Sentences with phrase «global warming gases traped»

The first article linked below reports on a recent study that says that «Global warming gases traped in the soil are bubbling out of the thawing permafrost in amounts far higher than previously thourght and may trigger what researchers warn is a climate time bomb

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The initiative, Science Based Targets, prods companies to establish plans to slash heat - trapping gases from their operations to help stave off devastating global warming.

The heat - trapping gas could dramatically accelerate global warming.

These conflicts have stalled some high - profile projects despite the fact that renewable energy sources do not produce heat - trapping emissions of carbon dioxides, the primary greenhouse gas driving global warming.

Like carbon dioxide, methane is one of the greenhouse gases, which trap heat near Earth's surface and contribute to global warming.

In addition, O3 is a greenhouse gas, helping to trap heat and warm the earth, and new research shows that it plays an even larger role in global warming by destroying plants» ability to use extra carbon dioxide.

Critics argue that albedo modification and other «geoengineering» schemes are risky and would discourage nations from trying to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas that comes from the burning of fossil fuels and that is causing global warming by absorbing increasing amounts of energy from sunlight.

So the report notes that the current «pause» in new global average temperature records since 1998 — a year that saw the second strongest El Nino on record and shattered warming records — does not reflect the long - term trend and may be explained by the oceans absorbing the majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as well as the cooling contributions of volcanic eruptions.

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

Meanwhile, here on earth, we still have the same remaining problem of our trapped thermal atmospheric content that can not escape away from Earth's self contained system that is maintained by the greenhouse gases that surrounds the earth that is said to be increasing in content, and because it increasing in content, the thermal kinetic capacity (global warming potential of certain said gases will rise with it.)

Lindzen was allowed to print his «Iris Theory» (stating that global warming might end because of a natural increase in cooling - type clouds and less water vapor - a heat - trapping greenhouse gas) in Geophysical Research Letters (Jun. 26, 2001 - a legitimate peer - reviewed journal).

While a strong El Niño has given global temperatures a boost, the main reason for the spate of intensely warm months is the long - term warming of the planet caused by the accumulation of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, scientists have found.

These records show both the influence of the long - term trend in global warming — caused by the continued release of heat - trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — as well as an exceptionally strong El Niño that is altering weather around the world.

As the Arctic warms at twice the global rate, the long - frozen soils thaw and decompose, releasing the trapped greenhouse gases into the air.

For the U.S., the rise in heat - trapping gases in the atmosphere has increased the probability of record - breaking temperatures 15 - fold.21 In Europe, global warming is now responsible for an estimated 29 % of the new record highs set each year.22

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the greenhouse gas methane is highly efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere and a significant contributor to global warming, over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

This warming has been linked to a similarly rapid increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere, which acted to trap heat and drive up global temperatures by more than 5 °C in just a few thousand years.

This is the difference between countries» pledged commitments to reduce emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases after 2020 and scientifically calculated trajectories giving good odds of keeping global warming below the threshold for danger countries pledged to try to avoid in climate talks in 2010 (to «hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels»).

Through the 20 - plus years of international meetings on global warming, there has been a long tradition of inventive messages among groups pushing for — and sometimes groups fighting against — restrictions on heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

[Global warming potential is a measure of the comparative capacity of various gases to trap heat.]

In March 2001, a White House team used a single economic analysis by the Energy Department to build a case that Mr. Bush quickly used to back out of his campaign pledge to restrict power plant discharges of carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping gas linked to global warming.

But some environmentalists credited the effort for engaging China and India, countries emerging as the dominant emitters of carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping gas linked to global warming.

I hope people honest recognize that global warming is happening, it is heat trap gas melting the Arctic ice.

It's worth spending some more time on the National Academy of Sciences reports on geoengineering prospects and concerns — the concerns mainly being about adding sun - blocking particles to the atmosphere to counteract global warming driven by the buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

Global warming is unequivocal and is due primarily to human - induced emissions of heat - trapping gases and other pollutants.

The release of this trapped methane is a potential major outcome of a rise in temperature; it is thought that this is a main factor in the global warming of 6 °C that happened during the end - Permian extinction as methane is much more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (despite its atmospheric lifetime of around 12 years, it has a global warming potential of 72 over 20 years and 25 over 100 years).

Global warming from the human - driven buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases is seen by virtually all Arctic scientists as playing a growing role in driving the shift in summers toward a largely open sea at the top of the world, with plenty of variations along the way.

It's hardly new for some Republicans to acknowledge the basics of global warming science (see Newt Gingrich in 2007) and call for steps to limit heat - trapping gases and cut vulnerability.

