Synonyms for greenhouse gas
green·house gas

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1. greenhouse gas, greenhouse emissionnoun

   a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation

   Synonyms:
   greenhouse emission

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1. Christiana Figueres:

   The good news of all those climate change plans is that they actually do cut into the business-as-usual projection of greenhouse gas emissions as well as temperature, we are no longer heading to a world that would increase temperatures by 4, 5 or sometimes even 6 degrees( Celsius) according to some studies, which is what we had a few years ago. But, rather, with full implementation of these climate change plans, we could be heading to a future that would increase the global temperature by 2.7 or 3 degrees.

2. The Senate:

   President Biden has challenged the United States to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, the best way to achieve this ambitious goal is through bold action by this Congress -- through legislation -- to reduce greenhouse pollution while creating millions of jobs and economic prosperity in the new clean energy economy. This is the first, and large, step in that direction.

3. Canadian Natural Resources Ltd:

   Due to the current uncertainty surrounding the Government of Alberta's review of royalty, taxation, environmental and greenhouse gas policies, detailed future capital allocation plans for each of the Company's assets cannot be finalized at this time.

4. Jim Kossin:

   Tropical cyclones are fairly random animals, and they respond to the random nature of the atmosphere at any given time, but certainly, this steady warming of the ocean that's been happening in the Atlantic because of the combination of greenhouse gas increases and the particulate pollution decreases, that has a profound effect — and the changes to the particulate pollution have a much more dramatic effect on the hurricanes.

5. Gavin Schmidt:

   While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases, the data shows quite clearly that it's the greenhouse gas trends that are responsible for the majority of the trends.