Sentences with phrase «hothouse effect»

It started in the 17th century when there was no industrial influence on the climate to speak of and no such thing as the hothouse effect.

The classic hothouse effect scenario is too simple to be true.

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Still, his case is compelling, and he makes it with such effect that the reader is likely to go looking with fresh spectacles for traces of this «religious eclecticism» and «spiritual hothouse» effect in contemporary America.

Human effects on the climate notwithstanding, the cycle will continue to turn, the hothouse period will some day come to an end — and the ice sheets will descend again.

Hothouse parenting has hit the mainstream — with disastrous effects.

Why did you not mention the locations of continents, ocean gateways, and their consequent effect on ocean currents and the transfer of heat from tropics to polar regions as a cause of hothouse and coldhouse periods?

The runaway greenhouse effect has several meanings ranging from, at the low end, global warming sufficient to induce out - of - control amplifying feedbacks, such as ice sheet disintegration and melting of methane hydrates, to, at the high end, a Venus - like hothouse with crustal carbon baked into the atmosphere and a surface temperature of several hundred degrees, a climate state from which there is no escape.

Ingersoll [105] discussed the role of water vapours in the «runaway greenhouse effect» that caused the surface of Venus to eventually become so hot that carbon was «baked» from the planet's crust, creating a hothouse climate with almost 100 bars of CO2 in the air and a surface temperature of about 450 °C, a stable state from which there is no escape.