Sentences with phrase «atmospheric increases in»

David, isn't the gist of what Salby is saying is that the atmospheric increases in CO2 are due to the gas coming out of the oceans, and here we are discussing the observation that the pH of the oceans are decreasing because CO2 is dissolving in them?

Upper atmospheric increases in carbon dioxide «is the primary cooling agent of the thermosphere,» observes thermosphere climate scientist John Emmert of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C..

Dr. Berry makes it so easy to understand that all of the atmospheric increase in CO2 is not due to humans like the climate alarmists claim.

I already did, and RealOldOne2 nicely set out how all of the atmospheric increase in CO2 is man made.

In that case, there would be no atmospheric increase in CO2 to observe, and so the question in this thread (Are humans responsible for the observed increase) would become meaningless.

For Salby to claim that the atmospheric increase in CO2 is independent of human contributions, he must explain how the 3ppm added by humans disappears, and then 1.5 to 2ppm reappears from some other source.

Not exact matches

The increased sunlight reflectance in the sky would keep the waters below from warming up to the hurricane threshold while also curbing evaporation, thereby reducing the atmospheric moisture needed to make a storm.

The Initiative is based on the finding that «4 ‰» annual growth rate of the soil carbon stock would make it possible to stop the present increase in atmospheric CO2 and aims to use a range of agricultural systems to sequester CO2 and store it in the ground as soil organic carbon (SOC).

Despite this, increased production has led to a rapid increase in its atmospheric concentration over the past decade.

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Today the difference is 28 degrees Celsius, indicating that polar regions are more sensitive to increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide than the tropics.

In our industrial world, rapidly increasing atmospheric CO2 has surpassed 400 ppm, levels not achieved since the Pliocene era about 3 million years ago, while global temperature has increased nearly 1 °C since the 1870s.

«While concentrations measured in Antarctic ice cores are very low, the records show that atmospheric concentrations and deposition rates increased approximately six-fold in the late 1880s, coincident with the start of mining at Broken Hill in southern Australia and smelting at nearby Port Pirie.»

The NOAA program is fulfilling the organization's proud history of increasing minority participation in the marine, environmental, and atmospheric sciences.

My work is also directed toward determining why plants exposed to elevated carbon dioxide concentrations often have only a temporary increase in growth rate, and toward determining what plant characteristics might be most beneficial to the productivity and to the nutritional value of crops if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations continue to rise.

Most notably, the models do not generally react too sensitively to increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

An observed long - term increase in the number of these clouds may be due in part to the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, he says.

The researchers believe the greening is a response to higher atmospheric carbon dioxide inducing decreases in plant stomatal conductance — the measure of the rate of passage of carbon dioxide entering, or water vapor exiting, through the stomata of a leaf — and increases in soil water, thus enhancing vegetation growth.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is known for its scholarly involvement in fields like oceanography and the weather, but one program seeks to increase minority participation in the marine, environmental, and atmospheric sciences by offering internships and academic courses in these fields.

Much like the United States, a major potential cause for increased ammonia traces back to reductions in atmospheric acids that would normally remove ammonia from the atmosphere.

In all regions, the researchers attributed some of the increase in atmospheric ammonia to climate change, reflected in warmer air and soil temperatureIn all regions, the researchers attributed some of the increase in atmospheric ammonia to climate change, reflected in warmer air and soil temperaturein atmospheric ammonia to climate change, reflected in warmer air and soil temperaturein warmer air and soil temperatures.

Europe experienced the least dramatic increase in atmospheric ammonia of the four major agricultural areas highlighted by the study.

In particular, the connection between rising concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases and the increased warming of the global climate system is more certain than ever.

Curiously, the decline in atmospheric oxygen over the past 800,000 years was not accompanied by any significant increase in the average amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, though carbon dioxide concentrations do vary over individual ice age cycles.

An increasing body of research reveals that these weather events can be linked to loss of sea ice in the Arctic, said Charles Greene, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, who contributed to the article.

A substantial portion of the planet is greening in response to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, nitrogen deposition, global warming and land use change.

Black and brown carbon particles increase atmospheric warming in three ways.

