We need forests to absorb heat-trapping carbon dioxide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ted Wells: Dear Santa, Stop Putting Catalogs in My Mailbox] Reference

There are two reasons: water vapor itself is a strong heat-trapping or greenhouse gas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Oppenheimer: Washington Sleeps as Global Warming Predictions Come True] Reference

(Methane's heat-trapping properties are more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.).    From Wordnik.com.  [William S. Becker: Obama's Farm Team] Reference

My initial ruminations focused on climate change caused by human emissions of heat-trapping gases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitalism 3.0~ Preface] Reference

It's 350 -- as in 350 parts per million of the heat-trapping gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billy Parish: Accept it in Oslo, Earn it in Copenhagen] Reference

The oil sands operations are the fastest growing source of heat-trapping greenhouse gas in Canada.    From Wordnik.com.  [A. Siegel: Tar and Feather...] Reference

Since power plants are responsible for twice as much heat-trapping emissions as cars, the answer is obvious.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Doniger: Terms of Endangerment: EPA to Cut Global Warming Pollution] Reference

At that point it will be kicking out around two billion metric tonnes of heat-trapping carbon dioxide per year.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Glave: High Time for High-Speed Rail] Reference

With the recent volatility on Wall Street, does it make sense to use markets to control heat-trapping pollution?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Chameides: Carbon Markets and Environmentalism: Is 'Market-Based' the New Dirty Word(s)?] Reference

His government advocates for "intensity-based" targets that tie heat-trapping carbon emissions to corporate growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Glave: ''Strategic" Voters Aim to Bump Canada's Harper] Reference

The main issue is that carbon dioxide is a heat-trapping gas and we're putting more and more of it into the atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fallback follies] Reference

That won't happen on its own, so Congress should hasten to impose a market price signal on U.S. heat-trapping emissions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gary Hirshberg: Let's Price Carbon Now, for Business' Sake] Reference

But are people aware that ethanol production is actually increasing the heat-trapping emissions that cause global warming?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Kessler: Ethanol Subsidies: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul] Reference

SNOW: And, Wolf, what these e-mails are not doing is slowing the global efforts to reduce the growth of heat-trapping gases.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2009] Reference

In the United States, many politicians are reluctant to impose mandatory curbs on heat-trapping gases, fearing a political backlash.    From Wordnik.com.  [China making inroads on emissions] Reference

Happening now, the Environmental Protection Agency targets six heat-trapping gases it says pollute the air and could harm your health.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2009] Reference

Fuel from liquid coal produces more than double the amount of heat-trapping pollution that conventional petroleum-based fuels produce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Van Jones: "Green Jobs Act of 2007" Passes Its First Major Hurdle in the House] Reference

This was supposed to be the summer when we finally enacted a comprehensive law to steadily reduce emissions of heat-trapping pollution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Lashof: Good Riddance to the Worst Summer Ever] Reference

But what they fail to mention is such projections depend almost entirely on how much more heat-trapping emissions go into the atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melanie Fitzpatrick: Superfreakonomics Will Misinform Readers on Climate Science] Reference

Thus the net increase in the heat-trapping effect over this period is about what would be expected from the carbon dioxide build-up alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

Which means TXU is committing to put millions of tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and betting it can get away with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurie David: A Giant Texas Utility Buys a $10 Billion Ticket on an Environmental Titanic] Reference

Wildfires are burning rampantly, releasing more carbon dioxide, the heat-trapping gas that does the most to cause climate change, into the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erich Pica: Climate Ostriches: Why Russia's and Pakistan's Extreme Weather Is About to Become the Norm] Reference

· The disruption of climate as the result of energy-related emissions of heat-trapping (greenhouse) gases with long atmospheric residence times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

This is not to say that every sign of climate change reflects the heat-trapping effects of the gases we spew out of our utility plants, cars and planes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Which of These Is Not Causing Global Warming Today?] Reference

But scientists say our burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil has caused a greater concentration of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2008] Reference

Many scientists and most environmentalists will tell you, it's because humans continue to pour heat-trapping greenhouse gasses into the Earth's atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Global Warming - January 3, 2000] Reference

It matches an effect predicted by computer climate simulations that trace global warming to a build-up of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, the researchers report.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warming Portends Pacific Havoc] Reference

Under a cap-and-trade system, emissions of heat-trapping gases from power plants, refineries and factories would face increasingly more stringent limits, or caps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada Waits For US To Act On Cap-And-Trade Plan] Reference

The world's major industrial nations and emerging powers failed to agree Wednesday on significant cuts in heat-trapping gases by 2050, unraveling an effort to build.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ken Cloke: The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference: What You Can Do] Reference

Greenhouse Gases (GHGs): heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere that warm the Earth's surface by absorbing outgoing infrared radiation and re-radiating part of it downward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 12] Reference

The ruling specifically addresses tailpipe emissions -- that ` s exhaust from cars and trucks -- single-handedly causing 25 percent of U.S. total emissions of heat-trapping gases.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2007] Reference