Sentences with phrase «atmosphere for hundreds»

Does CO2 persist in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, as with the current climatology meme; or were all the physicists, chemists, geologists, etc., right when they pegged it at 5 - 6 years?

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.

Carbon can linger in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, before being sequestered into the oceans, depending on how much that ecosystem can hold.

The buildup of greenhouse gases is cumulative and irreversible; the pollutants we are now emitting will remain in the atmosphere for hundreds of years.

«CO2 remains in the atmosphere for hundreds of years and in the oceans for even longer.

Carbon pollution stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years.

IPCC global warming science claims human CO2 emissions remain in the atmosphere for hundreds to thousands of years (not likely, but we'll assume it for this analysis).

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.

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

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?

Somehow, at the same time, co2 is both stable in the atmosphere for hundreds of years and 50 percent of the co2 emitted each year is absorbed by the ocean.

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.

Once it reaches the deep ocean, this carbon can be stored out of reach of the atmosphere for hundreds or thousands of years.

All of the committee members and the three co-chairs emphasized the need for businesses to start examining these issues and pressing for public policy solutions now, due to the fact that greenhouse gases emitted today can last in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, effectively «baking in» a certain amount of warming.

While methane persists for only about a decade before breaking down, other gases, such as the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), can persist in the atmosphere for hundreds or even tens of thousands years.

Owen Lehmer at the University of Washington in Seattle simulated this happening in our solar system, and found that a moon the size of Jupiter's Ganymede could keep a water - rich atmosphere for hundreds of billions of years (The Astrophysical Journal, doi.org/b6hc).

But the fishing industry also contributes to climate change: mostly from the carbon dioxide (CO2) from burned diesel fuel that persists in the atmosphere for hundreds of years.

Once released through combustion, it remains in the atmosphere for hundreds, even thousands, of years and continues its job as a driver of global warming over a long period of time.

While a contrail lasts a day, the CO2 released from a plane lingers in the atmosphere for hundreds of years.

Taalas said that CO2 remained in the atmosphere for hundreds of years and in oceans for even longer.

Thus CO2 does indeed warm the lower atmosphere for a hundred metres or so and that shields the CO2 above from any further surface radiation (at the CO2 spectra remember).

Not exact matches

A global nuclear exchange could annihilate hundreds of millions of lives and sour Earth's atmosphere, water, and ground for generations.

There, a nuclear explosion can suck up dirt, debris, water, and other materials, creating many tons of radioactive fallout — and this material rises high into the atmosphere, where it drifts for hundreds of miles.

Recent research suggests that healthy, intact coastal wetland ecosystems such as mangrove forests, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows are particularly good at drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it for hundreds to thousands of years.

The team developed a model of Saturn's atmosphere and ran hundreds of simulations for hundreds of days each, allowing small thunderstorms to pop up across the planet.

A hundred years later Columbia, with its crew of seven, flew 200,000 feet above Texas, meeting the atmosphere at 12,500 miles per hour and on schedule for a touchdown at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, 16 minutes later.

One of the pathways for the ocean to naturally sequester carbon from the atmosphere is by storing it in the deep ocean as organic carbon for hundreds — if not thousands — of years.

It would last for hundreds of years in the Martian atmosphere,» said Sushil Atreya of the University of Michigan, co-author of the new research.

«This study further confirms what we've suspected for some time, that the CO2 humans have added to the atmosphere will alter the climate of the planet for tens to hundreds of thousands of years.»

The space physicists noted that the stellar wind that blows from stars could deplete the atmosphere of such planets over hundreds of millions of years, eliminating liquid water that is vital for life as we know it.

In the past 150 years, such activities have pumped enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to raise its levels higher than they have been for hundreds of thousands of years.

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For hundreds of years Isla Mujeres was a fishing village and though its now thoroughly discovered by tourists it still retains it's charming and tranquil atmosphere.

The 4 star Pensione Melbourne emulates the character and atmosphere of the European pensiones that have been serving guests for hundreds of years.

For hundreds of thousands of years preceding the industrial revolution, the concentration of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere didn't exceed 280 parts per million.

«Generally accepted modern understanding of the global carbon cycle indicates that climate effects of CO2 releases to the atmosphere will persist for tens, if not hundreds, of housands of years into the future.»

He wrote a fascinating piece for the journal Science on the results of a study testing hundreds of very smart M.I.T. students to see if they could draw an emissions curve that would stop the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from rising.

«It's incredibly good to see people in these streets here and better to know that for every one of them there's hundreds more in every part of world, marching, holding vigils today,» said Bill McKibben, the American environmental writer who now leads 350.org, an international group promoting a low threshold for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (350 parts per million was the concentration of the heat - trapping gas about 20 years ago; it's about 387 now).

Since the heat - trapping gas that has already put into the atmosphere will be there for hundreds of years to come, Greenland will continue to melt indefinitely.

One can try to point the finger at other reasons for this, but the fact is that for the past hundred some odd years since the Industrial Revolution, we've been dumping more stuff into the atmosphere — and on a continuous basis — than probably in the rest of human history combined.

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.

If temperature of the basin goes up 1C in a hundred years it will keep the atmosphere warmer by 0.1 C for a thousand years in other words.

Once carbon has been emitted into the atmosphere, it sticks around for hundreds of years, some of it even longer, trapping heat.

It's putting more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that would have stayed locked up for perhaps hundreds of years.»

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

I don't think you get the point that polar ice doesn't melt momentaneously, and that human emission of CO2 can not last for hundreds of years because of limited reserves and resources and that elevated levels of CO2 in the atmosphere caused by humans will not last for much longer — unfortunately.