Sentences with phrase «atmosphere in a matter of weeks»

That's 500 additional years of locked - away carbon released back into the atmosphere in a matter of weeks.

Confined to the troposphere, they settle out of the atmosphere in a matter of weeks to months, so in order to have a sustained climate impact there must be sustained emissions.

In doing so we'll also prevent some 1.5 million premature deaths annually due to improved air quality.Soot Comes Out of the Atmosphere in Weeks, Not Decades Since soot — which in this context comes from older diesel engines and burning other fossil fuels, industrial sources, inefficient biomass cookstoves used in many developing nations — comes out of the atmosphere in a matter of weeks, not decades or centuries like carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, removing the source of pollution is highly effective in both stopping the warming effects as well as improving air quality.

Not exact matches

Physicists are gearing up to send a re-engineered science instrument originally designed for lofty balloon flights high in Earth's atmosphere to the International Space Station next week to broaden their knowledge of cosmic rays, subatomic particles traveling on intergalactic routes that could hold the key to unlocking mysteries about supernovas, black holes, pulsars and dark matter.

Methane resides in the atmosphere for only 9 - 15 years, while black carbon precipitates out of the atmosphere after a matter of weeks.

In contrast to CO2, which may remain in the atmosphere for a century or more, soot particles in ABCs are typically airborne for only a matter of weekIn contrast to CO2, which may remain in the atmosphere for a century or more, soot particles in ABCs are typically airborne for only a matter of weekin the atmosphere for a century or more, soot particles in ABCs are typically airborne for only a matter of weekin ABCs are typically airborne for only a matter of weeks.

I'm pretty sure the reason is because if you strip the ocean out of the coupled models the earth would be completely covered in snow in a matter of weeks and would stay the way for millions of years while CO2 built up in the atmosphere from volcanic discharges until it was as thick as the Venusion atmosphere and then it would be a runaway greenhouse same as Venus with the final stable state hot enough to melt lead on the surface.

The atmosphere, however, readjusts itself in a matter of weeks.