Sentences with phrase «by warming of the atmosphere»

According to Dr. Kevin Trenberth at NCAR in Boulder, Colo., an increase in water vapor floating overhead, triggered by warming of the atmosphere and oceans, is already loading the dice.

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With that kind of drug and their belief structure, we will have faster - than - light travel, cold fusion, a way to reverse global warming (caused by an overabundance of CO2 in our atmosphere, not god), and a real recipe for amrita, ambrosia, and a panacea by New Year's!

Designed by award - winning local architects Gensler & Associates, the restaurant will transform its former modern - elemental look in favor of beautiful wood flooring and walls and hand - blown light fixtures that exude a warm and inviting atmosphere.

As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.

Designed by David M. Schwarz Architects, Del Frisco's Grille in Fort Worth features a blend of industrial and warm elements creating an atmosphere that is simultaneously stylish and relaxed.

«We hand - selected every element of the restaurant's design to establish a fun personality and warm atmosphere inspired by Mexico, without being too clichéd or overwhelming.

LongHorn Steakhouse is known for fresh, boldly seasoned steaks and offering the widest variety of cuts, including its signature bone - in Outlaw Ribeye ® — all served in a relaxed, warm atmosphere inspired by a rancher's home.

Guests will enjoy a selection of sakes and varied tea collection in a warm and elegant atmosphere in plush surroundings created by renowned designer, Joseph Dirand.

Warm up the atmosphere between you with genuine verbal expressions of love that are not over ridden by criticisms.

While the temperatures will be cold and the lakes warm, the amount of snow will be limited by the direction of the wind and relatively dry air in the upper atmosphere.

«The widespread loss of Antarctic ice shelves, driven by a warming ocean or warming atmosphere, could spell disaster for our coastlines — and there is sound geological evidence that supports what the models are telling us,» said Robert M. DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a co-author of the study and one of the developers of the ice - sheet model used.

The simulations also suggest that the removal of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by natural processes on land and in the ocean will become less efficient as the planet warms.

A team of researchers lead by Florida State University have found new evidence that permafrost thawing is releasing large quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere via plants, which could accelerate warming trends.

This pattern is consistent with greenhouse gas — induced warming by the overlying atmosphere: the ocean warms more slowly because of its large thermal inertia.

«Ultimately, the warming induced by carbon dioxide over the many thousands of years it remains in the atmosphere would exceed the warming from combustion by a factor of 100,000 or more,» Caldeira said.

The work by Mark Jacobson, director of Stanford University's Atmosphere / Energy program and a fellow at the university's Woods Institute, argues that cutting emissions of black carbon may be the fastest method to limit the ongoing loss of ice in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

Geoengineering — the intentional manipulation of the climate to counter the effect of global warming by injecting aerosols artificially into the atmosphere — has been mooted as a potential way to deal with climate change.

«Gradual warming of the earth's atmosphere is caused by the developing countries as well as the developed countries,» says English professor Wang Xiansheng of Zhengzhou University, which is also facing rolling blackouts as a result of the current coal shortage.

Research at the Rodale Institute found that «organic farming helps combat global warming by capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide and incorporating it into the soil, whereas conventional farming exacerbates the greenhouse effect by producing a net release of carbon into the atmosphere.»

The period known as the Palaeocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was triggered by massive releases of carbon into the atmosphere and climate researchers have long identified it as a time that could in some ways be analogous to today's global warming.

This effect, called climate sensitivity, is usually defined as the warming caused by the doubling of the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

But some of that heat gets blocked by those pesky carbon dioxide molecules building up in the atmosphere — inexorably warming our planet.

Researchers are pursuing a handful of negative emissions technologies (NETs) that would mitigate global warming by pulling carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere.

Produced by the burning of fossil fuels in power plants and car engines, carbon dioxide continues to accumulate in the atmosphere, warming the planet.

While a strong El Niño provided a boost to global temperatures last year, the main driver of the planet's temperature surge, as well as other climate trends, is the warming caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The greenhouse effect is the process in which the emission of infrared radiation by the atmosphere warms a planet's surface.

In fact, the amount of global warming already guaranteed by existing concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere — 392 ppm and still rising — will also play out over centuries, if not millennia.

