Sentences with phrase «oceans as the planet»

For example, soil is second only to oceans as the planet's largest carbon sink, while agriculture and land use changes represent the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Not exact matches

According to a big chunk of ocean surface temperature recorded by boat, the oceans were not warming nearly as quickly as the rest of the planet.

While this is not as exciting a find as the planet covered with oceans of oil that everyone was hoping scientists would find, maybe the promise of untold riches is just the incentive NASA needs to get its space program in gear.

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.

4s) then photons erupted from this energy cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5s) photons and other particles form the bodies of the early universe (atoms, molecules, stars, planets, galaxies) 6s) it rained on the early earth until it was cool enough for oceans to form 7s) the first life form was blue green bacteria.

4) then photons erupted from this energy 4) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5) photons and other particles form the 5) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above bodies of the early universe (atoms, (2nd day) molecules, stars, planets, galaxies) 6) it rained on the early earth until it was 6) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) cool enough for oceans to form 7) the first life form was blue green bacteria.

Not to mention, as Nil Zacharias, Co-Founder of One Green Planet so aptly pointed out, we treat the world's oceans more like a toilet bowl than a sustainable food source.

And the fact that Earth's spin rate wasn't slowing down as quickly then as it is today hints that our planet had little or no ocean to slosh about and slow down our planet's spin rate for its first 500 million years, the findings suggest.

Telescopes spied water in ice caps at the Red Planet's poles, as well as signs of an ancient ocean covering the northern hemisphere.

In the process, they might identify a planet's surface features — such as oceans, continents, ice caps and even cloudbanks — and detect the presence of biomarkers like oxygen, methane and water.

Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.

Oceans might not be thought of as magnetic, but they make a tiny contribution to our planet's protective magnetic shield.

The simulations also suggest that the removal of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by natural processes on land and in the ocean will become less efficient as the planet warms.

In the analysis — this was [all] originally published as a scientific paper in Nature last fall and then we see it again here in Scientific American in a more a distilled form — what we show is that in terms of climate change, in terms of nitrogen pollution into our waterways and oceans, and in terms of biodiversity loss, we have already caused irreparable harm to the planet.

It is great that this cruise departed from the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, which hosts a large scientific community that uses ocean drilling as a key tool to unravel how our planet operates and past climate and tectonic cycles.»

Of all the possible ways in which climate change could affect our planet, this is the most bizarre: as the oceans warm up, Earth will start rotating a wee bit faster, reducing the length of a day.

Professor Dan Lunt, from the School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol said: «Because climate models are based on fundamental scientific processes, they are able not only to simulate the climate of the modern Earth, but can also be easily adapted to simulate any planet, real or imagined, so long as the underlying continental positions and heights, and ocean depths are known.»

While the two closest planets could have lost 15 times as much water as is in all of Earth's oceans, the third planet — still closer to the star than the habitable zone — might have lost less than one ocean, they reported in the January Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

As suggested by its name, Project Blue plans to optimize its telescope to study planets in blue light — a color that can readily communicate the presence or absence of oceans or clouds.

«President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans,» Romney said as some in the audience snickered, «and to heal the planet.

A joint venture by NASA and the DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft - und Raumfahrt, or German Aerospace Center), GRACE looks right past the familiar oceans, continents, and clouds, showing our planet in a fresh light — as a knobby, blobby globe of gravitational ups and downs.

«Both the physical ocean and the life within it are shifting much more rapidly than our models predicted for the Arctic,» Alter notes, adding that temperatures there are rising twice as fast as everywhere else on the planet.

Seeing the sharp declines in parts of the ocean I have come to know and love reminds me that as we look into new ways to protect our planet from climate change, we need to look again at the natural machinery that already works, that developed over four and a half billion years, and do everything we can to restore its functions.

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that the planet's warming oceans are inducing fish to get smaller as a strategy to deal with increased temperature.

For life as we know it to develop on other planets, those planets would need liquid water, or oceans.

«Many impacts respond directly to changes in global temperature, regardless of the sensitivity of the planet to human emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases,» says geoscientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, a co-author of the report, excluding effects such as ocean acidification and CO2 as a fertilizer for plants.

