Sentences with phrase «raises planetary temperatures»

We know that adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere raises planetary temperatures.

Adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere will raise planetary temperatures just as surely as adding salt to water will raise the boiling point of the water.

An El Nino raises planetary temperature, but that very process also raises the outgoing radiation, cooling the surface a bit.

But some stays in the atmosphere to raise planetary temperatures to increasingly alarming levels − with carbon dioxide ratios having tipped 400 parts per million, and global average temperatures on average having already risen by 1 °C.

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Scientists have calculated that, were the world ever to burn all its fossil fuels, thus increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and stoking up planetary temperatures, that would be enough to melt the entire Antarctic continent and raise sea levels by 60 metres.