Sentences with phrase «increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere»

As warming continues from the increasing amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, that ratio will likely continue to rise.

Increasing amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere can alter the way plants absorb carbon dioxide and release water vapor.

Since entering» semi-retirement» in 2001, my research has concentrated on the climatic role farmers played during the last several thousand years by clearing land, raising livestock, and irrigating rice paddies, all of which put increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Schmidt: What we've been doing in the last 150 years is we've been increasing the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere — over 40 % in terms of CO2, we've more than doubled the amount of methane, which is another greenhouse gas, and the signatures of those changes are very very clear, all the way through the system.

Nobody disputes that we are increasing the amount of those greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Of course, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is also affected by another potent greenhouse gas — methane — which has unexpectedly failed to increase in recent yearOf course, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is also affected by another potent greenhouse gas — methane — which has unexpectedly failed to increase in recent yearof water vapor in the atmosphere is also affected by another potent greenhouse gas — methane — which has unexpectedly failed to increase in recent years.

While a strong El Niño has given global temperatures a boost, the bulk of that heat comes from the manmade global warming driven by increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Humans are increasing the amount of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

It was hypothesized that if CO2 warmed the atmosphere, the amount of water vapor — itself a powerful greenhouse gas — in the atmosphere should increase.

Geoengineering proposals fall into at least three broad categories: 1) managing atmospheric greenhouse gases (e.g., ocean fertilization and atmospheric carbon capture and sequestration), 2) cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight (e.g., putting reflective particles into the atmosphere, putting mirrors in space to reflect the sun's energy, increasing surface reflectivity and altering the amount or characteristics of clouds), and 3) moderating specific impacts of global warming (e.g., efforts to limit sea level rise by increasing land storage of water, protecting ice sheets or artificially enhancing mountain glaciers).

By now, everyone who pays any attention knows that CO2 is an important greenhouse gas, and that the recent increase in global average temperature is thought to have been largely due to humans pumping massive amounts of greenhouse gases (especially CO2) into the atmosphere.

The rise in long - lived greenhouse gases (decades to centuries) warms the atmosphere and surface, and that increases the average amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

As a greenhouse gas, this increase in atmospheric CO2 increases the amount of downward longwave radiation from the atmosphere, including towards the Earth's surface.

Some of this thermal radiation is then absorbed by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and re-emitted in all directions, some back downwards, increasing the amount of energy bombarding the Earth's surface.

The increased amounts of greenhouse gases our activities are adding to the atmosphere have upset the balance that was in place since the end of the last ice age and the Earth is getting warmer than it was before we started burning large amounts of fossil fuels.

The results show that the total effective amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has not significantly increased over the last 60 years.

If some temporary disturbance adds a large amount of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, temperatures will temporarily increase, as it did in 1998 due to the super El Nino.

Greenhouse gases occur naturally, but human activities have directly increased the amount of carbon dioxide, methane and some other gases in our atmosphere.

As we emit more and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere steadily increases, constantly pushing the radiating level (where the atmosphere loses energy into space) higher and higher.

As the name suggests, climate sensitivity is a measure of how sensitive the climate is to this build - up in heat - how much the planet will warm in response to an increase in the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

If the amount of these gases in the atmosphere increases, then the greenhouse effect will be magnified and warmer global temperatures will result.»

Water vapor is responsible for the major feedback, increasing sensitivity from 1 C to somewhere between 2 and 4.5 C. Water vapor is itself a powerful greenhouse gas, and the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is in part determined by the temperature of the air.

Anthropogenic global warming is caused by an increase in the amount of downward longwave infrared radiation coming from greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

This means that if the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere doubled, the earth's temperature would increase by 2.9 degrees Celsius.

Natural Variability Doesn't Account for Observed Temperature Increase In it's press release announcement, NASA points out that while there are other factors than greenhouse gases contributing to the amount of warming observed — changes in the sun's irradiance, oscillations of sea surface temperatures in the tropics, changes in aerosol levels in the atmosphere — these factors are not sufficient to account for the temperature increases observed since 188In it's press release announcement, NASA points out that while there are other factors than greenhouse gases contributing to the amount of warming observed — changes in the sun's irradiance, oscillations of sea surface temperatures in the tropics, changes in aerosol levels in the atmosphere — these factors are not sufficient to account for the temperature increases observed since 188in the sun's irradiance, oscillations of sea surface temperatures in the tropics, changes in aerosol levels in the atmosphere — these factors are not sufficient to account for the temperature increases observed since 188in the tropics, changes in aerosol levels in the atmosphere — these factors are not sufficient to account for the temperature increases observed since 188in aerosol levels in the atmosphere — these factors are not sufficient to account for the temperature increases observed since 188in the atmosphere — these factors are not sufficient to account for the temperature increases observed since 1880.