Such an ancient date required the researchers to make a few educated guesses about the early planet, such as assuming it had a shallow ocean just 10 percent the volume of that on Earth today.

With such a narrow range for habitability, ocean planets may not make as much of a splash as we thought when it comes to welcoming life.

The strength of gravity at Earth's surface varies subtly from place to place owing to factors such as the planet's rotation and the position of mountains and ocean trenches.

After all, we are talking about all the stars as well as planets, comets, moons, the Crab nebula, black holes, brown dwarfs, the Pacific Ocean, you, me, cans of soup, and the family dog — all of it.

«What we take for granted on this planet, such as oceans and continents, would not exist if the internal temperature of Earth had not been in a certain range, and this means that the beginning of Earth's history can not be too hot or too cold.»

From the Mars - size object that slammed into our planet 4.5 billion years ago, forming the moon, to a bombardment that boiled off early oceans as recently as 2.5 billion years ago, Earth has taken some massive stonings in its lifetime.

A planet with the same fraction of water as Earth could keep a subsurface ocean liquid if it was 3.5 times Earth's mass.

And, as one geophysicist writes, «the torques from the sun, moon, and planets move the rotation axis [of Earth] in space; torques from the atmosphere, ocean, and fluid core move the rotation axis relative to the crust of Earth.

But other theories suggest the oceans formed in situ on Earth as the planet's atmosphere evolved.

As the planet coalesced from the dust, pressures and temperatures would have grown high enough to detach the water from the grains, freeing it up to become streams and oceans.

That is because, by definition, cropland, grazing land and other metrics of land and ocean use can not exceed the planet's size, as even Rees and Wackernagel acknowledge.

In his review of Robert Laughlin's book Powering the Future, Fred Pearce summarises the author's view as «ultimately the planet won't care much about our carbon dioxide emissions» because the gas will all end up in the oceans (1 October, p 46).

«Cold, deep water from this little area of the Nordic seas, less than 1 % of the global ocean, travels the entire planet and returns as warm surface water.

Confirming that the features are glaciers will require another visit to the red planet, but if they do turn out to be glaciers, they could reveal aspects of past and present climate on Mars, such as whether a large ocean ever existed, he says.

The oceans will boil away and the atmosphere will dry out as water vapor leaks into space, and temperatures will soar past 700 degrees Fahrenheit, all of which will transform our planet into a Venusian hell - scape choked with thick clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxide.

A new study shows that these whales and outsized land mammals — as well as seabirds and migrating fish — played a vital role in keeping the planet fertile by transporting nutrients from ocean depths and spreading them across seas, up rivers, and deep inland, even to mountaintops.

Coral reefs are «the rainforests of the oceans», centres of extraordinary species diversity and stunning visual splendour, as well as badly needed final resting places for the planet's carbon.

The different properties of the Medicean moons — from Io's volcanism and Europa's ocean to Ganymede's magnetism — can all be traced to their relative nearness to Jupiter and the strength of the tidal stresses they endure as they orbit the planet.

The study reveals northern permafrost soils are the largest reservoir of mercury on the planet, storing nearly twice as much mercury as all other soils, the ocean and the atmosphere combined.

«While Venus is known as our «sister planet,» we have much to learn, including whether it may have once had oceans and harbored life,» Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division, said in the statement.

Earth is known as the Blue Planet because of its oceans, which cover more than 70 percent of the planet's surface and are home to the world's greatest diversity ofPlanet because of its oceans, which cover more than 70 percent of the planet's surface and are home to the world's greatest diversity ofplanet's surface and are home to the world's greatest diversity of life.

The largest discrepancies with existing data were discovered in the Southern Hemisphere, where historical records are as sparse as the shipping traffic that traditionally provided so much of the planet's ocean weather information.

In Darwin's day, the prevailing ethos of so - called free - market capitalism treated the planet as a limitless resource, and its atmosphere and oceans as an equally limitless repository for waste.

The study bolsters the idea that Mars once had a warmer climate and active hydrologic cycle, with water evaporating from an ancient ocean, returning to the surface as rainfall and eroding the planet's extensive network of valleys.