Sentences with phrase «moderate global warming»

This phase change of water causes a powerful local feedback, which, together with moderate global warming, can substantially increase the length of the melt season.
Reforestation adds to the planet's net carbon storage and helps moderate global warming by slowing the growth of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.
These coastal areas, which now appear to operate as one of the several types of so - called carbon «sinks,» may help moderate global warming by absorbing carbon dioxide, counteracting some of the CO2 released into the atmosphere by human activities.
Unfortunately, the simplification led many to believe that our study made a forecast for moderate global warming in the future, when in fact our conclusion only applied to the recent past.
For example, a carbon offset reforestation project adds to the planet's net carbon storage and helps moderate global warming by slowing the growth of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.
It's the perfect place to investigate the thorniest problem in all of climate science: how haze and clouds interact to boost or moderate global warming.
This natural uptake slows the buildup of CO2 in the air, moderating global warming.
What the panel will not be emphasizing is that the moderate global warming that the world is experiencing is actually positive.
If so, the effect will last for decades and will moderate global warming.
But what concerns Professor Haywood and others is not the random nature of volcanic eruption — difficult to predict and impossible to prevent — but the possibility of deliberate injection of aerosols into the stratosphere to moderate global warming.
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