Sentences with phrase «accelerate further global warming»

As soils frozen for tens of thousands of years begin to thaw, they could surrender vast quantities of nitrous oxide to accelerate further global warming.

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This change leads to a higher percentage of emitted carbon dioxide remaining in the atmosphere, which then further accelerates global warming.

Warmer, wetter conditions in the Arctic are accelerating the loss of carbon stored in tundra and permafrost soils, creating a potential positive feedback that further boosts global temperatures, a Dartmouth College study finds.

Plants speed up their respiratory metabolism as temperatures rise, leading to a long - held concern that as climate warms the elevated carbon release from a ramped - up metabolism could flip global forests from a long - term carbon sink to a carbon source, further accelerating climate change.

A greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, methane in the atmosphere would accelerate global warming even further.

Presumably, if we follow your argument that further wealth / industrialization will descrease atmospheric carbon, we should also believe that if we were to return to an agrarian economy, this would accelerate global warming.

In other words, the harmful effects of global warming may open opportunities for further accelerating the harmful effects of global warming.

While the Earth seems to be managing the steady increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide relatively well so far (although the effects of this increase may not be felt for many decades to come), there are concerns that passing the 400 parts per million atmospheric carbon dioxide threshold will bring the Earth's atmosphere closer to a tipping point at which global warming accelerates rapidly with dire consequences for mankind and other creatures on Earth.

There is much that can still be done to reduce future climate impacts, and those efforts will depend far more on how quickly we can accelerate declines in the carbon intensity of the global economy than on what target we pick today for eventual warming.

Hence CO2 ramped up ever faster in the atmosphere, further accelerating warming, until you have the same symptoms of a global - warming - mass - extinction like the end Triassic or even Permian (ocean acidification, jump in global temperatures, ocean anoxia, etc).

Since the ESA forbids the Federal Government from funding any activities which might harm a listed species, why not sue to prevent the ridiculous Federal subsidies on Ethanol, on the grounds that the production, distribution, and use of ethanol have a net negative impact on carbon dioxide emissions when compared with petroleum products, thus accelerating global warming and further endangering the polar bears.

No doubt that is why, although the models predicted that global warming would accelerate during the first decade of the 21st century, so far this century there has been no recorded global warming at all.

Billions of tons of carbon trapped in high - latitude permafrost may be released into the atmosphere by the end of this century as the Earth's climate changes, further accelerating global warming, a new computer modeling study indicates.

Reducing global warming by 0.5 °C may not sound like much, but when it comes to climate change, every tenth of a degree matters, and slowing near - term warming is particularly important to avoid triggering feedback loops that could accelerate further warming.

However, if we look further, then we have some indications that there are after, say after 2015 or 2020, you know, global warming will accelerate again.

In further evidence — if any were needed — that global warming is accelerating glacier melt in the Himalaya, a new research reveals that nearly 400 glaciers have come into existence in the last four decades alone.

He added that the study is «just further evidence» that global warming is linked to accelerating extinctions worldwide.

As more and more scientists defect from the crumbling alarmist bandwagon, however, critics say the hysterical shrieking and dangerous rhetoric from politicians only serve to further illustrate the accelerating collapse of what many climate experts refer to as the «global - warming hoax.»

This new computer modelling study predicts that rather than absorbing carbon from the earth's atmosphere, by the end of the century the melting permafrost will release billions of tons of carbon that will further accelerate global warming.