Sentences with phrase «in snowball earth»

Most radiative change happens in the shortwave — roughly an albedo of 0.25 in a blue green planet to 0.50 in a snowball earth.

I'd explain how a lot of CO2 can exist in a snowball Earth state but that's been done before so many times... so just look it up (hint «runaway albedo feedback»).

Like the overturning meridional circulation each new theory also overturns the last, Otherwise with 3 decades of pause when it should have been 0.6 degrees and lets say 40 theories all working we would be 24 degrees colder in a snowball earth!

We could, of course, hit some bifurcation in the system where we lose all the summer Arctic sea ice or the Amazon forest, which is bad enough, and could possibly transition the climate to a different «solution» on a hysteresis diagram... this to me would represent more of a step-wise jump (akin to a larger bifurcation that you get in a snowball Earth as you gradually reduce CO2 or the solar constant); but ultimately these represent different behavior than «the interannual variability of the large scale dynamics will increase» or that for some reason the climate should be susceptible to more «flip flops» (as in the glacial Heinrich / D - O events), of which I am aware of no observational or theoretical support.

Albedo changes from about 0.5 in a snowball earth to 0.25 in a blue green planet with lots of forest.

This chemical weathering process is too slow to damp out shorter - term fluctuations, and there are some complexities — glaciation can enhance the mechanical erosion that provides surface area for chemical weathering (some of which may be realized after a time delay — ie when the subsequent warming occurs — dramatically snow in a Snowball Earth scenario, where the frigid conditions essentially shut down all chemical weathering, allowing CO2 to build up to the point where it thaws the equatorial region, at which point runaway albedo feedback drives the Earth into a carbonic acid sauna, which ends via rapid carbonate rock formation), while lower sea level may increase the oxidation of organic C in sediments but also provide more land surface for erosion... etc..

His «we do not know of a time with permanent ice at the poles and CO2 above 1000pmmv» (except, of course, prior to the big thaw in snowball Earth), and the present rate of increase of atmospheric CO2 being c. 10x greater than previous mass extinctions as far as we know (albeit the total mass being less) are deeply worrying.

Not exact matches

Many believe something like this happened 570 million years ago, when our planet may have been completely covered in ice — Snowball Earth, it's called.

«In addition, this early phase of evolutionary divergence appears to have preceded the extreme climate changes that led to Snowball Earth, a period marked by severe long - term global glaciation that lasted from about 720 to 635 million years ago,» Dohrmann says.

Such a dip would put our planet in a deep freeze, and in fact paleontologists now find evidence of one such episode of extreme cold (nicknamed «Snowball Earth») about 650 million years ago.

The early stages of the Huronian, from 2.4 to 2.3 billion years ago, seem to have been particularly severe, with the entire planet frozen over in the first «snowball Earth».

And new data published in the December issue of Geology only further throws snowball earth into question.

The first Ediacaran to begin crawling around would have discovered a world devoid of predatory animals, with a seafloor covered either in thick bacterial mats or toxic sediment and, possibly, a climate thawing from a worldwide glaciation event known as «Snowball Earth.»

After an extreme ice age known as snowball Earth, in which glaciers extended to the tropics and ice up to a kilometre thick covered the oceans, the melted ice formed a thick freshwater layer that floated on the super-salty oceans.

«Now we should reconsider the consequences of sporadic oxygen outbursts and their correlations to other major events in Earth's history, such as the banded - iron formation, snowball Earth, mass extinctions, flood basalts, and supercontinent rifts.»

This model does not, however, explain one of the most puzzling features of this rapid deglaciation; namely the global formation of hundreds of metres thick deposits known as «cap carbonates», in warm waters after Snowball Earth events.

«Now we should reconsider the consequences of sporadic oxygen outbursts and their correlations to other major events in the Earth's history, such as the banded - iron formation, snowball Earth, mass extinctions, flood basalts, and supercontinent rifts.»

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.

There have not and will not always be ice ages because the Earth can be just too warm or ill - conditioned to respond in that manner (The Earth might also become too cold to have interglacials within an ice house period — though I'm not sure if that has ever happenned outside the Proterozoic snowball / slushball episodes).

This article is not really sober, jumping from glaciers length to the french society's confidence in science, from the snowball earth to Svensmark, and so on.

There is evidence that Earth has gone through at least one globally frozen, «snowball» state in the last billion years, which i... ▽ More Although the Earth's orbit is never far from circular, terrestrial planets around other stars might experience substantial changes in eccentricity that could lead to climate changes, including possible «phase transitions» such as the snowball transition (or its opposite).

One of the extreme events, which has mystified scientists for long, took place 717 million years ago and is called «snowball Earth» — the largest glaciation event in history during which the planet was covered almost entirely in ice.

In principle, he said that given the right conditions, aerosols from volcanoes could have caused the «snowball Earth.»

Climate modelers go back in time to simulate past Snowball Earth conditions and find that complete freeze - over is hard to achieve.

