Sentences with phrase «warming the planet still»

For example, we know that as the planet warms, permafrost might melt and emit greenhouse gases of their own — warming the planet still further.

A president coming to grips with the perils of a warming planet still has options, many of which, for better or worse, require no congressional approval at all.

Not exact matches

The planets orbit an «ultracool dwarf,» a star much smaller and cooler than the sun, but still possibly warm enough to allow for liquid water on the surfaces of at least two of the planets.

Because our knowledge of the many delicate balances in the ecology of the planet is still in its infancy, and because what is known is not widely understood, the consequences of what the human race is (in its ignorance) doing to the earth may turn out to be even more serious than global warming.

Still, prominent national Republicans and party leaders are brushing the White House report aside — and many in the party deny humans are making the planet warmer.

Extensive valley networks spidering through the southern highlands of Mars suggest that the planet was once warmer and wetter, but new research shows that water could still have flowed intermittently on a cold and icy early Mars.

Astronomers hope that gas - giant planets, still warm from their birth, will be visible around some of the stars.

While 2014 temperatures continue the planet's long - term warming trend, scientists still expect to see year - to - year fluctuations in average global temperature caused by phenomena such as El Niño or La Niña.

«Although these results are «good news» in the sense that the underlying physiology of plants is not going to make the warming of the planet radically worse, the problem we have created in the first place with our greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning still exists,» he says.

«the planet still has a radiative imbalance, and the warming will continue until the oceans have warmed sufficiently to equalise the situation».

It is for that same reason that amidst some of the planet's warmest years, record lows are still happening, albeit in much lower numbers than record highs.

Global warming was touched on repeatedly in speeches at the Berry memorial, and this planet - scale challenge, too, appears to be a perfect target for the cathedral - building approach, given the time scales required to curb emissions that are still a near - direct reflection of economic activity.

If the planet's climate were changing solely because that's what planets do, evolve through different climatic periods of warming and cooling over millions of years, adverse consequences like the loss of coral reefs and the potential for disappearing Polar Bears would still be undeniably sad, but at least a little easier to swallow.

What this means is that the overall rate of absorption of CO2 by the oceans is a complex function of numerous processes — biological, chemical and physical — whose individual contributions are still a matter of active scientific research (and which are certainly changing as the planet warms).

global warming is still under way despite the recent pause / plateau / hiatus / slowdown / standstill (choose one) in the planet's mean temperature.

We can worry about the $ 9.2 trillion in national debt we have racked up and things like global warming later on, after all, the planet still has a few decades, right?

Even now there are countless groups, organizations, and individuals that are still clinging to carefully crafted power structure propaganda and lies of «global cooling», «global warming is a hoax», or «we can't tell if the planet is warming or cooling».

The planet has continued to accumulate heat since 1998 - global warming is still happening.

We also know that while the ocean surface wasn't anomalously warm (it was still about 30 °C which is fairly normal for that part of the planet), the water up to at least 100 meters bellow the surface was 4 — 5 °C (7 — 9 °F) warmer than average.

Okay, so we're still trying to figure out how to sequester carbon dioxide on the planet to save us from global warming and we're not willing to change our agricultural practices to lock up the extra carbon in places like plants and topsoil.

Or will middle - aged men and women, for whom «global warming» ended when they were in grade school, still be shrieking that «climate change» is the greatest threat the planet faces?

Still, that little work to throw off equipartition has shown it likely, by a probability of something like 7 / 8ths, that significant warming has occured in those unmeasured expanses filling some sixth of the planet surface.

Analysts say the planet is still on course to heat beyond the 2C danger zone by 2100, although around 0.9 C of warming will have been avoided thanks to the new plans.

It has been shown that a warming planet will put more CO2 into the atmosphere, with a lag of several hundred years, so why are we still building windmills and trading carbon credits?

Self - avowed «P.R. agent for the planet» Al Gore says those who still doubt that global warming is caused by man — among them, Vice President Dick Cheney — are acting like the fringe groups who think the 1969 moon landing never really happened, or who once believed the world is flat.»

A certain amount of continued warming of the planet is projected to occur as a result of human - induced emissions to date; another 0.5 °F increase would be expected over the next few decades even if all emissions from human activities suddenly stopped, 11 although natural variability could still play an important role over this time period.12 However, choices made now and in the next few decades will determine the amount of additional future warming.

