Sentences with phrase «more heating of the planet»

WARSAW, Nov 19 2013 (IPS)- Burning of fossil fuels added a record 36 billion tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere in 2013, locking in even more heating of the planet.

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The first is that our planet's oceans act as a massive watery heat - sink, and currently absorb more than 90 percent of increased atmospheric heat that are associated with human activity.

You can not be serious... if you are of the school of thought that God created the Earth, then you have to believe that he created the cycles that keep the Earth sustainable and able to provide life... storms move moisture and heat across the earths surface and stabilize our atmosphere, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions recycle the rock and minerals on the planet and make more usable land and add richness to soils.

In his last chapter he contemplates the last minutes of planet earth as it faces an extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat and concludes: «The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless» (p. 154).

Slice habaneros very thin and use gingerly when cooking, until you're more familiar with their heat — they're one of the hottest peppers on the planet.

Everyone, the researchers say, is already starting to feel the effects of a warming planet, via heat waves, increased air pollution, drought, or more intense storms.

There's enough crisscrossing to cause a seasonal «wave of darkening» on parts of the planet during summer, Cantor says, making the surface retain more heat.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

While lower - energy ultraviolet radiation breaks up water molecules — a process called photodissociation — ultraviolet rays with more energy (XUV radiation) and X-rays heat the upper atmosphere of a planet, which allows the products of photodissociation, hydrogen and oxygen, to escape.

«During last warming period, Antarctica heated up two to three times more than planet average: Amplification of warming at poles consistent with today's climate change models.»

A Jupiter adds about a billionth to the visible light of a sunlike star, and about a ten - thousandth to the star's infrared glow (planets give off more heat than they do reflected starlight).

That may in turn have caused the planet to heat up enough to melt deposits of methane frozen in sediments on the ocean floor (something, incidentally, that could happen again), discharging even more potent greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and further heating the planet in an escalating feedback loop.

That could be crucial to learning much more: Jupiter was likely the first planet to form around the sun, so its inner workings — particularly the nature of its core and how heat trickles out from the planet's abyssal depths — may offer hints about how other planets came to be, both in our solar system and around other stars.

They must instead be reduced by 3 to 6 per cent a year if we are to have any chance of avoiding that the planet heats up more than two degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial times, by the year 2100.

What's more, even the neutrinos being produced in the interior of the earth because some radioactive material is in there, and that's producing heat that's heating the interior of our planet.

From the basic physics of the atmosphere, scientists expect that as the planet heats up from ever - mounting levels of greenhouse gases, net global precipitation will increase because a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture.

Most planets» temperatures are set by the gas content of their atmospheres, since certain gases trap heat from the sun more efficiently than others (SN Online: 6/8/15).

In the latest 161 - page document, dated March 9, EPA officials include several new studies highlighting how a warming planet is likely to mean more intense U.S. heat waves and hurricanes, shifting migration patterns for plants and wildlife, and the possibility of up to a foot of global sea level rise in the next century.

He and his team modelled Earth's climate, and found that adding large quantities of CO2 to the atmosphere — far more even than what we're doing now — could also heat the planet until it leaks water.

(Earth vents heat at a rate of more than 30 trillion watts — or 7 trillion calories per second — with nearly half coming from the planet's interior.)

Because planet b is tidally locked and the outer atmosphere is so efficient at re-radiating heat, its «nightside» stays dark and cold (top), unlike bands of even temperature on a Jupiter - like planet (shown below — more).

If the folks at Guinness World Records kept tabs on climate change, they'd be taking note that the planet has hit a milestone: levels of heat - trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have averaged more than 400 parts per million each day for the entire month of April.

For as much as atmospheric temperatures are rising, the amount of energy being absorbed by the planet is even more striking when one looks into the deep oceans and the change in the global heat content (Figure 4).

They show that across the planet there will be more extremes of heat, rain or snow due to global warming.

The planet is now holding in more heat than it has for thousands of years.

Extreme heat is one of the hallmarks of global warming; as the average temperature of the planet rises, record heat becomes much more likely than record cold.

Heat generated by the impacts left up to 10 percent of the planet's surface covered with melt sheets more than a kilometer thick.

