Sentences with phrase «much of the warming the planet»

Oceans, such as the Pacific pictured here from space, are absorbing much of the warming the planet is currently experiencing.

Not exact matches

The planets orbit an «ultracool dwarf,» a star much smaller and cooler than the sun, but still possibly warm enough to allow for liquid water on the surfaces of at least two of the planets.

Swift and decisive action and a robust infrastructure are required to solve the medical issues arising as the planet warms, «but we don't have much time,» says Anthony Costello of University College London.

And if such an «off the chart» event can occur when the world has warmed by less than 1 °C, what sort of extreme events will occur by 2050, when the planet could be as much as 3 °C hotter?

These models currently predict that as a result of today's global climate change, Antarctica will warm twice as much as the rest of the planet, though it won't reach its peak for a couple of hundred years.

While a 16 - year - period is too short a time to draw conclusions about trends, the researchers found that warming continued at most locations on the planet and during much of the year, but that warming was offset by strong cooling during winter months in the Northern Hemisphere.

(At the time, the sun was as much as 6 % fainter than it is now, Lenton says, so the planet - warming effect of greenhouse gases wasn't as strong.)

They dramatically accelerated the natural breakdown of exposed rocks, according to a new study, drawing so much planet - warming carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere that they sent Earth's climate spiraling into a major ice age.

One of the reasons scientists have been so interested in the argon ratio in Martian meteorites is that it was — before Curiosity — the best measure of how much atmosphere Mars has lost since the planet's earlier, wetter, warmer days billions of years ago.

The loss of so much gas may explain how the planet morphed from a wet, warm world to a dry, icy one.

Methane, when assessed over the course of a century, warms the planet about 25 times as much as the same mass of carbon dioxide does.

The past 11 months have been the hottest such months in 135 years of recordkeeping, a streak that has itself set a record and puts in clear terms just how much the planet has warmed due to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

After better quantifying the size of stored Arctic carbon, the next question for researchers is how much permafrost will thaw as the planet warms.

Climate models do not predict an even warming of the whole planet: changes in wind patterns and ocean currents can change the way heat is distributed, leading to some parts warming much faster than average, while a few may cool, at least at first.

We spewed so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and denuded so much of the planet's greenery that we succeeded in warming everything up to an even more chaotic and less predictable state.

The planet, named GJ 436b, is considered to be a «warm Neptune,» because of its size and it is much closer to its star than Neptune is to our sun.

February was the second hottest on record for the planet, trailing only last year's scorching February — a clear mark of how much the Earth has warmed from the accumulation of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

«Without the existence of these proteins that could help phytoplankton cope in these stressful environments, the phytoplankton diversity in many regions of the ocean would be much lower, in particular by reducing large phytoplankton such as diatoms that are known to take up a lot of carbon dioxide, thus possibly accelerating the pace of a warming planet,» said Marchetti, assistant professor of marine science at UNC - Chapel Hill.

The planet has also been running abnormally warm, including record heat in much of the world's oceans.

Would any of these methods work on a much larger scale, either to cool Earth or keep our planet from warming more?

Since it is the cumulative volume of carbon dioxide emitted that determines how much the planet warms, this makes it difficult to assess how far Russia's contribution will go to meeting the 2C limit set by governments.

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.

According to a new study co-authored by Allen and published Thursday in Nature Climate Change, the eventual peak level of warming that the planet will see from greenhouse gas emissions is going up at 2 percent per year, much faster than actual temperatures are increasing.

In the comparatively brief time that methane is in the atmosphere, it warms the planet about 86 times as much as the same amount of CO2, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

It is for that same reason that amidst some of the planet's warmest years, record lows are still happening, albeit in much lower numbers than record highs.

Lowland Antarctica was warm and covered in near - tropical vegetation, and London was a mangrove swamp as rainforests spread across much of the planet.

