Sentences with phrase «warmer than grass»

The screen was right beside an asphalt car park, and if you have ever touched asphalt on a sunny day, you will probably have noticed it gets much warmer than grass.

Not exact matches

Taller, warm - season grasses thrived on the burnt, nitrogen - rich plots, but plants that prefer cooler digs were decimated, leaving these plots with roughly 5.6 species per 10 square meters — 66 % fewer than the control plot.

It also doesn't help that there are almost no grass roots mobilization efforts being carried out by national environmental groups over the issue of global warming other than 350.org.

A station too close to a parking lot would be expected to read warmer than a station situated over grass far from any human influence other natural obstructions.

But for detecting climate change, the concern is not the absolute temperature — whether a station is reading warmer or cooler than a nearby station over grass — but how that temperature changes over time.

Examples: Since leaves function more efficiently in diffuse light than in dappled bright - or - dark direct light, clearer skies will reduce carbon uptake: Mercado et al. (2009); a multi-year study of grass found carbon uptake sharply decreased in hotter summers: Arnone et al. (2008); warming kills plankton, resulting in less emission of DMS and thus less cooling clouds: Six et al. (2013); changes in Arctic rivers and coastlines could bring more carbon loss than models anticipated: Abbott et al. (2016).

These bubbles, called «thermals», form over «thermal sources» such as concrete, bare sand and rocky hillsides, which become warmer on sunny days than surrounding areas of grass or forest.

The organic - grass - fed - gluten free - cold pressed turkey in your shopping cart is being refrigerated with some of the most potent greenhouse gases in the world called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)-- gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners with global warming potentials hundreds to thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide.

Heck the solar constant dropped 5 points or so in the last decade:) Next thing ya know compacted dirt might contribute to warming even if it is lighter colored than the grass that used to be there.

Putting down grass seed in order to have your grass look full rather than patchy as it starts to warm up is also a great idea.