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| Domain | Definition |
Environment | A gas, such as carbon dioxide or methane, which contributes to potential climate change. (references) |
Science | A gaseous component of the atmosphere contributing to the greenhouse effect. Greenhouse gases are transparent to certain wavelengths of the sun's radiant energy, allowing them to penetrate deep into the atmosphere or all the way into the Earth's surface. Greenhouse gases and clouds prevent some of infrared radiation from escaping, trapping the heat near the Earth's surface where it warms the lower atmosphere. Alteration of this natural barrier of atmospheric gases can raise or lower the mean global temperature of the Earth. Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and water vapor. Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide have significant natural and human sources while only industries produce chlorofluorocarbons. Water vapor has the largest greenhouse effect, but its concentration in the troposphere is determined within the climate system. Water vapor will increase in response to global warming, which in turn may further enhance global warming. (references) |
Weather | Any gas that absorbs infrared radiation in the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases include water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO2) , methane (CH4) , nitrous oxide (N2O) , halogenated fluorocarbons (HCFCs) , ozone (O3) , perfluorinated carbons (PFCs) , and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) . See carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrochlorofluorocarbons, ozone, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride. (references) |
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Crosswords: GREENHOUSE GAS |
| Specialty definitions using "GREENHOUSE GAS": Annex I Parties ♦ Berlin Mandate ♦ Carbon dioxide equivalent, Carbon Equivalent, Carbon sinks, cytotoxic T-cells ♦ Enhanced greenhouse effect ♦ General Circulation Model, Global Warming Potential ♦ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ♦ Joint implementation ♦ Kyoto Protocol ♦ reservoir compound, reservoir species ♦ Sulfur Hexafluoride ♦ tropospheric ozone. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Clean Air Facility where much of NOAA's South Pole Station work is done This facility is used primarily for atmospheric sampling. The samples are analyzed for greenhouse gas content. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | For example, more and more companies are seriously examining co-generation projects as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. (references) | |
A key component of the Kyoto agreement was to limit the growth of greenhouse gas emissions in the period 2008-12 to eight percent above 1990 levels. (references) | ||
Australia's net greenhouse gas emissions for 1998, not including emissions from land clearing, were 455.9 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalents. (references) | ||
Economic History | Australia | Given Australia's greenhouse gas policy, most of this will have to be gas-fired and will probably come from northern Australia. (references) |
Trade | Ukraine | USAID is cooperating with Ukraine to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions and meet global commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | This past December, America led the world to reach a historic agreement committing our nation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through market forces, new technologies, energy efficiency. |
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| Language | Translations for "GREENHOUSE GAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | EF-overvågningsordning for emissioner af CO2 og andre drivhusgasser i Fællesskabet (mechanism for monitoring CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions in the Community). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | van tevoren aangekondigde reductie van broeikasgas (pre-announced greenhouse gas reduction), put voor een broeikasgas (greenhouse gas sink), bewakingssysteem voor de uitstoot van CO2 en andere broeikasgassen in de Gemeenschap (mechanism for monitoring CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions in the Community). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | puits de gaz effet de serre (greenhouse gas sink), Livre vert sur l'établissement d'un système d'échange des droits d'émission de gaz effet de serre dans l'Union européenne (Green Paper on Establishment of a Greenhouse Gas Emission Exchange in the EU), échelonnement prédéterminé des réductions de gaz effet de serre (pre-announced greenhouse gas reduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Grünbuch über die Errichtung eines Austauschsystems für Emissionsrechte für Treibhausgase in der Union (Green Paper on Establishment of a Greenhouse Gas Emission Exchange in the EU), Treibhausgassenke (greenhouse gas sink), System zur Überwachung der Emissionen von CO2 und anderen Treibhausgasen in der Gemeinschaft (mechanism for monitoring CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions in the Community). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοινοτικός μηχανισμός παρακολούθησης και ελέγχου των εκπομπών CO2 και άλλων αερίων που ευθύνονται για το φαινόμενο του θερμοκηπίου στην Κο (mechanism for monitoring CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions in the Community). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | pozzo di gas a effetto serra (greenhouse gas sink), meccanismo comunitario di controllo delle emissioni di CO2 e di altri gas ad effetto serra nella Comunit (mechanism for monitoring CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions in the Community), Libro verde sulla creazione di un sistema di scambi dei diritti di emissione di gas ad effetto serra nell'Ue (Green Paper on Establishment of a Greenhouse Gas Emission Exchange in the EU). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eenhousegray asgay mecanismo comunitário de vigilância das emissões de CO2 e de outros gases com efeito de estufa na Comunidade (mechanism for monitoring CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions in the Community), depósito de gas com efeito de estufa (greenhouse gas sink). (various references) mecanismo comunitario de vigilancia de las emisiones de CO2 y otros gases de efecto invernadero en la Comunidad (mechanism for monitoring CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions in the Community), cisterna de gas del efecto invernadero (greenhouse gas sink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-g-h-n-o-r-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: greenhouses. | |
-3 letters: greenhouse. | |
-4 letters: eagerness, gasogenes, reengages, roughages, roughness, shagreens. | |
-5 letters: ageneses, anserous, anureses, arsenous, engagers, engorges, enureses, gashouse, gasogene, generous, gheraoes, hoarsens, hugeness, neuroses, onrushes, reengage, regauges, rehouses, reseason, roughage, roughens, seashore, seasoner, senhoras, senhores, shagreen, surgeons, unhorses. | |
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| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Quotations: Speeches 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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