Sentences with phrase «relative warming of the planet»
There is some debate about when the «Little Ice Age» — the last time when global average temperatures were falling — ended, but it is well documented that glaciers started receding around that time as a result of the relative warming of the planet.
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«There is no agreement among climatologists as to the relative contributions of Man and Nature» to the warming of the planet that has already been observed, they claim.
A small amount of regional cooling is possible, but more likely is a relative cooling in the North Atlantic — i.e. it won't warm as fast as the rest of the planet.
Burning all fossil fuels, if the CO2 is released into the air, would destroy creation, the planet with its animal and plant life as it has existed for the past several thousand years, the time of civilization, the Holocene, the period of relative climate stability, warm enough to keep ice sheets off North America and Eurasia, but cool enough to maintain Antarctic and Greenland ice, and thus a stable sea level.
The point is that, relative to what astronomers call the effective temperature of a planet, CO2 is warming the Earth.
Between 1976 and 2006, El Nino's were relative more common than La Nina's (a condition that exists if there is a positive PDO), producing an overall warming of the planet.
What are the «benefits» to the planet of warming and of carbon dioxide, relative to the harm?
Water vapor feedback in climate models is positive mainly because of their roughly constant relative humidity (i.e., increasing q) in the mid-to-upper troposphere as the planet warms.