Sentences with phrase «further warming of the planet»

While it is widely recognized that continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause further warming of the planet and this warming could lead to damaging economic and social consequences, the exact timing and severity of physical effects are difficult to estimate.

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But for planetary scientists, Jupiter's most distinctive mystery may be what's called the «energy crisis» of its upper atmosphere: how do temperatures average about as warm as Earth's even though the enormous planet is more than fives times further away from the sun?

Over a simulated interval of 200 million years, the inner planet slowly migrated even farther inward to become a «warm Jupiter» orbiting its parent star at about the same distance Mercury does in our solar system, the researchers report online today in Science.

«The finding that this was not the case is alarming, because the Arctic is the most rapidly warming region on the planet, with conservative estimates predicting further warming of another approximately 4oC by the end of the century.»

The toasty conditions in the U.S. mirror those of the planet as a whole, which experienced its record warmest year - to - date by far through February.

Scientists have extrapolated from those successful searches that billions of planets exist in the «habitable zones» of their stars — close enough to be warmed by their suns and far enough away to keep water and biological life from being vaporized.

Since it is the cumulative volume of carbon dioxide emitted that determines how much the planet warms, this makes it difficult to assess how far Russia's contribution will go to meeting the 2C limit set by governments.

As humans release ever - larger amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, besides warming the planet, the gas is also turning the world's oceans more acidic — at rates thought to far exceed those seen during past major extinctions of life.

For example, we know that as the planet warms, permafrost might melt and emit greenhouse gases of their own — warming the planet still further.

With warming of 0.8 °C in the past century, Earth is just emerging from that range, implying that we need to restore the planet's energy balance and curb further warming.

The grainy images from outer space set this SETI Institute planetary scientist on a future career path that stretched far beyond the confines of our warm blue planet.

2) The committed warming: effectively the greenhouse gas increase from pre-industrial to now has committed the planet to a surface warming of 2.4 °C (using IPCCs central value for climate sensitivity), and only about 0.6 °C of this has been realized thus far.

Building cities along coastlines as we have throughout our so - far short modern history, short though it has been from the standpoint of our climate history, should be recognized as the kind of short term planning that has gotten us into this trouble whether it happens now or a few decades or centuries down the road, and this concern over atmoshperic warming is just one of a multitude of possible planet - affecting scenarios that could have devastating effects on our world's societies.

A positive cloud feedback loop posits a scenario whereby an initial warming of the planet, caused, for example, by increases in greenhouse gases, causes clouds to trap more energy and lead to further warming.

Short - term toxic chemical cool - downs are carried out at the cost of a far worsened overall warming, a shredded ozone layer, a completely derailed hydrological cycle, and completely contaminated planet.

[28] I fear the irrational policies of extreme environmentalists far more that a warmer climate on this relatively cold planet (14.5 C global average temperature today compared with 25C during the Greenhouse Ages.

Snow and ice reflect heat very effectively (which is why patches of snow survive long after temperatures rise above freezing), so if warming leads to less snow, then more heat will be absorbed, which warms the planet further.

The «so called science» has so far proven remarkably accurate in its predictions of a warming planet, increasing heat waves, fires, melting ice caps, loss of sea ice, species migration and variable rainfall.

What is particularly galling to me is when my colleagues predict all sorts of adverse health consequences from a small amount of warming and greening of the planet, when the reverse is far more likely, and when health and life expectancy always rise hand - in - hand with the deployment of reliable, affordable fossil fuel energy.

«Further recognizing the fact that «[h] uman activity has and will continue to alter the atmosphere of the planet» and that «[s] uch activity may lead to demonstrable changes in climate, including a warming of the planetary mean temperature,» ALEC developed the Interstate Research Commission on Climactic Change Act in the mid-1990s.

The alarmists guessed that it would increase the height of moist air around the planet, which would warm the planet even further, because the moist air is also a greenhouse gas.

A fan of * MORE * discourse March 22, 2013 at 10:01 am Reply JA requests «In the past, has not the planet exhibited climate far more extreme (either warmer or colder) than present?

«Even with just a further 3C of warming — well within the range to which the UN climate science panel expects temperatures to rise by the end of the century — nearly one - fifth of the planet's 720 world heritage sites will affected as ice sheets melt and warming oceans expand.»

And knowing what causes cooling seems far more important to human beings and welfare of life on this planet, than what causes warming.

If you missed the reams of comments posted here by people living there, who were telling us that this past winter was much colder than usual, and begging the planet to «send us some of that global warming», then go back over the archives and tell us they were all wrong, and that those articles are accurate when they say «The unseasonably warm and wet winter so far in Britain has coaxed plants into early flowering.»

