How to Use greenhouse gas in a Sentence

greenhouse gas

noun

• The greenhouse gas rating is a 7 and the smog rating is a 7; both out of 10.
  — Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
• The need for countries around the world to limit their greenhouse gas emissions is definite—but how to do it is less clear.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 July 2023
• That's a long drive, and transportation is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Curtis Vanderschaaf, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2023
• The first involves cutting the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2023
• But delegates have warned that parts of the text are still not strong enough, and that the real work of reducing greenhouse gas emissions is still ahead of us.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2023
• The ruling said Switzerland has failed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to meet its own targets.
  — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
• But methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas in the short term, compared with carbon dioxide.
  — Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• Patients suck the powder into their lungs — no puff of gas required, and no greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Martha Bebinger, NPR, 6 May 2024
• Currently, sandy beaches make up more than one-third of the shorelines around the globe, the study said, and the best way to mitigate the issue would be to reduce greenhouse gasses.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
• So pharmacists should play a role in suggesting the inhalers with the fewest greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Martha Bebinger, NPR, 6 May 2024
• Experts warned that the worst was not over, with climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions that hasaffected almost every part of the world.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 18 July 2023
• Power plants account for more than one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Kelly Livingston, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2024
• The largest share – 35% – come from the transportation sector, which generates about 24% of total greenhouse gas emissions in the nation.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2024
• That’s billions of pounds of food every year that could be put to better use to feed the hungry but instead ends up contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
• For decades, most of that waste has been generally destined for landfills, the transport of which results in large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Aug. 2023
• Raising cattle for meat produces anywhere from 11 to almost 20 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
• And for the planet: Choosing healthy plant protein sources instead of red meat reduces greenhouse gas emissions and slows climate change, researchers added.
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 19 Oct. 2023
• To turn it around, experts say, the world must cut back drastically on planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2023
• Researchers also said that for the first time, the index this year considered the countries’ responses to climate change, such as rates of greenhouse gas emission.
  — Emi Tuyetnhi Tran, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2023
• That risk will continue to rise as long as greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels continue to go up.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
• Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with many times the warming potential of carbon dioxide.
  — Paul Winters, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2024
• But that remains far from reach: While U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have dipped in recent decades, global emissions continue to rise.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• There’s simply no reliable way to estimate a change in greenhouse gas emissions as small as 10 percent on any one farm—let alone a complex network of them.
  — Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
• This rise in greenhouse gases, of course, warmed the climate, although the SO2 had a contradictory cooling effect.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• Methane is one of the greenhouse gases that have contributed the most to global warming, second only to carbon dioxide.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
• That legislation, a bipartisan bill that aims to bring down U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to net zero, has so far failed to clear Congress.
  — Sanya Mansoor, TIME, 24 Apr. 2024
• The burning of fossil fuels, including coal, oil and gas, accounts for more than 75 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
• Organizers of the Games promise to slash greenhouse gas emissions by re-using historic buildings, adding bike lanes, even putting solar panels on the Seine.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
• Montanans are being asked what changes, if any, are needed to modernize MEPA and how greenhouse gas emissions and climate change should be analyzed.
  — Time, 2 Oct. 2023
• The transportation sector is responsible for about one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and much of that stems from light-duty vehicles.
  — Alexa St. John, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024