Although carbon dioxide is far more abundant and persistent in the atmosphere, ton for ton atmospheric methane traps at least 25 times as much heat.
These substances are far less persistent in the atmosphere; if these emissions drop, their effects will decline relatively fast.
The Intercept report, by former Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, Murtaza Hussain and Josh Meyer, suggested a persistent counter-terrorism atmosphere in which the mixture of Muslim heritage or faith and political activism attracted the scrutiny of US security agencies, despite first amendment protections.
Only four equations were found to predict the persistence of several persistent organic pollutants (POP) in the atmosphere, and they are related to four different environmental parameters (Table S9).
In our time, peasant girls with babies born out of wedlock do not move us, but — in an atmosphere of persistent homophobia — the fate of two young men seized by an involuntary and enduring passion that they can neither understand nor control, which is so strong that it cannot be diminished by years-long intervals and decades of endurance — is surely a matter that can stir even us, even today.
Ethyl acetate is an environmentally friendly compound since the ester is easily degraded by bacteria [6-8] and is regarded as a non-persistent pollutant of the atmosphere [9].
None occurred, though in the nervous atmosphere every groan or persistent cough felt like a protest.
Persistent levels of methane in the atmosphere on Mars could have been a sign that living microbes lurked deep beneath the rock and dust, but the absence of the gas will deflate hopes that they are there to be found.
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In December 2008, astronomers announced the discovery of two transient but unusually long-lived "bright spots" in Titan's atmosphere, which appear too persistent to be explained by mere weather patterns, suggesting they were the result of extended cryovolcanic episodes.
