Sentences with phrase «simple warming of the atmosphere»

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His entire speech hinged on the simple observation that the addition of carbon to the atmosphere was effectively a worldwide subsidy that had contributed to global warming and prevented humanity from freeing itself from the fossil - fuel era.

One possible strategy for making Mars habitable over the long term is to «terraform» it — manipulate its environment so, in the simplest terms, the planet warms up, ice turns into water, and plants can be introduced, which will convert the atmospheric carbon dioxide into oxygen, with the goal of creating a stable and breathable atmosphere.

As the ocean warms, for example, it releases CO2 to the atmosphere, with one principal mechanism being the simple fact that the solubility of CO2 decreases as the water temperature rises [204].

Much of the special atmosphere is due to the warm welcome extended to us by the owners, Dionysios and his family who are rightly proud of this simple and very central little hotel.

The simple fact is that humans put some extra greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere and that is causing us to warm outside of the natural climate path.

Without going into technical details about the dynamics and thermodynamics involved in tropical storms and hurricanes (an excellent discussion of this can be found here), the basic connection between the two is actually fairly simple: warm water, and the instability in the lower atmosphere that is created by it, is the energy source of hurricanes.

Simple physics dictates that with less sea ice there is magnified warming of the Arctic due to powerful albedo feedback; this in turn reduces the equator to pole temperature gradient which slows the jet stream winds causing them to become more meridional; this combined with 4 % more water vapor in the atmosphere (compared to 3 decades ago) is leading to much more extremes in weather.

I would argue that if we use a simple radiative model with a variety of assumptions, no upper atmosphere cooling but only warming will occur with increased CO2 (see # 333), based on the radiative transfer equations and the Second Law of thermodynamics, but when other complexities are introduced, this might change.

The simplest explanation of why they are buncum was provided in Rabett Run's comments by one Flavius Collium who followed Eli in pointing out that the greenhouse effect does not require that the colder atmosphere heat the warmer earth, but

Add more CO2 and the atmosphere gets warmer — very simple explanation of why CO2 causes global warming.

That an increase of CO2 in the atmosphere could producing warming has been verified in simple lab experiments.

Note 1: A simple hotspot explanation summarized from this article: Increasing CO2 levels causes atmosphere to warm; then atmosphere causes Earth's surface to warm; warming of oceans cause evaporation; increased evaporation leads to more water vapor in the upper troposphere; water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas that warms the atmosphere even more (positive water vapor feedback); the Earth's surface warms even more; and then auto «repeat and rinse» until Earth's oceans boil, per an «expert.»

It is often said that the greenhouse effect and man - made global warming theories are «simple physics», and that increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere must cause global warming.

Simple physics says, if you increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the temperature of the earth should respond and warm.

As the ocean warms, for example, it releases CO2 to the atmosphere, with one principal mechanism being the simple fact that the solubility of CO2 decreases as the water temperature rises [204].

If the Earth was a simple rock with no water, but a Nitrogen atmosphere with, say, 250ppm of CO2, the greenhouse effects of the CO2 would ensure that the atmosphere was at least a little warm.

The simple remark is that increasing concentration of a greenhouse gas does two things: it increases absorption of infrared coming from warm layers below (a warming effect) but it also increases emission of infrared from the layer of atmosphere in question.

And, all models of the greenhouse effect, be they simple shell models or full convective - radiative models have the heat going from the warmer earth to the colder atmosphere.

If there was an atmosphere, but one made up of, say, nitrogen only with no greenhouse effect, then the Moon STILL be simple, with a small additional damping effect, and no additional warming overall.

Looks to me like the much simpler argument that CO2 is a greenhouse gas; greenhouse gases enhance atmospheric warming; enormous amounts of CO2 are now being emitted via the burning of fossil fuels; and according to various measurements, the temperature of the atmosphere appears to be steadily increasing as a result.

To claim global warming stopped in 1998 overlooks one simple physical reality - the land and atmosphere are just a small fraction of the Earth's climate (albeit the part we inhabit).

Figure 2 shows the Polar Front as a simple division of the atmosphere between cold polar and warm tropical air.