Sentences with phrase «trapped by greenhouse gas»

More than 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed into the oceans that cover two - thirds of the planet's surface.

Waterways are warming worldwide as oceans absorb most of the energy trapped by greenhouse gas pollution.

The ocean absorbs most of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases — more than 80 percent — with temperatures rising up to 3,000 meters below the surface.

So the report notes that the current «pause» in new global average temperature records since 1998 — a year that saw the second strongest El Nino on record and shattered warming records — does not reflect the long - term trend and may be explained by the oceans absorbing the majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as well as the cooling contributions of volcanic eruptions.

While El Niño played a role in bumping up global temperatures during 2015 and 2016, the bulk of the warmth was due to the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases emitted by humans over the past century, particularly carbon dioxide.

This trend is key because the oceans absorb about 93 percent of all the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases.

The overwhelming cause for the chart - topping warmth is the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases accumulating in Earth's atmosphere.

It is this background warming from the heat trapped by greenhouse gases that actually accounts for most of the predictability in future temperature change, said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Penn State.

Only 7 percent of the heat being trapped by greenhouse gases is sticking around in the surface and atmosphere of the planet.

The world's oceans absorb more than 90 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases, storing it for centuries.

Of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases, 93 percent is stored in the oceans.

But some of the heat is trapped by the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Since this is true, how do you suppose that the heat trapped by greenhouse gases manages to control the heat content of the «lower layers of the oceans»?

«Currently, scientists estimate the oceans absorb more than 90 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases, and we attribute the global warming to anthropogenic (human - produced) causes.»

When heat energy gets released from Earth's surface, some of that radiation is trapped by greenhouse gases like CO2; the effect is what makes our planet comfy temperature-wise, but too much and you get global warming.

If you can still convince yourself that your odd theory that heat somehow trapped by greenhouse gases is causing sea level rise or fall, and that you can somehow account for things like totally unknown vertical displacements in sea beds in your measurement, you can probably qualify as a climate scientist.

The other is reflecting some sunlight away from the Earth before it can be trapped by greenhouse gases, commonly known as Solar Radiation Management (SRM).

As Alley explained in an American Geophysical Union talk recently, the El Nino cycle has a strong impact on how much of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases spreads to the ocean.

The AGW heating is of the order of Watts per square metre, so just take it to be 1 W / m ^ 2, and multiply by the surface area of the earth, to get a rough idea of the total extra power trapped by greenhouse gases.

So if there's less solar radiation to be trapped by the greenhouse gases, it reduces the warming.

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Additionally, while nearly 80 percent of the sunlight reflected from a roof can escape to outer space, the «thermal infrared» energy radiated by a hot, dark roof is trapped by greenhouse gases, such as CO2 and water vapor, warming the atmosphere.

Solar Radiation Management (SRM) or «albedo modification» is a class of technologies that could lower global average temperatures and offset some of the worst impacts of climate change by reflecting a portion of incoming solar radiation back into space before that radiation could be trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Climate change is caused by heat trapped by greenhouse gases that produce an energy imbalance between the energy flowing in and out of the upper atmosphere.

Not exact matches

The massive Pacific Ocean is helping absorb the extra heat trapped by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

Greenhouse gases add those watts by acting as a blanket, trapping the sun's heat; they have warmed Earth by roughly 0.75 degree Celsius over the last century.

Greenhouse gases, by contrast, trap heat 24/7, which warms nights and days.

The so - called greenhouse gases — mainly water vapor and carbon dioxide — make the planet warm and habitable by trapping solar heat as it radiates back off the Earth.

Of course, the extra heat trapped by human greenhouse gas emissions is likely to play a bigger role than raindrop friction in any atmospheric changes.

A new review sums up options for increasing global carbon sequestration by flora and speculates that genetically engineering crops and trees could enhance the process, trapping gigatons of the greenhouse gas as well as increasing bioenergy production

In addition, O3 is a greenhouse gas, helping to trap heat and warm the earth, and new research shows that it plays an even larger role in global warming by destroying plants» ability to use extra carbon dioxide.

Producing beef for the table releases more heat - trapping greenhouse gases than most people realize — far more, pound for pound, than are generated by the production of most other kinds of food

And, although a few projects such as the Sleipner gas field in the North Sea or oil fields owned by the EnCana Corporation in Calgary, Alberta have proved that CO2 can be pumped underground and remain trapped below cap rock, they are aimed at enhancing recovery of the fossil fuels in those fields rather than permanently storing the greenhouse gas.

The effects of wind changes, which were found to potentially increase temperatures in the Southern Ocean between 660 feet and 2,300 feet below the surface by 2 °C, or nearly 3.6 °F, are over and above the ocean warming that's being caused by the heat - trapping effects of greenhouse gases.

Regardless, the solar change is dwarfed by the impact from the extra heat trapped by CO2 alone since 1750: an additional 1.66 watts per square meter, an effect that other greenhouse gases, such as methane, strengthen further.

Meanwhile, here on earth, we still have the same remaining problem of our trapped thermal atmospheric content that can not escape away from Earth's self contained system that is maintained by the greenhouse gases that surrounds the earth that is said to be increasing in content, and because it increasing in content, the thermal kinetic capacity (global warming potential of certain said gases will rise with it.)

While a strong El Niño has given global temperatures a boost, the main reason for the spate of intensely warm months is the long - term warming of the planet caused by the accumulation of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, scientists have found.

Only 7 percent of the excess energy trapped in the climate system by increasing greenhouse gases goes into the land, air, and ice, though, while 93 percent of that energy goes into the oceans.

Most of the heat being trapped at the Earth's surface by human greenhouse gas emissions is absorbed by the oceans.

The excess heat trapped by ever - rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is tipping the scales in favor of more record heat.

Results: The least costly way to manage the heat - trapping effect of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is to pursue every available option to reduce emissions, according to a study by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, published in the journal Climatic Change.

These records show both the influence of the long - term trend in global warming — caused by the continued release of heat - trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — as well as an exceptionally strong El Niño that is altering weather around the world.

However, at the increased levels seen since the Industrial Revolution (roughly 275 ppm then, 400 ppm now; Figure 2 - 1), greenhouse gases are contributing to the rapid rise of our global average temperatures by trapping more heat, often referred to as human - caused climate change.

As greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere and trap heat, Alaska could see its average annual temperature rise another 6 °F to 12 °F (3 °C to 7 °C) by the end of the century depending on the location.

The findings are important because the world's oceans provide one of the best records of the excess energy trapped on Earth by increased greenhouse gases, largely from the burning of fossil fuels.

There are also concerns that oceans, which currently absorb more than 90 percent of the extra heat being trapped by human greenhouse gas emissions, could eventually release some of that back to the surface, speeding up the surface temperature rise.

Such changes are driven in large part by the greenhouse effect, the trapping of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere and consequent warming of the planet.

This warming has been linked to a similarly rapid increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere, which acted to trap heat and drive up global temperatures by more than 5 °C in just a few thousand years.

Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere are called greenhouse gases, in large part because they absorb certain wavelengths of energy emitted by the EGases that trap heat in the atmosphere are called greenhouse gases, in large part because they absorb certain wavelengths of energy emitted by the Egases, in large part because they absorb certain wavelengths of energy emitted by the Earth.

Greenhouse gases released by the burning of fossil fuels have steadily risen in the world's atmosphere since the industrial revolution, trapping heat and leading to a global increase in average temperatures.