Sentences with phrase «about warming of the atmosphere»

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About KORAL Bar & Kitchen KORAL Bar & Kitchen, located in the Hyatt Regency Bellevue, is a «New American Kitchen» offering an upscale menu of contemporary American cuisine in a warm and inviting atmosphere.

A warm welcome and a bit of encouragement are key to building excitement about belonging to the vibrant and bustling atmosphere that Sonnets Academy teachers and students create - together.

During the Eocene, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was more than 560 parts per million, at least twice preindustrial levels, and the epoch kicked off with a global average temperature more than 8 degrees Celsius — about 14 degrees Fahrenheit — warmer than today, gradually cooling over the next 22 million years.

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?

Bowen says the two relatively rapid carbon releases (about 1,500 years each) are more consistent with warming oceans or an undersea landslide triggering the melting of frozen methane on the seafloor and large emissions to the atmosphere, where it became carbon dioxide within decades.

Its mixing ratio in the atmosphere is lower than that of CO2 (about 4 parts per trillion ppt in 1990 versus 365 ppm of carbon dioxide), its contribution to global warming is accordingly low.

Experiments carried out in the OU Mars Simulation Chamber — specialised equipment, which is able to simulate the atmospheric conditions on Mars — reveal that Mars» thin atmosphere (about 7 mbar — compared to 1,000 mbar on Earth) combined with periods of relatively warm surface temperatures causes water flowing on the surface to violently boil.

One thing is already clear: A warmer global atmosphere currently holds about 3 to 5 percent more water vapor than it did at the beginning of the 20th century, and that can contribute to heavier precipitation.

They suggest that forecasts of the global warming likely to result from doubling the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may, therefore, have to be reduced by about half.

The atmosphere in the polar regions has warmed at about twice the average rate of global warming with Arctic coasts experiencing a rise in the occurrence of storm surges.

So even without concerns about the warming effect of carbon pollution in Earth's atmosphere, the Paris agreement goes a long way toward reducing harmful air pollution worldwide.

He makes the point, for example, that when you are looking [talking] about global warming, when you're looking at the climate [and] the atmosphere, you are talking about in effect a good that belongs to all of us.

If you don't know anything about how the atmosphere functions, you will of course say, «Look, greenhouse gases are going up, the globe is warming, they must be related.»

Then in 2003, William Ruddiman, a palaeoclimatologist at the University of Virginia, suggested the advent of agriculture 8000 years ago ramped up levels of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere, warming the world by about 0.8 °C.

As I understand it (from the IPCC report and from Ramanathan en Feng, Sept 23 2008 in PNAS) stopping all emissions suddenly would cause about 1.6 degree Celsius of extra warming, because short - lived pollution would quickly be removed from the atmosphere.

The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have increased by about 30 % over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming.

Because the loss of CO2 from the atmosphere is temperature sensitive (higher temperature leads to more rain and more carbonate formation) but the source of the CO2 is temperature insensitive (volcanoes do not care about the surface temperatures), the whole cycle forms a net negative feedback cycle: higher temperatures will result in cooling and lower temperatures will result in warming.

These so - called «modest hyperthermals» (meaning a rapid, pronounced period of global warming) had shorter durations and recoveries (about a 40,000 year cycle) and involved an exchange of carbon between surface reservoirs into the atmosphere and then into sediment.

To start, a warmer atmosphere creates more evaporation — for every 1 °F of warming, the saturation level is increased by about four percent.

For every 1 °C (1.8 °F) of warming, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere increases by about 7 percent.

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.

The promise of fusion eliminates the need to burn fossil fuels, accumulate greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, warm the Earth, and worry about nuclear waste — instead, providing clean energy that uses ordinary seawater as a fuel.

In the comparatively brief time that methane is in the atmosphere, it warms the planet about 86 times as much as the same amount of CO2, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere have increased by about 30 percent over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming.

«Although seas have risen and warmed, and the atmosphere now holds more moisture, we can't yet draw definitive conclusions about the influence of climate change on Hurricane Harvey.

There's something uniquely appealing about a rustic café, perhaps it's the scent of espresso, soft music, and eclectic spirit of the crowd — the warm and inviting atmosphere that'll make you want to stay for hours.

As a result, the surface of the Earth receives almost twice as much energy from the atmosphere than it receives from the Sun and the surface is about 30 ° C warmer than it would be without the presence of greenhouse gases.

