Sentences with phrase «slow changes in the sun»

It takes millions of years to compensate, enough for slow changes in the Sun, but not enough to immediately correct for humans dumping tons of extra CO2 every year.

In a recent interchange over at Joanne Nova's always interesting blog, I'd said that the slow changes in the sun have little effect on temperature.

Not exact matches

Dr. Benestad states: «In their formula for the calculation of the sun - related temperature change, the long - term changes are determined by Zeq, while their «climate transfer sensitivity to slow secular solar variations» (ZS4) is only used to correct for a time - lag.

In their formula for the calculation of the sun - related temperature change, the long - term changes are determined by Zeq, while their «climate transfer sensitivity to slow secular solar variations» (ZS4) is only used to correct for a time - lag.

There was a really interesting article in Physics Today this past October on the parallels between the slow acceptance of the idea of anthropogenic climate change and of the idea that the earth circles the sun.

The data show that the sun's variations have been small over the times we care about, the climate responds to variations in sunshine caused by orbital changes, but these are slow.

Ideas that commonly surface include perturbations to the earth's orbit by other planets, disruptions of ocean currents, the rise and fall of greenhouse gases, heat reflection by snow, continental drift, comet impacts, Genesis floods, volcanoes, and slow changes in the irradiance of the sun.

It seems to me, in spite of the noise from the climate change skeptics, pretty simple: nature sequestered carbon over hundreds of millions of years, keeping the earth comfortable in spite of the very slow increase in the suns flux over those millennia, and now we are undoing all of nature's work in order to drive our economy.

There is also the coincidence problem that since the rotation of the Earth changes over time [it slows down] we live in the special period where the natural cycles just happen to match that of the Sun.

Most people thought, back then, that the ice buildup and the ice melting were largely due to those slow changes in various aspects of the earth's orbit around the sun.

Yet the pot is very very large and can take decades to finish moving... So we end up with rapid changes of air temperature sometimes in response to sun modulation; but longer term changes in sea temperature and a «lag time» from that showing up in longer slower air temperature change.

For example, a recent slowing in the rate of surface air temperature rise appears to be related to cyclic changes in the oceans and in the sun's energy output, as well as a series of small volcanic eruptions and other factors.

The short answer is that the Earth's orbital changes (Milankovich cycles) cause really, really slow variations in the amount of the Sun's radiation that hits the northern hemisphere.