Sentences with phrase «released vast amounts of water»

According to the accepted view, the formation of the Earth released vast amounts of water vapour and carbon dioxide, which formed a thick atmosphere and caused strong greenhouse warming at a time when the Sun was 15 to 20 per cent fainter than today.

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My 2004 article and online package on the possible contribution of Greenland's ice to such a slowdown (through the release of vast amounts of fresh water) explores the complexities and hints that the picture was not simple.

A brief and simple explanation: Looking only at the tropical Pacific, a significant El Niño releases a vast amount of warm water from below the surface of the Western Pacific Warm Pool and it sloshes east.

When water vapor (97 % of Earth's Greenhouse gas) condenses into clouds, vast amounts of heat are released and radiated into Space.

They are overwhelmed when water turns to vapor or to ice, releasing and absorbing vast amounts of heat energy as CO2 can not possibly do.

But it is a self - recharging process that occasionally releases vast amounts of warm water from below the surface of the PWP.

That aside, the vast majority of the warming during the period of March 1988 to February 2013 was caused by the monumental amount of naturally created warm water released from below the surface of the tropical Pacific by the 1997/98 El Niño and redistributed on the sea surface after it — warm water that was created during the 1995/96 La Niña.