Sentences with phrase «warm ancient earth»

According to a new NASA study, powerful solar storms could have been instrumental in warming ancient Earth, and preparing the planet for the development of complex life.

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Scientists are interested in studying ancient warming events to understand how the Earth behaves when the climate system is dramatically perturbed.

The bones of this 43 - foot, one - ton, crocodile - munching behemoth — found amid the remains of an ancient rain forest — are helping scientists understand what the earth was like when the climate was much warmer.

The results of Schaller, Fung and his team will prompt further investigations into the possible influence of an impact event on the global environmental change that characterized this notable warming period in Earth's ancient history.

This study therefore shows that climate warming is not the only explanation of global ecological disasters in the past on Earth: it is important to continue analysing ancient marine sediments to gain a deeper understanding of the earth's climate syEarth: it is important to continue analysing ancient marine sediments to gain a deeper understanding of the earth's climate syearth's climate system.

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The study noted that the same climate models the UN IPCC uses can only «explain only about half of the heating that occurred during a well - documented period of rapid global warming in Earth's ancient past.»

«The study found that climate models explain only about half of the heating that occurred during a well - documented period of rapid global warming in Earth's ancient past.

A relatively tiny amount of nitrous oxide could have trapped enough of the Sun's energy inside ancient Earth's atmosphere to create warm surface conditions favourable to the evolution of life.

Human activities are releasing greenhouse gases more than 30 times faster than the rate of emissions that triggered a period of extreme global warming in the Earth's past, according to an expert on ancient climates.

Excerpts from: Ancient Climate Studies Suggest Earth On Fast Track To Global Warming, Santa Cruz CA (SPX), Feb 16, 2006

Ancient Climate Studies Suggest Earth On Fast Track To Global Warming by Staff Writers Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2006

The study, which appears in Nature Geoscience, found that climate models explain only about half of the heating that occurred during a well - documented period of rapid global warming in Earth's ancient past.

Oil — > Transport, Electricity — > 1) C02 and 10x stronger or so CH4 in air — > Global Warming — > Draughts, Hurricanes, Floods — > Lost crops, forests, homes — > CO2 fixing potential lost, Starvation, Diseases, More ressources / energy needed 2) C02 and 10x stronger or so CH4 in air — > Global Warming — > Ice caps and glaciers metling — > Earth natural climate stabilizers lost + massive CH4 release from pergelisoils & ancient ice melt 3) CO2 in water — > Oceans acidification — > Destruction of centennial / millenial coral reefs — > Loss of oceans» filters / pulmons / incubators / biodiversity reservoir — > Food shortage

Reason would tell you that since there is no ancient ice on Earth, that this fact alone, tells you earth has been warmer than it is tEarth, that this fact alone, tells you earth has been warmer than it is tearth has been warmer than it is today.

Our planet is warming up, but it's been warmer in the ancient past - Mother Earth can handle herself.

Hot magma deep within Earth may have heated carbon - rich rocks, releasing methane into the atmosphere and leading to an ancient warming event, scientists suggest.

Figuring out how far sea level rose during past warm periods in Earth's history starts with a walk on the beach, a keen eye for evidence of ancient shorelines, and a highly accurate GPS system.

For their study, Hansen and his colleagues combined ancient paleo - climate data with new satellite readings and an improved model of the climate system to demonstrate that ice sheets can melt at a «non-linear» rate: rather than an incremental melting as Earth's poles inexorably warm, ice sheets might melt at exponential rates, shedding dangerous amounts of mass in a matter of decades, not millennia.

Once at odds, a climate expert and botanist who studies ancient plants later teamed up to improve understanding of one of the warmest periods in Earth history.

Current observations are consistent with paleodata from warm intervals in Earth's ancient past.