Sentences with phrase «heating of the planet in»

The outcome is an irreversible heating of the planet in a post-industrial era.

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And with BrightSource Energy, it constructed the Ivanpah solar electric complex, a landscape of 350,000 heat - generating mirrors in California's Mojave Desert that's the largest solar - thermal plant on the planet.

It was just by «random chance» that the sun is the perfect distance from the earth so we don't get baked or frozen, that the moon is the right distance and size so the tides don't flood us, that the earth rotates so we are evenly heated, that water - which is absent on other planets and vital to our life - is present here, that there is a balance of living things to keep each other in check.

In his last chapter he contemplates the last minutes of planet earth as it faces an extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat and concludes: «The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless» (p. 154).

Tubby, you called it mate, we have the most fickle fans on the planet, last night doesn't mean all of a sudden were crap, what it does mean is certain players need to take a long hard look at themselves as Arsene is taking serious heat by showing his loyalty to them namely, ozil and per, just not good enough and as for welbeck he should never been given an arsenal shirt, Giroud had a mare but he has proven this year that he is a great squad player but can not be our first choice striker, gooners keep the faith and hope that Monaco try to play ball in second leg cos if we turn up we could still hammer them.

The main cause of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), which trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet.

«It gives us some insight into the connection between the slow circulation of near - solid rock in Earth's mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat upwards from the planet's interior, and observed active plate tectonics at the surface.

Dan Hooper and Jason Steffen of Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, calculate that the dark matter that lies at the heart of the galaxy could heat an alien world enough to make it habitable, even without the warm glow of starlight (see «Dark matter could make planets habitable»).

Earth's magnetic field is generated in its liquid iron core, and this «geodynamo» requires a regular release of heat from the planet to operate.

The heat suggests that the dwarfs are wrapped in a dusty disk of the kind that typically give birth to planets, a team reported here on 7 June at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

A little bit of CO2 in the atmosphere, for example, can help store heat and distribute it around the planet.

But some of that heat gets blocked by those pesky carbon dioxide molecules building up in the atmosphere — inexorably warming our planet.

On some missions, such as NASA's Curiosity Mars rover (now deep into its third Earth year seeking signs of habitable conditions on the Red Planet), the excess heat from the MMRTG can also be used to keep spacecraft systems warm in cold environments.

That may in turn have caused the planet to heat up enough to melt deposits of methane frozen in sediments on the ocean floor (something, incidentally, that could happen again), discharging even more potent greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and further heating the planet in an escalating feedback loop.

That could be crucial to learning much more: Jupiter was likely the first planet to form around the sun, so its inner workings — particularly the nature of its core and how heat trickles out from the planet's abyssal depths — may offer hints about how other planets came to be, both in our solar system and around other stars.

Physicists in Russia and the Netherlands have proposed using neutrino detectors to search for evidence of a five - mile - wide uranium ball at the planet's center, churning out the heat that powers Earth's magnetic field.

In an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers report observations by the heat - seeking instruments aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, which show the planet's hottest region is located near its twilight zone — the line bisecting the day and night sides.

The findings, in the July 28 Nature, suggest that the origin of the 30 trillion to 45 trillion watts of heat produced by the earth's interior is about evenly divided between radioactive decay and leftover heat from the planet's molten formation.

For example, added water vapor pumped into the upper atmosphere from the chimney increases the amount of energy trapped there, in turn heating the planet further.

The impact created sufficient heat to melt most of the planet's rocks; the heavier iron in the rock sank toward the center, which has been shedding heat ever since.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Can pastoral warnings of fire and brimstone be redirected toward a heating planet in the interest of preserving God's creation?

Because ocean currents play a major role in transporting the planet's heat and carbon, the ECCO simulations are being used to understand the ocean's influence on global climate and the melting of ice in polar regions.

What's more, even the neutrinos being produced in the interior of the earth because some radioactive material is in there, and that's producing heat that's heating the interior of our planet.

Many physicists predicted that the gravitational bear hug Jupiter exerted on Europa as the moon drifted closer to the planet in its elliptical orbit, and the subsequent release as it drifted away, would generate friction and heat — enough heat, scientists guessed, to keep the bottom 50 or so miles of that salty water completely melted.

«Hansen's computer modeling allowed him to say unequivocally in the spring of 1988 that humans were heating the planet and that it was going to be a serious problem,» comments environmentalist Bill McKibben of Middlebury College.

Much of the work there has focused on the Pompeii worm, which builds a protective polysaccharide tube in the hottest part of the vent, making it a leading candidate for the most heat - tolerant animal on the planet.

