Sentences with phrase «from escaping into space»

Climate change occurs as greenhouse gases accumulate and stop heat from escaping into space.

It can also prevent radiation from escaping into space.

Dust from frenetic star formation in the early universe completely shrouded some galaxies, blocking visible light from escaping into space.

Some of the energy emitted from the Earth is trapped in the atmosphere and prevented from escaping into space; this is called the greenhouse effect.

Young stars in the galaxies shed dust that blocked visible light from escaping into space.

CO2 is now being released faster than the Earth can handle and once it's released into our atmosphere, either through the burning of fossil fuels or naturally, it hangs out there and keeps heat from escaping into space.

In that case, the ice seen on the surface now would once have been buried beneath dust and rock that insulated it from the sun's heat and prevented it from escaping into space.

Carbon dioxide acts something like the glass panes in a greenhouse, allowing sunlight in to heat the Earth, but preventing some of that heat from escaping into space.

Or, put another way, methane is more effectual than carbon dioxide at absorbing infrared radiation emitted from the earth's surface and preventing it from escaping into space.

Greenhouse gases [link to our webpage on them] in the atmosphere act like a blanket, absorbing this energy and preventing it from escaping into space.

The excess gases in the atmosphere are believed to enhance the greenhouse effect by not only preventing infrared light from escaping into space, but also by absorbing more outgoing energy, leading to warmer surface temperatures.

The current hypothesis on anthropogenic global warming (AGW), as presented by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is that CO2 emissions should be directly and indirectly trapping a certain amount of heat in the earth's atmosphere and preventing it from escaping into space.