It would warm your heart to see a group of first graders of all races and income levels excitedly discussing how they are going to design a new planet, respectfully listening to one another's suggestions, and encouraging participation and consensus - all while learning critical thinking at levels that surpass much older children in other schools.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

But the sheer rate of increase over just the past 55 years shows how fast global warming could hit us in the future — and the present — and underscores how much we've failed as a planet to slow down carbon emissions.

Perhaps the hardships incurred by a decade of cooling will help us realize that a warmer planet is much more hospitable than a cooler one.

At best, it will cut emissions by about half as much as is necessary to stave off the most devastating consequences of a warming planet.

1) Greenhouse gasses absorb infrared radiation in the atmosphere and re-emit much of it back toward the surface, thus warming the planet (less heat escapes; Fourier, 1824).

«If current policy continues to fail — along the lines of the «agree and ignore» scenario — then 50 % to 80 % of all species on earth could be driven to extinction by the magnitude and rapidity of warming, and much of the planet's surface left uninhabitable to humans.

The ~ 0.5 W / m2 is the * remaining * imbalance and thus an indication of how much more the planet needs to warm in order to come to equilibrium (at constant atmospheric concentrations).

I don't know squat about other planets (& not much about Earth), but it seems contrarians are using «warming of other planets» as a reason to deny AGW here on Earth.

However, when you look at all the «big picture» evidence of the global system it is clear that there is nothing «natural» about it, in fact it appears that the planet is in early stages of an abrupt change of climate from our «normal» system to one that is much warmer and tropical like.

[T] here have now been several recent papers showing much the same — numerous factors including: the increase in positive forcing (CO2 and the recent work on black carbon), decrease in estimated negative forcing (aerosols), combined with the stubborn refusal of the planet to warm as had been predicted over the last decade, all makes a high climate sensitivity increasingly untenable.

Yes, volcanic activity will not by way of direct heat warm the planet much by comparison with the sun.

As we've learned from what's called «the terrifying math of global warming», we need to leave a huge amount of fossil fuels that have been discovered in the ground instead of burning them into the atmosphere in order to keep the planet from warming so much as to make it inhospitable to human life.

Mass extinctions, of more than half the species on the planet, have occurred several times when the Earth warmed as much as expected if greenhouse gases continue to increase.

Thus we hear so much about «down welling» re - radiation from the atmosphere warming up the planet dangerously because humanity is releasing a certain amount of CO2 that would not otherwise be in the atmosphere.

Chart of temperatures and dust in Antarctic ice cores http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vostok-ice-core-petit.png demonstrates that the planet is much windier (more dust), bleak and dry when the planet is colder; less dust when warmer — i.e. warmer is good

«Recent data has forced him to revise his views on how much of the sun's energy is stored in the oceans, committing the planet to warming.

But when policymakers from around the world gather at a key U.N. climate meeting in Poland later this year, countries will be forced to reckon with the difference between how much they say they want to limit the warming of the planet and how little they actually are doing to make that happen.

Most of us have heard that the greenhouse effect keeps the planet much warmer than it would be otherwise, and similarly we may have heard that increasing amounts of greenhouse gases are enhancing the natural greenhouse effect.

Participants read a paragraph about the scientific consensus about our warming planet, and were asked «If you had to choose, how much effort should be devoted to planning for the impacts of climate change?»

When I rephrased my question and gave some background to my reason for asking it, you went way outside your area of expertise and turned to stating your opinions (based on you ideological beliefs) about how much your tool says the planet will warm by 2100 (4.4 C you said based on 3.2 C equilibrium climate sensitivity).

Yet the planet is considerably warmer in July, because of the much greater land mass in the Northern Hemisphere.

If you missed the reams of comments posted here by people living there, who were telling us that this past winter was much colder than usual, and begging the planet to «send us some of that global warming», then go back over the archives and tell us they were all wrong, and that those articles are accurate when they say «The unseasonably warm and wet winter so far in Britain has coaxed plants into early flowering.»

When heat energy gets released from Earth's surface, some of that radiation is trapped by greenhouse gases like CO2; the effect is what makes our planet comfy temperature-wise, but too much and you get global warming.