Sentences with phrase «compounded by the planet»

This could be especially compounded by the planet's tidal locking to its parent star.

Not exact matches

If a planet is made up of many different compounds and elements it can conceivably spawn life which can be sustained by its environment!

Since different elements and compounds absorb light at characteristic wavelengths, astronomers can determine what chemicals make up a planet's atmosphere by measuring the relative amounts of light that come in at particular wavelengths.

By studying the planet's infrared glow, the astronomers discovered that its air abounds with the carbon - bearing molecules carbon monoxide and methane, implying that the planet could have carbide (a compound of carbon and metal) rather than silicate in its interior.

The hue may be formed by radiation from space splitting molecules in the planet's clouds, which then combine to form red compounds.

Nonetheless, with rising sea level and environmental refugeeism compounding the increased demand on water, food, and land of a growing population (albeit one likely to level out mid 21st century), the combined impacts of climate change and global population increase could potentially yield a world that doesn't look that different from the one portrayed in the movie — indeed, as Jim Hansen puts it, «a different planet» — by century's end.

Greenhouse gases (which prevent dispersal of heat generated by the planet's surface, after this receiving solar radiation) of higher concentration on Earth are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH 4), nitrous oxide (N2O), Compounds of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) and water vapor (H2O).

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The climate beat has kind of exploded over the past two weeks, with the normally intense run - up to treaty talks, which begin in Copenhagen on Monday, compounded by the unauthorized disclosure of thousands of e-mail messages and documents suggesting a back story behind efforts to chart the planet's past temperatures.

In 1995, McDonough had branched out from his architecture firm, William McDonough + Partners, with studios in Charlottesville, Virginia, and San Francisco, and with Braungart founded McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (M.B.D.C.), a consultancy based in Charlottesville, devoted to Cradle to Cradle — izing the planet, industry by industry, compound by compound, molecule by molecule.

The lunar declinational tides are the main driver of the meridional flow surges into the mid-latitudes that produce almost all of the severe weather, running the variations in the el nino / la nina oscillations when combined with the outer planet Synod planet conjunctions, resulting in the compounded signal, that is the background climate noise not attributable to the CO2 forcing, but still interacting with the solar forcing, both magnetically and by TSI output.