Sentences with phrase «trapping effect of greenhouse gases»

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.

PNNL's model scenario limits the heat - trapping effect of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to levels only 65 percent of what they would reach if no future emissions controls are implemented.

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.

Not exact matches

So this effect could either be the result of natural variability in Earth's climate, or yet another effect of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases like water vapor trapping more heat and thus warming sea - surface temperatures.

As the gas rises and becomes trapped in the atmosphere, it retains heat as part of a process called the greenhouse effect.

Our understanding of how certain atmospheric gases trap heat dates back almost 200 years to 1824 when Joseph Fourier described what we know as the greenhouse effect.

Silver and Jones hope that projects such as theirs will demonstrate the role that farmers, ranchers, and other land managers can play in mitigating the effects of heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

The amount of energy being trapped on Earth continues to rise at a quickening pace, because of the effects of the thickening cloud of greenhouse gas pollution in the atmosphere, but more of that energy than usual has been ending up in the oceans.

Greenhouse effect The warming of Earth's atmosphere due to the buildup of heat - trapping gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane.

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.

But that is certainly not the case when you consider the contributions of rich and poor countries to the heat - trapping blanket of greenhouse gases, and those countries» relative vulnerability to the projected effects of human - driven warming.

As detailed in section V of this notice, it is widely recognized that greenhouse gases (GHGs) have a climatic warming effect by trapping heat in the atmosphere that would otherwise escape to space.

... In the late 1980s, there was a sense of the new about the greenhouse effect, even though scientists had been positing since the 1890s that heat - trapping gases, particularly carbon dioxide released by burning coal and other focal fuels could raise global temperatures.

In the scorching summer of 1988, when global warming first hit headlines in a significant way, presidential candidate George H.W. Bush used a Michigan speech to pledge meaningful action curbing heat - trapping greenhouse gases, saying, «Those who think we are powerless to do anything about the greenhouse effect forget about the White House effect.»

Since 2004, researchers in NOAA's Global Monitoring Division have released the Annual Greenhouse Gas Index: a single value that compares the total warming effect of each year's concentrations of heat - trapping gases to 1990 levels.

The reduction of heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emissions is stimulated by lowering existing subsidies that have the effect of raising emissions (such as subsidies to fossil fuel use) or by providing subsidies for practices that reduce emissions or enhance sinks (e.g. for insulation of buildings or for planting trees).

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.

And the radiant effects from all greenhouse gas [including H20 gas, which dominate greenhouse gas] has a rather insignificant effect in terms of trapping radiant energy - H20 gas has large effect due to it's latent heat.

What you mean, I think, is climate change due to global warming enhanced by excessive use of materials including fossil fuels — greenhouse gases — which have a greenhouse effect, that is they trap heat in our atmosphere.

The combination of these gases in high concentrations causes a catastrophic greenhouse effect that traps incident sunlight and prevents it from radiating into space.

In this stylized representation of the human - intensified greenhouse effect, human activities, predominantly the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), are increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases, increasing the natural greenhouse effect and thus Earth's temperature.

Global Warming is the increase of Earth's average surface temperature due to effect of greenhouse gasses, such as carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels or from deforestation, which trap heat that would otherwise escape from Earth.

In the «simple physics» version of the greenhouse effect theory, infrared - active gases are supposed to «trap» heat in the atmosphere, because they can absorb infrared light.

Global warming refers to an increase in the average temperature of the Earth as a result of the greenhouse effect, in which gases in the upper atmosphere trap solar radiation close to the planet's surface instead of allowing it to dissipate into space.

This has a cooling effect on Earth that can help mitigate the impacts of heat - trapping greenhouse gasses.

This essentially is a moderating effect, and does not seem to be dependent on re-radiation of IR trapping greenhouse gases in anyway, except to the extent that it slows the rate of heat loss at night (which may very well be a real — albiet a small — effect).

Scientists agree the main cause of climate change is human activities which magnify the «greenhouse effect» — a natural process in which gases in the atmosphere warm the Earth by trapping heat that is radiating towards space (2)(4).

This heat - trapping, warming influence of the blanket of air over the Earth's surface is called the greenhouse effect, and it will become even stronger as greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor increase in concentration.

4 Greenhouse Effect Certain atmospheric gases trap some of the infrared radiation that escapes from the Earth, making the Earth warmer than it would be otherwise.

The debate over global warming centers on the extent to which gases released from the burning of fossil fuels — mainly carbon dioxide — are trapping the sun's heat in the Earth's atmosphere, creating a greenhouse effect.

We support educating the public and policymakers in government and industry about the harmful human health effects of global climate change, and about the immediate and long - term health benefits associated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions (i.e., heat - trapping pollution) and taking other preventive and protective measures that contribute to sustainability.

I could begin a story about the growing human influence on earth's climate system with a recap of the effects of an unabated rise in concentrations of heat - trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

What is a good source to explain the very basics of radiation effects of how greenhouse gases trap heat?

As the Industrial Revolution accelerated, scientists soon figured out that emissions of heat - trapping gases from burning coal and other fossil fuels might intensify that natural «greenhouse effect.»

The greenhouse effect was discovered in 1824 by Fourier, the heat trapping properties of CO2 and other gases were first measured by Tyndall in 1859, the climate sensitivity to CO2 was first computed in 1896 by Arrhenius, and by the 1950s the scientific foundations were pretty much understood.

Knowledge of Global Warming Causes & Effects Weak At Best Though 87 % of Americans have heard of the greenhouse effect, only 57 % of people know that it refers to gases in the atmosphere trapping heat, with 13 % never having heard the term; 50 % of people know that global warming is mostly caused by human activity; 45 % of people understanding that CO2 traps heat; just 25 % of people have even heard the terms coral bleaching or ocean acidification.

«To counter the effects of heat - trapping greenhouse gases,» But there is no evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate.

Climate engineering: To counter the effects of heat - trapping greenhouse gases, some experts have proposed artificially cooling the planet by injecting sulfates into the stratosphere, which would mimic the effects of a major volcanic eruption.