That means higher electric and gasoline bills for consumers, who are, ultimately, the real source of atmospheric pollution.
This would allow gravity and the heat of atmospheric rentry to finish it off.
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The biggest hazard of atmospheric tests was that radioactive fallout would get into the human food chain.
Put otherwise, climate sensitivity measures how fast temperatures are likely to rise as a result of atmospheric GHG.
And despite often startling levels of atmospheric particulates, the weather at 2, 240m stays blissfully crisp almost year round.
"The problem is the storms come up so rapidly, " said Gray, a professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University.
What is the temperature rise, after the effects of both positive and negative feedbacks, from a doubling of atmospheric CO2-e?
Keeling, the San Diego scientist whose measurements of atmospheric carbon levels are a key argument in favor of global warming.
Building a more accurate ground-based interferometer is impossible because of atmospheric turbulence, which makes the stars seem to dance around.
At the current low levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, rubisco in C3 plants can be fooled into substituting oxygen molecules for carbon-dioxide molecules.
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"This does not deal with the problem at source, " says Prof Kelly, an expert on the impact of atmospheric pollution on human health.
Now, a team of atmospheric physicists at Imperial College in London has come up with something that will make such wiggling far harder.
This is how much temperature will rise given a doubling of atmospheric CO2 (technically, CO2-equivalent, converting all the methane etc to one handy unit).
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"As computers have gotten more powerful, the models have gotten better, " said Adam Sobel, a professor of atmospheric science at Columbia University in New York.
From 1986 to 1987 David worked as research student at Oxford University's Department of Atmospheric Physics, specifically working on the ozone hole and global warming.
Concentrations of atmospheric CO2 have risen to 383 parts per million.
In fact, many nuclear energy based corporations argue that the danger of atmospheric pollution from coal is actually greater than the dangers of nuclear power.
Long-term climate change fueled by a buildup of atmospheric carbon emissions is a controversial notion politically, but it's one accepted as fact by most scientists.
Another is the way that, somewhat arbitrarily, 450 parts per million has been turned into a red line for the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
But unlike the lower glaciers, many of the high glaciers would still be too cold to lose mass even in the presence of atmospheric warming.
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Dr Sherwood Rowland, who won a Nobel Prize for his studies of atmospheric ozone, said the consensus of scientific opinion on climate change was being ignored.
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In just a few decades, humans have managed to cause the kind of atmospheric changes that it took geological climate cycles millions of years to accomplish.
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Neither was unexpected, but the details improve understanding of atmospheric cycles on present-day Mars, which helps with estimating how the cycles may have operated in the past.
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Known as "warn-on-forecasts, " the new methodology would issue warnings based on forecasts rather than observations, said Jeff Trapp, a professor of atmospheric science at Purdue University in Indiana.
But there are those who do not share his view, and among the skeptics is Richard Lindzen, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Scientists reported that an observatory in Hawaii had recorded unusually strong increases in the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas , in 2002 and 2003.
Advances in satellite observations have narrowed down the error in the path and landing site of tropical cyclones, and improved the accuracy and precision of atmospheric-weather and ocean-weather forecasts.
The University of Reading says it is coming in the form of atmospheric rivers - narrow bands of atmospheric moisture, thousands of kilometres long, transported by the wind.
The feds somehow missed hundreds of scientific papers repeatedly documenting the pervasiveness of the growth-enhancing effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which are obvious from satellite images of our getting-greener planet.
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It is a mode of atmospheric circulation in which the stratosphere is unusually warm and westerly winds, which normally bring warmth from the oceans to northern Europe, are unusually weak.
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