The phrase
"warming planet" refers to the Earth becoming hotter over time. It means that the average temperature of the Earth's surface is increasing, causing changes in weather patterns, rising sea levels, and other resulting impacts on the environment.
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There is not much real benefit in
warming the planet by several degrees just so we can maybe make it easier for weeds to grow.
If deforestation before 1950
warmed the planet at the same rate as fossil fuel emissions after 1950, then why did atmospheric CO2 increase faster after 1950?
They argue that there are natural cycles, over which we have no control, that dictate
how warm the planet is.
We're told that in the depths of an ice age orbital changes provide a small forcing
which warms the planet a tad, causing natural systems to release a small amount of CO2.
And melting permafrost could release carbon into the atmosphere, creating another feedback loop that
warms the planet even further.
The credibility of conclusions that our carbon emissions are
significantly warming the planet, with potentially hazardous consequences, rests in part on the validity of the supportive evidence.
For example, we know that as the planet warms, permafrost might melt and emit greenhouse gases of their own —
warming the planet still further.
The anthropogenic global warming theory is based upon the notion that increasing «greenhouse gases» will increase infrared «back - radiation'to the earth to [supposedly] warm the planet.
Low emissions: We've already
warmed the planet enough to heat and expand the oceans and lock in some melting of land ice.
But they do not disagree about the underlying chemistry and physics of their enterprise — all of which show that people are
warming the planet through their industrial greenhouse - gas emissions.
The oil industry has known since a least 1957 that burning fossil fuels will
eventually warm the planet to dangerous levels, and that the cost of that warming would prove monumental.
That then allows people to believe that a view on obese
people warming the planet is at least on a par with fact and can be perceived as valid science.
Those who have been paying even modest attention to climate scientists in recent years know that more intense storms are almost assured as we
continue warming the planet.
Whether it will be meaningful in stopping carbon dioxide emissions and emissions of other dangerous greenhouse gases that are
warming our planet remains to be seen.
These changes in cloud cover could affect how much of the sun's radiation is reflected by the clouds, leading to a
slightly warmer planet, the scientists said.
What the researchers do know, however, is that both peaks hit before humans
began warming the planet with climate - changing levels of greenhouse gases.
This allows us to
detect warm planets (up to one billion years in age) through their infrared light.
In 37 of 40 nations surveyed, willingness to curb emissions that may contribute to
warming the planet exceeds intense concern about climate change.
We have to stop polluting the earth, air and water and we have to
stop warming the planet before we get past the point of no return.
A small but vocal number of people maintain that the observed temperature anomalies are not the result of greenhouse gas emissions from human
activities warming the planet.
If too much
sunlight warming the planet was the real problem, then we might try to counter it by reflecting some of this sunlight back into space.