Sentences with phrase «by greenhouse gases»

This type of warming is still a much smaller effect than the global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

Not to «anthropogenic climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions» — which is only one factor among many, known and unknown, in anthropogenic climate change.

More than 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed into the oceans that cover two - thirds of the planet's surface.

Which recent climate changes have been forced by greenhouse gas emissions, and which have been natural fluctuations of the climate system?

It is absorbed by the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Global climate change — average temperatures have risen by roughly 0.6 degree Celsius since the beginning of the 20th century — is caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Last year was the globe's hottest on record, and most of the heat trapped by greenhouse gas pollution ends up in the upper levels of the oceans.

The infrared photons emitted by the surface are mostly absorbed in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases and clouds and do not escape directly to space.

Minimum night - time temperatures, on the other hand, are more affected by greenhouse gases and therefore should not be affected by aerosols.

The heat caused by infrared radiation is absorbed by greenhouse gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone and methane, which slows its escape from the atmosphere.

The science is clear on the serious threat posed by greenhouse gases and the need for swift action.

That convention defines climate change as change produced not by all greenhouse gas emissions, but by human greenhouse gas emissions.

This is the mechanism by which the environment stores up part of the energy of generated by greenhouse gas emissions, only releasing it to the atmosphere later on.

Thus water vapor acts as a positive feedback to the forcing provided by greenhouse gases such as CO2.

To achieve that, we merely need to make energy prices reflect the potential harm done by greenhouse gases.

Warming fueled by greenhouse gas emissions continues to rewrite the record books: Over the past several weeks, heat records continued to fall at global, national, and local scales.

What was much more certain was that the oceans were rapidly warming and growing more acidic, exactly as predicted by the greenhouse gas theory.

This is exactly what would be expected from surface warming mediated by greenhouse gases or any other warming mechanism.

The researchers were able to rank those diets by their greenhouse gas emissions.

These standards are widely used by greenhouse gas emissions experts across the world.

If the heat engine slows down because some thermal radiation is blocked by greenhouse gases, other parts of the spectrum have to heat up to compensate.

The researchers said this worldwide increase was consistent with rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.

The truly global average is important, since only it is directly related to the energy balance of our planet and thus the radiative forcing by greenhouse gases.

In both cases the air is warmed by the absorption of IR radiation by greenhouse gases.

This reflects the continued increase of energy in the oceans, which absorb over 90 % of the heat trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases, the report says.

The slowdown in the upward march of global average temperatures has been greeted by climate skeptics as evidence that the climate is less affected by greenhouse gases than thought.

The warming fueled by greenhouse gases is also helping to create more and larger fires as it dries out more vegetation that acts as fuel for fires.

The cities are seeking compensation from the companies for cost related to sea level rise and other climate damages caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.

«The resulting uniform increase of longwave downward radiation manifests radiative forcing that is induced by greenhouse gas concentrations and water vapor feedback, and proves the «theory» of greenhouse warming with direct observations.»

The list was informed by two international GHG accounting and reporting standards developed by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol: the Mitigation Goal Standard and Policy and Action Standard.

The first error is to calculate the radiation re-emitted by greenhouse gases based on Planck's function, which uses the temperature of the layer.

Here's the link and the relevant passage: A recent study of a wide variety of policy options by Yale economist William Nordhaus showed that nearly the highest benefit - to - cost ratio is achieved for a policy that allows 50 more years of economic growth unimpeded by greenhouse gas controls.