In India, a broad increase in fertilizer use coupled with large contributions from livestock waste have resulted in the world's highest concentrations of atmospheric ammoniIn India, a broad increase in fertilizer use coupled with large contributions from livestock waste have resulted in the world's highest concentrations of atmospheric ammoniin fertilizer use coupled with large contributions from livestock waste have resulted in the world's highest concentrations of atmospheric ammoniin the world's highest concentrations of atmospheric ammonia.

However, flow increased in some sub-tropical regions, owing to disruption to atmospheric circulation patterns.

The ice algae seem to be one of the major players in this scheme — even the slight increase of the atmospheric temperature and liquid water production seems to promote algae colonization across the ice surface.

What happens when the world moves into a warm, interglacial period isn't certain, but in 2009, a paper published in Science by researchers found that upwelling in the Southern Ocean increased as the last ice age waned, correlated to a rapid rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

The study shows, with 90 percent confidence, that such extreme summers in Australia are five times more likely due to an increase in greenhouse gases, said paper co-author David Karoly, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Melbourne and the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Climate System Science.

Black carbon aerosols — particles of carbon that rise into the atmosphere when biomass, agricultural waste, and fossil fuels are burned in an incomplete way — are important for understanding climate change, as they absorb sunlight, leading to higher atmospheric temperatures, and can also coat Arctic snow with a darker layer, reducing its reflectivity and leading to increased melting.

«Significant increases in summer temperatures will affect the carbon cycling in the lakes, with potential consequences on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and the Earth's climate,» he added.

Indeed, the team estimates that this cooling effect could reduce by two - thirds the predicted increase in global temperatures initiated by a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

I have not even touched on increasing atmospheric turbulence, vibration, aircraft vapour trails, atmospheric degradation of optical surfaces, trails of aircraft, satellite and space debris on deep - sky photographic plates (one or more trails on one plate in three), sunlight reflectors and much more.

A new long - term field study shows that plants grow less under elevated carbon conditions owing to limitations in soil nutrients — bad news as atmospheric CO2 increases

«The key is to account for large year - to - year fluctuations that have obscured a gradual increase in the long - term evolution of ozone,» says atmospheric scientist Murry Sal

Because air temperature significantly alters atmospheric dynamics, which in turn affects moisture transport, scientists speculate that this increase of high altitude moisture may be tied to global warming.

The climate is warming in the arctic at twice the rate of the rest of the globe creating a longer growing season and increased plant growth, which captures atmospheric carbon, and thawing permafrost, which releases carbon into the atmosphere.

Certainly, the only way to stop the massive increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide is to impose a charge, either on emissions or fuel, and to allow competition to provide the cheapest alternative.

Previously, a massive outpouring of carbon about 56 million years ago had been proposed as faster than the current rate of net increase in atmospheric carbon.

Warmer temperatures could extend the growing season in northern latitudes, and an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide could improve the water use efficiency of some crops.

«As remarkable as it is that climate can change that quickly naturally, what is even more remarkable is that some of the rates of change we're experiencing today — increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide for example — are faster than anything we've been able to find in the past several million years of geologic history.

However, this has to a large extent not led to immediate action to address the severity of the imminent crisis of rising global temperatures and associated problems due to the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations due to human activity.

However, the health of the entire population pays a high price: substitution of gasoline for ethanol leads to a 30 % increase in the atmospheric concentration of ultrafine particulate matter, which consists of particles with a diameter of less than 50 nanometers (nm).

The ice core data also shows that CO2 and methane levels have been remarkably stable in Antarctica — varying between 300 ppm and 180 ppm — over that entire period and that shifts in levels of these gases took at least 800 years, compared to the roughly 100 years in which humans have increased atmospheric CO2 levels to their present high.

Undertaken by University of Adelaide in collaboration with CSIRO, the research could make viable a process that has enormous potential to replace fossil fuels and continue to use existing carbon - based fuel technologies without increasing atmospheric CO2.

Dr. Houghton and colleagues conclude that the greater certainty in atmospheric carbon measurements has led to an increased certainty in the calculated rate of carbon uptake by land and oceans.

The second simulation overlaid that same weather data with a «pseudo global warming» technique using an accepted scenario that assumes a 2 - to 3 - degree increase in average temperature, and a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide.