Sentences with phrase «total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere»

R GATES: The Longer - term rate of ocean heat storage is modulated by the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere which ultimately alter the net overall thermal gradient between ocean heat and space.

The Longer - term rate of ocean heat storage is modulated by the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere which ultimately alter the net overall thermal gradient between ocean heat and space.

This means that if the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere doubled, the earth's temperature would increase by 2.9 degrees Celsius.

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While the greenhouse gas footprint of the production of other foods, compared to sources such as livestock, is highly dependent on a number of factors, production of livestock currently accounts for about 30 % of the U.S. total emissions of methane.316, 320,325,326 This amount of methane can be reduced somewhat by recovery methods such as the use of biogas digesters, but future changes in dietary practices, including those motivated by considerations other than climate change mitigation, could also have an effect on the amount of methane emitted to the atmosphere.327

The results show that the total effective amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has not significantly increased over the last 60 years.