I read through every one of the so - called «explanations» as to why in spite of the weather becoming more artic, the planet was still «warming».

The planet is still warming and all you do is say it's «adjustments» but you never clarify or give further detail.

We continually cut trees, throwing garbage any where we want, chemical waste from different industries are thrown in the bodies of water, smoke coming from cars, factories and even at home are not properly handled, there's still a lot of problems that we can address to each and every one but if we will not move or take any action in response to this issue our planet would die little by little, as we see earth today is now showing to us the damage we had made such as earth quake, landslide, acid rain, global warming and a lot more.

While there is overwhelming scientific consensus that heat - trapping gases released by burning fossil fuels are warming the planet (in particular at the poles), the debate shows there is still a fracas over the finer ways in which Earth's climate will change.

The planet wins and they win by saving money, even if they still hated the concept of global warming.

So far as I can tell, the ice is still melting, and the planet is still warming.

And, finally, it will tend to validate your hypothesis that our planet's temperature moves in 30 - year warming / cooling cycles on a slightly tilted axis, as a result primarily of natural forcing factors and variability, the mechanisms for which we still do not fully understand today.

Besides the (sketchy at best) fact that we contribute a mere 15 ppm CO2 into the atmosphere, we know that the earth IS getting much warmer and an increasingly faster rate, so even if it is only 15ppm attributed to human activity it is still having adverse effects on our planet and can not be ignored.

The planet didn't heat up as much as scientists expected it to from 2000 to 2010 (though it was still the warmest decade on record), and a new study finds that chemical compounds spewed during modest eruptions around the globe could be behind the trend.

The shell will still have to emit the total radiation of the planet to space, but the planet will not be warmed as much by the radiation of the shell.

Check it out: The planet is still warming.

Still, many in southern Africa see decades of below average precipitation combined with failed rains as indicative of a warming planet.

The exhibition has an interactive computer game called «Battle for the Planet», which seems say, we may heading for a global ecological catastrophe, but hey kids, global warming can still be fun!

There is very little to suggest — against a background of considerable variability — that the planet is net warming still from the combination of factors.

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.

While the adoption of the Paris Agreement and the commitments submitted by countries represent a significant step in the fight against climate change, the amount of ambition is still insufficient to keep global warming at a level that is safe for the most vulnerable communities and critical ecosystems on the planet.

Although the world outlook looks gloomy, with environmental calamities, global warming and world hunger, Frances Moore Lappe, author of the 1971 bestseller Diet for a Small Planet, told a Cabrillo College audience Friday that there are still plenty of reasons to be hopeful.

Even if all the world's factories shut down tomorrow and all the cars were taken off the roads, the planet would still get steadily warmer, scientists have warned.

In the mid-Pliocene warm period more than 3 million years ago, they were also around 400 parts per million — but Earth's sea level is known to have been 66 feet or more higher, and the planet was still warmer than now.

In such a scenario, the planet still has a radiative imbalance, and the warming will continue until the oceans have warmed sufficiently to equalise the situation — giving an additional 0.3 to 0.8 ºC warming over the 21st Century.

But it was cold this winter and C02 is plant food and only a trace gas and the greenhouse effect has been disproved anyway and even if the greenhouse effect does exist, C02 has negligible impact compared to water vapour and our only source of heat is the sun so it must be the sun, unless it is due to the C02 from volcanoes, but C02 follows warming so it can't be the C02 and the medieval warm period was warmer anyway and all the temperature reconstructions that show this not to be true are produced by corrupt scientists being paid by corrupt governments that have colluded to create an excuse to form a one world unelected social - ist government and even if the scientists are not that corrupt, although the e-mails prove they are, they have still got it wrong as the climate sensitivity is not as high as they think it is because it is basically the planets orbits and cosmic rays so we can say for a fact that the warming that probably does not exist is definatley not due to humans and even if it was the evidence is not sufficient to make drastic changes to the economy and increase taxes so that the politicians and scientists and business leaders get rich and leave us all poor — do they think we are stupid or something?

Even though the planet is getting warmer, cold weather still happens in winter or at very high elevations or high latitudes year - round.

The research indicates that fewer clouds form as the planet warms, meaning less sunlight is reflected back into space, driving temperatures up further still.

So, even if we were to prevent any more ice from melting, the planet still has some additional warming on the horizon.