Sentences with phrase «accumulating in the atmosphere for»

I once pointed out to an academic from a developed nation that the emissions resulting from their country's two - car households had been accumulating in the atmosphere for decades.

Like, «well known that carbon dioxide is well - mixed and accumulates in the atmosphere for hundreds and thousands of years»?

The AGW Greenhouse Effect has excised gravity as it has convection because it claims that carbon dioxide can accumulate in the atmosphere for hundreds and even thousands of years and for this it needed to take out any physics to do with relative weight.

Not exact matches

Hydrates have shaped the history of our planet: by locking away methane produced in the earth's crust instead of allowing it to accumulate in the atmosphere, they helped to make the earth a hospitable place for life.

While oxygen is believed to have first accumulated in Earth's atmosphere around 2.45 billion years ago, new research shows that oceans contained plentiful oxygen long before that time, providing energy - rich habitat for early life.

In an article published in the journal Scientific Reports, the research team estimates that given the rate at which the peatland is now losing mercury back to the atmosphere, it will take just a few decades for all of the mercury pollution accumulated in the peatland to have disappeared, with most of it going back to the atmospherIn an article published in the journal Scientific Reports, the research team estimates that given the rate at which the peatland is now losing mercury back to the atmosphere, it will take just a few decades for all of the mercury pollution accumulated in the peatland to have disappeared, with most of it going back to the atmospherin the journal Scientific Reports, the research team estimates that given the rate at which the peatland is now losing mercury back to the atmosphere, it will take just a few decades for all of the mercury pollution accumulated in the peatland to have disappeared, with most of it going back to the atmospherin the peatland to have disappeared, with most of it going back to the atmosphere.

«We call it «slow in,» as in it takes a long time for the carbon to accumulate in the forest, and «fast out» — you're burning it so it goes into the atmosphere rapidly,» said Beverly Law, an expert in forest science and management from Oregon State University.

Accounting for biomass energy often ignores the critical role forests play as a sink for carbon dioxide that might otherwise accumulate in the atmosphere.

Tacking on industry in general, including producing cement, steel, plastics and chemicals, accounts for 78 percent of greenhouse gases, which invisibly accumulate in the atmosphere and trap extra heat.

For scientists like Fasullo and co-author Kevin Trenberth, head of NCAR's climate analysis section, determining the climate's precise sensitivity to the CO2 accumulating in the atmosphere has been an unusually tough task.

The overwhelming cause for the chart - topping warmth is the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases accumulating in Earth's atmosphere.

Seawater sulfate is a problem for methane in two ways: Sulfate destroys methane directly, which limits how much of the gas can escape the oceans and accumulate in the atmosphere.

This is defined as the change in average global surface temperature for a given amount of carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere.

Land - use change and degradation, such as clearing land for farming, releases the carbon bound up in soils, adding to the CO2 accumulating in the atmosphere.

About 2.3 billion years ago oxygen has saturated the planet's surface and rapidly accumulated in vast amounts in our atmosphere, From that point on Earth's atmosphere became a glowing indicator of life for the entire Galaxy — at least, for civilizations that are slightly better in building telescopes than we are.

For decades, scientists have recognized that more nitrogen accumulates in soils and plants than can be explained by the atmosphere alone, but they could not pinpoint what was missing.

True to form, Miller (working with a script by «Capote» writer Dan Futterman and E. Max Frye) leaves specific, reductive motives in the shadows, opting instead for a grey - toned atmosphere of impossible wealth, corroded American ideals and a calm, patient, occasionally static sense of accumulating dread.

The growth rates the trends are irrelevant as are comparisons, for imho the only data that counts the headline number, becasue that does actually represent Total Accumulated CO2 in the atmosphere at any poit in time, and as such that does therefore represent the actual real scientifically based Climate Forcing of CO2 in the present.

I, along with an increasing number of climate experts, agree with you that cleaning up carbon dioxide that has accumulated in the atmosphere will prove critical for curtailing climate change, and that it is essential to accelerate the development of carbon removal solutions today.

