Sentences with phrase «otherwise escape to space»

The additional water vapor, acting as a greenhouse gas, absorbs energy that would otherwise escape to space and so causes further warming.

At this point, very simple physics takes over, and you are pretty much doomed, by what scientists refer to as the «radiative» properties of carbon dioxide molecules (which trap infrared heat radiation that would otherwise escape to space), to have a warming planet.

That's entirely due to the clouds blocking and re-radiating the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape to space.

As detailed in section V of this notice, it is widely recognized that greenhouse gases (GHGs) have a climatic warming effect by trapping heat in the atmosphere that would otherwise escape to space.

Not exact matches

100 to 1000 years: the length of time after their emission to the atmosphere that many greenhouse gases trap heat that would otherwise escape into space.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide build up produces a greenhouse effect that re-radiates some of the thermal wave lengths from the Earth's surface, which would otherwise escape into space, back towards the surface and the lower atmosphere leading to the increase in average surface temperatures.

Increased opacity means that some IR energy that would otherwise have escaped to space is retained (either thermalised or re-radiated back into the Earth system).

Slowing the escape of radiation to space means the planet is warmer than it would have been otherwise.