Sentences with phrase «relatively stable temperature»

A geothermal heat pump is a form of residential heating and cooling that utilizes the relatively stable temperature found beneath the ground to heat and cool your home.

Ground source heat pumps, which were mentioned by Senator Inhofe, essentially use water circulated through pipes sunk into the ground to use the relatively stable temperature of the earth just below the surface to provide warmth in the winter and cooling in the summer.

A graph of the warming trend largely replicates the so - called «hockey stick,» a previous reconstruction that showed relatively stable temperatures suddenly spiking upward in recent history.

The higher CO2 levels of the Pliocene have long been associated with a warmer world, but evidence from tropical regions suggested relatively stable temperatures.

Yeah, it wasn't so much 1998 and all that that I was concerned about, used to dealing with that, but the possibility that we might be going through a longer — 10 year — period of relatively stable temperatures beyond what you might expect from La Nina etc..

but the possibility that we might be going through a longer — 10 year — period of relatively stable temperatures beyond what you might expect from La Nina etc..

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It was assumed that the cratons are stable because of their especially solid structure due to relatively low temperatures compared to the surrounding mantle.

Until now, it was believed that glacial periods were characterised by extreme temperature variability, while interglacial periods were relatively stable.

Not only did the glycholine assemble the DNA structure at a relatively low temperature, but it also avoided «kinetic traps,» intermediate structures that are stable, but not the desired structure, Gállego said.

They have concluded that the global average temperature over the past 1,000 years has been relatively stable until the 20th century.

However, past temperature records have suggested that warming is largely confined to mid-to-high latitudes, especially the poles, whereas tropical temperatures appear to be relatively stable: the tropical thermostat model.

It can be synthesized at room temperature using relatively inexpensive equipment, and the team showed that it remained stable as long as they tested it, a total of 100 hours.

They are very stable polymers with strong temperature and chemical resistance, so we consider them relatively safe.

Best time to visit: Having a long coast on the North Sea means the temperature in the Netherlands is kept relatively stable the whole year through.

Sea temperatures are also relatively stable, averaging 21 degrees all year, providing possibilities for a diversity of aquatic activities in any season, including diving, fishing, swimming, boating and surfing.

This was a relatively stable climate (for several thousand years, 20,000 years ago), and a period where we have reasonable estimates of the radiative forcing (albedo changes from ice sheets and vegetation changes, greenhouse gas concentrations (derived from ice cores) and an increase in the atmospheric dust load) and temperature changes.

Mainly this is because these areas are relatively close to both open water and the ice sheet and that keeps temperatures pretty stable.

Its hard to see how the oceans can be warming dramatically due to anthropogenic causes if the sea surface temperature (controlled for ENSO, ENSO afteraffects etc) is actually relatively stable.

By contrast atmospheric temperature amplification is not evident in the Antarctic which is insulated by relatively stable circumpolar winds, persistent sea - ice coverage and the loss of tropospheric ozone.

A new study confirms that carbon pollution has ended the era of the stable climate conditions that enabled the development of modern civilization High levels of carbon pollution have caused global temperatures to rise above the slow - changing, relatively stable conditions that existed «when humans were figuring out where the climate — and rivers and sea levels — were most suited for living and farming.»

Given the depth of the water, the relatively small vertical turnover, and the limited outflow (one river), it is surprising (to me) that the temperature at depth isn't stable at about 4.0 °C, as it is in most other lakes of reasonable depth.

First, there was another confused piece on climate change from New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin, this time postulating that «stable temperatures» and «a recent spate of relatively cool years» might blunt momentum for an international agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

They found that average temperatures had remained relatively stable for most of the past millennia, but had started to rise steeply around 1900, when the Industrial Revolution kicked into full gear in Europe and North America, with new factories and automobiles pumping new sources of carbon dioxide emissions.

Human biology is remarkable; we maintain a relatively stable core body temperature over a wide range of ambient temperatures.

What is relatively stable and favorable to the growth of civilization is the Holocene that has mostly been within half a degree of today's temperature for 10000 years.

It remains relatively stable, because the salinity effect on density is bigger than the temperature effect.

''... Through a series of processes involving, among others, ice ages, ocean algae, and weathering rock, the earth has managed to keep the amount of heat - trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and hence the temperature, at a relatively stable level.

Sandwiched beneath frozen permafrost, the hydrate remains stable so long as temperatures and pressures are relatively constant.

First, it was a time of relatively stable global temperature,..»

Global average surface temperatures rose rapidly from the 1970s but have been relatively stable since the late 1990s, in a trend that has been seized upon by climate sceptics who question the science of man - made warming.

Global cooling could replace the modest warming that prevailed from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s and the relatively stable global temperatures of about the last 16 years.

«Temperature trends in SW US have been relatively stable over last 5 centuries.»

The glacier remained relatively stable from 1960 to 2002, coinciding with cooler - than - average local summer temperatures through the mid - 1990s.3 After local summer temperatures began to rise, around 1995, Kangerdlugssuaq's speed more than doubled, from an average of 49 feet (15 meters) per day in 2001 to 131 feet (40 meters) per day in 2005.6

While other planets in Earth's solar system are either scorching hot or bitterly cold, Earth's surface has relatively mild, stable temperatures.

The expected response to a step increase in CO2 is to move from the relatively stable Holocene climate through a period of rapid (in geological terms) change to a new, relatively stable climate with a higher overall temperature and somewhat different circulation and rainfall patterns.

We know from archeology and paleontology that in fact the overall temperature of the earth is a relatively stable quantity over very long periods of time.

If this is a sign of neutral or even negative vapor feedback against increased temperature (and something's dampening the whole system since the climate is relatively stable), with present slight drop of temperatures the relative humidity should go up again.

Not coincidentally, global temperatures began climbing in the late 1970s after the Clean Air Act was passed, ending a relatively stable 30 - year period of global temperatures.

No, Isotopious, it's not some kind of dice throwing exercise, it's a sudden sharp rise in temperatures after thousands of years of relatively stable ones, at precisely time CO2 levels in association with population and industrial growth also sharply rise.

It was a period of relatively stable global temperature and the earliest base period with good global coverage of meteorological stations, including Antarctica.

... global temperatures have been relatively stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years....

The 30 - y period 1951 — 1980 with relatively stable climate is sufficiently long to define a climatological temperature distribution, which is near normal (Fig. 9, Left), yet short enough that we can readily see how the distribution is changing in subsequent decades.

Since the last ice age, which ended about 11,000 years ago, Earth's climate has been relatively stable, with an average global temperature of about 14 °C.

Winter Visual inspection of the Global average temperature graph in GISS Hansen, J et al 2006 suggests that the period 1966 to 1980 was relatively stable with little net change in average global temperature and we will use this as a baseline against which we will assess later decades.