However, Bob Kopp studied another snowball Earth that happened much earlier in the planet's history.

The Snowball Earth hypothesis maintains that the severe freezing in the late Proterozoic was ended by an increase in CO2 levels in the atmosphere, and some supporters of Snowball Earth argue that it was caused by a reduction in atmospheric CO2.

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Jim Green: One of the things that we've uncovered is that, in Earth's past, [our planet has] gone through various stages, one of which we call Snowball Earth.

Jim Green: The Snowball Earth era reminds me of several objects in the Solar System now that we're trying to study, one of which is Europa, [which has] got this fabulous icy crust over the whole moon and underneath it perhaps as much as twice the volume of water than exists here on Earth.

The warming due to water vapor helps the air hold water, but in the Earth's orbit, it is not actually sufficient to keep the air warm enough to keep the water it already has — so you go into the death spiral, with a bit of cooling, less water, then more cooling, and so on to Snowball.

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A greenhouse gas, I may say, that is known to be implicated in a large part of the temperature swings between ice ages and interglacials, not even to mention the going in and coming out of the «Snowball Earth» episodes of the Precambrian.

It could be parsed as a Pangaean Affairs article by an editorial collective of ammonites critical of the elitist vertibrate policy debate between coprolite carbon sequestration advocates, and radical therapods demanding more tree fern peatbeds to fuel posterity's struggle to power through Snowball Earth episodes in epochs to come.

This article is not really sober, jumping from glaciers length to the french society's confidence in science, from the snowball earth to Svensmark, and so on.

We used it heavily as part of a Global Climate Processes course at UW - Madison for later undergrad and grad students, so it has a good deal of flexibility in what you can test (though the model blows up for extreme forcings like snowball Earth, I used CO2 at about 140 ppm and couldn't get much lower than that).

, except for Pre-Cambrian «Snowball Earth» and the Carboniferous period; of significant swings (> 35 %) in the CO2 and O2 balance, to my knowledge.

The famous «255 K» value for no greenhouse effect on Earth is an example of this, although in reality if we got that cold you would expect a snowball - like Earth and a much higher albedo from the increased brightness of the surface... and thus the «no - greenhouse temperature» would be even colder than 255 K.

Think of all the work on the Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth, the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis on the Early Earth and its role in the transition from a methane - dominated to a CO2 - dominated greenhouse, Martian paleoclimate, the climate of Venus and Titan, the nature of the glacial - interglacial cycles, and so many more.

I read snowball earth, but in the end wasn't convinced.

Finally the conclusion that chemical weathering has a greater impact on the reduction in the atmospheric CO2 during a Earth Snowball event then biologic functions seems slightly humorous to me...; however, if you can support the idea I would entertain looking at the data.

The concept of «snowball earth» is based on interpretation of some geological formations as evidence of glaciation — an interpretation that is not shared by a number of Canadian geologists specializing in glaciation (an important phenomenon in Canadian geology).

The CO2 in the atmosphere prevented the earth from turning into a huge snowball and is a necessary ingredient to keeping our climate about 33C higher than the steady state black - body energy balance would indicate.

Bart Verheggen says: August 14, 2011 at 3:03 am So how do past climate changes (from snowball earth to the hothouse Cretaceous) fit in your paradigm that «that the temperature of the Earth is kept within a fairly narrow range through the action of a variety of natural homeostatic mechanisms.&raearth to the hothouse Cretaceous) fit in your paradigm that «that the temperature of the Earth is kept within a fairly narrow range through the action of a variety of natural homeostatic mechanisms.&raEarth is kept within a fairly narrow range through the action of a variety of natural homeostatic mechanisms.»?

A concern with «large» climate changes (i.e., on the scale of snowball Earths or runaway greenhouses) is that there's bifurcation (loosely, tipping points) in the system.

To better understand factors affecting the range of habitable conditions of exoplanets, GISS climate modelers go back in time to simulate the «Snowball Earth» conditions of 720 to 635 million years ago and find that complete freeze - over is hard to achieve.

Sediment samples gathered in south Australia led Kennedy's team to theorize that a catastrophic era of global warming was triggered some 635 million years ago by a gradual — and then abrupt — release of methane from frozen soils, bringing an end to «Snowball Earth,» when the entire planet was encrusted in ice.

However, tell me what animal species survived «snowball Earth» (if in fact it ever happened), and just what «luck» enabled them to do it?

If CO2 is responsible for earth not being a snowball, and 90 % of the time the earth is in an ice age, shouldn't we make sure enough CO2 survives the end of the Holocene by pumping even more of it into the atmosphere?

The features that allowed one species or family to get through Snowball Earth or the Mexican asteroid or the Deccan Traps were by definition irrelevant to their adaptive fitness in normal times.

There is no scientific evidence that our planet would be a «snowball Earth» without the few hundred ppmv CO2 in the atmosphere.