Sentences with phrase «steady warming of the planet»
While heat waves are a regular part of summer weather, the steady warming of the planet means those heat waves are getting ever hotter, making record heat more and more likely
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Assaults on human rights; inadequate disaster aid; threats of thermonuclear war; and the slow, steady warming of our planet.
We've been adding carbon dioxide from fossil fuels to the atmosphere at increasing rates since the dawn of the Industrial Era, and the result has been a steady warming of the planet's surface.
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The steady rise of Earth's temperature as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere and trap more and more heat is sending the planet spiraling closer to the point where warming's catastrophic consequences may be all but assured.
Rancho Santana's 2,700 acres along 2 miles of shoreline boast a unique Isthmus climate that creates steady but varied patterns of coastal breezes, which when paired with year - round warm ocean waters make the beaches» surfing conditions some of the most coveted on the planet.
This began roughly 150 years ago and, with the exception of a few short intervals of steady (or even very slight decreases in) temperatures, the planet continues to warm at an even more rapid rate.
But if you accept that the greenhouse effect is real, and that CO2 is a GHG, and that CO2 has increased (along with other GHGs), you have to accept the merit of my point: that solar, volcanoes, ocean currents and other natural variations do their thing, they vary, but GHGs exert a steady, constant upward forcing on temperature, which upward forcing is only offset by increased heat losses to space from a warmer planet.
Simultaneously, it is emphasized to the public that global warming is an inexorable process, that the accumulation of energy on the planet is steady and uninterrupted.
The report singles out coastal areas, including low - lying island nations, as hot spots of elevated risk that may not be completely manageable due to the steady climb in global sea levels projected to take place during the rest of this century, as the planet warms and land - based ice sheets melt.