Sentences with phrase «planetary imbalance»

The continuing planetary imbalance and the rapid increase of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel assure that global warming will continue on decadal time scales.

The oceans thus cause a planetary imbalance.

Previous attempts to estimate this planetary imbalance relied on climate models rather than observations because sufficiently detailed observations were not available then.

Hansen (2005) had this planetary imbalance at 0.85 (± 0.15) watts per square meter, and Trenberth 0.9 (± 0.5) W / m2, in the earlier part of this century.