Also note that human induced warming probably will trigger natural C02 / methane emissions leading to further warming so anthropogenic source will probably play a decreasing role in the amount of C02 in the atmosphere as the planet moves to a new equilibrium point.

Removing all such air pollution, while clearly positive for human health, could indirectly cause a lot of harm, as the planet warms even further.

In short, as far as Jones knew in February 2010 - and as the keeper of the Hadley - CRU surface temperature record he was surely in a very good position to know - the planet hadn't warmed on average over the decade.

In their attempt to create the illusion of ferocious winter weather on a rapidly warming planet, the geoengineers are actually further fueling the overall planetary heating.

And this all supports the analysis that the climate is much more sensitive to changes in greenhouse gas emissions and other «forcings» than the IPCC models have been saying and that a doubling of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide from preindustrial levels to 550 ppm will ultimately warm the planet far more than 3 °C, as NASA's James Hansen argues (see «Long - term» climate sensitivity of 6 °C for doubled CO2).

CAGW enthusiasts are in the uncomfortable position of having to claim that while 1 °C of warming has provably benefited the planet, 1 °C further warming in the 21st century will be an unmitigated disaster.

In the 21st century, the eugenics movement has changed its stripes once again, manifesting itself through the global carbon tax agenda and the notion that having too many children or enjoying a reasonably high standard of living is destroying the planet through global warming, creating the pretext for further regulation and control over every facet of our lives.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, the UK Met Office, and other groups that monitor the planet's thermostat, 2017 was by far the warmest year to occur without an El Niño event, which can boost ocean and air temperatures and was partly responsible for propelling 2016 to the top spot on the list of warmest years.

This is the only so - far - ultimate consequence of warming the planet and the oceans.

That lack of immediate concern may in part stem from a lack of understanding that today's pollution will heat the planet for centuries to come, as explained in this Denial101x lecture: So far humans have caused about 1 °C warming of global surface temperatures, but if we were to freeze the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide at today's levels, the planet would continue warming.

Further — they don't subtract UHI (the warming of the planet from urban centers that is completely unrelated to CO2).

Then CO2 further warms the whole planet, because of its heat - trapping properties.

The far - northern country is one of the fastest - warming regions on the planet, warming at a rate of up to four times the average of the entire Northern Hemisphere, according to an article published by The Daily Climate.

There were very few readings from the Arctic, yet the Arctic is by far the fastest - warming region of the planet, and the pattern of land - based temperature readings, too, repaid re-examination.

We need only look as far as our sister planet, Venus, to see an example of how the greenhouse effect warms the surface but cools the upper atmosphere.

You may have heard that the planet is committed to further warming and sea level rise, irrespective of what choices we now make to reduce carbon emissions.

CO2 has risen by 40 % in just the past 200 years, contributing to human alteration of the planet's energy budget that has so far warmed Earth by about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F).

The wobbling of the planet changed how the Sun warmed the Earth periodically, which appears to have triggered complex feedbacks that may have released carbon dioxide from the ocean or other sinks, which, in turn, further increased the planet's temperature.

Given the lack of surface warming in the 21st century so far, and the contrast between that and the climate predictions, how certain are you that the 21st century will witness more than a 1C warming, and how confident are you that any warming will be the result of human CO2, and how confident are you that such a warming will be «too much» warming for the good of the planet?

The earliest criticism of global climate models failing to consider cloud processes, that I can find so far, is from Professor Richard Lindzen in 2001, who explained how a heat vent may cool the planet by as much as two thirds of the projected global warming.

In the farthest reaches of Antarctica, a nightmare scenario of crumbling ice — and rapidly rising seas — could spell disaster for a warming planet.

They are a powerful device to further sustainability goals and to tell impactful stories about sustainability, communities, and technology that is reducing the global warming potential of harmful greenhouse gases in ways that benefit people, planet, and profit.

Much like how some areas of the planet are warming far more than others, there are places where, due to a variety of factors, sea level rise is happening more quickly.

The heated gas molecules would bump into other air molecules and warm them, and like any material above absolute zero, the Atmosphere would emit radiation at a variety of long - wave wavelengths in random directions, some of which would be absorbed by the surface of the planet, warming it further.

«Back [in 2007], [the IPCC] said that the planet was warming at a rate of 0.2 degrees Celsius every decade... But the new report says the true figure since 1951 has been only 0.12 Celsius per decade - a rate far below even the lowest computer prediction»