Sentences with phrase «sunlight reaching the planet»

Geoengineering schemes are projects designed to tackle the effects of climate change directly, usually by removing CO2 from the air or limiting the amount of sunlight reaching the planet's surface.

When sunlight reaches the planet, the light includes a wide range of frequencies — from infrared light through visible light to ultraviolet light.

Proposals to respond to climate change by geoengineering the Earth's climate system, such as by regulating the amount of sunlight reaching the planet, may be seen as a radical fulfillment of Heidegger's understanding of technology as destiny.

Not exact matches

And despite the thickness of this alien atmosphere, Pierrehumbert and Gaidos calculate that enough sunlight would reach the planet's surface to foster photosynthesis.

The sun's radiance has dropped slightly since the 1970s, and dust thrown up by recent volcanic eruptions, especially that of Mexico's El Chichon in 1982, should be keeping some sunlight from reaching the planet.

The answer is that before the sunlight reaches Earth, it first has to travel through our atmosphere, which is a layer of gas made up of tiny molecules of mostly nitrogen and oxygen that surrounds our planet.

It's not surprising that Pluto is a very cold place: After all, the dwarf planet is 40 times as far away from our sun as we are, so there's not a whole lot of sunlight reaching it.

After a nuclear blast, however, loads of black smoke would settle into the upper atmosphere and absorb sunlight before it reaches our planet's surface.

Also during 1992 and 1993, ash and other particles from the volcano created a haze around the planet and slightly reduced the sunlight reaching Earth's surface and made the sun's radiation less direct and more diffuse.

So 25 % of sunlight on average reaches an average point on the sunlit side of the planet.

It a decrease in cloud — more sunlight reaches the surface and warms the planet — to around 2000 followed by an abrupt increase and little change since.

Computer models have shown that SAM could reduce the amount of sunlight that reaches the planet's surface.

Many believe that increased water vapor, solar variations in radiation and magnetic flux, our relative position in the solar system, the tilt of our planet's axis, the clearing of our atmosphere of pollutants which allows more sunlight to reach the ground, or our position in the Milky Way galaxy that affects the amount of radiation reaching our atmosphere and affecting cloud formation, are also important and are not (and can not be yet) adequately considered in the computer models used by the IPCC consensus.