Sentences with phrase «consequences of a warmer earth»

6 What are the consequences of a warmer Earth?

18 The Consequences of a Warmer Earth The impacts of global warming could include a number of potentially serious environmental problems.

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Because our knowledge of the many delicate balances in the ecology of the planet is still in its infancy, and because what is known is not widely understood, the consequences of what the human race is (in its ignorance) doing to the earth may turn out to be even more serious than global warming.

James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and a vociferous advocate for lowering global greenhouse gas emissions, was chosen for his work modeling Earth's climate, predicting global warming, and warning the world about the consequences.

At risk of going beyond the theme of this thread, I offer up excerpts from it because I think Orr's review speaks indirectly to the larger issue of how we as humans and as a global society are reacting to the findings of the earth sciences regarding anthropogenic global warming, climate disruption, and their ensuing ecological and socio - economic consequences:

The steady rise of Earth's temperature as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere and trap more and more heat is sending the planet spiraling closer to the point where warming's catastrophic consequences may be all but assured.

«We now have evidence from the Earth's history that a similar event happened fifty - five million years ago when a geological accident released into the air more than a terraton of gaseous carbon compounds... we have already put more than half this quantity of carbon gas into the air... and as a consequence the Earth is now returning to the hot state it was in before, millions of years ago, and as it warms, most living things will die.»

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said that if the buildup of greenhouse gases and its consequences pushed global temperatures 9 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today — well below the upper temperature range that scientists project could occur from global warming — Earth's population would be devastated.

What the CO2 (both «cold, hot and warm CO2 ′) and other gasses do is to make the atmosphere more optically thick to thermal IR radiation emitted (mainly) from the Earth's surface [note2] which has consequences for the equilibrium temperature profile of the atmosphere.

With climate and Greenhouse Gas thoeries of Global warming, it appears to me that of most interest is the interface between the Earth's atmosphere and space and the flow of radiated heat from the sun, what's reflected back from Earth's surface and the consequences of any change in that balance.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

AGW, also called «The Enhanced Greenhouse Effect» is simply the expectation from observation and theory that adding more of these gases will increase the «restiction» and that the Earth will warm as a consequence.

As a public scholar with expertise in paleoclimate science, I communicate alarming, difficult information about the consequences to Earth and ocean systems that have come with past events of abrupt climate warming.

The range of uncertainty for the warming along the current emissions path is wide enough to encompass massively disruptive consequences to societies and ecosystems: as global temperatures rise, there is a real risk, however small, that one or more critical parts of the Earth's climate system will experience abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.

On the other hand, despite the overwhelming evidence that global warming will transform the Earth's climate for centuries, with fearful consequences for human health and wellbeing (not to mention the survival of many species and ecosystems), the world can not agree to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions because of concerns about the effects on economic growth.

There are wide political divides over the consequences of policies aimed at climate change that hold even among those who agree that the Earth has been warming.

Of the 68 papers, the results showed that a large majority 42 scientific research papers, or 62 %, predicted the Earth would warm as a consequence of humans increasing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, 19 papers or 28 % were neutral or took no stance, and only 7 papers or about 10 % predicted that the earth was cooling or going into an ice agOf the 68 papers, the results showed that a large majority 42 scientific research papers, or 62 %, predicted the Earth would warm as a consequence of humans increasing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, 19 papers or 28 % were neutral or took no stance, and only 7 papers or about 10 % predicted that the earth was cooling or going into an iceEarth would warm as a consequence of humans increasing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, 19 papers or 28 % were neutral or took no stance, and only 7 papers or about 10 % predicted that the earth was cooling or going into an ice agof humans increasing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, 19 papers or 28 % were neutral or took no stance, and only 7 papers or about 10 % predicted that the earth was cooling or going into an iceearth was cooling or going into an ice age.

While the Earth seems to be managing the steady increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide relatively well so far (although the effects of this increase may not be felt for many decades to come), there are concerns that passing the 400 parts per million atmospheric carbon dioxide threshold will bring the Earth's atmosphere closer to a tipping point at which global warming accelerates rapidly with dire consequences for mankind and other creatures on Earth.

Is Earth truly facing dire and imminent consequence of warming climate or hoaxed stage shows?

«Spotless Sun» prompts scientists to fear «dramatic turn for the worse» — May 31, 2008 — Excerpt: ith the debate focused on a warming Earth, the icy consequences of a cooler future have not been considered You probably haven't heard much of Solar Cycle 24, the current cycle that our sun has entered, and I hope you don't.

