Sentences with phrase «because atmospheric gases»

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Transits can reveal atmospheres because as a planet passes in front of its star, atmospheric gases can absorb certain frequencies of the light passing through.

We can determine the radiative forcing associated with the long - lived greenhouse gases fairly precisely, because we know their atmospheric concentrations, their spatial distribution and the physics of their interaction with radiation.

Because life prefers lighter carbon, the isotopes suggest to some scientists that the atmospheric rise must be due to extra microbial production, and not a boost due to leaked gas from fracking operations, which has a heavier isotopic signature.

Because a gas giant's atmospheric pressure and magnetic field both depend on its mass, less - massive worlds such as Saturn should have dynamic weather extending more than three times deeper than Jupiter's.

Tropospheric ozone — a greenhouse gas and the kind that affects the air we breathe — can increase in concentration because of atmospheric conditions, or can result from human activities.

Because of carbon monoxide's central role in atmospheric chemistry, there are many possible explanations for this sudden decline, involving both sources and sinks of the gas.

Their findings have been recently published in EPJ D and are particularly relevant for the development of novel applications in medicine, health care and materials processing because they involve air at normal atmospheric pressure, which would make it cheaper than applications in inert gases or nitrogen.

Meanwhile, here on earth, we still have the same remaining problem of our trapped thermal atmospheric content that can not escape away from Earth's self contained system that is maintained by the greenhouse gases that surrounds the earth that is said to be increasing in content, and because it increasing in content, the thermal kinetic capacity (global warming potential of certain said gases will rise with it.)

This is because all biosignature gases we could possibly detect could also be produced by some odd geological or atmospheric processes — all without life.

Chlorofluorocarbons, banned by an international agreement known as the Montreal Protocol because they eat up atmospheric ozone, are also greenhouse gases.

The climate models as described here won't produce glacial / interglacial cycles if run for a long time, and that is because they treat the atmospheric content of trace IR - absorbing gases (CO2, methane and N2O) as external forcings.

And the reason those 21st century emissions fail to make much of an impression on global temperature is because the atmospheric levels of GHG begin to decline when our emissions are cut (the cut required depending on the gas in question).

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?

I think you are getting confused from a statement about there being less CO2 in total (because the air is «thinner»... i.e., there is less of all atmospheric gases there... due to a combination of elevation and the fact that the air thins out more as you go up in elevation near the poles than elsewhere).

Making ethanol from corn reduces atmospheric releases of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide because the CO2 emitted when the ethanol burns is «canceled out» by the carbon dioxide taken in by the next crop of growing plants, which use it in photosynthesis.

Because the air and ocean exchange gases at the sea surface, ocean acidity and the atmospheric carbon dioxide are related.

Conversely, as atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons, and other absorbing gases continue to increase, in large part owing to human activities, surface temperatures should rise because of the capacity of such gases to trap infrared radiation.

Traditional anthropogenic theory of currently observed global warming states that release of carbon dioxide into atmosphere (partially as a result of utilization of fossil fuels) leads to an increase in atmospheric temperature because the molecules of CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) absorb the infrared radiation from the Earth's surface.

«However, 2017 is likely to be warmer than any year prior to the last two decades because of the underlying extent of anthropogenic warming due to the increasing atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases,» he said.

Because a cool ocean absorbs atmospheric heat more readily, that has partially offset the atmospheric warming caused by greenhouse gases.

The CCSM indicated that ocean waters warmed significantly at higher latitudes because of rising atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas.

And, because it is a physical property of a gas, it isn't proper to ignore it whilst postulating atmospheric conditions.

There is no such thing as a GHGE in the laws of chemistry because there is no effect, or it would need be consulted when calculating the temperature of a gas, or standard atmospheric air.

Never — in all the mathematics I studied and used — did any mathematical formula ever calculate temperature of some gas or atmospheric mix then have to refer to a» green house effect» because the laws of

This is so because any national position on climate change is implicitly a position on adequate global atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration stabilization level and all nations have a duty to prevent atmospheric greenhouse concentrations from exceeding levels that are harmful to others.

These gases have potential as long - term contributors to climate forcing because of their high per - molecule radiative forcing and long atmospheric lifetimes.

Reductions in some short - lived human - induced emissions that contribute to warming, such as black carbon (soot) and methane, could reduce some of the projected warming over the next couple of decades, because, unlike carbon dioxide, these gases and particles have relatively short atmospheric lifetimes.The amount of warming projected beyond the next few decades is directly linked to the cumulative global emissions of heat - trapping gases and particles.

Because allocation of national ghg emissions is inherently a matter of justice, nations should be required to explain how their ghg emissions reduction commitments both will lead to a specific atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration that is not dangerous, that is, what remaining ghg CO2 equivalent budget they have assumed that their commitment will achieve, and on what equitable basis have they determined their fair share of that budget.

and, (d) Whether those causing climate change have obligations to act now because if the world waits to act until all uncertainties are resolved it will likely be too late to prevent catastrophic impacts to others and to stabilize greenhouse gas atmospheric concentrations at safe levels?

