Sentences with phrase «signs of a warming planet»

However, the increasing signs of a warming planet were enough to push most of the world's governments into action by 1992, when the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was ratified.

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The first celestial body she checks is, naturally, Venus, the planet of love — and, she explains, there are certain signs that channel Venus» warm - and - fuzzy energy particularly well.

On some missions, such as NASA's Curiosity Mars rover (now deep into its third Earth year seeking signs of habitable conditions on the Red Planet), the excess heat from the MMRTG can also be used to keep spacecraft systems warm in cold environments.

But it is cause for concern and provides a clear sign of how the planet is changing as the Earth warms.

Isn't this a surreal transition time when many people continue with business as usual, chomping up the comforts of our world and choosing to ignore every trend except maybe global warming, and others feel that the life signs of our planet are declining so fast that it's already too late no matter what we do.

NASA: Global climate change, Vital signs of the planet, Scientific consesus: Earth's climate is warming;

♣ Even though he informs us he is fully - signed - up to AGW - inexorably - warming - the - planet and that he is only saying that it is the temperature - wobbles - creating - slowdowns, he then manages to set out this question for us: «If there is a slowdown in Gistemp, was it because global warming slowed down, or was it because of an ocean cycle?»

«Coauthor Felix Landerer of JPL noted that during the same period, warming in the top half of the ocean continued unabated, an unequivocal sign that our planet is heating up.»