While methane is a cleaner source of energy than oil or coal when burnt, on its own it is an unusually powerful heat-trapping agent -- perhaps 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
There are big bucks to be made in surgical and medical fabrics-gross profits for surgical packs, gowns, caps, masks, sponges, bandages and tape run 25% to 30%-and in allergen- and pollution-trapping filters for heating and air-conditioning (50% to 60%), both made by 3M.
But he was unable to enact a cap-and-trade program to reduce the level of heat-trapping emissions.
The European Union, for example, wants to see industrial nations--its own members included--bring emissions of CO2 and other heat-trapping gases down to 85% of what they were in 1990, and do it within the next 12 years.
New York briefly began trapping Curry off pick-and-rolls, and everybody from Anthony to Chandler chased the diminutive guard all over the perimeter.
The report said the blanket of heat-trapping gases has already raised ground temperatures by one-half degree Celsius (1.1 F) in the last 100 years, and scientists say the pace could quicken dramatically over the next 100 unless pollution is limited.
And the trust also works with rangers in other wildlife parks, supplying trapping cages, solar-lighting systems, water-filtration units and other equipment.
It accounts for three-quarters of the planet's heat-trapping gases.
Such a change in temperature -- which many scientists believe is being caused by pollution trapping heat in the atmosphere -- would mean widespread droughts and floods and massive economic and natural damage, experts say.
In the late 1980s Floyd injected gerbils with a free-radical-trapping compound called phenylbutyl nitrone just before inducing a stroke.
This is high-tech stuff that involves not just drip irrigation and condensation-trapping greenhouses, but remote sensing by satellites which provide ET readings for areas of 30 by 30 metres.
The collision caused the taxi to spin on to the footpath and hit a 29-year-old man, trapping him between the taxi and the railings.
But it does lend credence to those business-minded folks who say that the federal government must take steps to minimize heat-trapping emissions.
It's 40 minutes of trapping and shot-challenging, of closing off angles, of trusting teammates.
When pushed, Mr Mandelson will recite the required phrases about the Tories trapping themselves in a too-dogmatic laisser-faire.
Serb forces pounded the city every day from higher ground positions, trapping Sarajevo's ill-prepared residents in the valley below.
Nevertheless, the researchers think their work could be used to make more effective trapping systems for mosquitoes - and new repellents, too.
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Fortunately for England, Sidebottom came to the rescue, trapping the in-form Taylor plumb in front of his stumps, but the catalogue of errors continued to grow.
Rashid began the collapse by trapping Simmons leg-before for 63, won another decision as Chanderpaul fell one run short of a half century and had Brendan Nash caught for 19.
Nelson says the prototype will collect 25 percent of the sunlight hitting the cell (about six to ten percent better than current technology) by trapping photons inside a bowl-like photovoltaic chamber until it they are absorbed.
Low-level clouds are thought to matter more than high-level ones because they are more prevalent and because they are better at reflecting solar heat away from the Earth than they are at trapping it, blanket-like, as high clouds do.
Those heat-trapping gases are from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
Every second, the world's smokestacks and cars pump 2.4 million pounds of the heat-trapping gas into the air.
The tube, coated with heat-trapping layers of ceramics and metals, cooks a surrounding layer of oil to 750 degrees Fahrenheit.
Nations are disagreeing on the tactics to curb heat-trapping emissions and the targets that they would be required to meet.
The beam of Xiao's house in Mianzhu City in Sichuan province collapsed during the quake, trapping him, China's state-run television CCTV said.
But the EPA estimates that all the sources of methane combined still account for only 9 percent of greenhouse gases, even taking into account methane's more potent heat-trapping.
While trapping of charged normal atoms can be done with electric or magnetic fields, trapping antihydrogen atoms in this "hands-off" way requires a very particular type of field.
Mallory was found wearing eight thin, fluffy, air-trapping layers.
Any policy to reduce heat-trapping pollution will inevitably target the main sources of Americans' energy: the coal burned by power plants for electricity and the oil that is refined to run automobiles.
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