And achieving any stabilization target — whether 2 degrees C of warming or 450 ppm or 1,000 gigatons of carbon added to the atmosphere by human activity — will require at least an 80 percent cut in emissions from peak levels by the end of this century and, ultimately, zero emissions over the long term.

The cooling effect of a grand minimum is only a fraction of the warming effect caused by the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The research has also contributed to answering the important question whether the increase in rainfall observed in the tropics was simply caused by the fact of a warmer atmosphere or whether the underlying circulation in that region had changed.

Already, the planet's average temperature has warmed by 0.7 degree C, which is «very likely» (greater than 90 percent certain) to be a result of the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

A surprising recent rise in atmospheric methane likely stems from wetland emissions, suggesting that much more of the potent greenhouse gas will be pumped into the atmosphere as northern wetlands continue to thaw and tropical ones to warm, according to a new international study led by a University of Guelph researcher.

«Cirrus clouds are known to warm up the atmosphere by attracting infrared radiation,» said Guy Brasseur, director of the Climate Service Center in Germany and a coordinator for ACCRI.

The next step was see how those factors were influenced by ENSO; while El Niños and La Niñas are defined by how much warmer or colder than normal tropical Pacific ocean waters are, they trigger a cascade of reactions in the atmosphere that can alter weather patterns around the globe.

Using 19 climate models, a team of researchers led by Professor Minghua Zhang of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University, discovered persistent dry and warm biases of simulated climate over the region of the Southern Great Plain in the central U.S. that was caused by poor modeling of atmospheric convective systems — the vertical transport of heat and moisture in the atmosphere.

This year has already brought higher temperatures than normal nation - wide, and that trend is expected to continue, in part due to global warming which is caused by rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The initial IPCC report in this series, released last September, noted that the atmosphere could bear only 800 to 1,000 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases, in order to restrain global warming to 2 degrees Celsius by century's end.

Conditions would have been perfect to make clays by chemical reactions between the atmosphere and the minerals within the warm and porous top of the crust.

It will spur clean energy investments and more energy - efficient technologies by doing so, and right now, carbon dioxide — the main man - made greenhouse gas warming the atmosphere — is the only type of greenhouse gas capped in the Chinese program.

U.S. satellite data since 1979 has revealed that the troposphere — the weather - bearing layer of our atmosphere that extends more than seven miles up — warmed the most, by roughly 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit, in the middle latitudes.

They suggest that forecasts of the global warming likely to result from doubling the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may, therefore, have to be reduced by about half.

There are global efforts to reduce the man - made emission of GHG's that likely contribute to global warming by trapping the sun's heat inside the atmosphere, including emission standards and financial penalties on excess emissions.

The OCO would have helped scientists monitor global warming by measuring how much carbon dioxide was in a given part of the atmosphere and where it was being absorbed.

A detailed, long - term ocean temperature record derived from corals on Christmas Island in Kiribati and other islands in the tropical Pacific shows that the extreme warmth of recent El Niño events reflects not just the natural ocean - atmosphere cycle but a new factor: global warming caused by human activity.

Some scientists are linking the phenomenon to warmer waters and ocean acidification caused by high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Then in 2003, William Ruddiman, a palaeoclimatologist at the University of Virginia, suggested the advent of agriculture 8000 years ago ramped up levels of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere, warming the world by about 0.8 °C.

Heatwaves from Europe to China are likely to be more intense and result in maximum temperatures that are 3 °C to 5 °C warmer than previously estimated by the middle of the century — all because of the way plants on the ground respond to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The only way the world is going to be able to limit warming to 2 °C is by sucking vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere, using technology that does not yet exist.

One tentative estimate put warming two or even three times higher than current middle - range forecasts of 3 to 4 °C based on a doubling of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which is likely by late this century.

By analyzing global water vapor and temperature satellite data for the lower atmosphere, Texas A&M University atmospheric scientist Andrew Dessler and his colleagues found that warming driven by carbon dioxide and other gases allowed the air to hold more moisture, increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmospherBy analyzing global water vapor and temperature satellite data for the lower atmosphere, Texas A&M University atmospheric scientist Andrew Dessler and his colleagues found that warming driven by carbon dioxide and other gases allowed the air to hold more moisture, increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmospherby carbon dioxide and other gases allowed the air to hold more moisture, increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.