If successful, it would begin to offset the greenhouse effect immediately.
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The enhanced greenhouse effect, in turn, leads to more global warming.
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Mars has almost no atmosphere, so it has no greenhouse effect.
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But "the greenhouse effect, unfortunately, only cares about concentration," said Karnauskas.
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This period was likely in part due to a greenhouse effect.
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He first discovered the greenhouse effect, for example, in the early 230s.
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The incontrovertible physics of the greenhouse effect means that global temperatures are rising.
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The cold gave way to extreme heat as a greenhouse effect kicked in.
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Or does the car windows inadvertently create some kind of helpful greenhouse effect?
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Could the uncontrolled greenhouse effect transform Earth's climate to a Venus-like one?
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However, the sun creates a "greenhouse effect" in vehicles, according to a 2005 study.
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A runaway greenhouse effect will produce surface temperatures in excess of 700 degrees Fahrenheit.
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"The only way [to explain this] is to somehow incorporate a greenhouse effect," Airapetian said.
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A little too hot, and the oceans will boil away, triggering a runaway greenhouse effect.
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"The greenhouse effect has been detected, and it is changing our climate now," Hansen said.
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The greenhouse effect plays an important role in naturally regulating the temperature of our climate.
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Without the greenhouse effect, the average temperature of the Earth would be –18° Celsius (0° Fahrenheit).
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The idea is to release the CO2 trapped inside Mars' ice caps, producing a greenhouse effect.
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We also discussed the greenhouse effect in school, the fact that emissions are creating this problem.
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Venus has a very dense atmosphere composed mostly of carbon dioxide and a runaway greenhouse effect.
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The resulting greenhouse effect may have turned the planet into the "hellish hot-house" it is today.
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These gases can then speed up the greenhouse effect—heating the permafrost further and causing more emissions.
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That means a strong greenhouse effect may have kept Mars warm enough to keep water above freezing.
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It creates a wonderful greenhouse effect when things are watered, it is easy to assemble, and long-lasting.
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James Pollack, his first graduate student, had written a dissertation, in 21950, on the greenhouse effect on Venus.
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But, like CFCs, HFCs cause a greenhouse effect between hundreds and thousands of times as powerful as carbon dioxide.
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Venus was once temperate and Earth-like, but today it has a thick atmosphere with a runaway greenhouse effect.
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These and other groups are turning to farmers to counter the greenhouse effect and its role in climate warming.
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First, the researchers found, there isn't enough CO2 trapped in the poles to produce an intense enough greenhouse effect.
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"How Climate Works" explains subjects like the greenhouse effect, the oceans' influence and the distinction between weather and climate.
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I mean, George H.W. Bush, when he was in the White House, said we should address the greenhouse effect.
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The feared climatic warming from the greenhouse effect, which Mr. McKibben considers to be a sure thing, is another.
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"And if I ever become a one-issue voter, it will be about pollution and the greenhouse effect," she said.
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For construction, hempcrete is essentially a super-concrete: Its negative CO2 footprint alleviates the greenhouse effect and improves air quality.
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Modern economic activity generates carbon dioxide, which accumulates in the atmosphere and increases the global temperature via the greenhouse effect.
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This implies that the ancient atmosphere must have provided the planet with a considerably stronger greenhouse effect than today's does.
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His theory is that vaporizing the water trapped at the poles would release carbon dioxide, basically engineering a greenhouse effect.
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However, the planet could also be particularly dark, causing it to absorb too much light and trigger a runway greenhouse effect.
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Indeed, Tillerson's predecessor, Lee Raymond, argued in 2001 that natural sources were partially responsible for the greenhouse effect driving climate change.
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Long answer: The mechanism at work is the fundamental greenhouse effect that keeps Earth from freezing into a ball of ice.
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It does reflect some solar energy back into space, but the amount is too small to matter to greenhouse effect calculations.
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But the United Nations has been trying to stop global warming since the days when we called it the greenhouse effect.
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Thirty years ago, this magazine published "The End of Nature," a long article about what we then called the greenhouse effect.
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Some gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat in the atmosphere, producing a "greenhouse effect" that makes the planet warmer.
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The resulting greenhouse effect would have transformed the polar ecosystem into a place where Tingmiatornis arctica and its prey could thrive.
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Greenhouse gases are the gases in the atmosphere that produce the "greenhouse effect" and contribute to global warming and climate change.
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Some gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere, producing a "greenhouse effect" which makes the planet warmer.
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Venus' lemony nonsense includes a runaway greenhouse effect, crazy-high surface temperature and pressure, and a thick layer of clouds for icing.
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But, like CFCs, HFCs cause a greenhouse effect between hundreds and thousands of times as powerful as carbon dioxide while they linger.
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Some gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat in the atmosphere, producing a "greenhouse effect," and so make the planet warmer.
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When these gases absorb solar energy, they radiate it back towards the planet's surface and to other gas molecules, creating the greenhouse effect.
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Scientists had known about the greenhouse effect for a long while, but that is the moment when the subject entered US politics in earnest.
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Are more planets like Earth, with its temperate atmosphere, or like Venus, wrapped in a completely opaque haze that produces a runaway greenhouse effect?
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Whatever happened, so much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere caused a runaway greenhouse effect, evidenced in the scorching hot temperatures on the planet now.
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Soon the temperature on the Martian surface would become high enough to release the trapped carbon dioxide at the poles, accelerating the greenhouse effect.
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The overwhelming scientific consensus is that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions like carbon dioxide are the chief cause of climate change through the greenhouse effect.
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In my lifetime, sea levels are expected to rise anywhere from 3 feet to 20 feet due to melting icecaps spurred on by the greenhouse effect.
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"We started thinking about this solid-state greenhouse effect and how it could be invoked for creating habitable environments on Mars in the future," Wordsworth said.
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From Lepore's account, readers would conclude that Carl's interest in the greenhouse effect on Venus was something that he picked up from a bright grad student.
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"As a candidate he said, 'Those who think we're powerless to do anything about the greenhouse effect are forgetting about the White House effect,' " Behar said.
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He's focusing on things like geography, and many of the justices he ends up nominating experience what conservatives would call the "Greenhouse effect," or judicial drift.
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Secondly, as the greenhouse effect makes the upper atmosphere warmer and thus more humid, the cooling of the tops of stratocumulus clouds from above becomes less efficient.
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Water vapor has a greenhouse effect much like CO2, so more water vapor in the sky means that more heat will be trapped at the planet's surface.
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In simple terms, high-flying clouds have more of a greenhouse effect because they trap heat, while lower banks of clouds reflect light away from the Earth.
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In fact, many planetary scientists think that Venus was once quite Earth-like, but a runaway greenhouse effect turned it into the hellish planet we know today.
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Elon Musk has repeatedly posited the idea that Mars' atmosphere could be warmed to accommodate human life by nuking its poles and artificially engineering a greenhouse effect.
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Another concern in the Arctic is the possibility of release of methane from the Arctic tundra if temperatures warm enough, which would further enhance the greenhouse effect.
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Elon and other smart people figured a runaway greenhouse effect might do the trick, hence the bombs to release CO2 from the polar caps into the Martian atmosphere.
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Number two, the global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship to the greenhouse effect.
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Since a cow has about the same greenhouse effect as a car, cutting the emissions of even a portion of the world's 1.5bn cattle would bring great benefit.
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"Certainly Venus is a prime example of a greenhouse effect planet—maybe it's the future of the Earth, but the far, far future of the Earth," Landis told me.
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As the ocean evaporated and hydrogen escaped into space, the carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere fueled a runaway greenhouse effect and turned the planet into the hellscape we see today.
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The second peak, in 2007, followed the release of "An Inconvenient Truth", an Oscar-winning documentary about the greenhouse effect narrated by Al Gore, formerly Mr Clinton's vice president.
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In July, 393, James F. Black, one of Exxon's senior scientists, addressed many of the company's top leaders in New York, explaining the earliest research on the greenhouse effect.
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A. The same process that puts children and pets in danger in a closed car on a hot day is at work under the winter sun: the greenhouse effect.
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Carbon Dioxide is a natural gas that prevents some of the sun's heat from radiating back into space, creating the disturbing 'Greenhouse Effect' that is linked to climate change.
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" He also told the New York Times that "it is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.
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Although it may once have harbored water on its surface, Venus is now a hell planet with surface temperatures over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, likely due to a runaway greenhouse effect.
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Venus' oceans boiled away as it became the hot, inhospitable world we see today due to a runaway greenhouse effect — a cautionary tale given human-caused climate change on Earth.
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And number three, our computer climate simulations indicate that the greenhouse effect is already large enough to begin to affect the probability of extreme events such as summer heat waves.
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To see if it could actually hold up on a swampy summer night, I tried it in my small NYC apartment that suffers from a greenhouse effect with its heat.
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However, long before that — in only about 500 million years — the Sun gets bright enough to trigger a runaway greenhouse effect and turn us into Venus, sterilizing all life on Earth.
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Thomas Sowell called this the "Greenhouse effect", after former New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse, because conservative justices submit to the pressure of unfavorable coverage from major media outlets.
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Musk believes that if we "nuke Mars," its polar ice caps will melt and release carbon dioxide, creating a greenhouse effect to raise the planet's temperature so we can colonize it.
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Somewhere around that time, something happened on Venus, and ever since the planet has been incredibly hot, with a toxic, heat-trapping "greenhouse effect" atmosphere dominated by carbon dioxide and nitrogen.
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"We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know": Will Justice Kavanaugh succumb to the so-called Greenhouse Effect?
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So warm, in fact, that the temperature trend was almost certainly due to the greenhouse effect, which is enhanced by emissions of gases like carbon dioxide and methane from burning fossil fuels.
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Leaked natural gas worsens climate change – methane has about 25 times the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide – and costs taxpayers money because in most cases companies don't pay royalties on wasted gas.
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Those inaugural participants had little reason to include heat-trapping emissions or global warming in their concerns, although American scientist Eunice Newton Foote had defined the greenhouse effect decades prior, in 1856.
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Yet many planetary scientists think that Venus may have once hosted oceans of liquid water and maybe even microbial life before a runaway greenhouse effect turned it to the hellscape we know today.
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With more detailed information on a star's explosive activity, we might be able to glean more about the chemistry of exoplanet atmospheres, and the potential for a strong greenhouse effect to take hold.
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But much wilderness has been lost, and carbon atoms which last saw the atmosphere hundreds of millions of years ago have strengthened the planet's greenhouse effect to a degree that may prove catastrophic.
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Her father, Svante Thunberg, is an actor and author (named after Svante Arrhenius, the Nobel Prize–winning scientist who in 1896 first calculated how carbon dioxide emissions could lead to the greenhouse effect).
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"As the ocean absorbs heat — excess heat from the greenhouse effect — the water generally holds less gas," said Takamitsu Ito, an oceanographer at Georgia Tech who also had no role in the study.
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Just one long-haul flight emits around a half-ton of carbon per person or a full ton of greenhouse effect if one considers other gases a jet puts into the upper atmosphere.
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The annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin dashed hopes for a slowdown in emissions of CO23 - the byproduct of burning fossil fuels that scientists say is the main cause of the greenhouse effect causing global warming.
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In terms of carbon dioxide's greenhouse effect, today's world is already as far from that of the 18th century as the 18th century was from the ice age (see "like an ice age" chart).
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"And if I ever become a one-issue voter, it will be about pollution and the greenhouse effect and the fact that—" McCain then interjected that she wanted to keep the focus on Bush.
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It would be easy to dismiss the thesis as a restatement of the limits-to-growth debate or as yet another instance of how everyone uses the greenhouse effect to promote his own agenda.
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Methane is a greenhouse gas much more potent than carbon dioxide, and the environmentalists said the leak had already contributed as much to the greenhouse effect as nearly 3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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Venus once had liquid on the surface and lost it due to a runaway greenhouse effect in the atmosphere, where heat from the sun became trapped close to the surface and evaporated the liquid there.
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A new study published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy proposes that the material silica aerogel could be used to mimic the greenhouse effect in our own atmosphere to make parts of Mars habitable for humans.
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" Roger Revelle, one of America's leading scientists and author of a 1957 paper that was one of the first to describe the greenhouse effect, said that "we're flashing a yellow light but not a red light.
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"Global warming has reached a level such that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and observed warming," the NASA scientist famously told the Senate.
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"The earliest models were so skillful because the fundamental science behind the greenhouse effect and global warming is well established and fairly straightforward," said Henri Drake, a Ph.D. candidate researching ocean circulations and climate at MIT.
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Carlo Rubbia, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984, said the consumption of fossil fuels was a significant threat to life on earth and urged investing in nuclear fusion reactors to counteract the greenhouse effect.
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"Global warming refers to the long term warming of the planet since the early 20th century," according to NASA, as a result of the increase in fossil fuel emissions accumulating in the atmosphere and enhancing the greenhouse effect.
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In the case of insect breeding, smaller spaces are used and it is is an extremely ecological production because much less water is used and the insects produce fewer gases [contributing] to the greenhouse effect than the cattle.
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After the acid rain storms and freezing temperatures of the impact winter subsided as the dust settled, the Earth would experience a ramped up greenhouse effect, with temperatures rising up to 2450C (22020 Fahrenheit) above their pre-impact levels.
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Veerabhadran "Ram" Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has been publishing on climate change for more than 40 years, dating back to the early 1970s when he discovered the greenhouse effect of CFCs.
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Stenek, an affable, big-smiling guy with a wiry beard and a kettlebell figure, told the students about the greenhouse effect -- how pollution, mostly from fossil fuels, hangs around in the atmosphere and acts like a blanket, heating the planet.
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"As a reminder, due to the way vehicles heat up -- like a greenhouse effect -- this tragedy can happen in any state, and cracking windows does not make a significant difference to decrease the internal temperature inside a vehicle," Artuso said.
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A rogue planet could come crashing into our neighborhood to disrupt the orbital dance between Earth and the Moon, or a runaway greenhouse effect could veil our world in clouds that permanently obscure our view of these alignments from the surface.
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But as our own planet's oceans flourished, nurturing ever more complex organisms, the ancient Martian ocean evaporated into space, while the speculative seas of Venus were destroyed by the devastating runaway greenhouse effect that still maintains a stranglehold over the planet.
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A study published in Nature found there is unlikely to be enough CO2 in Mars' icecaps to engineer the desired greenhouse effect and, even if there were, Mars' atmosphere is constantly leaking into deep space so the gas would gradually disappear.
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Additionally, dust storms create "sort of a greenhouse effect in which the radiation that otherwise would be lost to space is trapped," heating up the planet, Rich Zurek, Mars Program Office chief scientist at NASA&aposs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in the conference.
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Humans have already demonstrated that they're quite good at heating up planets, thanks to the greenhouse effect, which is when a material (carbon dioxide, for example) absorbs sunlight and then reradiates it, keeping the area below warmer than it would be otherwise.
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While the signers of the Thursday letter differ slightly on their exact problems with mainstream climate science, Lindzen has argued that the atmosphere is not as sensitive to carbon dioxide as most believe, due to other factors that counteract its greenhouse effect.
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The rate of surface warming was predicted in the 1980s, the cooling in the upper atmosphere was forecast in a 1967 scientific paper, and specific measurements from space indicate that the total greenhouse effect has been enhanced exactly as theory would predict.
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Not only is Venus nearly the same size, scientists also think it may have had liquid water on its surface for nearly 2 billion years before succumbing to a runaway greenhouse effect resulting from intense and sustained lava flows on the surface.
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The Atmosphere of Venus Is More Terrifying Than We ImaginedAdd this to the list of reasons Venus is a blistering hellscape: not only is the surface hot enough …Read more ReadOwing to a greenhouse effect, the surface of Venus is a scorching 450 degrees Celsius.
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Carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect Carbon dioxide is called a "greenhouse gas" because of its ability to trap solar radiation in the Earth's atmosphere like a blanket and heat up the planet -- acting the same way a greenhouse keeps plants warm and growing.
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"One thing, of course, is the Venus greenhouse effect and what controls that," Cutts said, adding that only a small fraction of the sunlight hitting Venus' surface actually makes it to the ground, with most of that solar energy reflected back into space by particles in the atmosphere.
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Scientific warnings to political leaders mounted over subsequent years, but it wasn't until 1988, when NASA scientist James Hansen testified before a U.S Senate committee that "the greenhouse effect has been detected, and it is changing our climate now" that a majority of Americans learned about this global threat.
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Since nearly all the energy that heats the earth comes from the sun, almost any high-school student who has taken an AP physics course can calculate what the average temperature of our planet would be without the greenhouse effect and compare it to what we actually have.
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A Trump administration official pressured Interior Department scientists to add dubious information to at least nine government reports, according to the New York Times, including a discredited belief that an increase in carbon dioxide, which is amplifying the earth's greenhouse effect and contributing to global warming, was positive.
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Clouds, ever fickle and unpredictable, play a crucial role in any future climate scenarios; scientists have previously reported that the tops of higher-altitude clouds were ascending higher into the atmosphere, potentially strengthening the greenhouse effect of clouds by trapping more heat, and others found evidence that clouds were moving toward the poles.
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Loeb and his colleagues, Rafael Batista and David Sloan, both from Oxford University, say tardigrades would be able to survive the destruction of the Earth's atmosphere or a runaway greenhouse effect by seeking shelter in the ocean, which is why they were forced to consider astrophysical events powerful enough to deplete the planet of water.
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There&aposs Growing Evidence That Venus Was Once HabitableIf you could hop in a time-traveling spacecraft, go back three billion years and land any place in…Read more ReadSome scientists think Venus represents what Earth will become, as our aging Sun grows hotter, causing the oceans to steam off into the atmosphere and triggering a runaway greenhouse effect.
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Geologists have long known that CO2 from big volcanic eruptions has in the past triggered a greenhouse effect which raised temperatures, drove evaporation, increased rainfall and then dropped rain that is rich in carbonic acid onto surface rocks, resulting in much of the carbon from the droplets getting locked away as layers of carbonate in the ground.
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I've addressed this question before in various ways, but was prompted to dig into my ideas and feelings about the building greenhouse effect with new rigor when two very different magazines, Issues in Science and Technology (the magazine of the National Academies) and Creative Nonfiction, invited me to write an essay on my 30 years of climate inquiry.
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