Each molecule of carbon dioxide, which is the most important long - lived manmade greenhouse gas, can remain in the atmosphere for as many as 1,000 years, making it more urgent to cut emissions in the near future, or face
continued cumulative warming for centuries to come.
Not exact matches
My expectation is that mass loses will
continue to accelerate as the planet
warms and it wouldn't take much to have accelerations that lead to big
cumulative loss rates.
Besides, there is also a possibility that the Gulf Stream could even increase in temperature over years to come — adding a
cumulative effect to
continued atmospheric
warming.
By weighted averages, if every year the global temperature is in the range and with the distribution of the global temperatures of the last ten years, then the
cumulative 30 - year running mean by 2024 will
continue to accelerate upward in trend, as cooler years drop out of the mean replaced by
warmer years.