The one GOOD thing about these direct hits would be ELIMINATION of thick Hydrogen envelopes around these types of planets when these envelopes were HEATED by MUCH MORE LUMINOUS HOST STARS to the point where the envelopes FILLED the planets» Hill spheres.

More than 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed into the oceans that cover two - thirds of the planet's surface.

While heat waves are a regular part of summer weather, the steady warming of the planet means those heat waves are getting ever hotter, making record heat more and more likely

The steady rise of Earth's temperature as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere and trap more and more heat is sending the planet spiraling closer to the point where warming's catastrophic consequences may be all but assured.

There's also a number of interesting applications in the evolution of Earth's atmosphere that branch off from the runaway greenhouse physics, for example how fast a magma - ocean covered early Earth ends up cooling — you can't lose heat to space of more than about 310 W / m2 or so for an Earth - sized planet with an efficient water vapor feedback, so it takes much longer for an atmosphere - cloaked Earth to cool off from impact events than a body just radiating at sigmaT ^ 4.

An El Nino warms the surface of the planet, so more heat will escape to space.

The basics of global warming science remain robust — more greenhouse gases will continue to heat the planet, erode ice, raise seas and present challenges to many human and ecological communities.

But most evidence suggests that droughts will become more intense in many parts of the world if the planet keeps heating up, which could disrupt the world's food supply.

There are subtle effects such as the planet losing more heat from the open sea than from ice - covered region (some of this heat is absorbed by the atmosphere, but climates over ice - covered regions are of more continental winter character: dry and cold).

The latter brings a somewhat slower warming at the surface of our planet, because more heat is stored deeper in the ocean.

According to data from the World Health Organization, rising temperatures on the planet are killing off the equivalent of a mid-sized city every year; about 150,000 annual deaths can be attributed to global warming, from causes including heat waves, air pollution, infectious disease, food safety and production, flooding and more.

Since in almost all regions of the planet, cold kills many more people than heat, it is likely that overall fewer people will die because of temperatures.

As time goes on, and the overall heat of our planet increases, the likelihood of more and more powerful storms increases as well.

Snow and ice reflect heat very effectively (which is why patches of snow survive long after temperatures rise above freezing), so if warming leads to less snow, then more heat will be absorbed, which warms the planet further.

But that's actually an understatement by Gallup, since more than 97 % of the world's climatologists say that those carbon gases, which are given off by humans» burning of carbon - based fuels, are causing this planet's temperatures to rise over the long term, as those carbon gases accumulate in the atmosphere and also block the heat from being radiated back into outer space.

But when DSCOVR begins sending that measurement each day from the L1 point, scientists will be able to more accurately calculate the total effect of heat - trapping gases on our planet's climate.

For as much as atmospheric temperatures are rising, the amount of energy being absorbed by the planet is even more striking when one looks into the deep oceans and the change in the global heat content (Figure 4).

If the already high concentration of GHG's are absorbing only reflected heat and warming the planet, why would we want to reflect more heat and compound the problem?

While many active phenomena, some of a very alarming nature, may be tied causally to things like ENSO or the decadal oscillations, that merely pushes back one causal level the question of whether the behavior of those cycles is being altered by changes in the planet's heat budget (for example, are destructive tropical cyclones becoming more frequent or not?

According to the paper, «arguably, ocean heat content — from the surface to the seafloor — might be a more appropriate measure of how much our planet is warming.»

They believe that if you fictionalize the input power of the Sun to -18 oC, on average, on a flat Earth, and then create a greenhouse effect to explain why it is so much warmer than this on the ground, that this is a more valid way of thinking about the planet Earth than its reality of actually being spherical with +49 oC of heating input.

As scientist Deke Arndt and meteorologist Dan Satterfield explain in this edition of Extreme Weather 101, these heat spikes are likely to become more commonplace as greenhouse gases heat up the planet... Read more commonplace as greenhouse gases heat up the planet... Read MoreMore

«Deadly heat waves are going to be a much bigger problem in the coming decades,» warned CNN in a report last June, «becoming more frequent and occurring over a much greater portion of the planet.»