Sentences with phrase «caused heating of the planet»

It is still a matter of debate whether climate change will increase the number of hurricanes, but it is more and more clear that human - caused heating of the planet will boost their severity.

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«I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» the first term senator said Sunday on ABC «This Week,» after being asked by ABC News» Jon Karl whether humans were contributing to the heating up of the planet.

The main cause of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), which trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet.

«It gives us some insight into the connection between the slow circulation of near - solid rock in Earth's mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat upwards from the planet's interior, and observed active plate tectonics at the surface.

There's enough crisscrossing to cause a seasonal «wave of darkening» on parts of the planet during summer, Cantor says, making the surface retain more heat.

According to this theory, the heat generated by the collision would have caused the whole planet to melt, before some of the debris cooled and spun off to create the Moon.

That may in turn have caused the planet to heat up enough to melt deposits of methane frozen in sediments on the ocean floor (something, incidentally, that could happen again), discharging even more potent greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and further heating the planet in an escalating feedback loop.

It also was thought that planets were able to self - regulate their internal temperature via mantle convection — the underground shifting of rocks caused by internal heating and cooling.

While a strong El Niño has given global temperatures a boost, the main reason for the spate of intensely warm months is the long - term warming of the planet caused by the accumulation of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, scientists have found.

These oceans were formed by tidal heating, that is, warming of the ice caused by friction between the surface ice and the core as a result of the gravitational interaction between the planet and the moon.

The heat of its formation caused extensive melting of the planet, leading Earth to separate into two layers when the denser iron metal sank inward toward the center, creating the core and leaving the silicate - rich mantle floating above.

The energetic impacts of the smaller planetesimals will heat up the growing planet, causing it to at least partially melt.

Fortunately, 2012 leaves all that phooey to a crazy pirate radio guy but instead invents its own crackpot reason for the Earth's destruction in the form of mutated neutrinos from the Sun that act as microwaves on the planet's core, which in turn heat it causing the Earth's crust to shift wildly and the magnetic poles to move.

Weren't they worried about them causing a greenhouse effect that would heat the planet, as Hansen, Al Gore and a host of others so fervently believe today?

According to data from the World Health Organization, rising temperatures on the planet are killing off the equivalent of a mid-sized city every year; about 150,000 annual deaths can be attributed to global warming, from causes including heat waves, air pollution, infectious disease, food safety and production, flooding and more.

I have no idea what you mean by the heat on the planet, but if you mean why do I reject the hypothesis of human caused global warming, here is a good place to start: http://www.cfact.org/2018/01/02/no-co2-warming-for-the-last-40-years/

We may not know for decades all of the factors that precipitated a particular hurricane like Sandy, or what would have happened if we hadn't heated our planet or caused CO2 levels to exceed 392 ppm (42 ppm above the safe level of 350 ppm).

Human activities, such as burning coal and oil and cutting down tropical forests, have increased atmospheric concentrations of heat - trapping gases and caused the planet to warm by 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880.

But that's actually an understatement by Gallup, since more than 97 % of the world's climatologists say that those carbon gases, which are given off by humans» burning of carbon - based fuels, are causing this planet's temperatures to rise over the long term, as those carbon gases accumulate in the atmosphere and also block the heat from being radiated back into outer space.

That causes an error of about 3 % in the calculation of heat transfer by evaporation from tropical seas — probably where most of water on this planet evaporates.

The poorest of the planet, who are still relying on 19th century technologies to meet basic needs such as cooking and heating, are bearing a heavy brunt of the damages caused by the economic activities of the rich.

And the melting was caused by tiny wobbles in the Earth's orbit that changed the heat balance of the planet by only a fraction as much as our emissions of greenhouse gases are doing today.

That's trapping excess heat and causing the surface of the planet to warm.

«The poorest of the planet, who are still relying on 19th century technologies to meet basic needs such as cooking and heating, are bearing a heavy brunt of the damages caused by the economic activities of the rich,» the document alleges.

Fueled by seemingly endless United Nations Eco-Summits, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the rapid rise of dark green nature spirituality in the west, politicians and scientists warmed to the idea that humans are causing unprecedented heating of the planet.

I'm not advocating geoengineering, but it illustrates the principle that we can cool the planet (temporarily) regardless of what is causing it to heat up.

As the planet warms, increasing levels of water vapour in the atmosphere caused by higher evaporation levels form more clouds and snow increasing the albedo of the planet, reflecting heat back into space more efficiently, thus working to regulate the temperature downward.

The fact is, we are the ones on this planet with the highest energy consumption and the end result of all this energy consumption is a steady increase of heat, carbon dioxide and other by - products into the atmosphere produced by us that is causing gradual increases in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere from year to year.

Which does indeed confirm about as well as science confirms anything that the planet is heating up primarily because of human caused changes to the atmosphere.

Dennie: I am slowly coming to the realization that the planet is heating up not only from greenhouse gasses and aerosol particulates holding in heat, but that the major cause of the increased atmospheric heat is due to microwave technology and the exponential increase in its saturation of the entire global atmosphere.

That lack of immediate concern may in part stem from a lack of understanding that today's pollution will heat the planet for centuries to come, as explained in this Denial101x lecture: So far humans have caused about 1 °C warming of global surface temperatures, but if we were to freeze the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide at today's levels, the planet would continue warming.

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Yet the Earth gets most of its heat from the Sun, so if the Sun were the cause, we'd expect the effects of warming to be much stronger on Earth than any outer planets.

The reflect surface of the world's oceans reflects a large quantity of the Sun's energy (the greatest cause of global «warming») back into space before it can heat the planet and / or be radiated in a form that can be «trapped» by the gases in the atmosphere.

Just a nit, but Venus is an example of what happens to planets close to the sun - it is more likely that the added heat input caused the CO2 release than that a sharp rise in CO2 caused a runaway warming trend.

Extra heat absorption caused by black carbon accounts for about 18 percent of the total heating of the planet, compared to 40 percent for the much more notorious carbon dioxide.

Climate science, which no one had ever heard of previously, burst on to the scene with an announcement that ACO2 was causing the planet to heat rapidly and catastrophically, only IMMEDIATE action to curb or eliminate fossil fuels could save us, and that the science was settled.

In the case of the planet, it may be that the configuration of any «cooling fins» and their effectiveness is not readily apparent and that the sum of any heating and cooling effects caused by CO2 is not a tractable calculation, even if we had the measurements.

Most members of the public accept the science that says carbon pollution is heating the planet and that this will cause environmental damage.

Pressure doesn't cause heat, the adiabatic lapse rate is given by g for the planet divided by the specific heat at constant pressure of the atmosphere.