Sentences with phrase «made atmospheric gases»

The long - term global warming trend is predominantly a forced climate change caused by increased human - made atmospheric gases, mainly CO2 [1].

Not exact matches

Also, Ice core samples that go back as far as 800,000 years have atmospheric gasses trapped within, so give a source to determine the make - up of the air, showing consistant level of carbon... directly refuting the AiG site that claimns the air has changed.

As atmospheric carbon dioxide increases, the greenhouse gas is absorbed into ocean water, making it more acidic.

FACT: Oxygen makes up almost 21 percent of atmospheric gases.

Astronomer Matt Mountain, director of the new Gemini Telescope in Hawaii, says this future generation of gargantuan earthbound telescopes would make it possible to study individual stars in some of the earliest galaxies or determine the atmospheric gases of distant planets.

Non-polar glacial ice holds a wealth of information about past changes in climate, the environment and especially atmospheric composition, such as variations in temperature, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and emissions of natural aerosols or human - made pollutants... The glaciers therefore hold the memory of former climates and help to predict future environmental changes.

The bad news is that such record - breaking downpours, blizzards and sleet storms are likely to continue to get worse as atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise, causing global temperatures to continue to warm and making the atmosphere more and more humid.

At the same time, even if California meets its ambitious target, it may not make a huge dent in the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases causing climate change.

Their findings have been recently published in EPJ D and are particularly relevant for the development of novel applications in medicine, health care and materials processing because they involve air at normal atmospheric pressure, which would make it cheaper than applications in inert gases or nitrogen.

In a typical medical device, atmospheric pressure plasma is made from a noble gas such as helium.

Making roads more reflective and thereby sending more sunlight back to space helps cool the planet, offsetting some of the atmospheric warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

In contrast, chemistry modeling and paleoclimate records [222] show that trace gases increase with global warming, making it unlikely that overall atmospheric CH4 will decrease even if a decrease is achieved in anthropogenic CH4 sources.

While 2015 may prove to be a fluke, computer models predict similar conditions will become more common as atmospheric levels of man - made greenhouse gases increase.

Now with «Midnight Special,» Wingo makes full use of that musically atmospheric gas to truly drive into The Twilight Zone.

While President Obama and more than 100 other heads of state are expected to participate in the United Nations Climate Summit today, President Xi Jinping of China, the country making by far the biggest contribution to the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases, will not appear.

I suppose that with a sufficient change in the atmospheric density by the addition of a gas, one might expect changes in physical processes like thermal conduction and / or advection to make a difference but that isn't what the engineer was claiming by my reading.

Ingraham also states that the most important aspect of weatherizing your home is to receive a «post audit» by a certified energy auditor to make certain your heating appliances (boiler, furnace, atmospheric hot water heater, etc) are drafting combustable gases properly.

And the reason those 21st century emissions fail to make much of an impression on global temperature is because the atmospheric levels of GHG begin to decline when our emissions are cut (the cut required depending on the gas in question).

i) CO2 and other trace gases are too small a proportion of the atmosphere to make a significant difference to overall atmospheric density even if their volumes were to be multiplied many times over.

The answer is: almost nothing for more than 10 years... The lack of any statistically significant warming for over a decade has made it more difficult for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its supporters to demonize the atmospheric gas CO2 which is released when fossil fuels are burned.»

The lack of any statistically significant warming for over a decade has made it more difficult for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its supporters to demonize the atmospheric gas CO2 which is released when fossil fuels are burned.

Making ethanol from corn reduces atmospheric releases of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide because the CO2 emitted when the ethanol burns is «canceled out» by the carbon dioxide taken in by the next crop of growing plants, which use it in photosynthesis.

An international team of researchers report in Nature Communications that they made a computer model of the planet's atmospheric conditions: they included natural and human - triggered aerosols, volatile organic compounds, greenhouse gases and other factors that influence temperature, one of which is albedo: the scientist's word for the capacity of terrain to absorb or reflect solar radiation.

In a recent post, I made the optimistic argument that, despite all the obstacles thrown up by rightwing denialism, the world is on track to reduce CO2 emissions to zero by 2050, on a trajectory that would hold atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases below 450 ppm.

So let's make 200 C, less exciting but same thing, lots convection no lapse rate, than once all atmospheric gases warmed up, you would return to having lapse rate.

Often the CO2 will strike one of the oxygen or nitrogen molecules which make up the great majority of atmospheric gases, setting them in motion, too — warming them.

temperature, other climatic variables, and concentrations of aerosols and trace gases; and (2) making raw and processed atmospheric measurements accessible in a form that enables a number of different groups to replicate and experiment with the processing of the more widely disseminated data sets such as the MSU tropospheric temperature record.

Unlike Kiehl and Trenberth who base much of their argument on published supposition and make the horrible error of not leaving any energy in their balance to create fossil fuels, Miskolczi rigorously sets about working from the actual spectral effects from atmospheric gases and provides a properly justified but theoretical scientific case for demonstrating the errors of Kiehl and Trenberth.

They include: (1) a 35 year US delay on climate action has made the problem extraordinarily challenging to solve, (2) US greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions are more than any country responsible for rise in atmospheric concentrations to present dangerous levels, (3) US ghg emissions not only threaten the US with climate disruption but endanger many of the poorest people around the world, (4) the Obama administration's pledge to reduce ghg emissions is far short of the US fair share of safe global emissions.