Understanding the significance of this last fact relies on the appreciation that displacing all fossil fuel power plants with solar and wind farms, while necessary in curbing the flow of additional greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, does nothing to capture the prevailing stock of greenhouse gases accumulated from 150 years of industrialization and that will remain in the atmosphere for upwards of a hundred or more years to come.

For the rest of the year, we will meet our ecological demand by depleting resource stocks and accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.»

I prefer the trend of the accumulated emissions, which is a near perfect fit for the observed accumulation in the atmosphere, above the temperature trend which is not so perfect... See and compare: with:

But that is the implication in the AGW model when it makes CO2 (of one particular species) accumulate in the atmosphere waiting for the surface layer to equilibrate, and in the bargain lowering its pH.

«Cutting trees for fuel is antithetical to the important role that forests play as a sink for CO2 that might otherwise accumulate in the atmosphere,» Schlesinger writes in an article published yesterday in the journal Science, adding later that carbon neutrality «is only achieved» if harvested forests are allowed to regrow more biomass than was lost.

And according to emissions specialists like the Tyndall Centre's Kevin Anderson (as well as others), so much carbon has been allowed to accumulate in the atmosphere over the past two decades that now our only hope of keeping warming below the internationally agreed - upon target of 2 degrees Celsius is for wealthy countries to cut their emissions by somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 — 10 percent a year.27 The «free» market simply can not accomplish this task.

The fact that the global temperature has remained unchanged for a decade requires that the quantity of reflecting aerosols dumped put in our atmosphere must be increasing year on year at precisely the exact rate needed to offset the accumulating carbon dioxide that wants to drive the temperature higher.

Carbon dioxide can't accumulate for hundreds and thousands of years in the atmosphere — not in the real world.

Of the many heat - trapping gases, CO2 puts us at the greatest risk of irreversible changes if it continues to accumulate unabated in the atmosphere — as it is likely to do if the global economy remains dependent on fossil fuels for its energy needs.

This is larger than the above 211 GtC that has accumulated in the atmosphere, but that's accounted for in terms of Le Chatelier's principle, which says that adding a chemical (CO2 in this case) to a system will shift its equilibrium resulting in a certain fraction of the CO2 being taken up by the land and ocean.

As the gas is emitted, it accumulates in the atmosphere in an essentially un-degraded state for many centuries.

I might agree with idea of «accumulates for hundreds and thousands of years in the atmosphere» as being a scam.

You do have such an amazing molecule in your fictional world, defying gravity it can stay up in the atmosphere for hundreds and even thousands of years accumulating though it's one and a half times heavier than air, and, with no heat capacity to spit at, it can trap heat, or, heck you can't even get your stories to say the same thing consistently, it becomes this great thermal blanket stopping heat escaping... just how much of that blanket is holes?

Those who point to increasing disaster losses as a signal of human - caused climate change are doing no favours for those working to address growing losses and accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

While we support continued research into geoengineering (as well as into fusion) we believe the prospects for such research to result in solutions to accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to be vastly overstated by the Copenhagen Consensus.

Other experts say there is no time for nuance, given the general lack of public response to the threat posed particularly by carbon dioxide, a by - product of fossil fuels and forests that persists for a century or more in the air and is accumulating rapidly in the atmosphere and changing the pH of the oceans.

While the world gathers for yet another climate conference, emissions continue to accumulate in the atmosphere.

IPCC writes page 10 § B. 5 of the Summary for Policy Makers: «From those cumulative anthropic emissions 240 [230 à 250] Gt - C have accumulated in the atmosphere»

With the greenhouse gases already accumulated in the atmosphere, it would take less than 30 years for it to be inevitable that temperature would in time reach 2 °C above the pre-industrial level if the global greenhouse - gas emissions stayed at their current rate.

«We call it «slow in,» as in it takes a long time for the carbon to accumulate in the forest, and «fast out» — you're burning it so it goes into the atmosphere rapidly,» Beverly Law, an expert in forest science and management from Oregon State University, said in article in Scientific American.

