Sentences with phrase «land absorbs more heat»

«Benjamin Franklin understood climatic forcing factors better than anyone, surmising in a 1763 letter to Ezra Stiles that «cleared land absorbs more heat and melts snow quicker.»

Barren land absorbs more heat than grasslands do.

Not exact matches

What scientists discovered in 2014 is that since the turn of the century, oceans have been absorbing more of global warming's heat and energy than would normally be expected, helping to slow rates of warming on land.

Heat - reflecting white ice has given way to heat - absorbing dark water; snow has melted ever earlier on surrounding lands; more heat - trapping moisture has entered the atmosphere; and bigger waves and storms have assailed weakening Heat - reflecting white ice has given way to heat - absorbing dark water; snow has melted ever earlier on surrounding lands; more heat - trapping moisture has entered the atmosphere; and bigger waves and storms have assailed weakening heat - absorbing dark water; snow has melted ever earlier on surrounding lands; more heat - trapping moisture has entered the atmosphere; and bigger waves and storms have assailed weakening heat - trapping moisture has entered the atmosphere; and bigger waves and storms have assailed weakening ice.

These wildfires release soot into the atmosphere, which accelerates the rate of melting of glaciers, snow and ice it lands upon, which can lead to less reflectivity, meaning more of the sun's heat is absorbed, leading to more global warming, which leads to even more wildfires, not to mention greater sea level rise, which is already threatening coastal areas around the world.

One consequence of the ocean's ability to absorb more heat is that when an area of ocean becomes warmer or cooler than usual, it takes much longer for that area to revert to «normal» than it would for a land area.

Perhaps some gross thermomechanical process of restructuring the climate mechanisms (some small fraction of these were identified in the Stadium Wave paper, for instance) is ongoing, and the energy of restructuring — melting, subliming and carrying away Arctic sea ice and Greenland and Antarctic land ice net to the atmosphere, higher humidity absorbing gross water amounts to a level impacting sea level rise on the millimeter or sub-millimeter level, expansion of land due heat, or more likely erosion, silting and subsidence, and so on — is responsible for a Black Swan.

If the land could somehow transfer the heat, thereby cool the surface in some way, then it could absorb more energy.

The darkness of land and water compared with the reflectiveness of snow and ice means that when the latter melt to reveal the former, the area exposed absorbs more heat from the sun and reflects less of it back into space.

Pielke seniors thing is that land use changes leadto albedo changes which lead to more heat absorbed, so actually the warming isn't much to do with CO2 and so there isn't much of a problem.

Water absorbs more heat than does the land, but its temperature does not rise as greatly as does the land.

As the area warms in response to manmade greenhouse gases, melting ice and snow allow exposed land and water to absorb more of the Sun's heat, which melts more ice and snow, and so on.

While the location of the hottest place on Earth might shift from year to year, the conditions that give rise to it remain the same: Dry, rocky and dark - colored lands are good at absorbing heat, while lighter sand will tend to reflect more sunlight.

Which means that the proportion of heat in the ocean as opposed to the atmosphere might be slightly different (big deal because the oceans store so much heat), that albedo might be slightly higher because you have less areas covered by forests which are darker than clear land and thus absorb more sunlight, and so on.