Sentences with phrase «runaway warming happen»

Why didn't the threshold to runaway warming happen at that time.

Not exact matches

It may seem surprising to people, but you can look at something like Mars, which has a very thin atmosphere, and you can look at something like Venus which we tend to think of as sort of having this rather heavy, clouded atmosphere, which [is] hellishly warm because of runaway greenhouse effect, and on both of those planets you are seeing this phenomenon of the atmosphere leaking away, is actually what directly has led to those very different outcomes for those planets; the specifics of what happened as the atmosphere started to go in each case [made] all the difference.

I understand 5.8 is a possibility, not a high probability, but if such warming were to happen, could this lead to runaway global warming?

I do agree that Earth is not Venus — some scientists have already told me how much they hate the label «Venus effect,» but I find it informative, simply because it gives some idea about the runaway global warming that did happen 5 times on Earth (which later, obviously, stabilized back to livable conditions).

Summary: «Boiling» oceans and the ludicrous Venus - like runaway warming are not happening as predicted by NASA «experts» - the likelihood of either is literally in the realm of the Twighlight Zone

These satellite measurements of atmosphere temperatures not only confirm that «runaway» and / or «tipping point» global warming is not happening, they also confirm that the NASA «expert» predictions of Venus - like warming that causes «boiling» oceans was, at best, a wild, lunatic, fringe prediction.

But what happens when we hit runaway warming?

CC can provide a perfectly adequate backdrop for a story — there's some decent SF that happens to be set in a world stricken by runaway global warming — but if it's all about the message, then the tendency is towards something that's awkward, preachy, shrill, long - winded, unfunny (or unintentionally funny) or just plain dull.

This explains why the very high carbon dioxide levels in geologic history never caused any runaway warming It also tells us that burning fossil fuels can not lead to runaway warming like happened on Venus according to Hansen.

There is no indication of any trend in that data - nor is there in the instrumental data for the past 150 years for that matter - of any runaway global warming actually happening or credibly projected.

Just a nit, but Venus is an example of what happens to planets close to the sun - it is more likely that the added heat input caused the CO2 release than that a sharp rise in CO2 caused a runaway warming trend.

Runaway warming isn't real something that can happen on Earth.

Your view of WVP as a feedback gas would lead to runaway warming which clearly doesn't happen, and for sure the globe has been warmer in the recent past, especially the holocene optimum, without running away.

Either the switch is «on» (global warming — the catastrophic, runaway variety, one assumes — is «happening» and humans are causing it) or the switch is «off» (global warming isn't happening at all, and it's entirely «made up».)

What appears to happen is that once warming reaches a certain point, these natural biological factors kick in and can lead to a runaway, and potentially unstoppable, increase in warming.