Sentences with phrase «gases covered the earth»

Roiling, incandescent magma and boiling gases covered the earth in the wake of its formation 4.6 billion years ago.

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This waterproof, BPA and phthalate free mattress cover from Harlow's Earth directs gases down and away from your baby, allowing the mattress — and baby — to breathe freely.

Those limits include caps on greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, the global conversion of land cover to cropland, and other mega-impacts on the earth's ecosystems.

To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic climate change.

There is evidence that Earth has gone through at least one globally frozen, «snowball» state in the last billion years, which it is thought to have exited after several million years because global ice - cover shut off the carbonate - silicate cycle, thereby allowing greenhouse gases to build up to sufficient concentration to melt the ice.

From the thousands of confirmed and candidate exoplanets, our galaxy seems to have a strong preference for two types of small exoplanets: Rocky worlds up to 1.75 times larger than Earth and gas - covered worlds between 2 to 3.5 times larger than Earth.

** CLIMATE CHANGE LESSON ** Included in the lesson package is: The teacher version of the PowerPoint The student version of the PowerPoint Three videos embedded in the PowerPoint Student lesson handout In order, the lesson covers: Weather vs. Climate Earth's energy supply The atmosphere Greenhouse gases The greenhouse effect Enhanced greenhouse effect The role of the carbon cycle Effects of global warming Historic climate change Climate proxies What you can do The student version contains multiple blanks that need to be filled in throughout the lesson.

Others include, the role of the Sun (being the main heat source), the vast oceans which cover over 70 % of the Earth's surface (and the natural factors which determine the storage and release of CO2 back into the atmosphere), water - vapour being the dominant greenhouse gas comprising 98 % of the atmosphere, the important role of low - level clouds which is thought to be a major factor in determining the natural variation of climate temperatures (P.S. Significantly, computer - models are unable to replicate cloud - formation and coverage — which again — injects bias into model).

Cities are major contributors to climate change: although they cover less than 2 per cent of the earth's surface, cities consume 78 per cent of the world's energy and produce more than 60 % of all carbon dioxide and significant amounts of other greenhouse gas emissions, mainly through energy generation, vehicles, industry, and biomass use.

Imagine a world 100 % covered in water with an atmosphere similar to that on Earth but with no other greenhouse gas present except water vapor.

I have been wondering about another simple model «water world» which is a hypothetical planet covered 100 % in water with an atmosphere exactly like earth but no other greenhouse gas except water.

The aim of the C - SIDE working group is to reconstruct changes in sea - ice extent in the Southern Ocean for the past 130,000 years, reconstruct how sea - ice cover responded to global cooling as the Earth entered a glacial cycle, and to better understand how sea - ice cover may have influenced nutrient cycling, ocean productivity, air - sea gas exchange, and circulation dynamics.

Or earth without greenhouse gas is problematic because Earth is covered with ocean of water, and above -150 C ice evaporates into a «greenhouse gas&raearth without greenhouse gas is problematic because Earth is covered with ocean of water, and above -150 C ice evaporates into a «greenhouse gas&raEarth is covered with ocean of water, and above -150 C ice evaporates into a «greenhouse gas».

Deemer went on to say that while dams and the water behind them cover only a small portion of the earth's surface, they harbor «biological activity» that can produce large amounts of greenhouse gases.

Combined, these gases act like a blanket covering the earth.

6 Ice age — time in the past when continental glaciers covered large parts of Earth's surface Global warming — a gradual increase in the temperature of Earth's atmosphere Greenhouse gas — Gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, that trap solar energy Ozone hole — a large area of reduced ozone concentration in the stratosphere, found over Antarctica Chlorofluorocarbon — chlorine compounds that are the main cause of ozone depletion KEY TERMS

Due to the fact that much of the Earth is covered in oceans, and it takes a long time to heat water, there is a lag before we see the full warming effects of an increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases (this is also known as «thermal inertia»).

On the other hand, if you removed all the Nitrogen from the terrestrial atmosphere (which is not a «greenhouse gas»), you'd readily get a Snowball Earth with a mile thick ice covering all the oceans while if you put twice as much Nitrogen there, average surface temperature would rise to 314 K (41 °C) with no additional «greenhouse effect» needed whatsoever.

The IPCC acknowledges three potential drivers of climate change: (1) changes in incoming solar radiation (e.g. due to changes in the Earth's orbit or the Sun); (2) changes in reflected solar radiation (e.g. due to changes in low - level cloud cover); and (3) changes in outgoing longwave radiation (e.g. due to changes in greenhouse gas concentrations).

It's a companion website to the 1973: Sorry, Out of Gas show at the CCA in Montreal that we covered earlier; it shows the approaches architects and designers used to deal with sun, earth and wind to live without fossil fuels.