Sentences with phrase «planet heating up»

We felt that the fundamental difference was not «is the planet heating up due to our emissions» but how people felt about whether this demanded special forms of politics.

Our planet heating up is affecting us now, and has been for decades.

Mars's thin atmosphere would be filled by the greenhouse effect, with the planet heating up around the equator.

Despite nations» individual emissions - cut pledges and the Kyoto pact, the United Nations, International Energy Agency and others say they are not enough to prevent the planet heating up beyond 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, a threshold beyond which scientists say the climate risks becoming unstable.

Lucinda Borkett - Jones travels to Malawi to find out how the world is going hungry while the planet heats up.

Too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere makes the planet heat up; too much dissolved in the ocean makes the water more acidic.

But recent research, he adds, shows that the largest hurricanes — with the fastest winds — could become even more powerful CO2 - spawning dynamos as the planet heats up.

People may have less sex on hot days, Bloomberg Business reports, and that could mean fewer babies as the planet heats up.

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.

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.

During that time, the planet heats up.

Equilibrium is not reached for many, many hundreds of years — during which the planet heats up, and continues to heat up for a long while after the extra carbon stops being added.

It's tough to accept that winters in the Northern Hemisphere can get worse even as the planet heats up, due to the way warming strikes the Arctic first and hardest.

Now bare water is exposed to the sun's rays, and absorbs more light than did the previous ice cover; so the planet heats up a little more.

One lesson to be learned here — and it's a good one — is that figuring out how the planet heats up and cools off is very complicated.

Again, the shell does not magically heat up the planet... anymore than the surface material of the planet heats up the material below the surface.

So, it sounds like the planet heats up, and micro-organisms in the soil turn plant roots into CO2.

Sea ice at both poles has been expected to decline as the planet heats up from the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

«Volcanic eruptions tend to counteract global warming but as the planet heats up and our atmosphere changes, we've found that fewer eruptions will be able to reflect the sun's radiation,» said Thomas Aubry, a PhD student studying climate and volcanoes.

If the radiation into space is at a lower rate than the arrival of radiant energy from the sun the planet heats up.

When you pour carbon into the air, the planet heats up and then all hell breaks loose.

In relation to fossil fuels and global warming, as the planet heats up, the oceans expand due to the melting of polar ice sheets.

As the planet heats up, so does skepticism from the Right.

We must not let ourselves be subjected to the destructive development model and settle with fence - sitting and watching the planet heat up.

As the percentage of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere rises, our planet heats up.

All that happens when you start off with a very cold or a very hot «radiating temperature» relative to the incoming radiation is that the planet heats up or cools down until it reaches its equilibrium.

But as our planet heats up, as ice in the Arctic, Antarctic, and Greenland slides away, as California continues to suffer its most apocalyptic drought on record, pointing a finger at such things will get easier and easier.

Brussels, April 6, 2007 - Friends of the Earth Europe has demanded steep emissions cuts by all rich countries and more funding for climate change adaptation in developing countries, after the world's leading scientific experts today warned that the world's poor - who have done least to pollute the atmosphere - will suffer most as the planet heats up.

Not exact matches

Tubby, you called it mate, we have the most fickle fans on the planet, last night doesn't mean all of a sudden were crap, what it does mean is certain players need to take a long hard look at themselves as Arsene is taking serious heat by showing his loyalty to them namely, ozil and per, just not good enough and as for welbeck he should never been given an arsenal shirt, Giroud had a mare but he has proven this year that he is a great squad player but can not be our first choice striker, gooners keep the faith and hope that Monaco try to play ball in second leg cos if we turn up we could still hammer them.

You don't have to heat up the planet to keep your family warm this Christmas.

But there are things we do that heat up the Mommy Wars and make people say that not only are we the luckiest people on the planet, we're also the biggest whiners.

«I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» the first term senator said Sunday on ABC «This Week,» after being asked by ABC News» Jon Karl whether humans were contributing to the heating up of the planet.

«You don't have the right to heat up the planet,» he said, linking fossil fuel development with global warming.

There is absolutely no doubt (despite what the nation's leaders argue) that the planet is heating up and that human activities are driving those changes.

The warming also indicates that a large amount of heat is being taken up by the ocean, demonstrating that the planet's energy budget has been pushed out of balance.

Potential timing gap Still, it's not certain how quickly the planet would heat up if the planet had that concentration, said climate scientist Brenda Ekwurzel, with the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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.»

Instead, it looked like the collision vaporised the planet — heating it up, spinning it up and causing it to shape - shift into that cosmic jelly doughnut.

But some of that heat gets blocked by those pesky carbon dioxide molecules building up in the atmosphere — inexorably warming our planet.

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.

And while material spewing from the icy visitor probably won't trigger the colossal meteor showers on the Red Planet that some scientists predicted, dust and water vapor may still slam into Mars, briefly heating up its atmosphere and threatening orbiting spacecraft.

Methane, which can leak from pipelines and valves, is a powerful greenhouse gas, with up to 80 times the potential of carbon dioxide to trap the planet's heat.

If you turn the sun's energy into electricity and use it to boil your kettle, it won't make the planet any warmer than if that same energy had instead gone into heating up the tiles on your roof.

The fires that smelt iron also heat up the planet, but researchers are working on ways to produce higher - quality metals with fewer greenhouse gas emissions, potentially giving U.S. steelmakers an edge in a competitive global market.

Mars» dust storms can be much taller because the Red Planet's lower gravity and thinner atmosphere make it easier for dust particles heated by the sun to rise up, Heavens says.

But before then, as Messenger swoops low over the planet, it will heat up so much that the solder holding some instruments together could melt.

Co2 is.04 % of all green house gas and increased levels are the result of the sun heating up, as evidence points to the other planets and moons heating up at the same rate.

Unlike other insects such as butterflies, which evolved in the tropics and can handle heat, bumblebees evolved in temperate environments and simply don't have the bodily machinery to survive the heat waves becoming more common as the planet warms up.