The Earth escaped snowball conditions owing to limited weathering in that state, which allowed volcanic CO2 to accumulate in the atmosphere until there was enough CO2 for the high sensitivity to cause rapid deglaciation [103].

Question based on Sullivan's explanation of carbon dioxide's role as glass in greenhouse and the inability to vent accumulated heat to the atmosphere: If a man - made greenhouses on earth must have a venting system to avoid killing the plants protected within, what is the natural venting system for our planet - greenhouse?

How does carbon dioxide stay up in the atmosphere accumulating for hundreds and thousands of years?

«The differences are because the impacts of greenhouse gases accumulate and intensify over time, and because they persist in the atmosphere for such long periods,» said Unger.

When we say the oceans are accumulating energy, unless their has been some large increase in SW output from the sun, the only thermodynamically possible way that the oceans can be gaining energy is for the flow from ocean to atmosphere to have slowed.

RealClimate is wonderful, and an excellent source of reliable information.As I've said before, methane is an extremely dangerous component to global warming.Comment # 20 is correct.There is a sharp melting point to frozen methane.A huge increase in the release of methane could happen within the next 50 years.At what point in the Earth's temperature rise and the rise of co2 would a huge methane melt occur?No one has answered that definitive issue.If I ask you all at what point would huge amounts of extra methane start melting, i.e at what temperature rise of the ocean near the Artic methane ice deposits would the methane melt, or at what point in the rise of co2 concentrations in the atmosphere would the methane melt, I believe that no one could currently tell me the actual answer as to where the sharp melting point exists.Of course, once that tipping point has been reached, and billions of tons of methane outgass from what had been locked stores of methane, locked away for an eternity, it is exactly the same as the burning of stored fossil fuels which have been stored for an eternity as well.And even though methane does not have as long a life as co2, while it is around in the air it can cause other tipping points, i.e. permafrost melting, to arrive much sooner.I will reiterate what I've said before on this and other sites.Methane is a hugely underreported, underestimated risk.How about RealClimate attempts to model exactly what would happen to other tipping points, such as the melting permafrost, if indeed a huge increase in the melting of the methal hydrate ice WERE to occur within the next 50 years.My amateur guess is that the huge, albeit temporary, increase in methane over even three or four decades might push other relevent tipping points to arrive much, much, sooner than they normally would, thereby vastly incresing negative feedback mechanisms.We KNOW that quick, huge, changes occured in the Earth's climate in the past.See other relevent posts in the past from Realclimate.Climate often does not change slowly, but undergoes huge, quick, changes periodically, due to negative feedbacks accumulating, and tipping the climate to a quick change.Why should the danger from huge potential methane releases be vievwed with any less trepidation?

But whether we can accurately pin point it or not, as long as GHGs are accumulating in the atmosphere it must be waiting for us somewhere in the future.

If CO2 were accumulating in the atmosphere to any significant degree since the onset of the industrial revolution, then why wouldn't it have been overwhelming aerosol particulates after 1940, when global temperatures ceased to rise for roughly 40 years?

The cooling from smoke particles had a limit, for the particles dropped from the atmosphere in weeks whereas the accumulating CO2 would linger for centuries.

If you (generic) can't see how ludicrous it is to think that a real gas which has weight and volume behaves in the atmosphere as if an ideal gas which has neither, and think that because the ideal imaginary gas spreads to fill the container according to its given properties means that a real gas CO2 behaves this way in the atmosphere, you'll be easily convinced that CO2 can diffuse and spreads as this imaginary gas and take it as perfectly logical then that because it is well mixed by this imaginary diffusion it stays that way and can stay in the atmosphere for hundreds and even thousands of years accumulating.

Even if AGW use the unsubstantiated claim that CO2 stays in the atmosphere accumulating for hundreds and even thousands of years, take your pick, they make up the numbers to suit, and double current amounts actually stayed in the atmosphere, this would be nonsense as «insulating blanket» to not only stop heat loss globally but raise the global temperature of the Earth.