Sentences with phrase «greenhouse heating»

From an old building turned we into a strawbale greenhouse heated by solar thermal system and biodiesel (we make with a neighbor) to various renewable energy systems, we are pleased — happy — that what we invest in does, in fact, make the world just a little better.

Moreover, the seasonal, regional, and atmospheric patterns of rising temperatures — greater warming in winters than summers, greater warming at high latitudes than near the equator, and a cooling in the stratosphere while the lower atmosphere is warmer — jibe with what computer models predict should happen with greenhouse heating.

In that situation you have a runaway greenhouse heating the surface to several hundreds of degrees; this caused the crust to expand (thermal expansion) and has resulted in enormous fault features on the surface, and presumably earthquakes.

Please read Eric Berger's excellent summary of some of the research on how hurricanes are projected to behave as greenhouse heating builds.

The pond creatures came back as if from nowhere and grew mass & absorbed the extra greenhouse heat, which stopped the hurricanes and the ice melts and the pond overfilling.

Steve: And then you also have the frits that line up, so you can either let UV in or reflect UV so that you don't get greenhouse heating within the building when you don't want it?

Fortunately, some of the methane tends to form complex hydrocarbons that condensed into dustlike particles to produce a high - altitude haze which absorbed and reradiated incoming sunlight back into space to act as a break on greenhouse heating (James F. Kasting, Scientific American, July 2004).

Greenhouse heating adds another element of risk, for sure.

One fact is clear, according to a report issued today by a panel convened by the National Academy of Sciences at the behest of United States intelligence agencies: The country lacks the capacity to clarify what lies ahead as greenhouse heating continues, so gird for surprises.

When you have time, give the text a sift (it's short; the book was heavily illustrated) to see what still holds true (the basics of greenhouse heating, projections of China's rise, etc.), what was not a focus of concern 20 years ago (the Arctic, for instance) and what conclusions at that time have not held up (the response of hurricanes has proved far more complicated than what was deduced then).

Moreover, the seasonal, regional, and atmospheric patterns of rising temperatures — greater warming in winters than summers, greater warming at high latitudes than near the equator, and a cooling in the stratosphere while the lower atmosphere is warmer — jibe with what computer models predict should happen with greenhouse heating.

Ice entombed our planet hundreds of millions of years ago, and complex animals evolved in the greenhouse heat wave that followed

Put the whole thing behind double glass sheets for insulation and greenhouse heating.

Lomborg's main prescription, derived in part from his periodic consultations with panels of prominent economists, is to invest heavily in research on non-polluting energy technology and countermeasures to greenhouse heating, collectively known as geo - engineering.

Greenhouse heating will worsen some extremes and is almost assuredly contributing to some (but not all) now.

Justin Gillis of The Times has summarized new research pointing to rising odds of costly coastal flooding coming from greenhouse heating of the planet.

And here are the prime points in the section projecting impacts on societies from greenhouse heating in coming decades:

Another veteran climatologist, John Michael Wallace of the University of Washington, sees a similar message in extreme events in relation to the background push from greenhouse gases, but says efforts to demonstrate that today's heat waves are driven substantially by greenhouse heating can be a damaging distraction.

If you care about this heated, consequential question, I encourage you to read Annan's full post, which includes a section on a kind of tribalism that takes hold in situations like this and that, he says, could affect the conclusions of the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on the basics of greenhouse heating.

Pursuant to the Chen and Tung paper, Andy Revkin has a very good post A Closer Look at Turbulent Oceans and Greenhouse Heating.

How does the greenhouse heating differ from the heating in a closed car?