Sentences with phrase «to accumulate in the atmosphere»

As greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, heat's toll is expected to rise.

The global ocean is a major sink of anthropogenic CO2 and significantly slows the amount of CO2 accumulating in the atmosphere.

And today we know that the excess carbon dioxide accumulating in the atmosphere from human activity — like burning coal and oil and clearing forests — is altering our climate.

I once pointed out to an academic from a developed nation that the emissions resulting from their country's two - car households had been accumulating in the atmosphere for decades.

Several greenhouse gases, which are in part or entirely produced by human activities, have accumulated in the atmosphere since approximately the middle of the 19th century.

They will continue to accumulate in the atmosphere over the next years and possibly even decades, which together with the inertia of the climate system will support further warming.

Accounting for biomass energy often ignores the critical role forests play as a sink for carbon dioxide that might otherwise accumulate in the atmosphere.

So the only carbon used would be that which already existed above the surface; it could no longer dangerously accumulate in the atmosphere.

As a result, carbon dioxide has been steadily accumulating in the atmosphere.

How hot the planet gets in the long term depends on how sensitive the climate is to CO2 accumulating in the atmosphere.

This is defined as the change in average global surface temperature for a given amount of carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere.

As greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, global temperatures are on the rise.

The idea behind it is simple: gases accumulating in the atmosphere as by - products of human industry and agriculture — carbon dioxide, mostly, but also methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons — let in the sun's warming rays but don't let excess heat escape.

Unfortunately, these gases — especially CO2 — are accumulating in the atmosphere at increasing concentrations due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuel in cars and power plants industrial processes, and the clearing of forests for agriculture or development.

The portion of CO2 accumulating in the atmosphere in both 2015 and 2016 was higher than average, driven in part by the large El Niño event.

Research suggests that as human - caused carbon dioxide emissions accumulate in the atmosphere, plants will grow more quickly because the rate of photosynthesis speeds up.

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, and it degrades to CO2, another greenhouse gas which accumulates in the atmosphere just as fossil fuel CO2 does.

Tacking on industry in general, including producing cement, steel, plastics and chemicals, accounts for 78 percent of greenhouse gases, which invisibly accumulate in the atmosphere and trap extra heat.

As those gases are expected to continue accumulating in the atmosphere while aerosols stabilise or fall, that means «dramatic consequences for estimates of future climate change», the scientists agreed in a draft report from the workshop.

Summers are warming across the country as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere with the largest increase in parts of the Southwest.

Whether the Arctic's 21st - century journey ends with a tipping - point style crash or a whimper remains uncertain, but — even with the current recovery — it's hard to find a researcher probing Arctic ice trends who does not foresee open - water summers, and all that comes with them, in coming decades, as long as greenhouse gases keep accumulating in the atmosphere.

This, said Ying Sun of the University of Texas at Austin and colleagues, explained why CO2 wasn't accumulating in the atmosphere quite as fast as climate models predicted it should be.

Alarm bells are ringing about dozens of other short - lived, potentially ozone - destroying chlorine compounds accumulating in the atmosphere as a result of fast - rising global manufacturing.

In my understanding, the temperature gradient is altered by the presence of additional GHGs in such a way that the loss of heat from the ocean is slowed, so OHC, of course, continues to rise as GHGs accumulate in the atmosphere.

However, any agent with a lifetime shorter than the response time of the physical climate system must be treated in a very different way to CO2, since such emissions do not effectively accumulate in the atmosphere over multi-decadal time scales.

With the greenhouse gases already accumulated in the atmosphere, it would take less than 30 years for it to be inevitable that temperature would in time reach 2 °C above the pre-industrial level if the global greenhouse - gas emissions stayed at their current rate.

The conditions stoking the blazes in Southern California are projected to become more common and severe in the years ahead as greenhouse gas pollution from fossil fuel burning, deforestation, farming, and other industrial practices accumulates in the atmosphere, changing temperatures and rainfall patterns.

As a result, a substantial fraction of the CO2 emitted from human activities accumulates in the atmosphere, where some of it will remain not just for decades or centuries, but for thousands of years.