greenhouse gas

Examples of greenhouse gas in the following topics:

• General energy reduction

  • This not only saves money, the resulting drop in electricity reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
  • If everybody in the USA paid his or her bills online, the nation's annual paper waste would be reduced by 1.6 tons and greenhouse gas emissions would be cut by 2.1 million tons.

• The Greenhouse Effect

  • The greenhouse effect is an elevation in surface temperatures due to atmospheric gases absorbing and re-radiating thermal energy.
  • Gases known as greenhouse gases, including water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone, and methane, absorb and trap this heat as it tries to escape from the atmosphere.
  • The cloud layer can also absorb infrared radiation and contribute further to the greenhouse effect.
  • The greenhouse effect modulates the temperature at the Earth's surface and makes it hospitable to life.
  • Human activities have increased greenhouse gas concentrations n the atmosphere through the combustion of fossil fuels, release of methane from farms, industrial emissions, and deforestation.

• Environmental Problems Associated with Fossil Fuel Use

  • This warning of the climate system is unequivocal, and scientists are now more than 90% certain that it is primarily caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities such as deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels.
  • The ranges of these estimates arise from the use of models with differing sensitivity to greenhouse gas concentrations.
  • Parties to the UNFCCC have adopted a range of policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to assist in adaptation to global warming.

• Energy Consumption

  • Global warming and climate change are generally accepted as being caused by anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gas emissions.
  • The majority of greenhouse gas emissions are due to burning fossil fuels, while some is due to deforestation.
  • Another measurement of greenhouse gas-related issues and other externality comparisons between energy sources can be found in the ExternE project by the Paul Scherrer Institute and the University of Stuttgart.
  • The cost of electricity production from gas would increase by 30% if external costs such as damage to the environment and to human health, from the airborne particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, chromium VI, and arsenic emissions produced by these sources, were taken into account.

• The Environment

  • Bush's environmental record began with promises as a presidential candidate to clean up power plants and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Cooney is now known to have edited government climate reports in order to minimize the findings of scientific sources tying greenhouse gas emissions to global warming.
  • In March of 2001, shortly after Bush took office, the Bush administration announced that it would not implement the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty signed in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan that would require nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

• Introduction to Ongoing Measurement and Record-Keeping

  • To round out Sierra's waste measurements, greenhouse gas inventories are also kept.
  • ‘The amount of water produced and electricity consumed, as well as our natural gas and water consumption figures – and carbon emissions – are then compared to the number of beer barrels we produce every month,' Cheri says, ‘all of which provides me with some great ratios to work with. '

• Volcanoes

  • They release lava, gas, and ash, acting as vents for magma chambers miles below the surface.
  • Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and sulfur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, and hydrogen fluoride are all components of acid rain.

• Energy Policy

  • The 2010 United States federal budget proposes to support clean energy development with a 10-year investment of US $15 billion per year, generated from the sale of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions credits.
  • The energy policy of the United States is determined by federal, state, and local entities in the United States, which address issues of energy production, distribution, and consumption, such as building codes and gas mileage standards.
  • The 2010 United States federal budget proposes to support clean energy development with a 10-year investment of US $15 billion per year, generated from the sale of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions credits.
  • This diagram shows how the greenhouse effect works.
  • Some of the infrared radiation is absorbed an re-emitted by heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases in the atmosphere.

• Causes of Global Climate Change

  • Greenhouse gases are probably the most significant drivers of the climate.
  • When heat energy from the sun strikes the earth, gases known as greenhouse gases trap the heat in the atmosphere, similar to how the glass panes of a greenhouse keep heat from escaping.
  • Greenhouse gases, as they absorb and emit radiation, are an important factor in the greenhouse effect, or the warming of earth due to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
  • The primary mechanism that releases carbon dioxide is the burning of fossil fuels, such as gasoline, coal, and natural gas .
  • Methane can also be released from natural gas fields and the decomposition that occurs in landfills.

• Earth's Atmosphere

  • These minor components are the major contributors to phenomena like weather, the greenhouse effect, and global warming.
  • Carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other greenhouse gases are adept at stopping heat from leaving the atmosphere, causing the Earth to heat up.
  • Some greenhouse gases are beneficial—without them, Earth would be as cold as the moon—but the recent increase in carbon dioxide has upset the precise balance between too cold, too hot, and just right.
  • The next layer, the stratosphere, contains an ozone layer that results from the reaction of ionizing solar radiation with oxygen gas; this ozone layer is responsible for the absorption of UV light.