Sentences with phrase «warming our planet remains»

Whether these holes help to cool or warm the planet remains to be seen.

Not exact matches

But the situation is exacerbated in blue states, where power - sector emissions have plummeted and planet - warming tailpipe pollution remains stubbornly high.

Short - lived climate pollutants are so called because even though they warm the planet more efficiently than carbon dioxide, they only remain in the atmosphere for a period of weeks to roughly a decade whereas carbon dioxide molecules remain in the atmosphere for a century or more.

The basics of global warming science remain robust — more greenhouse gases will continue to heat the planet, erode ice, raise seas and present challenges to many human and ecological communities.

The ~ 0.5 W / m2 is the * remaining * imbalance and thus an indication of how much more the planet needs to warm in order to come to equilibrium (at constant atmospheric concentrations).

In my YouTube interview with Dr. Hansen, he discusses how the public remains attuned mainly to anomalies on short time scales — cold or warm — and misses the point that it is the long - term trend that he and other experts say will transform the planet, but at a pace invisible day to day.

James E. Hansen, the head of Goddard and an outspoken campaigner for prompt cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions, explained that the decades - long global warming trend and patterns of warming remain consistent with a growing influence on climate from the planet's building blanket of heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

While most people now understand that the enhanced greenhouse effect means a much warmer planet, communicating regional shifts in weather remains a significant challenge.

In this case, global warming is acting in concert with local clear - cutting to provide a dual threat to this great forest that is home to 14 million species and is one of the largest remaining carbon sinks on the planet.

No - I also don't doubt that ACO2 will warm the climate if all other conditions remain unchanged (which is highly unlikely to happen in the actual system), but am uncertain about the magnitude / timing of the effect in the real climate system and whether any change will lead to conditions that are better or worse for the US or the planet overall.

It remains to be demonstrated how anyone in their right mind could assume without solid proof that humans have the capacity to halt the warming of the inter-glacial period in which we presently exist, hope to halt the next and inevitable multi-million year ice age, or halt the inevitable warming of the entire planet as the Sun continues to increase its luminosity towards becoming a giant star.

A cooler object warming a warmer one would imply that the cooler object can spontaneously lose entropy and that the total entropy of the total system (both planets) remains constant.

Although it is important to reduce the remaining climate uncertainties, such as the magnitude of the impacts of short - lived pollutants, it does not change the fact that CO2 is very likely the driving force behind the current global warming, or that if we double the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from pre-industrial levels, the planet will likely warm in the range of 2 to 4.5 °C.

The remaining solar energy is absorbed by the Earth itself, warming the planet's surface.

«If all other things remain equal, it's clear that adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will warm the planet,» she told the committee.

The problem is that when Davey correctly pointed out that surface temperatures are only one small piece of overall global warming (about 2 percent), and melting ice and warming oceans must also be considered (over 90 percent of the overall heating of the planet), Neil remained focused exclusively on surface temperatures.

And those extreme events may damage ecosystems, causing them to absorb less carbon dioxide and allow more of that carbon dioxide to remain in the atmosphere, intensifying the warming of the planet, he said.

Michaels points satellite data, claiming that «you see it's really not global warming, obviously -LSB-...] In fact, because there is a net statistically significant cooling of the whole record, it almost looks to me, as a scientist, like what's really going on here is the planet has remained in the slight cooling phase that it was in since World War II -LSB-...]» [93]

Each pound of black carbon, by contrast, will warm the planet relatively intensely for the week or two it remains in the atmosphere.

Not to repeat myself, but what's misleading about this is that the scientific community has known for some time that that on a warming planet, sea ice in the global North (Arctic) is expected to melt while sea ice in the global South is expected to remain constant or even sightly grow.

If this happens, it will be like the arrival of the Messiah, to lead the charge to end global warming which is leading us all to desertification of our home, Planet Earth which will lead to fighting over the remaining fresh water and soil and nuclear world war III which will have no survivors and leave the planet earth our home permanently radioactive and uninhabiPlanet Earth which will lead to fighting over the remaining fresh water and soil and nuclear world war III which will have no survivors and leave the planet earth our home permanently radioactive and uninhabiplanet earth our home permanently radioactive and uninhabitable.

It appears to have become something of a game to see who can add in the most creative feedback mechanisms to produce the scariest warming scenarios from their models but there remains no evidence the planet includes any such effects or behaves in a similar manner.