Sentences with phrase «about planetary warming»

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But for planetary scientists, Jupiter's most distinctive mystery may be what's called the «energy crisis» of its upper atmosphere: how do temperatures average about as warm as Earth's even though the enormous planet is more than fives times further away from the sun?

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It Al Gore (Rodale)

As mentioned in the introduction, the satellites which measure incoming and outgoing radiation at the top of Earth's atmosphere (TOA) can not measure the small planetary energy imbalance brought about by global warming.

Gore's sobering view of global warming Former Vice President Al Gore's latest treatise on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It , is a companion volume to the well - received documwarming Former Vice President Al Gore's latest treatise on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It , is a companion volume to the well - received documwarming, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It , is a companion volume to the well - received documWarming and What We Can Do About It , is a companion volume to the well - received documentary.

To stand the best chance of keeping the planetary warming below an internationally agreed target of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels and thus avoiding the most dangerous effects of climate change, the panel found, only about 1 trillion tons of carbon can be burned and the resulting gas spewed into the atmosphere.

An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore (Rodale, 2006) 4.

Algore was on CNN yesterday warning the two or three people that watch CNN about imminent planetary doom at the hands of his favorite bogeyman, global warming.

-- Al Gore, former US Vice President, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, 2006, pp. 42 - 59

If you are concerned about planetary climate, then it behooves you to consider the «history» of the planet before singling out something as paltry as the warming since the end of the Little Ice Age.

That stubborn error in the satellite data is about six times larger than what is scientifically possible, and several times larger than the effect scientists are trying to see, namely planetary warming caused by continued massive emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

In my view, it would be equally absurd to claim concern about global warming while then approving decisions that will literally throw fuel on the fire of this planetary crisis.

6 December, 2007 Dear Power Consumer: While we all want our governments to do something about carbon emissions and planetary warming, many of us believe that it is important to consider the total impact of any project that claims to benefit our society.

I assume you believe the wager is about one portion of the warming planetary systems.

He talked about the ice core samples, the axial tilt of the earth, the distance that the earth rotates from the sun, solar activity, all variables which impact planetary temperatures and which the ice core samples seemed to show did not support a relationship between CO2 and warming.

As Republicans piled up attacks, Sen. Bernard Sanders, I - Vt., shot back, «This is not a debate about Gina McCarthy... it is a debate about global warming and whether we are going to listen to the leading scientists of this country who are telling us that global warming is the most serious planetary crisis we face.»

Has every effort been made to collect empirical data about planetary albedo prior to the modern warming?

In his accompanying book, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Rodale Books, May 2006), Gore noted a July 31, 2005, study by MIT climatologist Kerry Emanuel that Gore said «supported the scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more powerful and more destructive» [An Inconvenient Truth, Warming and What We Can Do About It (Rodale Books, May 2006), Gore noted a July 31, 2005, study by MIT climatologist Kerry Emanuel that Gore said «supported the scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more powerful and more destructive» [An Inconvenient Truth, warming is making hurricanes more powerful and more destructive» [An Inconvenient Truth, p. 92].

If the 195 nations that signed a climate accord in Paris in 2015 actually honour their collective vow to contain planetary average warming to about 1.5 °C above historic averages, there will still be record - breaking temperatures and more intense extremes of wet and dry — but over a smaller proportion of the globe, according to a new study.

Now you need to decide if this amount (about 0.05 W / m2, or 50mW) is really important in explaining why the Earth surface is warmer than the planetary emission temperature is.

Although one of the ES components mentioned above, the global economy, is about to inadvertently transform that face through massive emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and the so - induced planetary warming, one other crucial component, the human brain, struggles to advertently preserve it by constructing clumsy institutions like the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf).