Not exact matches
From 2003 to 2008, the
world's oceans have been
accumulating heat at a rate of 0.77 W / m2.
[Insert, 11:30 p.m. Justin Gillis filed an excellent report tonight on factors behind severe weather around the
world, stressing that El Niño is hardly the only player: «This winter, a climate pattern called the Arctic Oscillation is also keeping cold air bottled up in the high north, allowing
heat and moisture to
accumulate in the middle latitudes.»]
But that's actually an understatement by Gallup, since more than 97 % of the
world's climatologists say that those carbon gases, which are given off by humans» burning of carbon - based fuels, are causing this planet's temperatures to rise over the long term, as those carbon gases
accumulate in the atmosphere and also block the
heat from being radiated back into outer space.
Real
world physics such as
heat capacity is avoided by AGWSF because it spoils its «carbon dioxide traps
heat» meme, that's why they've taken rain out of their Carbon Cycle, so they can pretend it
accumulates trapping more and more
heat.
The indirect solar part is the stored
heat in the
world ocean and land masses that does not cool off overnight, and hence «
accumulates».
Failing that, you might like to explain the existence of the great ocean thermal currents that, together with the slipstream air currents, determine our global weather patterns, in your strange little
world where the oceans lose their
accumulated heat overnight.
You do have such an amazing molecule in your fictional
world, defying gravity it can stay up in the atmosphere for hundreds and even thousands of years
accumulating though it's one and a half times heavier than air, and, with no
heat capacity to spit at, it can trap
heat, or, heck you can't even get your stories to say the same thing consistently, it becomes this great thermal blanket stopping
heat escaping... just how much of that blanket is holes?
The waste products of the
world might come from consumption,
heating, agriculture, mining, manufacturing, fossil fuel extraction, transportation, or some other human activity and without some form of control, they will degrade the environment as they
accumulate or disperse.
A significant amount of this
accumulated energy instead went into
heating the
world's oceans — especially the tropical Pacific, where vast quantities of
heat were sequestered in the West Pacific Warm Pool and adjacent Indian Ocean.