Sentences with phrase «as greenhouse gases accumulated»

Summers are warming across the country as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere with the largest increase in parts of the Southwest.

The steady rise of Earth's temperature as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere and trap more and more heat is sending the planet spiraling closer to the point where warming's catastrophic consequences may be all but assured.

Black starts by describing the three categories of climate and coastal impacts projected to intensify as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere:

Black starts by describing the three categories of climate and coastal impacts projected to intensify as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere: Read more...

As greenhouse gases accumulate one might expect about 0.01 degrees C increase in atmospheric temperature per year — all things being equal.

Since the temperature increase dates from the beginning of the industrial age and the warming apparently accelerates as greenhouse gasses accumulate in the atmosphere (picture below this), it is used as strong evidence of cause and effect and projected into the future (which I'll write about later).

Alas, I believe the preponderance of evidence strongly supports the claim that anthropogenic emissions are having an effect on the global climate, and that effect will increase as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere.

This balance changes relatively slowly as greenhouse gases accumulate.

Burning fossil fuels not only pollutes our air directly with irritants like particulate matter and soot, but as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere and average temperatures rise, they also contribute to higher levels of ground - level ozone that can cause acute and long - term respiratory problems.

Not exact matches

The continual warming of the planet's atmosphere as heat - trapping greenhouse gases accumulate is also a factor.

«As time goes on, the rate of burning in the power plant stays the same, but the carbon accumulates, so by the end of the year, the greenhouse gases will be heating the earth much more than the direct emissions of the power plant.»

Oceanographers may have solved one of the biggest sea mysteries in years: why the upper ocean didn't warm between 2003 and 2010, even as heat - trapping greenhouse gases accumulated in the air above.

While an exceptionally strong El Niño helped to boost temperatures early in the year, most of the excess heat has built up over decades as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere.

Fossil fuels have been a great gift — but as the greenhouse gases produced by burning them accumulate in the atmosphere, our continued dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas poses a grave threat to the climate on which all life depends.

Dust clouds masking the Sun would have plunged the Earth into dark cold, followed by intense warming as clouds of greenhouse gases accumulated.

As greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere and trap heat, Alaska could see its average annual temperature rise another 6 °F to 12 °F (3 °C to 7 °C) by the end of the century depending on the location.

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.

Unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases (at least over the last few hundred thousand years) continue to accumulate in the atmosphere and the global climate (land surface, ocean, glaciers, stratosphere) continues to respond as predicted by theory and models.

In pushing passionately for aggressive action to cut carbon dioxide emissions, «Asteroid Miner» is a staunch defender of nuclear power as a non-polluting energy option, a stance that's in sync with quite a few commenters who reject his view of risk from accumulating greenhouse gases.

As humanity's growth spurt plays out, the accumulating greenhouse gases from fossil fuel combustion — along with the impacts on clouds or sunshine from other emissions and impacts from land surfaces — have made this a two - way relationship.

As researchers contemplate the impacts of accumulating greenhouse gases, their concerns are not restricted to rising temperatures and sea levels and other problems they are pretty sure we can expect.

Other feedbacks include forests, and most importantly, water vapour, which as the temperature of the atmosphere rises increases in the atmosphere (think tropical rain forest), and water vapour is a potent greenhouse gas (but it is not the «controller» of our climate because it does not accumulate in the atmosphere, only gases like CO2, methane and nitrous oxide do this) See Skeptical Science https://skepticalscience.com/co2-lags-temperature.htm

The bad news is that SST patterns tend to last a long time, so the UK could face several months — possibly years — of this type of storm track pattern, as no one expects the Greenland melt to slow down while greenhouse gases continue to accumulate.

As I wrote above, James Carville's campaign mantra about «the economy, stupid,» is vital to keep in mind here as well, so I'll closed with the voices of three economists who've extensively analyzed the economic impacts of accumulating greenhouse gases and various policies for curbing emissionAs I wrote above, James Carville's campaign mantra about «the economy, stupid,» is vital to keep in mind here as well, so I'll closed with the voices of three economists who've extensively analyzed the economic impacts of accumulating greenhouse gases and various policies for curbing emissionas well, so I'll closed with the voices of three economists who've extensively analyzed the economic impacts of accumulating greenhouse gases and various policies for curbing emissions.

Climate varies and climate changes, as is happening now through the steady buildup of heat trapped by accumulating greenhouse gases.

On a related front, a new paper in the journal Nature Communications (available in full online) projects deep reductions in litter size in the polar bear population along the western shores of Hudson Bay, should the open - water season continue to lengthen as foreseen under the warming influence of accumulating greenhouse gases.

Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide accumulate in the atmosphere and trap heat that normally would exit into outer space.

Therefore, to understand what has happened in the past, and what will happen as greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere, requires a familiarity with the various aspects of the system, utilizing everything we have available — observations, theory, and computer modeling.

Increased concentrations of greenhouse gases, such as CO2, reduce the amount of outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) to space; thus, energy accumulates in the climate system, and the planet warms.

As time goes on, the rate of burning in the power plant stays the same, but the CO2 accumulates, so by the end of the year, the greenhouse gases will be heating the Earth much more than the direct emissions from the power plant.»

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.

«Greenhouse gases are accumulating in earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise,» the report said.

Those 30 million, million tonnes of accumulated excavation, ore and manufacture can be seen as the physical residue of the colossal exploitation of energy, much of it in the form of fossil fuels that is returned to the atmosphere as greenhouse gas carbon dioxide to trigger global warming and potentially catastrophic climate change.

Fossil fuels have been a great gift — but as the greenhouse gases produced by burning them accumulate in the atmosphere, our continued dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas poses a grave threat to the climate on which all life depends.

Armchair detectives might call it the case of Earth's missing heat: Why have average global surface air temperatures remained essentially steady since 2000, even as greenhouse gases have continued to accumulate in the atmosphere?

As more greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, more heat is being trapped.

In the 21st century, greenhouse gases have continued to accumulate in the atmosphere, just as they did in the 20th century, but global average surface air temperatures have stopped rising in tandem with the gases.

This method of comparison makes some sense when carbon dioxide is being compared to greenhouse gases such as HFCs, which also accumulate in the atmosphere over long periods of time.

If all farmable fields in the world accumulated as much carbon as fast as the organic fields at Rodale Institute, we could store 40 percent of the world's annual global greenhouse gas emissions in the soil.

And that lull in warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record pace... The slowdown is a bit of a mystery to climate scientists.