Sentences with phrase «otherwise absorb the heat»

Not exact matches

Like all substances, all gases absorb heat by conduction and / or convection (and some by IR as well)... otherwise they could never get heated!

The upper layers of the earth's oceans are a lead suspect for absorbing more heat that otherwise would remain in the atmosphere.

As the earth's natural air conditioner, white sea ice moderates solar heating by increasing the reflectivity of Earth's surface and decreasing the amount of heat that would otherwise by absorbed by darker ice - free Arctic seas.

I'd go very simple: Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorb heat radiation that would otherwise be lost to space, raising the average temperature of the system.

More recently, scientists have been surprised to learn that black carbon — not only from biomass fires but from dirty diesel engines and other sources — is a far larger contributor to global warming than previously suspected: The dark particles absorb and retain heat close to the Earth's surface that might otherwise be reflected.

The rate at which this conversion takes places is crucial, as otherwise it may turn out that the CO ₂ molecule simply re-radiates at one of its characteristic frequencies (such as the one that it absorbed in the first place) befor the energy has time to appear as heat.

So if the oceans cant absorb IR to get their heat and if they cant absorb heat from the air (which is actually a good thing otherwise it would be snowball earth time) then where oh where did all the heat go?

Atmospheric carbon dioxide is the most voluminous of the so - called greenhouse gases that absorb heat radiated from the ground and then radiate some of it back to the Earth's surface, keeping the Earth warmer than it otherwise would be.

Not to mention, why do skeptics continue to ignore, dismiss, or simply «argue with» by any means possible, the far more important fact that most of the increased absorbed heat energy is going into warming the oceans, not the atmosphere (thus keeping the ambient air temp rise from registering as high as it otherwise would, and impacting FUTURE climate far more).

It also absorbs and retains carbon that might otherwise be heating up the atmosphere.

He arrives at his inflated value by conflating the radiative surface warming from GHG's and clouds with the return of latent heat, thermals and solar energy absorbed by clouds and subsequently sent to the surface which are otherwise already accounted for by the net surface temperature and its consequential BB radiation.