Sentences with phrase «already added to the atmosphere»

We have only begun to see the change in temperature and climate caused by the amount of CO2 that we have already added to the atmosphere (+38 %), and it will continue to change until the ocean - atmosphere climate system fully responds to that addition.

3 tons by itself is not enough given the carbon dioxide we've already added to the atmosphere and are continuing to do so.

-LSB-...] Future warming of the climate is inevitable for many years due to the greenhouse gases already added to the atmosphere and the heat that has been taken up by the oceans.

Not exact matches

Especially for big batches of MAP - packed fresh cut products, this is an economic solution because the testing gases can either be added to the protective gas or are already contained in the protective atmosphere.

The question is: Does the current load of aerosols in the atmosphere already exceed that limit, in which case adding extra particles should not greatly affect cloud formation; or do they continue to be a limiting factor as pollution rises, so that added aerosols would continue to influence the clouds?

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

«Unfortunately, if we add up human emissions from the pre-industrial age to the present, then around 2000 gigatonnes out of the 5000 total have already been released into the atmosphere — so the situation is worrying,» explains Finnish Meteorological Institute researcher Antti - Ilari Partanen, who is currently carrying out research at Concordia University and was involved in the study.

There may be some jump scares thrown in here, but unlike many other «horror» films the jump scares for the most part add to the already overwhelming atmosphere this film creates.

As they prepare food, they are joined by a passing Pole whose virulent anti-Semitism adds tension to an already charged atmosphere.

The banks are laden with stunning indigenous vegetation and ancient cycads that add to the already incredible atmosphere.

Estate Belvedere's six bedrooms are sophisticated yet understated, adding to an already cozy atmosphere.

The amazing week that they spent with us was one of the highlights of my own travels and certainly added to what was already a great atmosphere here at the surf camp.

The idea is to supply fuel by recycling the carbon already in the air in CO2 molecules instead of adding more to the atmosphere (and greenhouse effect) by digging up or pumping more ancient deposits of coal and oil.

That's already clear from the fact that we add twice as much to the atmosphere as is needed to explain the full increase there — that makes it obvious that the natural Earth system can not possibly be adding more CO2 but rather is continually removing about half of our CO2 emissions from the atmosphere.

Starting with zero atmospheric LW absorption, adding any small amount cools the whole atmopshere towards a skin temperature and warms the surface — tending to produce a troposphere (the forcing at any level will be positive, and thus will be positive at the tropopause; it will increase downward toward the surface if the atmosphere were not already as cold as the skin temperature, thus resulting in atmospheric cooling toward the skin temperature; cooling within the troposphere will be balanced by convective heating from the surface at equilibrium, with that surface + troposphere layer responding to tropopause - level forcing.)

Add 0.1 C and nature immediately adds many gigatonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere — showing carbon climate feedbacks are already a clear threat to maintaining stable temperatures

So in the WORST CASE scenario, the bulk of the damage is DONE and adding THREE TIMES as much CO2 to the atmosphere as we already have has a FRACTION of the effect of what we have already done.

Trenberth notes that global warming has already increased the average amount of water vapor in the atmosphere by about 4 %, «extra moisture flowing into the storms that produced the heavy rains and likely contributed to the strength of the storms through added energy.»

You also fail to recognize that any effects that the CO2 we've added to the atmosphere will have has already occurred.

However, it is much easier to figure out what happens when you add more radiative gases to an atmosphere that already has them: And, the answer is that it increases the IR opacity of the atmosphere, which increases the altitude of the effective radiating level and hence means the emission is occurring from a lower - temperature layer, leading to a reduction of emission that is eventually remedied by the atmosphere heating up so that radiative balance at the top - of - the - atmosphere is restored.

A change in clouds may reflect it or if the optical density of the atmosphere due to water + CO2 (+ everything else) is already saturated at those wavelengths then no additional energy will get added.

Bill McKibben says we need to «do the math,» which is to take the known fossil fuel reserves that oil and gas companies expect to tap and add that to the carbon already trapped in the atmosphere.

You are probably also aware already that water vapor is as much if not more of a so called greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide is and there is a lot of evaporating ocean water on the planet not to mention clouds and high tropical humidity because hot air provides added space in the atmosphere for water vapor gas to become a major component of air.

So there is another reason to believe that while humans certainly ARE adding CO2 to the atmosphere, it isn't the primary component (we already know it isn't the primary component because the atmosphere is accumulating CO2 at a much faster rate than humans add each year) because while human emissions have been rising nearly exponentially, atmospheric CO2 has been rising linearly and that rate of rise did not change when global human CO2 emissions fell in absolute terms (tons of CO2 emitted to atmosphere fell in 2009, rate of increase of atmospheric CO2 unchanged).

There are indications that large regions of the permafrost in parts of Alaska and other northern polar areas are already thawing, with the potential to release massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere beyond those being directly added by human activity.

And when one considers the ocean already contains 50 times more CO2 than atmosphere or say more than 50 trillion tonnes of CO2, what effect would their be if during a brief period of time [say any where within a week or month or even a year] one could add, say.1 trillion tonnes to this existing 50 trillion tonnes CO2 then what in terms acidifying occurs in such a body?

First, that the impact of adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere will be much smaller than most estimates; second, that almost all of the warming due to the greenhouse gases we've put in the atmosphere so far has already been felt, so there's almost no warming «in the pipeline» due to greenhouse gases already in the air.

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

If you add CO2 to the atmosphere, you might not get much increase in the downward IR at all, since the lower atmosphere is already emitting close to a blackbody at its temperature.

The gorgeous greens really pop and add a jungle - like atmosphere to an already (literally) steamy space.