Sentences with phrase «how warm the earth»

In the original article Angela did write: «This effect, called the permafrost carbon feedback, is not present in the global climate change models used to estimate how warm the earth could get over the next century.»

This effect, called the permafrost carbon feedback, is not present in the global climate change models used to estimate how warm the earth could get over the next century.

There is considerable uncertainty about how warm Earth will get in the coming decades, as climate change is complex.

Not exact matches

We would learn how things worked — what we could eat, how to keep warm, etc, and eventually we'd learn about healing diseases, and gravity, and the earth orbiting the sun, and chemistry, and particle physics, etc..

Are these the same people who don't believe all the scientific proof of evolution or global warming or how old the earth is?

In fact, I had never really given them much thought, and then it hit me: how on earth could I not go crazy over warm chicken, cream, and tender vegetables all hidden under a perfect, golden baked crust?

Of course questions need to be addressed - most notably, how on earth we managed to exhaust a ten point lead and turn it into a five point deficit and why some of our best players appear to have been physically bankrupt through overuse - but this will have to wait for the warmer months.

I completely agree with your observation about how baby was cuddled up in your warm, soft, heart - beating tummy for so long, why on earth do we expect babies to sleep on a cold, firm, lifeless, solitary crib just days after they are born?

We can't say how much Earth will warm over the coming years unless we know how much more greenhouse gas will end up in the atmosphere

«How We Know the Earth Is Warming» by Peter Guttorp, professor at the Norwegian Computing Center and professor emeritus in the department of statistics at the University of Washington

By improving the understanding of how much radiation CO2 absorbs, uncertainties in modelling climate change will be reduced and more accurate predictions can be made about how much Earth is likely to warm over the next few decades.

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?

Models used to project conditions on an Earth warmed by climate change especially need to consider how the ocean will move excess heat around, Legg said.

Climate researchers from the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group ECUS at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam have now investigated how temperature variability changed as the Earth warmed from the last glacial period to the current interglacial period.

«The result is not a surprise, but if you look at the global climate models that have been used to analyze what the planet looked like 20,000 years ago — the same models used to predict global warming in the future — they are doing, on average, a very good job reproducing how cold it was in Antarctica,» said first author Kurt Cuffey, a glaciologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of geography and of earth and planetary sciences.

The BBC team used clever analogies and appealing graphics to discuss three key numbers that help clarify important questions about climate change: 0.85 degrees Celsius — how much the Earth has warmed since the 1880s; 95 % — how sure scientists are that human activity is the major cause of Earth's recent warming; and one trillion tons — the best estimate of the amount of carbon that can be burned before risking dangerous climate change.

«We were curious to learn how Earth's carbon cycle responded during periods of rapid warming and periods of less rapid warming,» Ballantyne said.

And how Australia responds might present a road map for agriculture elsewhere as the Earth's climate warms.

Applied to the PETM, they calculated how fast the carbon was released, how fast Earth's surface warmed, and constrained the time scale of the onset, which was at least 4,000 years.

As a result, it is unclear how soon sea level started rising after Earth warmed in prehistoric times, how quickly it rose and what we can expect in the future.

That earth will get warmer this century is pretty much a given, but how much warmer is tough to pin down.

Scientists are interested in studying ancient warming events to understand how the Earth behaves when the climate system is dramatically perturbed.

Although the earth has experienced exceptional warming over the past century, to estimate how much more will occur we need to know how temperature will respond to the ongoing human - caused rise in atmospheric greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide.

It's not clear how much of a greenhouse effect that would produce, but it's a good bet that Earth would be a lot warmer — much as it would be, say, if there were no plants drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

«For the first time we can quantify how oceans responded to slow, natural climate warming as the world emerged from the last ice age,» says Prof. Eric Galbraith from McGill University's Department of Earth and Oceanic Sciences, who led the study.

By examining how Earth cools itself back down after a period of natural warming, a study by scientists at Duke University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirms that global temperature does not rise or fall chaotically in the long run.

EARTH SCIENTISTS have been forced to think again about how our planet kept warm in its first two billion years.

Likewise, while models can not represent the climate system perfectly (thus the uncertainly in how much the Earth will warm for a given amount of emissions), climate simulations are checked and re-checked against real - world observations and are an established tool in understanding the atmosphere.

Lead author, Dr Michael Singer from School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Cardiff University, said: «In drylands, convective (or short, intense) rainfall controls water supply, flood risk and soil moisture but we have had little information on how atmospheric warming will affect the characteristics of such rainstorms, given the limited moisture in these areas.»

The experiment will run until early 2017 and help climate modelers determine how warming at Earth's poles could change global weather patterns.

Wet Earth Erin Wayman's article «Faint young sun» (SN: 5/4/13, p. 30), about how the early Earth stayed warm enough for liquid water, made me wonder about the effect of the temperature of the planet itself.

Otto and her colleagues count how often the weather event of interest occurs in a warmed world compared with 18th - century Earth.

One of climate science's great quests is to project how much earth warms when carbon dioxide concentrations double — something known as climate sensitivity.

Other geoengineering studies have examined how greenhouse gas warming could be counteracted by making Earth's atmosphere more reflective.

Understanding how carbon flows between land, air and water is key to predicting how much greenhouse gas emissions the earth, atmosphere and ocean can tolerate over a given time period to keep global warming and climate change at thresholds considered tolerable.

It can be seen in the following images, captured largely by photographer Gary Braasch and published in his book Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World (University of California Press, 2007), which chronicles some of the impacts of climate change around the world:

But we've struggled to explain how a world much farther from the sun than Earth is could get so warm.

Understanding how layers of air insulate the surface of glaciers, for example, is vital to making accurate estimates of how fast they will melt — and sea levels will rise — as the Earth warms under its blanket of greenhouse gases.

By studying the relationship between CO2 levels and climate change during a warmer period in Earth's history, the scientists have been able to estimate how the climate will respond to increasing levels of carbon dioxide, a parameter known as «climate sensitivity».

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.

-- http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/12/124002/article «It is known that carbon dioxide emissions cause the Earth to warm, but no previous study has focused on examining how long it takes to reach maximum warming following a particular CO2 emission.

Of those nine months — from June 1997 to February 1998 — only one remains in the top five for its respective month; most fall between ninth and 16th warmest today, a mark of how much Earth has warmed over the intervening years.

For the first time, scientists have shown a direct link between rising levels of carbon dioxide — or CO2 — in Earth's atmosphere and an increase in how much solar energy warms the ground.

For example, in Earth atmospheric circulation (such as Hadley cells) transport heat between the warmer equatorial regions to the cool polar regions and this circulation pattern not only determines the temperature distribution, but also sets which regions on Earth are dry or rainy and how clouds form over the planet.

Managing how much solar radiation streams through Earth's atmosphere might offer fast, short - term relief from global warming.

His research was just published in Nature Geoscience, and the theory it proposes solves two long - standing riddles about the early earth: How come the earth was warm enough to have water when the sun was only three - quarters as bright 4 billion years ago, and where on earth did the nitrogen needed for life come from?

Toby Tyrrell, Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Southampton and co-author of the study, said: «In the future ocean, the trade - off between changing ecological and physiological costs of calcification and their benefits will ultimately decide how this important group is affected by ocean acidification and global warming.

To stave off the catastrophic effects of that warming, some experts are studying how to hack Earth's climate.

The missions help scientists learn more about the earth's climate system and how global warming is changing it.

But it is cause for concern and provides a clear sign of how the planet is changing as the Earth warms.