old Bricks» (PDF), says reusing and refurbishing existing and empty properties could actually save more carbon dioxide than constructing new ones.

Now, there are a lot of environmentalists who absolutely object to fracking because their attitude is sometimes it's done really sloppy and releases methane that is even a worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Even worse, it's all for nothing — even if carbon dioxide plays a bigger role in climate change than many scientists believe it does.

In a new study, the Heritage Foundation estimates that recent proposals to limit carbon dioxide emissions in the United States would be a cure worse than the disease.

A 2007 study by Susan Page of the University of Leicester found that one ton of palm oil produced on peatland generates 15 to 70 tons of carbon dioxide, largely the result of deforestation and draining of peatlands, making palm oil - based - biofuels produced by peatlands conversion worse for climate than burning of conventional fossil fuels.

If the EPA acts unilaterally to restrict carbon dioxide emissions, the impact on the economy could be even worse than a cap and trade law enacted by Congress.

It may seem like a no - brainer to you and me: stop using gases that destroy our climate — HFCs are hundreds to thousands of times worse for the climate than carbon dioxide, and they are replaceable with gases that don't harm the climate!

Methane is 86 times worse for global warming than carbon dioxide.

The sustained burning of biomass not only releases the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane but also large quantities of carbon monoxide and particulate matter... during major fire years the air quality in Indonesia is many times worse than that in the worlds» most polluted cities.

Most striking is that, despite years of effort, carbon dioxide emissions are increasing at an alarming rate of 3.5 % a year — faster than the 2.7 % predicted by the IPCC in their worst case scenario, and miles ahead of the 0.9 % annual rise in the 1990s.

The committee also separately derived a range of values for damages from climate change, and found that each ton of carbon dioxide emissions will be far worse in 2030 than now: «even if the total amount of annual emissions remains steady, the damages caused by each ton would increase 50 percent to 80 percent.»

The Hannaford grocery store will be the first in the country to use a CO2 transcritical system that will use carbon dioxide (CO2) as a refrigerant rather than HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons)-- super greenhouse gases thousands of times worse for the global climate than CO2.

Why do people think it's worse to bury carbon dioxide 1000 metres underground than to have it belching out of every chimney?

No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single - minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control... The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science.

That's six billion bloated bags of good and bad bacteria, some of which aids digestion but some of which steals the cows» half - chewed grass and corn and emits massive amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that captures about 80 times more heat in a 20 - year period than carbon dioxide does.

The picture would be a lot worse were it not for the fact that, at least for now, the research calculates that the biosphere is still pulling in more carbon dioxide than it is releasing.

To make matters worse, the towering Kunlun, Himalayan and Karakorum ranges that surround the plateau act as a chimney for water vapour — which has a stronger greenhouse gas effect than carbon dioxide — to be convected high into the stratosphere.

What this means is that, over a period of 100 years, methane is «only» 25 times as bad as carbon dioxide, but over 20 years, it's more than 80 times as bad.