Sentences with phrase «away heating of our planet»

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Heat from Earth's inner core, which is as hot as the surface of the sun, churns an outer core of molten iron and nickel, generating a magnetic field that deflects lethal cosmic and solar radiation away from the planet.

Our sun turns 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second, creating the heat and light that bathe our planet 93 million miles away, driving air currents, feeding plants and tanning skin.

As any given spot on Mercury rotates away from the sun, its temperature drops as low as 179 ° C. Measuring how quickly the planet loses heat can help researchers figure out what the subsurface material is made of and how densely it's packed.

Many physicists predicted that the gravitational bear hug Jupiter exerted on Europa as the moon drifted closer to the planet in its elliptical orbit, and the subsequent release as it drifted away, would generate friction and heat — enough heat, scientists guessed, to keep the bottom 50 or so miles of that salty water completely melted.

Ehrenreich and his team think that such a huge cloud of gas can exist around this planet because the cloud is not rapidly heated and swept away by the radiation pressure from the relatively cool red dwarf star.

While weather and natural climate patterns play a role in temperatures across the U.S., the overall background warming of the planet has tipped the odds in favor of heat records and away from cold ones.

The planet dubbed «HD 40307 g» is located about 44 light years away in the Goldilocks Zone of a sun - an area around a sun or star, where water can exist without evaporating due to heat, according to University of Göttingen astrophysics researcher Guillem Anglada - Escudé.

Life on an Earth - like planet, however, may have developed closer to the star before it evolved and began heating up out of the main sequence into a subgiant, thereby shifting its habitable zone outwards away from the star.

The reason policy makers can get away with saying there isn't global warming is because we don't have enough information or data to map out the complex relationship of carbon dioxide to the flow of heat around the planet.»

CO2 is far and away the main driver of climate change, as your question implies, the problem being for the planet that once emitted it is very slow to go away, many hundreds or even thousands of years of heating effects.

But surely the planet's main heat loss takes place on the side of the globe facing away from the sun.

Increasing the height of the convection cell doesn't generally help the planet radiate away heat, since the higher the tropospause (loosely the height of convection) goes, the colder it gets, inhibiting radiation.

«the Stratosphere can not accumulate any heat; to slow down cooling of the planet tomorrow — because: by tomorrow, the planet will be million miles away from that spot, spinning around the sun.»

Are you worried that the meat you eat, the weekends away, the central heating you accidentally leave on all day, the dishwasher, the washing machine, the oven, the baby, the pet fish, the drive to work are all contributing to the prolonged and painful destruction of the planet?

Anyway with El Niño fading away and possibly a new El Nina with other natural cooing factors coming in to play there is a good chance of another decade or more of «Pausing» or cooling in global temperatures which is itself a stupid concept as it cools and heats in different places of the planet dependent on the local climate conditions an average is meaningless — you really need to dream up some more dire alarmist nonsense to keep your show on the road.

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One involves deflecting a small amount of the sun's light and heat away from the planet to lower global temperatures; this could include the use of reflective aerosols or mirrors high in the atmosphere, or may require the deliberate formation of clouds.

As governments, industry and civil society struggle to achieve the necessary emission reductions to address climate change, scientists are increasingly looking at new technological pathways such as direct carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, solar geoengineering (cooling the planet by reflecting heat away from the Earth) and the use of sophisticated satellite technologies capable of...

We can't pretend that we «just know» that heat is building on the planet if we can't see the planet heating on the grounds that «it must be somewhere» because it doesn't have to be anywhere on the planet, it may be radiating away, light years away, in the case of the pause.