The Earth's temperature has warmed in the modern era as a consequence of the strong solar activity during the 20th century (the Modern Maximum) shielding cosmic ray intensification and thus reducing decadal - scale cloud cover, which leads to warming via an increase in absorbed surface solar radiation (as illustrated here by Ogurtsov et al., 2012 and detailed by Avakyan, 2013, McLean, 2014, and others).

When the earth's temperature rises on average by more than two degrees, interactions between different consequences of global warming (reduction in the area of arable land, unexpected crop failures, extinction of diverse plant and animal species) combined with increasing populations mean that hundreds of millions of people may die from starvation or disease in future famines.

He theorizes that the Earth's temperature has warmed in the modern era as a consequence of the strong solar activity during the 20th century (the Modern Maximum) shielding cosmic ray intensification and thus reducing decadal - scale cloud cover, which leads to warming via an increase in absorbed surface solar radiation (as illustrated here by Ogurtsov et al., 2012 and detailed by Avakyan, 2013, McLean, 2014, and others).

INTRODUCTION CAUSES CONSEQUENCES SOLUTIONS Golbal warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earth.

By Brad Plumer, NYTimes, Feb 2, 2018 Exxon Mobil's shareholders — concerned that the company's main businesses, oil and natural gas, may be imperiled — had demanded last year that the company give a more detailed accounting of the consequences of global policies aimed at curbing emissions of earth - warming gases.

Consequences of warming regardless of source, except for sea level rise, is gross speculation with the exception of measured / understood beneficial results of longer growing seasons and, regardless of source of CO2, greening of the earth through atmospheric fertilization.

There is no need of heat to «warm the surface» because its temperature is a consequence of the gravitation and of the mass of the air, both on Earth and on Venus.

The author says «There is no need of heat to «warm the surface» because its temperature is a consequence of the gravitation and of the mass of the air, both on Earth and on Venus.»

David quotes, ««There is no need of heat to «warm the surface» because its temperature is a consequence of the gravitation and of the mass of the air, both on Earth and on Venus.»

The large majority of climate research in the 1970s predicted the Earth would warm as a consequence of CO2.

USA Today «s house editorial today bemoans the fact that Climategate «gives ammunitiion to the skeptics,» but concludes that «the overwhelming scientific consensus remains that the Earth is warming, largely because of human activity, with potentially calamitous consequences involving melting ice caps, rising sea levels and shifting agricultural patterns.»

CO2 will now warm the earth faster as a consequence of their publication and narrative, than it would have done otherwise.

There are people who would rather drastically manipulate the Earth's environment with technology without understanding the consequences instead of investing first in doing the heavy lifting that would be necessary by humans to reduce the warming of the planet.

The consequences and effects of global warming have reached most of the species on earth, including us of course.

Your Report confirms that greenhouse gases are increasing substantially as a result of Man's activities; that this will warm the Earth's surface, with serious consequences for us all, and that these consequences are capable of prediction.

Of great urgency are the climate consequences of the increasing atmospheric abundance of greenhouse gases and other trace constituents... [that] interact strongly with the Earth's energy balance, resulting in the prospect of significant global warminOf great urgency are the climate consequences of the increasing atmospheric abundance of greenhouse gases and other trace constituents... [that] interact strongly with the Earth's energy balance, resulting in the prospect of significant global warminof the increasing atmospheric abundance of greenhouse gases and other trace constituents... [that] interact strongly with the Earth's energy balance, resulting in the prospect of significant global warminof greenhouse gases and other trace constituents... [that] interact strongly with the Earth's energy balance, resulting in the prospect of significant global warminof significant global warming.

Most books about climate change focus on some aspect of the science of the issue; some deal with issues of mitigation — that is, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases — or adaptation — that is, actions to adjust human behavior or infrastructure to the consequences of the warming that Earth will experience over the coming decades.

[ii] The range of uncertainty for the warming along the current emissions path is wide enough to encompass massively disruptive consequences to societies and ecosystems: as global temperatures rise, there is a real risk, however small, that one or more critical parts of the Earth's climate system will experience abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.

This means a world in which we are warming the earth by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at a pace that is unprecedented in Earth's history is also a world in which the consequences of climate change could come hard and fast, including tsunamis and earthquearth by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at a pace that is unprecedented in Earth's history is also a world in which the consequences of climate change could come hard and fast, including tsunamis and earthquEarth's history is also a world in which the consequences of climate change could come hard and fast, including tsunamis and earthquakes.

Climate models predict, that as a consequence of global warming, the TLT will warm about 20 % faster than the Earth's surface temperature.