atmosphere

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Whether or not you believe in global warming being your fault, my fault, or Al Gore's fault, climate change does happen as our atmosphere is a dynamic animal that is in continual motion.

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  1. noun The gaseous mass or envelope surrounding a celestial body, especially the one surrounding the earth, and retained by the celestial body's gravitational field.
  2. noun The air or climate in a specific place.
  3. noun Physics A unit of pressure equal to the air pressure at sea level. It equals the amount of pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 millimeters high at 0 degrees Celsius under standard gravity, or 14.7 pounds per square inch (1.01325 × 105 pascals). See Table at measurement.
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  • How wet does he think the atmosphere is above cloudtops? —  RealClimate
  • So, correct me if I'm wrong, but this crew just absolutely, unequivocally does not get the idea that increasing carbon in the atmosphere is a really, really bad idea? —  Firedoglake
  • Although carbon dioxide gets much of the blame, the scientists say smog, soot and other particles that spend less time in the atmosphere are also raising temperatures.
  • Individually, the spectra of any one gas in the atmosphere is a poor approximation for a blackbody emitter, but taken together, the atmosphere does much better. —  RealClimate
  • "The concentration of long-lived greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is already enough to cause warming of more than 2C above pre-industrial levels, and we are continuing to emit more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere," he said. —  Breaking News - The Post Chronicle
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air ·  feel ·  aspect ·  cloud ·  environment ·  beauty ·  mood ·  warmth ·  climate ·  darkness

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atmosphere:   atmospheres
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  1. New Latin atmosphaera : Greek atmos, vapor; see wet-1 in Indo-European roots + Latin sphaera, sphere; see sphere.

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  1. = French atmosphère = Portuguese atmosphera = Spanish atmósfera = Italian atmosfera = Swedish atmosfer = Danish atmosfære = German atmosphäre, from New Latin atmosphæra, from Greek ἀτμός, vapor, + σφαῑρα, sphere: see sphere.
 

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