Sentences with phrase «hotter as greenhouse gas»

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As it melts, it will release that carbon, potentially offsetting much of the greenhouse gases avoided through the regulations that are the subject of so much hot debate in Washington, D.C.

The waters probed during this study, known as the California Current, are a hot spot of ocean acidification because of coastal upwelling, which brings naturally acidic waters to the surface, where they are made even more acidic by greenhouse gas pollution.

As humans pumped carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, Costa Rican rainforests became hotter and dryer in the mid-1980s.

Haverty: Well it's a hot topic today, how there's so much pollution, and greenhouse gases are basically destroying our Earth and our environment as we know it.

The geologic record tells a story in which continents removed the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from an early atmosphere that may have been as hot as 70 degrees Celsius (158 F).

As summers get hotter from the increase in greenhouse gases, they are also getting stickier.

Mr. McCain is clearly trying to woo independents by rejecting the hotter climate - as - calamity and climate - as - hoax messages of the campaigners or lobbyists most aggressively pushing and fighting prompt, big cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions.

At least one past global hot spell widely attributed to a natural spike in greenhouse gases, the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum 55.8 million years ago, appeared to cause a mass die - off of some marine plankton, but other forms thrived, as did mammals and other terrestrial species, specialists on that period say.

With or without shifts propelled by the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases, as populations continue rising in some of the world's worst climatic «hot zones» — sub-Saharan Africa being the prime example — the exposure to risks from drought and heat will continue to climb, as well.

And, this «not - so - hot» warming over the last 15 years took place when greenhouse gases reached record levels, and as the IPCC documented, are growing at an ever faster pace.

Climate scientists expect the Earth to get hotter over time so long as humans keep adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

[And in Chapter 1 of that very same report, as I listed, they go to great lengths to make sure we all know that their models predict a hot spot and it's due to «greenhouse gases» — they do so again in the IPCC AR4 report as you can see here with a very similar graph.

You are probably also aware already that water vapor is as much if not more of a so called greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide is and there is a lot of evaporating ocean water on the planet not to mention clouds and high tropical humidity because hot air provides added space in the atmosphere for water vapor gas to become a major component of air.

As a stunning early spring blooms across the United States, just weeks after scientists declared 2016 the hottest year on record, it's easy to forget that all the extra warmth in the air accounts for only a fraction of the heat produced by greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate hard - liners in developing countries have long argued that keeping global temperatures to a 2 degree C rise over pre-industrial levels was simply too hot, and would risk unleashing many of the worst destabilizing impacts of global warming — including perhaps the triggering of cascading effects and warming amplifications within nature, such as the melting of Arctic permafrost, that could release more greenhouse gases and push temperatures even higher.

Additionally, while nearly 80 percent of the sunlight reflected from a roof can escape to outer space, the «thermal infrared» energy radiated by a hot, dark roof is trapped by greenhouse gases, such as CO2 and water vapor, warming the atmosphere.

As the vast majority of climate peer - reviewed studies confirm, there were multiple periods in the geological and ancient past that exhibited, not only extreme climate change, but also hotter temperatures prior to the modern era's huge industrial / consumer greenhouse gases.

As such, we can reasonably expect that the hotter the air is, the more humid it can be and, because water vapor is the most powerful greenhouse gas, the hotter the air will get.