Sentences with phrase «suggesting earth heats»

Since the warming rate is twice as fast as the interglacial cooling rate, the typical interglacial period has an asymmetrical pattern suggesting Earth heats up due to natural processes more rapidly than when it cools.

Not exact matches

Simulations suggest that heat from an infant Earth, the sun and the moon could have vaporized the moon's metals into a thick atmosphere, Lisa Grossman reported in «Metallic air may have swaddled moon» (SN: 8/5/17, p. 7).

Earth continuously heats the rock deep below the surface; a new report from M.I.T. suggests harvesting that renewable energy

Changes to the transport of heat by the Earth's atmosphere and oceans to the poles have also been suggested as a possible contributor to the steep rise in Arctic temperatures.

The findings, in the July 28 Nature, suggest that the origin of the 30 trillion to 45 trillion watts of heat produced by the earth's interior is about evenly divided between radioactive decay and leftover heat from the planet's molten formation.

May 2, 2005, Earth Holding On to Sun's Heat, Study Suggests, by Sarah Graham.

Each of these spinning magnetic storms is the size of Europe, and together they may be pumping enough energy into the solar atmosphere to heat it to millions of degrees — a power that leads one scientist to suggest we could mimic these solar tornadoes on Earth in the quest for nuclear fusion power.

However, calculations by a team of geoscientist (including Nicolas Flament) suggest that Earth was a «water - world» up through year 2.1 billion because Earth's mantle layer may have been up to 200 °C hotter than it is today, when the early Earth still had a larger quantity of radioactive elements decaying and producing heat.

Given that the cryosphere and oceans are far better long - term indicators of changes in Earth's energy balance than the much more «noisy» troposphere, for anyone to suggest that the warming of the Earth system has slowed or stopped over the past 10 years, means they are purposely ignoring the far bigger heat sinks of the cryrosphere and oceans, or they simply want to spout nonsense.

It suggests the atmosphere would not be heated by Earth's heat without these gases.

Actually, there is some interesting work being done by Matt Huber of Purdue, following up on some earlier ideas of Emanuel's, suggesting that the role of TCs in transporting heat from equator towards the poles may be more significant than previously thought — it also allows for some interesting, though admittedly somewhat exotic, mechanisms for explaining the «cool tropics paradox» and «equable climate problem» of the early Paleogene and Cretaceous periods, i.e. the problem of how to make the higher latitudes warm without warming the tropics much, something that appears to have happened during some past warm epochs in Earth's history.

While rereading the ocean heat content changes by Levitus 2005 at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/PDF/PAPERS/grlheat05.pdf a remarkable sentence was noticed: «However, the large decrease in ocean heat content starting around 1980 suggests that internal variability of the Earth system significantly affects Earth's heat balance on decadal time - scales.»

These findings suggest that the Earth, which is experiencing record - high levels of heat - trapping greenhouse gases, will see faster climate changes throughout the rest of this century.

«Climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth,» The Time lamented.

I would suggest that a new proxy for heat being stored (or lost) from the Earth climate system be developed based on Total System Enthalpy, using a combination of moist enthalpy in the troposphere (after Pielke Sr.), ocean heat content, and total ice mass on the planet.

If that trend continues, the IEA says, global carbon - dioxide emissions will keep rising sharply and climate models suggest the Earth could heat up by as much as 6 °C (10.8 °F) over the long term.

Hot magma deep within Earth may have heated carbon - rich rocks, releasing methane into the atmosphere and leading to an ancient warming event, scientists suggest.

Oceans might throw heat into the air or the sun heats oceans although at the optimum, a safe estimate would be to say that earth re-radiates around 5 % of its heat, and not the 117 % that is suggested that it has to get rid of in order to be in equilibrium

«Your attack on the good Lord is not warranted, as clearly he only suggested this as another possible source of heat coming at regular intervals coming from the center of earth...»

all volcanic... Your attack on the good Lord is not warranted, as clearly he only suggested this as another possible source of heat coming at regular intervals coming from the center of earth... Now, unless you claim to know exactly how much heat is coming from all external and internal sources of heat (which I think even includes the planets and the moon), I would expect you to make some sort of an apology after making such a blatant accusation.

To be fair, Rahmstorf is arguing against using ocean heat content in the context of a «climate policy target», R Gates has suggested it in the context of «gains in Earth's climate system energy levels».

A drying of the atmosphere — that the researchers note — takes place in the subtropical subsidence zone (the 30 degrees latitude) but expands towards the 30 - 45 degrees latitude — Earth's Meditteranean climates, where their model suggests net cloud cover would actually decrease most (see dotted line in first image in this article, at top)-- most notably around 500 hPa (roughly translating to a height of around 5 kilometers of altitude in the troposphere) decreasing albedo and increasing solar heat absorption, therefore net climate warming.

You say it irradiates the light energy back toward Earth (and by the way it's light not heat), but the probably of that happening is extremely small because the numbers you cite suggest it will transfer that light energy as heat to neighboring molecules before it irradiates.

The global temperature rise during the ETCW implies a change in the energy budget of the Earth's atmosphere, which in turn suggests either an external forcing (volcanic, solar, greenhousegases, tropospheric aerosols), changes in clouds, or ocean heat release (Brönnimann, 2015b).

Jim, your suggested change to my comment (currently at # 34)-- «All heat that leaves the earth to space is by radiation» - is accurate and also what I said in my first reply to Matthew (currently at # 27).