Sentences with phrase «additional global warming in»

Additional global warming in the next 50 y, if business - as - usual fossil fuel emissions continue, is expected to be at least 1 °C (4).

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They estimate that, across about 60 % of the global vegetated area, greening has buffered warming by about 14 %; for the remaining areas, which mostly include boreal zones, LAI trends have amplified the raise in air temperatures, leading to an additional warming of about 10 %.

Even when additional reduction measures are implemented against black carbon, or soot, which is released when fossil fuels are burned, they do little to slow down global warming in a 2 degrees scenario.

For every 100 people in the US, there will be six additional sleepless nights per year by 2050, if global warming continues at its current rate.

The study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that nearly 4 million square kilometres of frozen soil — an area larger than India — could be lost for every additional degree of global warming experienced.

«This is important because warming in the Arctic may expand the active layer and increase the discharge, leading to increased emissions from Arctic lakes and driving additional global warming.»

Future global warming can be predicted much more accurately than is generally realized... we predict additional warming in the next 50 years of 3/4 + / - 1/4 °C, a warming rate of 0.15 + / - 0.05 °C per decade.

-LSB-...] The CAA as amended in 1990 does mention «carbon dioxide» and» global warming potential,» but only once, in the context of non-regulatory provisions, and each time followed by a caveat admonishing EPA not to infer authority for «pollution control requirements» or «additional regulation.»

It will also include complicated models of interconnected ecosystem feedbacks.The panel's last report noted that preliminary knowledge of such feedbacks suggested that an additional 100 billion to 500 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions would have to be prevented in the next century to avoid dangerous global warming.

For global warming scenarios, additional forcing comes into play: surface warming and enhanced high - latitude precipitation, which will also reduce density of northern surface waters (an effect which alone has shut down deep water formation in some model experiments, e.g. Manabe and Stouffer 1993, 1994).

In the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change — an additional global mean warming of 1 degree Celsius above the last decade — is far beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting to iIn the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change — an additional global mean warming of 1 degree Celsius above the last decade — is far beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting to iin planning for and adapting to it.

Global average surface temperatures are not expected to change significantly although temperatures at higher latitudes may be expected to decrease to a modest extent because of a reduction in the efficiency of meridional heat transport (offsetting the additional warming anticipated for this environment caused by the build - up of greenhouse gases).

A counterpoint to this argument is exemplified by Gerald Marsh in his «Global Warming Primer» (www.nationalcenter.org/NPA420.pdf) where he claims...» additional carbon dioxide does have an influence at the edges of the 14.99 micron band.

One way or another, expect a lot more stories like Mr. Yiryel's in Africa, where demographers expect an additional one billion people by midcentury and science has revealed patterns of withering drought, with or without global warming.

«Based on climate model studies and the history of the Earth the authors conclude that additional global warming of about 1 °C (1.8 °F) or more, above global temperature in 2000, is likely to be dangerous.»

It is also inferred that the planet is now out of radiation balance by 0.5 to 1 W / m2 and that additional global warming of about 0.5 °C is already «in the pipeline».

Some climate scientists have looked at the potential impact of such an event and concluded that it likely would delay additional global warming — but only until the sun returned to more - normal swings in sun - spot activity.

As a result, the global warming since 1997 in the HADCRUT4 data is too low, because they fail to show the additional warming in the Arctic.

Four degrees of warming could raise global sea levels by 1 or possibly even 2 meters by 2100 (and would lock in at least a few additional meters over future centuries).

Psychologists studying climate communication make two additional (and related) points about why the warming - snow link is going to be exceedingly difficult for much of the public to accept: 1) people's confirmation biases lead them to pay skewed attention to weather events, in such a way as to confirm their preexisting beliefs about climate change (see p. 4 of this report); 2) people have mental models of «global warming» that tend to rule out wintry impacts.

The Award beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2017 recognizes the best available low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant systems that help protect the environment while offering the consumer additional energy savings.

New research has found evidence of a positive feedback mechanism brought on by climate change in which global warming itself may intensify a rise in greenhouse gases, resulting in additional warming.

But to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and keep the world on a path that could limit global warming to 2 degrees C, IEA projects that an additional 18 percent, or $ 5 trillion, in cumulative investment would be needed through 2035.

In his paper «Unhealthy Exaggeration: The WHO report on climate change,» Goklany writes: «In the run - up to the UN climate summit in September 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) released, with much fanfare, a study that purported to show that global warming will exacerbate undernutrition (hunger), malaria, dengue, excessive heat and coastal flooding and thereby cause 250,000 additional deaths annually between 2030 and 205In his paper «Unhealthy Exaggeration: The WHO report on climate change,» Goklany writes: «In the run - up to the UN climate summit in September 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) released, with much fanfare, a study that purported to show that global warming will exacerbate undernutrition (hunger), malaria, dengue, excessive heat and coastal flooding and thereby cause 250,000 additional deaths annually between 2030 and 205In the run - up to the UN climate summit in September 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) released, with much fanfare, a study that purported to show that global warming will exacerbate undernutrition (hunger), malaria, dengue, excessive heat and coastal flooding and thereby cause 250,000 additional deaths annually between 2030 and 205in September 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) released, with much fanfare, a study that purported to show that global warming will exacerbate undernutrition (hunger), malaria, dengue, excessive heat and coastal flooding and thereby cause 250,000 additional deaths annually between 2030 and 2050.

Dr Dieter Gerten, research expert on water scarcity, and lead author of one of the three studies contained in the PIK paper, said mean global warming of 2ºC − the target set by the international community − is projected to expose an additional 8 % of humankind to new or increased water scarcity.

The study, conducted by climate change experts from the universities of Leeds and Exeter and the Met Office, all in the UK, and the universities of Stockholm and Oslo, suggests that nearly four million square kilometres of frozen soil — an area larger than India — could be lost for every additional degree of global warming the planet experiences.

