Sentences with phrase «warm the planet somewhat»

Yes, humans are emitting a lot of CO2 and it will likely warm the planet somewhat.

Not exact matches

Buie and Elliot also found that the planet's surface is now somewhat darker than five years ago, meaning that it reflects less sunlight and therefore is a bit warmer.

TreeHugger has noted, somewhat light - heartedly, that among the myriad effects of global warming are likely reductions in wine and beer production; as global warming alters the planet's regional climates, it affects the crop yields

The latter brings a somewhat slower warming at the surface of our planet, because more heat is stored deeper in the ocean.

TreeHugger has noted, somewhat light - heartedly, that among the myriad effects of global warming are likely reductions in wine and beer production; as global warming alters the planet's regional climates, it affects the crop yields used for brewing up our favorite libations.

Likewise, the term «global warming» is somewhat problematic as well since the planet isn't warming uniformly — a few places have a short - lived cooling trends — and the word «warming» sounds downright cozy on a cold day, when, in fact, substantially heating of the atmosphere and ocean is happening.)

But the paleoclimate record indicates that a somewhat different series of events — which is still not fully understood — caused the periodic warming of the planet.

During the talk, I showed the following graph of the Earth's total heat content, demonstrating that even over the last decade when surface temperature warming has slowed somewhat, the planet continues to build up heat at a rate of 4 Hiroshima bomb detonations worth of heat every second.

I must admit to being somewhat frustrated with the global warming debate in that I think it's missing (and indeed drawing focus away from) the point, which is that we need to focus on long - term sustainability in our interactions with the planet.

I can accept that GHG's will lead to a somewhat warmer planet, but not agree that we yet understand all the factors that determine what the actual rate of that warming will be at any specific CO2 level.

By capturing thermal radiation (heat energy emitted from the earth's surface components and re radiating it in all directions — part of the same process that is accepted (somewhat like the «earth revolves around the sun accepted») to keep the planet much warmer than it would otherwise be in the absence of any of these molecules — it actually «cools.»