«When my friend from work told me about HOPE, I went there and toured the school and the atmosphere was just so friendly and, for lack of a better term, I had a warm and fuzzy feeling inside as soon as I walked through the door.

We are proud of our warm and welcoming atmosphere where adults and children truly care about each other and have fun while learning.

We are also very proud of our warm and welcoming atmosphere where adults and children truly care about each other and have fun while learning.

The warm, small town atmosphere is one of the aspects we like most about our practice.

Ollantaytambo is at least 600 m lower than Cusco and about twice closer to Machu Picchu, which means that a warm and spring - like atmosphere will definitely be a relief after the high altitude chill of the highlands.

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.

In Relationships between Water Vapor Path and Precipitation over the Tropical Oceans, Bretherton et al showed that although the Western Pacific warmer surface waters increased the water in the atmosphere compared to the Eastern Pacific, rainfall was lower in the Western Pacific compared to the Eastern Pacific for equal amounts of water vapor in the atmospheric column — e.g., about 10mm / day in the Western Pacific, versus ~ 20mm / day in the Eastern Pacific at 55 mm water vapor, the peak of the distribution of water vapor amounts.

Without going into technical details about the dynamics and thermodynamics involved in tropical storms and hurricanes (an excellent discussion of this can be found here), the basic connection between the two is actually fairly simple: warm water, and the instability in the lower atmosphere that is created by it, is the energy source of hurricanes.

--- ignorance about atmospheric chemistry really shows here...... snip --- «Moreover, the CO2 that is supposedly causing «catastrophic» warming represents only 0.00035 of all the gases in the atmosphere (1.25 inches out of a 100 - yard football field), and proposals to control this vital plant nutrient ignore a far more critical greenhouse gas: water vapor.»

Words only have meaning in context and while it may be true that water vapor is a greenhouse gas in the sense that more of it in the atmosphere will absorb more infrared radiation and warm the climate, it is not a greenhouse gas in the sense that it is a gas we need to seriously worry about adding directly to the atmosphere.

In both cases, if you really care about cutting risks of the kind of human - driven warming that could last centuries, if not millennia, you also would do well to support research in technologies or practices that could suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere (See Cao and Caldeira's paper for relevant background).

The surface heat capacity C (j = 0) was set to the equivalent of a global layer of water 50 m deep (which would be a layer ~ 70 m thick over the oceans) plus 70 % of the atmosphere, the latent heat of vaporization corresponding to a 20 % increase in water vapor per 3 K warming (linearized for current conditions), and a little land surface; expressed as W * yr per m ^ 2 * K (a convenient unit), I got about 7.093.

Heavier deluges are expected on a warmer planet; each temperature rise of 1 degree Celsius increases the amount of moisture the atmosphere can hold by about 7 percent.

Now, if warming also causes increased CO2, then we may be talking about a positive feedback loop in which the warming spirals upwards, which amplifies the warming effect of whatever CO2 we humans contribute to the atmosphere.

Yes, most of us really do understand the basic physics that dictate a doubling of CO2 will warm the atmosphere 1 degree C. Please accept that beyond the fundamental laws however, there is a bunch more we are not as sure about.

However, the observed energy imbalance at the top - of - atmosphere for this recent decade indicates that a net energy flux into the climate system of about 1 W m − 2 (refs 2, 3) should be producing warming somewhere in the system4, 5.

Basically, coal puts up a warming gas (CO2) that lasts in the atmosphere for hundreds to thousands of years and we are hiding about half of its effects with a gas (coal smoke) that lasts in the atmosphere for a few weeks.

So, as a result, it seems to me (again informally) that almost all educated people, including technically - educated people who have had considerable college physics courses, needlessly lack confidence in the pronouncements of atmosphere and earth scientists about the reality of the global - warming threat.

«Sunlight passes through the atmosphere largely unhindered and warms the Earth's surface; the warmed surface radiates heat and some of this radiation is absorbed in the upper atmosphere and re-emitted, about half of the re-emitted energy returning to the Earth's surface.

That's about 10 years worth of current emissions from existing power plants alone, and enough to put a big dent in the remaining budget of emissions we can dump into the atmosphere and still have a reasonable chance of avoiding 2 degrees C of warming relative to the preindustrial era.

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.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands of people, question Hansen's theory (given worldwide publicity by Al Gore's notorious movie) about Carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere being the MAIN cause of whatever global warming there is!

Thus we hear so much about «down welling» re - radiation from the atmosphere warming up the planet dangerously because humanity is releasing a certain amount of CO2 that would not otherwise be in the atmosphere.