Ice entombed our planet hundreds of millions of years ago, and complex animals evolved in the greenhouse heat wave that followed

Climate models do not predict an even warming of the whole planet: changes in wind patterns and ocean currents can change the way heat is distributed, leading to some parts warming much faster than average, while a few may cool, at least at first.

The lander will deploy a parachute at a distance of 7.8 miles (12.6 kilometers) from the surface, then jettison its heat shield, flip over to face its thrusters toward the planet and finally fire them in short, coordinated bursts, touching down at 4:53 P.M. Pacific time (taking into account the 15 - minute communication lag between Mars and Earth).

The formation of a stratosphere layer in a planet's atmosphere is attributed to «sunscreen» - like molecules, which absorb UV and visible radiation coming from the star and then release that energy as heat.

In the latest 161 - page document, dated March 9, EPA officials include several new studies highlighting how a warming planet is likely to mean more intense U.S. heat waves and hurricanes, shifting migration patterns for plants and wildlife, and the possibility of up to a foot of global sea level rise in the next centurIn the latest 161 - page document, dated March 9, EPA officials include several new studies highlighting how a warming planet is likely to mean more intense U.S. heat waves and hurricanes, shifting migration patterns for plants and wildlife, and the possibility of up to a foot of global sea level rise in the next centurin the next century.

Short - duration flash - heating events in the solar nebula prior to the formation of planets in our solar system were responsible for supplying Earth with a presumably ideal amount of carbon for life and evolution.

«In order to predict how ecosystems will react when you heat up the planet or acidify the ocean, we first need to understand the mechanisms of everyday carbon cycling — who's involved and how are they doing it?»

February was the second hottest on record for the planet, trailing only last year's scorching February — a clear mark of how much the Earth has warmed from the accumulation of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

While the planet's surface didn't warm as fast, vast amounts of heat energy continued to accumulate in the oceans and with the switch in the PDO, some of this energy could now spill back into the atmosphere.

But in a new study in Nature, researchers show that the deep Arctic Ocean has been churning briskly for the last 35,000 years, through the chill of the last ice age and warmth of modern times, suggesting that at least one arm of the system of global ocean currents that move heat around the planet has behaved similarly under vastly different climates.

While weather and natural climate patterns play a role in temperatures across the U.S., the overall background warming of the planet has tipped the odds in favor of heat records and away from cold ones.

The planet has also been running abnormally warm, including record heat in much of the world's oceans.

Atmospheric circulation — large - scale flows of air in atmospheres — is very important as it sets how heat and particles / droplets / gas are distributed in a planet.

The internal structures of giant planets are much less well known than those of main - sequence stars because of uncertainties in the equation of state of degenerate gas, the composition (typically non-solar), the interaction with the magnetic field and, in the upper layers, the relative magnitudes of internal heat and energy deposited from the sun.

While the cold surface conditions and the lack of illumination and heat from the dim host star eliminate the possibility of the new planet being home to life as we know it, the researchers said in a press release that it will improve their understanding of planetary systems beyond our own.

If the folks at Guinness World Records kept tabs on climate change, they'd be taking note that the planet has hit a milestone: levels of heat - trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have averaged more than 400 parts per million each day for the entire month of April.

While a strong El Niño has given global temperatures a boost, the main reason for the spate of intensely warm months is the long - term warming of the planet caused by the accumulation of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, scientists have found.

Interestingly, those same winds are thought to be part of the mechanism burying heat in the Pacific Ocean, leading to the slower pace of rising temperatures at the planet's surface in recent decades.

Natural nuclear fission reactors may provide reasonable explanations for other «NASA mysteries» including: (1) Our Moon having a soft or molten core; (2) Tiny planet Mercury having a magnetic field; (3) Mars displaying evidence of an ancient magnetic field; (4) Our Moon displaying evidence of an ancient magnetic field; (5) Jupiter's moon Ganymede having an internally generated magnetic field; (6) Jupiter's moon Io being extremely volcanic; (7) Saturn's moon Enceladus showing evidence of internal heating; and, (8) Evidence of internal heat generation in Pluto's moon Charon:

For as much as atmospheric temperatures are rising, the amount of energy being absorbed by the planet is even more striking when one looks into the deep oceans and the change in the global heat content (Figure 4).

The planet is now holding in more heat than it has for thousands of years.

When heated by the distant sun, the materials are converted directly into vapors, which then fall back to the dwarf planet in the form of precipitation.

That shift alters where heat from those waters is released into the atmosphere, which in turn knocks circulation patterns out of whack, creating a cascade around the planet.