Sentences with phrase «continue accumulating in the atmosphere»

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

That would translate to steadily rising temperatures as carbon pollution continues to accumulate in the atmosphere (see red curve below), and fail to reach the goal of holding warming to 2 °C (blue curve at bottom).

While the planet's surface didn't warm as fast, vast amounts of heat energy continued to accumulate in the oceans and with the switch in the PDO, some of this energy could now spill back into the atmosphere.

Meanwhile as CFCs continue to accumulate in the atmosphere of the world we avoided, its story takes a much grimmer turn.

Fossil fuels have been a great gift — but as the greenhouse gases produced by burning them accumulate in the atmosphere, our continued dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas poses a grave threat to the climate on which all life depends.

As greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere and trap heat, Alaska could see its average annual temperature rise another 6 °F to 12 °F (3 °C to 7 °C) by the end of the century depending on the location.

Unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases (at least over the last few hundred thousand years) continue to accumulate in the atmosphere and the global climate (land surface, ocean, glaciers, stratosphere) continues to respond as predicted by theory and models.

Even if ocean surface temperatures fall as in (3), heat continues to accumulate in the earth system until the amount of outgoing radiation at the top of atmosphere equals the amount of incoming radiation there.

Of the many heat - trapping gases, CO2 puts us at the greatest risk of irreversible changes if it continues to accumulate unabated in the atmosphere — as it is likely to do if the global economy remains dependent on fossil fuels for its energy needs.

GHG's continue to accumulate heat in the atmosphere from the time they're released to the time they get scrubbed out by natural processes.

So they continue to accumulate and peak in the atmosphere by the mid 2050s.»

Therefore, to understand what has happened in the past, and what will happen as greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere, requires a familiarity with the various aspects of the system, utilizing everything we have available — observations, theory, and computer modeling.

While greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere, the climate will warm.

IPCC scientists assume that human CO2 emissions will continue to accumulate in the atmosphere, remaining anywhere from hundreds to thousands of years.

Additionally, a recent scientific paper revealed that HFCs actually do cause ozone depletion which will be significant to the climate as concentrations of these gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere.

While we support continued research into geoengineering (as well as into fusion) we believe the prospects for such research to result in solutions to accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to be vastly overstated by the Copenhagen Consensus.

While the world gathers for yet another climate conference, emissions continue to accumulate in the atmosphere.

We know that energy will continue to accumulate and the internal cycles will pass it back and forth in ways that will continue to elude us until the ocean becomes as transparent to us as the atmosphere.

Fossil fuels have been a great gift — but as the greenhouse gases produced by burning them accumulate in the atmosphere, our continued dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas poses a grave threat to the climate on which all life depends.

Armchair detectives might call it the case of Earth's missing heat: Why have average global surface air temperatures remained essentially steady since 2000, even as greenhouse gases have continued to accumulate in the atmosphere?

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(2) If we imagine that airline traffic remains the same, then the total forcing due to CO2 from aircraft will continue to rise as this CO2 continues to accumulate in the atmosphere.

Even though many countries signed on to the Kyoto Protocol, carbon dioxide continued to accumulate in our atmosphere - even from the signatories of the agreement.

There has only been a «pause» in the rate of sensible and latent flux from ocean to atmosphere — hence why the oceans continue to accumulate energy.

You claim chinas temperatures have continued to increase recently despite their coal burning and sulphate aerosols, with no basic knowledge that 1) they have filters on the power stations to remove most particulate matter like this since the 1980's, and 2) CO2 accumulates in the atmosphere overwhelming particulates, which are short lived in the atmosphere.

They will continue to accumulate in the atmosphere over the next years and possibly even decades, which together with the inertia of the climate system will support further warming.

Trouble is, if we went whole - hog on SAI without reducing carbon emissions, greenhouse gases would continue to accumulate in our atmosphere, meaning we'd need to keep pumping particles skyward forever to keep global warming at bay.