Sentences with phrase «eventually warm the planet»

One proposal is that volcanic activity releases greenhouse gases that eventually warm the planet back up.

The oil industry has known since a least 1957 that burning fossil fuels will eventually warm the planet to dangerous levels, and that the cost of that warming would prove monumental.

To see how and why they got beyond that, read here: In 1900, shortly after Svante Arrhenius published his pathbreaking argument that our use of fossil fuels will eventually warm the planet, another scientist, Knut Ångström, asked an assistant, Herr J. Koch, to do a simple experiment.

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Some of this is used to make electricity or heat human - built structures, but eventually all of that energy escapes into the environment and warms the planet.

Although, Santiago adds: «Continued warming of the planet would eventually cause widespread tree mortality.»

Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slides, Black delivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from the world's use of fossil fuels would warm the planet and could eventually endanger humanity.

Alexandre, yes global warming is an equal opportunity destroyer and will eventually effect almost everyone on the planet.

Is it not also given that there is continuous change on Earth, in a lot more ways than temperature, eventually leading to the death of this planet, it's a chaotic work in progress... perhaps it is ridiculous and short sighted to even hope to meaningfully alter any part of the process in the long - run... it may be possible that so many other unforeseen changes in natural life conditions besides getting warmer (or colder) are in store for us that, in hind sight we will look back and chuckle at our feeble efforts to control something so beyond man's control.

Presumably, eventually the gradient gets so steep that a tipping point occurs and the Planet shifts into another phase where another area of the Earth warms preferentially to the others.

Some of this is used to make electricity or heat human - built structures, but eventually all of that energy escapes into the environment and warms the planet.

CO2 limits won't cool the planet, but they can make the difference between continued accelerating global warming to catastrophic levels vs. slowing and eventually stopping the warming at hopefully safe levels

If cloud cover (especially low clouds) decreases (as it did in the 1980s / 90s), more heat reaches our planet and it eventually begins to warm (as it did).

At a meeting in Exxon Corporation's headquarters, a senior company scientistdelivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from the world's use of fossil fuels would warm the planet and could eventually endanger humanity.

Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slides, Black delivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from the world's use of fossil fuels would warm the planet and could eventually endanger humanity.

Earth is the warmest it's been in 100,000 years, a new reconstruction of historical temperature data finds, and with today's level of fossil fuel emissions the planet is «locked into» eventually hitting its highest temperature mark in 2 million years.