«The climate alarmists maintain that man's emissions of CO2 caused such a rapid increase world - wide, and further increases in CO2 will create additional catastrophic global warming.

Although there is considerable scientific evidence that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C is necessary to prevent very dangerous warming, a fact implicit in the recent Paris Agreement in which nations agreed to work to keep warming as close as possible from exceeding 1.5 degrees C additional warming, if the international community seeks to limit warming to 2 degrees C it must assure that global emissions do not exceed the number of tons of CO2 emissions that will raise atmospheric concentrations to levels that will cause warming of 2 degrees C.

Implications include (i) the expectation of additional global warming of about 0.6 °C without further change of atmospheric composition; (ii) the confirmation of the climate system's lag in responding to forcings, implying the need for anticipatory actions to avoid any specified level of climate change; and (iii) the likelihood of acceleration of ice sheet disintegration and sea level rise.

As I have also noted in recent public comments, additional mechanisms have been identified by which changes in atmospheric circulation patterns that may be a result of global warming could be affecting droughts in the American West.

Therefore, any increase in losses could, more likely than not, be partly related to anthropogenic climate change... we advance the premise that if losses are affected by natural climate fluctuations, they are also likely to be affected by additional global warming due to anthropogenic climate change.

Methane hydrates that are on the edge of stabilization can be disturbed by global warming in two additional ways, temperature and pressure: Warming of the Earth's crust as heat penetrates sediments on the sewarming in two additional ways, temperature and pressure: Warming of the Earth's crust as heat penetrates sediments on the seWarming of the Earth's crust as heat penetrates sediments on the seafloor.

«Arctic Ice in «Death Spiral» with additional heating due to global warming, the extent of sea ice cover has gotten smaller and smaller over the summers since the 1980s.

[8] Weather systems passing through California originate globally, and the average global increase in temperature has been 1 °C, indicating significant risk that storms arriving in California may be warming and converting additional snow pack to mountain run - off.

«Also in 2006,» Michaels told the Vermont court, «when a $ 100,000 contract between New Hope and electric utility Intermountain Rural Electric Association to synthesize and research new findings on global warming became public knowledge, a public campaign was initiated to change the composition of the Intermountain board of directors so that there would be no additional funding.

Among its findings, the assessment said that increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would «contribute to additional Arctic warming of about 4 - 7C (7 - 13F), about twice the global average, over the next 100 years».

They then try «Case 2», in which they fit their model from 1850 to 1950 (but apply it through 2010), and then apply an additional linear trend from 1950 to 2010, which they claim is the man - made global warming signal.

Based on climate model studies and the history of the Earth, the Hansen and Sato conclude that additional global warming of about 1ºC (1.8 ºF) or more, above global temperature in 2000, is likely to be dangerous.

For example, additional evidence of a warming trend can be found in the dramatic decrease in the extent of Arctic sea ice at its summer minimum (which occurs in September), decrease in spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere, increases in the global average upper ocean (upper 700 m or 2300 feet) heat content (shown relative to the 1955 — 2006 average), and in sea - level rise.

This study finds that global warming of 0.6 ºC in the past 30 years has been driven mainly by increasing greenhouse gases and only moderate additional climate forcing is likely to set in motion disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet and Arctic sea ice.

This study finds that global warming of 0.6 °C in the past 30 years has been driven mainly by increasing greenhouse gases, and only moderate additional climate forcing is likely to set in motion disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet and Arctic sea ice.

In our on - going effort to keep up with the science, today we update our previous summary with two additional recently published lower - than - IPCC climate sensitivity estimates — one made by Troy Masters and another by Alexander Otto and colleagues (including several co-authors not typically associated with global warming in moderation, or «lukewarming»In our on - going effort to keep up with the science, today we update our previous summary with two additional recently published lower - than - IPCC climate sensitivity estimates — one made by Troy Masters and another by Alexander Otto and colleagues (including several co-authors not typically associated with global warming in moderation, or «lukewarming»in moderation, or «lukewarming»).

Current proposals by global warming advocates will likely cost billions of dollars and require a wholesale transformation of the nation's economy and society. Americans could be paying 30 percent more for natural gas in their homes and even more for electricity.  The cost of coal could quadruple and crude oil prices could rise by an additional -LSB-...]

For example if only 10 per cent of the permafrost melts, the resultant feedback could result in an additional 80 ppm carbon dioxide equivalent released into the atmosphere, equating to about 0.7 °C of global warming.»

In defending their bonds from the threat of a SEC investigation, these municipalities have either provided additional evidence that their lawsuits exaggerated the risks of global warming — or, even worse, that they downplayed those risks to investors and then paid someone to say otherwise.

Additional data and information sources at www.earth-policy.org Read more about desertification: Breathtaking Desert Photos Don't Show How Thirsty it is Desertification May Curb Global Warming in the Short Term «Wall of Trees» Planned to Help Stop Sahara Desert from Expanding

The report noted that although these temperature record reconstructions «are not the primary evidence for the widely accepted views that global warming is occurring, [and] that human activities are contributing, at least in part, to this warming,» they «are consistent with other evidence of global climate change and can be considered as additional supporting evidence.»

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.

Especially since 2002 is the warmest (at least globally with the GHCN - ERSST data) I prefer to look at 1880 -LRB--.2) to 2006 (+.3) off global mean for the period and it's clear to see the trend globally going from -.4 to +.3 The only questions then left are what is the meaning (and / or import) of the sudden changes since 1980, what changing a total of.005 C a year during the period means, what impact does increasing urbanization globally and additional industrialization in places like India and China contribute, why the drop from +.6 to +.3, and why not a constant increase from year to year, given the elevated CO2 levels.

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