«With this picture in mind, even if emissions were stopped overnight globally, the atmospheric concentrations would continue for decades because of the long lifetime of these greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,» he said.

Today Earth is out of balance because increasing atmospheric gases such as CO2 reduce Earth's heat radiation to space, thus causing an energy imbalance, as there is less energy going out than coming in.

«THERE IS a good, but by no means certain, chance that the world's average climate will become significantly warmer during the next century, because of the increasing atmospheric concentrations of infrared - absorbing and re-radiating, so - called «greenhouse»» gases.»

Since a sustainable future based on the continued extraction of coal, oil and gas in the «business - as - usual mode» will not be possible because of both resource depletion and environmental damages (as caused, e.g., by dangerous sea level rise) we urge our societies to -LSB-...] Reduce the concentrations of warming air pollutants (dark soot, methane, lower atmosphere ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons) by as much as 50 % [and] cut the climate forcers that have short atmospheric lifetimes.

Because of the strong correlation between the TLC reflection feedback and ECS in models, these results imply that, remarkably, almost half of the ECS variance across models can be accounted for by simulations that do not involve any perturbation of the atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations (Fig. 3).

This is because of uncertainties in processes relating to the carbon cycle, to atmospheric trace gas chemistry and to aerosol physics (see Chapters 3, 4 and 5).

It is because the air has a vertical temperature lapse rate and a thickness much above the average infrared photon path length that the greenhouse effect exists and increases with the concentration of the greenhouse gases: see «The atmospheric greenhouse effect is more subtle than you believe» in La Météorologie (n ° 72 February 2011)

In that way we can allow factors other than mass, gravity and insolation to affect V without affecting T because T is determined only by the amount of KE needed to keep the mass of the atmosphere off the surface at a given height and in turn that is determined by mass (m) and the individual gas constant for the particular atmospheric composition (Rspecific).

The IPCC, its models, and the climate establishment insist warming will be more than this because the warming will cause an increase in atmospheric water vapor (the major greenhouse gas) which will amplify the CO2 - caused warming, a net positive feedback.

Severinghaus and his associates concentrated on isotope rations for different atmospheric gases but paid scant attention to CO2 because they concluded that fractionation of gases with molecular diameters larger than 0.36 nm was insignificant.

The Montreal Protocol may have prevented the atmospheric concentrations of chlorine from getting worse by getting rid of CFCs in developed countries (but the black market will ensure they are readily available in developing countries for years to come unless more is done soon), and because the CFCs are enormously powerful greenhouse gases (5000 - 11,000 time more powerful than CO2, in round figures) Montreal has done 5 times more to abate emissions than Kyoto will in the first commitment period.

Based on an extensive literature review, we suggest that (1) climate warming occurs with great uncertainty in the magnitude of the temperature increase; (2) both human activities and natural forces contribute to climate change, but their relative contributions are difficult to quantify; and (3) the dominant role of the increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (including CO2) in the global warming claimed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is questioned by the scientific communities because of large uncertainties in the mechanisms of natural factors and anthropogenic activities and in the sources of the increased atmospheric CO2 concentration.

Even if greenhouse gases never rise beyond their present level, temperatures and sea levels will continue rising for another century or more because of a time lag in the oceans» response to atmospheric temperatures, say researchers.

The emphasis is on carbon dioxide because human activities, such as burning fossils (coal, oil and natural gas) are increasing the atmospheric cocetration of this gas at an alarming rate.

If the Earth's greenhouse is caused by the forcing model used by climate scientists, then the GHE should be very stable over the course of the year because overall there is little change to the atmospheric concentration of the greenhouse gases that cause the GHE in the forcing model that they use.

So seb get over it, there is no catastrophic warming coming just because CO2, a rare atmospheric gas has NATURALLY risen by an inconsequential amount.

«The world reached its current levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases because of countless large and small decisions by governments, companies in different industries, and consumers.

Yet, model projections of future global warming vary, because of differing estimates of population growth, economic activity, greenhouse gas emission rates, changes in atmospheric particulate concentrations and their effects, and also because of uncertainties in climate models.

But it is not a simple monotonic function of average specific humidity, because water vapor is never a well mixed gas, its atmospheric lifetime (~ 9 days) is way too short for that.

Yet before writing tha book, Sorenson decided to go ahead and publish his 2011 article because, as he says, «Eunice Foote deserves credit for being the first to recognize that certain atmospheric gases, such as carbon dioxide would absorb solar radiation and generate heat... [three] years before Tyndall's research that is conventionally credited with this discovery.»

2) greenhouse warming by atmospheric gases is insignificant except over dry land because downwelling IR, which will insulate rocks or ice, does not insulate water very well.