Sentences with phrase «runaway greenhouse conditions»

Finally, we use an efficient climate model to expand our estimated climate sensitivities beyond the Cenozoic climate range to snowball Earth and runaway greenhouse conditions.

* Enough carbon to aid the development of life but not so much to allow for runaway greenhouse conditions, as occur on superheated Venus.

Not exact matches

With no water left on the surface, carbon dioxide built up in the atmosphere, leading to a so - called runaway greenhouse effect that created present conditions.

Some of these planets orbiting low - mass stars could experience very slow water loss that could last up to the lifetime of the star, which could allow habitable conditions to persist even during a moist or runaway greenhouse.

Toward colder extremes, as the area of sea ice grows, the planet approaches runaway snowball - Earth conditions, and at high temperatures it can approach a runaway greenhouse effect (8).

Runaway greenhouse warming can occur for really extreme conditions (Venus at present, Earth in maybe 5 billion years time when the sun becomes a red giant), but is not a possibility for the next hundred years.

What I meant (what I thought you meant) by Chuvian runaway was a runaway of an extent more limited (covering a smaller range of temperatures that can't be at equilibrium) than the big ice - albedo and H2O - vapor greenhouse runaway feedbacks of snowball and «steamball» conditions.

Some discussion about the condition of runaway greenhouse (Komabayashi - Ingersoll limit) is found in Section 4.6 (p. 284).