Of the gases that warm our atmosphere, CO2 is a 4% gas in our atmosphere, Water in its various forms is about 94%.
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Thus, over the course of a few decades, the concentration of the gas in the atmosphere will return to pre-industrial levels.
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The number 400 parts per million is symbolic of what many scientists believe to be the inevitable growth of this gas in our atmosphere, Shepherd said.
That has created concerns about the consequences for climate change should the gas escape into the atmosphere during drilling.
Slowing and eventually halting the rise in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere would slow and eventually stop these changes.
And that gas released into the atmosphere means faster erosion of the ozone layer, possibly speeding up the process and making matters even worse.
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These types of changes are fully consistent with what scientists have long warned would be the consequences of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in our atmosphere.
Climate sensitivity is a key parameter for estimating the long-term temperature increase expected from a doubling of the concentration of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.
The authors argue that even quakes that are imperceptible to humans can damage the caprock seal of CO2 repositories enough to release the gas back into the atmosphere.
The human race has almost all the tools it needs to continue leading much the sort of life it has been enjoying without causing a net increase in greenhouse-gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
The researchers stress that this does not mean that the gas does not enter the atmosphere.
In an atmosphere of deuterium gas, the field generated positively charged deuteron ions and accelerated them to high energy in a beam.
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Chesapeake has said in a statement that there were no injuries from the blowout and that no natural gas was released to the atmosphere.
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With the R-22 price spike HDSN can now pay contractors for the dirty gas thereby getting supply to clean up and decreasing the amount of gas that gets into the atmosphere.
There is considerable worry by many observers of the gas industry that federal figures of overall greenhouse-gas-emissions reductions may be misleading because they fail to account for the impact of natural gas that leaks into the atmosphere from drilling and pipelines.
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Gas is a hydrocarbon, albeit the cleanest, so burning gas releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Also, burning wood releases three times more carbon into the atmosphere than burning natural gas, per unit energy generated, said Booth.
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Norway's carbon tax means it is cheaper for the company involved, Statoil, to extract and bury the CO2 contained in the natural gas than vent it to the atmosphere.
The world already has five times as much oil, coal and gas available as climate scientists say the atmosphere can tolerate.
One of the chemical elements in Mercury's atmosphere is sodium, a gas somewhat easy to detect because it reflects sunlight very efficiently.
The scrubbed alkaline clay would then be combined with treated flue gas, which is a carbon-rich gas that is normally released into the atmosphere during the manufacturing process.
Research is under way at the National Energy Technology Laboratory on so-called "carbon sequestration" technology that would capture CO2 gas before it is released into the atmosphere and inject it, either deep into the ocean or into the ground.
Gas that is vaporized ends up in the atmosphere, and contributes to air pollution.
Plants take in carbon dioxide, and when the atmosphere is relatively rich in this gas, less effort is needed.
As cosmic rays batter their way through the atmosphere, they knock electrons off gas molecules, creating electrically charged ions.
The gas would soon find its way into the atmosphere, where it would add to the greenhouse effect and cause the temperature to rise.
Packages covered with a sealed layer of clear plastic are modified-atmosphere packages, which have a gas-filled space inside to help preserve freshness and color.
Nematodes and bacteria capture and store carbon that otherwise contributes to global warming when allowed to overload the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide gas.
How will the antianthracite crowd react to a plant that spares the atmosphere only three-fifths of its waste gas?
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