In contrast, chemistry modeling and paleoclimate records [222] show that trace gases increase with global warming, making it unlikely that overall atmospheric CH4 will decrease even if a decrease is achieved in anthropogenic CH4 sources.

For perspective, the Waxman - Markey bill aimed to help achieve the Copenhagen climate treaty goal of stabilizing atmospheric CO2 - equivalent greenhouse gas concentrations at 450 parts per million by 2050.82 A NAAQS requiring states to make a proportionate contribution83 to CO2 stabilization at 350 parts per million and other greenhouse gases at pre-industrial levels in five to ten years would cause the United States to become a single non-attainment area, and the Clean Air Act would function as a no - growth mandate, contradicting a core purpose of the Act: protecting the «productive capacity» of the population.84

The collision and kinetic diameters of each of most atmospheric gases are very similar it makes little difference which measure is used so their oversight made little difference for those gases.

Despite a half century of climate change that has significantly affected temperature and precipitation patterns and has already had widespread ecological and hydrological impacts, and despite a near certainty that the United States will experience at least as much climate change in the coming decades, just as a result of the current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, those organizations in the public and private sectors that are most at risk, that are making long - term investments and commitments, and that have the planning, forecasting and institutional capacity to adapt, have not yet done so.

4 Greenhouse Effect Certain atmospheric gases trap some of the infrared radiation that escapes from the Earth, making the Earth warmer than it would be otherwise.

The NWRA's climate change web page says there has been «a significant increase in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases» in the last two decades, and that: «Scientific consensus is clear: these emissions are making the earth warmer in an unusually fast time period.»

An analysis of the 2014 global temperature anomaly record shows that the record 2014 anomaly may not have been a global event at all caused by increased man made greenhouse gases but a regional SST record event in the North Pacific caused by unique ocean / atmospheric interchange events that may happen from time to time.

The largest climate forcing today, i.e. the greatest imposed perturbation of the planet's energy balance [1,2], is the human - made increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs), especially CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels.

The Law Dome ice cores have an overlap of ~ 20 years with the atmosphere and reflect the atmospheric CO2 levels within + / - 1.2 ppmv for the same average gas age: The averaging makes that the ice core record lags the changes in the atmosphere and that fast peaks are suppressed, but for the Law Dome ice cores, any peak of 20 ppmv happening over only one year should be just detected or a 10 - year sustained 2 ppmv increase...

Ruminants such as sheep, cattle, and goats can not make long - termadditions to the gases in the atmosphere — they just recycle atmospheric carbon and nitrogen nutrients in a cycle - of - life that has operated for millennia.

In fact, among the 900 scenarios the report authors examined, if greenhouse gas concentrations remain above current levels in 2030, «many models... could not produce scenarios reaching atmospheric concentration levels that make it as likely as not that temperature change will remain below 2 °C relative to pre ‐ industrial levels.»

I think it is really important to make that distinction - that there are a number of factors that influence the extent of Arctic sea ice, some of them of course associated with changes in the radiative forcing from the atmosphere, as a result of anthropogenic greenhouse gases and aerosols, but also changes in the atmospheric circulation and also the advection of heat into or out of the Arctic by the ocean circulation.

Accurate atmospheric measurement of human - emitted greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and the chlorofluorocarbons, have been made for decades.

Fourier likened the thin atmospheric blanket to a huge glass bell jar, made out of clouds and gases, that holds the Earth's heat close to its surface.

A large percentage of the scientists who contributed to the studies of temperature and climate variations and greenhouse gas atmospheric concentrations behind the «Global Warming» political movement, disagree with the conclusions that have been drawn from their work by non-scientific hacks with an «agenda» and a stake in the game (Like making billions from the sale of carbon credits or gaining vast powers to control the energy policies of countries).

Ruminants such as sheep, cattle and goats can not make long - term additions to the gases in the atmosphere — they just recycle atmospheric carbon and nitrogen nutrients in a cycle - of - life that has operated for millennia.

1950s: Research on military applications of radar and infrared radiation promotes advances in radiative transfer theory and measurements = > Radiation math — Studies conducted largely for military applications give accurate values of infrared absorption by gases = > CO2 greenhouse — Nuclear physicists and chemists develop Carbon - 14 analysis, useful for dating ancient climate changes = > Carbon dates, for detecting carbon from fossil fuels in the atmosphere, and for measuring the rate of ocean turnover = > CO2 greenhouse — Development of digital computers affects many fields including the calculation of radiation transfer in the atmosphere = > Radiation math, and makes it possible to model weather processes = > Models (GCMs)-- Geological studies of polar wandering help provoke Ewing - Donn model of ice ages = > Simple models — Improvements in infrared instrumentation (mainly for industrial processes) allow very precise measurements of atmospheric CO2 = > CO2 greenhouse.

What makes it remarkable is that it coincides with 20 years of rapidly rising atmospheric greenhouse gas levels.

It would be nice to see the IPCC make projections for atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations over the next 100 years based at least in part on carbon / nitrogen cycle models, hydrology / permafrost models, and so on.

Among many low points, this may have reached its nadir when a House member from Nebraska asked, smirkingly and out of the blue, whether nitrogen should be banned — presumably to make the point that atmospheric gases are all either harmless or outright beneficial, and hence, should not be regulated.

But now, to make sense of the precise link between greenhouse gases and climate change, researchers must first understand in much greater detail how the oceans and the land absorb atmospheric carbon, and in what quantities.