James E. Hansen, the head of Goddard and an outspoken campaigner for prompt cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions, explained that the decades - long global warming trend and patterns of warming remain consistent with a growing influence on climate from the planet's building blanket of heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

[1] Critics argued the Initiative, despite its title, actually weakened existing laws, such as the Clean Air Act and EPA proposed regulations on air pollutants, and did not address carbon dioxide, the most abundant heat trapping greenhouse gas leading to global warming.

Since the early 1990's, at least, scientists, environmentalists and world leaders have called repeatedly for climate mitigation — that is, reductions in emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in order to stave off global warming.

That's a cause for concern because, among other reasons, methane traps more heat than carbon dioxide, making it a more potent greenhouse gas and thus of concern for global warming, according to a study detailing the trip's findings and published recently in the journal Atmospheric Environment.

But if you open your mind, you will find it's quite true that billions have been spent to obscure the truth about climate change due to global warming caused by heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

Some of these climate drivers result in warming and others lead to cooling, but when all the natural and human - induced climate drivers are stacked up and compared to one another, the accumulation of human - released heat - trapping gases in the atmosphere is so large that it has very likely swamped other climate drivers over the past half century, leading to observed global warming.

Many experts on the Arctic say that global warming is causing the ice to melt and that the warming is at least partly the result of the atmospheric buildup of heat - trapping gases from tailpipes and smokestacks.

Sea level rise, ocean acidification and the rapid melting of massive ice sheets are among the significantly increased effects of human - induced global warming assessed in the survey, which also examines the emissions of heat - trapping gases that are causing the climate change.

In the scorching summer of 1988, when global warming first hit headlines in a significant way, presidential candidate George H.W. Bush used a Michigan speech to pledge meaningful action curbing heat - trapping greenhouse gases, saying, «Those who think we are powerless to do anything about the greenhouse effect forget about the White House effect.»

The scientists also calculate that the world's emissions of heat - trapping gases must peak in less than 10 years and then dive quickly to nearly zero, if warming of more than another 2 degrees Fahrenheit above the current annual global temperature is to be prevented after 2050.

«Currently, scientists estimate the oceans absorb more than 90 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases, and we attribute the global warming to anthropogenic (human - produced) causes.»

Since 2004, researchers in NOAA's Global Monitoring Division have released the Annual Greenhouse Gas Index: a single value that compares the total warming effect of each year's concentrations of heat - trapping gases to 1990 levels.

Most scenarios that meet the 2 - degree Celsius (3.6 - degree Fahrenheit) cap on global warming endorsed by world leaders require a 40 percent to 70 percent reduction in heat - trapping gases by 2050 from 2010 levels, according to the third installment of the UN's biggest - ever study of climate change.

The left says global warming is a real - time crisis requiring swift curbs on smokestack and tailpipe gases that trap heat, and that big oil, big coal and antiregulatory conservatives are trashing the planet.

Reduced demand for fossil fuels will improve the environment by reducing air and water pollution as well as the heat - trapping gases that cause global warming.

But scientists and officials involved in the intensifying international debate on how to deal with global warming say it has taken the United States far too long to put the issue front and center, particularly because this country is the biggest source of heat - trapping gases, and because the spread of American - style consumerism to developing nations is likely to create the biggest source of the gases in the next century.

During that same period, average annual rainfall in New South Wales declined by 3.6 inches (92 millimeters).3 Scientists think the decline in autumn rainfall in southeast Australia since the late 1950s may be partly due to increases in heat - trapping gases in Earth's atmosphere.3, 14 Major bushfires over southeast Australia are linked to the positive phase of an ocean cycle called the «Indian Ocean Dipole» — when sea surface temperatures are warmer than average in the western Indian Ocean, likely in response to global warming.15, 16

The coal would be enough to fuel 152 coal - fired power plants, and when burned, would fuel global warming by releasing more than 643 million tons of heat - trapping carbon dioxide — the amount released every year by 111,655,273 passenger vehicles (according to EPA's greenhouse gas equivalency calculator).

Those warning of dire consequences from global warming and those playing down the dangers of heat - trapping greenhouse gases can both find pieces of data to support their views.

When heat energy gets released from Earth's surface, some of that radiation is trapped by greenhouse gases like CO2; the effect is what makes our planet comfy temperature-wise, but too much and you get global warming.

Global warming is driven by emissions of heat - trapping gases, primarily from human activities, that rise into the atmosphere and act like a blanket, warming the earth's surface.

What you mean, I think, is climate change due to global warming enhanced by excessive use of materials including fossil fuels — greenhouse gases — which have a greenhouse effect, that is they trap heat in our atmosphere.