Probably safe to say that Smith wonât have to go for the Bandana Bandit look when he shows up at one of Vonnâs World Cup events. Tiger Woods walks in the finish area of an alpine ski, womenâs World Cup super-G, in Cortina dâAmpezzo, Italy, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015.
Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but a naturally occurring, beneficial trace gas in the atmosphere. For the past few million years, the Earth has existed in a state of relative carbon dioxide starvation compared with earlier periods.
Methane is the primary component of natural gas, a common fuel source. Why are we concerned about it? If methane is allowed to leak into the air before being usedâfrom a leaky pipe, for instanceâit absorbs the sunâs heat, warming the atmosphere. For this reason, itâs considered a greenhouse gas, like carbon dioxide. Is it as important to address as carbon emissions? While methane doesnât linger as long in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, it is initially far more devastating to the climate because of how effectively it absorbs heat. In the first two decades after its release, methane is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide.