Sentences with phrase «which accelerates global warming»

Since cows release gas during digestion, they put out an enormous amount of methane gas into the air, which accelerates global warming.

Formula production and use generate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which accelerate global warming and produce pollution and toxic emissions upon disposal.

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This change leads to a higher percentage of emitted carbon dioxide remaining in the atmosphere, which then further accelerates global warming.

Melting sea ice has accelerated warming in the Arctic, which in recent decades has warmed twice as quickly as the global average, according to a new study.

Regardless of how old the polar bear is as a species, or whether it's a species at all, the purpose of such studies is to gain a better understanding of the great white bear's ability to survive in the Arctic, which is now rapidly transforming as a result of accelerated global warming.

Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are presently increasing every year at an accelerating rate, and it is extremely unlikely that humanity will collectively do what is necessary to not only stop that growth in CO2 emissions, but reverse it, and then reduce emissions by 80 percent or more within 5 to 10 years, which is what mainstream climate scientists say is needed to avoid the worst outcomes of anthropogenic global warming.

That means wildfires are a dangerous amplifying feedback, whereby global warming causes more wildfires, which release carbon dioxide, thereby accelerating global warming.

These wildfires release soot into the atmosphere, which accelerates the rate of melting of glaciers, snow and ice it lands upon, which can lead to less reflectivity, meaning more of the sun's heat is absorbed, leading to more global warming, which leads to even more wildfires, not to mention greater sea level rise, which is already threatening coastal areas around the world.

It also melts long - frozen permafrost, which can release extra heat - trapping carbon dioxide to accelerate global warming even more.

Researchers such as James Hansen, a leading climate scientist at NASA, believe that global warming is accelerating and may be approaching a tipping point, a point at which climate change acquires a momentum that makes it irreversible.

Combined with the predictive equation which has matched 97 % with measured average global temperatures since before 1900 this all looks like a steepening downtrend of reported average global temperatures within a few months and accelerated increase of «months without warming».

As a result, the planet as a whole is becoming less reflective and absorbing more sunlight, which is accelerating global warming.

Three Massachusetts Institute of Technology entities (Global Studies and Languages, Global Borders Research Collaboration, and Anthropology) sponsored his presentation, which answered the burning question: Is Islmabopbia Accelerating Global Warming?

Several of the most disconcerting atmospheric problems include smog and air pollution, which are responsible for a higher incidence of respiratory diseases and death; acid rain, which contaminates numerous other ecosystems such as watersheds and forests; and finally, one particularly serious issue, climate de-stabilization caused by the accelerated rate of global warming.

That means wildfires are a dangerous amplifying feedback, whereby global warming causes more wildfires, which release carbon dioxide, thereby accelerating global warming.

While the Earth seems to be managing the steady increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide relatively well so far (although the effects of this increase may not be felt for many decades to come), there are concerns that passing the 400 parts per million atmospheric carbon dioxide threshold will bring the Earth's atmosphere closer to a tipping point at which global warming accelerates rapidly with dire consequences for mankind and other creatures on Earth.

Exceeding the 400 parts per million level of worldwide atmospheric carbon dioxide later this decade continues a troubling trend which brings the world closer to the potential to reach a global warming tipping point in which global warming accelerates rapidly as the potent greenhouse gas methane is liberated from the frozen state that it has been in for millions of years.

Since the ESA forbids the Federal Government from funding any activities which might harm a listed species, why not sue to prevent the ridiculous Federal subsidies on Ethanol, on the grounds that the production, distribution, and use of ethanol have a net negative impact on carbon dioxide emissions when compared with petroleum products, thus accelerating global warming and further endangering the polar bears.

Ice - core and biology studies confirm living ecosystems make climate feedback by way of methane, which could accelerate global warming.

However, despite this, the team reckon to have perhaps isolated a «global warming» signal in the accelerated run off of the Greenland Ice Mass — but only just, because the runoff at the edges is balanced by increasing central mass — again, they focus upon recent trends — a net loss of about 22 cubic kilometres in total ice mass per year which they regard as statistically not significant — to find the «signal», and a contradiction to their ealier context of air temperature cycles.

Other studies have predicted ever greater demand for air conditioning, which will in turn accelerate global warming.

And you have to open up your mind to all sorts of claims, such as the one that starting in January of this year, global warming has accelerated to the point where the warming rate is now 0.4 C per year... which is roughly what I just read us the trend in the UAH data since that time.

The IPCC's climate science has long claimed that human CO2 emissions are producing an accelerated global warming, with a «runaway» warming trend, which is then being amplified in the north and south polar extremes.

The accelerating pace of ice shelf melting can be attributed to global warming, which is increasing faster at the planet's poles than anywhere else, the researchers pointed out.

Per the IPCC's global warming hypothesis, at the very top of the troposphere, above the equator region, is the location (12 km, 200hPa @ 20 ° N - 20 ° S) that triggers a positive climate feedback, which produces the mythical runaway, tipping point of accelerated, dangerous global warming, which of course is unequivocal and irrefutable, except when it isn't.

An increase in glacialquakes signals accelerated melting of Greenland's glaciers, which both reveals the effects of global warming and is expected to contribute to future warming — amplifying the consequences in the Arctic region.9

Sooner or later the cycle is bound to reverse, at which point we will experience accelerated global surface air warming when the ocean heat comes back to haunt us.

As the coming century of global warming threatens to accelerate the extinction crisis, we believe the highest and best use of public lands is to provide safe harbor for species by protecting the ecological systems upon which they and we ultimately depend.

With other greenhouse gases it is responsible for the natural greenhouse effect, and the extra levels of CO 2 from burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) in industry, transport and the generation of electricity, are causing the enhanced (or accelerated) greenhouse effect which is why global warming is happening.

Removal of that hidden variability from the actual observed global mean surface temperature record delineates the externally forced climate signal, which is monotonic, accelerating warming during the 20th century.

That is because the advance of boreal forests, which have begun to supplant the region's tundras, threatens to accelerate the impact of global warming by reducing the region's albedo effect.

Global temperatures have failed to rise for 15 plus years, sea level rise is failing to accelerate, tornadoes are at record lows, hurricanes are near record low activity... 2013 may be the year in which man - made global warming fears enter the dustbin of history.&Global temperatures have failed to rise for 15 plus years, sea level rise is failing to accelerate, tornadoes are at record lows, hurricanes are near record low activity... 2013 may be the year in which man - made global warming fears enter the dustbin of history.&global warming fears enter the dustbin of history.»

Although the surface temperature prescription is limited to only 8.2 % of the global surface, our model reproduces the annual - mean global temperature remarkably well with correlation coefficient r = 0.97 for 1970 — 2012 (which includes the current hiatus and a period of accelerated global warming).

Ice - core and biology studies confirm living ecosystems give climate feedback by way of methane, which could accelerate global warming.

The shift provides additional evidence that changes in the Arctic are not only directly because of global warming, as shown by warmer air and sea temperatures, but are also part of an «Arctic amplification» through which multiple Arctic - specific physical processes interact to accelerate temperature change, ice variability, and ecological impacts.

This is set to rise steadily higher — yet it is being imposed for only one reason: the widespread conviction, which is shared by politicians of all stripes and drilled into children at primary schools, that, without drastic action to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions, global warming is certain soon to accelerate, with truly catastrophic consequences by the end of the century — when temperatures could be up to five degrees higher.