Sentences with phrase «driven heating of the planet»

Given the recent push on other substances, many of the scientists most deeply immersed in charted human - driven heating of the planet have become increasingly concerned that carbon dioxide's primacy is under - appreciated.

For the moment, the science is mixed on how the greenhouse - driven heating of the planet might affect east African patterns of drought.

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Our sun turns 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second, creating the heat and light that bathe our planet 93 million miles away, driving air currents, feeding plants and tanning skin.

The center of the Earth is very hot, and the flow of heat from the planet's center towards the surface is thought to drive most of the dynamics of the Earth, ranging from volcanoes to plate tectonics.

The paper also shows that planet c likely has a solid rock surface, and could have eruptions of silicate magmas on its surface driven by tidal heating, similar to Jupiter's moon Io.

Feeling and looking like a drenched wharf rat when the planet backed us into 93 - degree humid heat well before noon, I had calmed down somewhat, because this obviously was no nasty beast as long as one drove it within the limits of adhesion.

«When we measure globally and deep enough, we see a steady rise in the earth's heat content, consistent with the expected greenhouse gas - driven imbalance in our planet's radiation budget,» said study co-author Susan Wijffels of Australian research agency the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO).

If not, might not we want to assume, for the sake of risk assessment, that this will drive faster break down in the system and faster heating of the planet as the ability of the ocean to support life is diminished, and likely it's ability to continue to act as a carbon sink?

Are you worried that the meat you eat, the weekends away, the central heating you accidentally leave on all day, the dishwasher, the washing machine, the oven, the baby, the pet fish, the drive to work are all contributing to the prolonged and painful destruction of the planet?

Thus, the authors could discount heating from the sun and infer instead that the internal heat of the planet is ultimately driving the acceleration of the jet streams, not the sun.

clearly affects the ability of that planet to absorb sunlight, thus converting it to heat that can warm the planet and drive its climate.