Sentences with phrase «slow the warming process»

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Recently many have been willing to work toward the reduction of their carbon emissions so as to slow the process of global warming.

It will only slow down the process of food warming up to room temp.

They predicted that the ice age had slowed ocean circulation, trapping CO2 deep within it, and that warmer temperatures reversed this process.

Natural geochemical processes that result in the slow buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide may have caused past geologic intervals of global warming through the greenhouse effect

«Although we have found that this process is happening slower than first thought, if global warming exceeds 3 °C, wet regions will likely get more than 10 per cent wetter and dry regions more than 10 per cent drier, which could have disastrous implications for river flows and agriculture.»

The range of maple trees may move north with warming temperatures, but this is an extremely slow process that will likely take many centuries to be felt, he added.

Natural global warming is self - rectifying either by slow chemical weathering processes responsible for mineral sequestration of carbon or by gradual return of Earth's orbital parameters to what they were before the onset of global warming, thereby significantly reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

This chemical weathering process is too slow to damp out shorter - term fluctuations, and there are some complexities — glaciation can enhance the mechanical erosion that provides surface area for chemical weathering (some of which may be realized after a time delay — ie when the subsequent warming occurs — dramatically snow in a Snowball Earth scenario, where the frigid conditions essentially shut down all chemical weathering, allowing CO2 to build up to the point where it thaws the equatorial region, at which point runaway albedo feedback drives the Earth into a carbonic acid sauna, which ends via rapid carbonate rock formation), while lower sea level may increase the oxidation of organic C in sediments but also provide more land surface for erosion... etc..

(If you go this route, you'll want to let it thicken up a little before serving since the warm liquid can slow the thickening process.)

It was not super warm, so I am assuming the culturing process went slower because we did not keep it warm.

We should remember that the fewer plants work the slower the process of global warming is.

His works engage the viewer in a slow process of viewing and processing in order to notice shifts, from warm to cool, from the mostly matte surface to the little tinge of gloss that hangs out at the edge.

Those concerned about global warming (including at least one study author) are stressing that a longer evolutionary timeline implies the bears» adaptation to climate change in the past was a slow process (meaning the speed of change now poses new threats).

For example: 1) plants giving off net CO2 in hot conditions (r / t aborbing)-- see: http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=46488 2) plants dying out due to heat & drought & wild fires enhanced by GW (reducing or cutting short their uptake of CO2 & releasing CO2 in the process) 3) ocean methane clathrates melting, giving off methane 4) permafrost melting & giving off methane & CO2 5) ice & snow melting, uncovering dark surfaces that absorb more heat 6) the warming slowing the thermohaline ocean conveyor & its up - churning of nutrients — reducing marine plant life & that carbon sink.

This makes sense since warming the surfaces of the world's oceans would tend to decrease their CO2 - carrying - capacity, and this would be a slow process due to the buffering effects of the specific heat capacity of these large bodies of water.

For example, atmospheric carbon dioxide grew by approximately 30 % during the transition from the most recent cold glacial period, about 20,000 years ago, to the current warm interglacial period; the corresponding rate of decrease in surface ocean pH, driven by geological processes, was approximately 50 times slower than the current rate driven largely by fossil fuel burning.

Natural global warming is self - rectifying either by slow chemical weathering processes responsible for mineral sequestration of carbon or by gradual return of Earth's orbital parameters to what they were before the onset of global warming, thereby significantly reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

They are also wrong in assuming that the Sun was capable of warming the surface of Venus, Earth or other planets to the observed temperature which is then maintained by back radiation being supposedly the only process that slows such surface cooling.

The sea level rise commitment due to thermal expansion has much longer time scales than the surface warming commitment, owing to the slow processes that mix heat into the deep ocean (Church et al., 2001).

This intensification of winds initially triggers a rapid cooling of the sea surface and expansion of sea ice, but this is followed by a slow process of warming and sea ice contraction.

While the IPCC reports of 2007 were praised for their recognition of the causes of global warming, the slow, consensus - based nature of the process, meant more recent data was not included.

The fact that warming has greatly slowed does imply that, at the least, there are other processes that are currently competitive with the impact of steadily increasing greenhouse gases.

Partly this is because it's hard to beat the blunt biodiversity effects of direct habitat destruction (like deforestation) and partly that is because climate warming is often a slow process, for instance in the deep oceans, where its ecological effects are «outpaced» by the rapidly escalating plastic pollution — admittedly an impossible comparison.

whereas this process will sequester more CO2 from our atmosphere, this is a very slow process relative to anthropogenically accelerated global warming and I don't really believe it should be used in the context of this debate.

captd, the hot spot is something that comes with tropical ocean heating, which is actually a slower process than expected, possibly because elsewhere is warming faster than expected (land, Arctic).

Perhaps I am being a little slow but it looks to me as though either CO2 warms the oceans causing them to give up further CO2 or the extra atmospheric CO2 being predicated is absorbed by the ocean which in the process becomes less alkaline.

Your advection point is correct, however advection is the result of extensive cooling, sort of like a thermal engine where cold and warm air is continuously exchanged, this process slows down when the Arctic is warmer.

They attribute the stunted growth rates to these warmer temperatures — theorizing that they may be slowing the process of photosynthesis, limiting the trees» ability to absorb carbon dioxide, and speeding up respiration, causing the trees to release more carbon dioxide.

The warming that is occurring now, over just a few decades, can not possibly be caused by such slow - acting processes.

Greenhouse gases can't trap enough radiation to have much impact on the atmosphere in 24 hours, global warming is a much slower process.)

By stocking a lot of food in the refrigerator, the warming process slows down when the door is open, thus trapping the cool air inside and allowing the refrigerator to work less.