Sentences with phrase «as climatic warming»

As climatic warming is expected to bring more intense droughts and stronger storms, understanding their effect on tropical and forest ecosystems becomes ever more important.

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But some researchers have argued that the transition from the frigid climatic period known as the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)-- about 20,000 to 25,000 years ago — to the current warm Holocene Epoch brought habitat changes that killed off the mammoths with little or no help from humans.

The climatic change at issue is known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), a periodic cycle of warming and cooling of surface temperatures in the North Atlantic.

These types of plants have been associated with environments that supply high concentrations of essential nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, and warm - wet climatic conditions, both of which help plants photosynthesize more productively.

Until now, most estimates of how many species are threatened by climate change have been based on theoretical studies that look at the climatic and environmental conditions that species need to survive, and overlay this with estimates of how much suitable habitat will remain as the world warms.

It will never be possible to substantiate such a claim about an individual climatic event, but most climate models predict that the frequency and intensity of such events will increase as the world warms.

The 1980s was easily the warmest decade on record and exhibited an unprecedented number of extreme climatic events, such as storms and droughts.

Climatic conundrum may help the Los Angeles Basin and California's wine country dodge a bullet as the world warms

A new study shows that climatic changes, such as warmer water, can provide an early warning.

Thus as a practical matter, it doesn't really matter whether the inertia is climatic or societal or technological or economic because the globe will continue to warm under all realistic scenarios (what we do have a possible control over is the magnitude of that warming).

Since individual clouds have a life time of hours, and the CRF - interpretation involves changes in the reflected light as well as ionisation, a climatic response from change in CRF is hypothetically almost instantaneous, and it is a challenge to explain why the night side (where there is no sunlight and hence reflection can not play a role) warms more strongly than the dayside, if the CRF were to drive the recent warming trend.

The study contains an analysis of published records from a period of rapid climatic warming about 55 million years ago known as the Palaeocene - Eocene thermal maximum, or PETM.

I would also like to add that the paper: Glacial geological evidence for the medieval warm period (Climatic Change, Volume 26, Numbers 2 - 3, pp. 143 - 169, March 1994)- Jean M. Grove, Roy Switsur is available as PDF on Google Books.

The consequences of climate change are being felt not only in the environment, but in the entire socio - economic system and, as seen in the findings of numerous reports already available, they will impact first and foremost the poorest and weakest who, even if they are among the least responsible for global warming, are the most vulnerable because they have limited resources or live in areas at greater risk... Many of the most vulnerable societies, already facing energy problems, rely upon agriculture, the very sector most likely to suffer from climatic shifts.»

All five research groups came to the conclusion that last year's heat waves could not have been as severe without the long - term climatic warming caused by human emissions.

Because they feed in Arctic and subarctic benthic environments, gray whales are thought to be relatively sensitive to changes in climate, and climatic events such as the Medieval Warm Period (ca. 900 — 1200 AD) or Little Ice Age (ca. 1300 — 1850 AD) could have caused a population decline.

His exhibitions include bold themes such as Peer Gynt and Ibsen's Women in the Ibsen Year; Apocalypse incorporating the nature bleeds expressing the warming of climatic changes and «the Mother of all women», resembling a Madonna - like figure.

Leading Warmist know that is no» global warming» so they encompassed» climatic changes» to confuse and con the ignorant — so that when is some extreme weather for few days on some corner of the planet, to use it as proof of their phony global warming and ignore that the weather is good simultaneously on the other 97 % of the planet, even though is same amount of co2.

For the Moscow heat record of July 2010, they found that the probability of a record had increased five-fold due to the local climatic warming trend, as compared to a stationary climate (see our previous articles The Moscow warming hole and On record - breaking extremes for further discussion).

In short, Kilimanjaro may be a photogenic spokesmountain «no matter what the climatic agenda» but it is far from ideal as a laboratory for detecting human - driven warming.

Quoting directly Climate change as a result of human activities, or anthropogenic global warming, is now generally accepted as reality and includes a wide range of climatic processes and impacts in the global system that are affected by human activities.

However, if CO2 plays this role it is surprising that climatic proxies indicate that Antarctica seems to have warmed prior to the Northern Hemisphere, yet glacial cycles follow in phase with Northern insolation («INcoming SOLar radiATION») patterns, raising questions as to what communication mechanism links the hemispheres.

Instead, the observed warming during that period was just 0.04 °C per decade, as measured by the UK Met Office in Exeter and the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK.»

But to understand the mechanisms of climatic changes, one needs to know the sequence of events — for example, one needs to know whether a particular warming in Antarctica happens before, after, or at the same time as a warming in Greenland.

The study, which was published online today, contains an analysis of published records from a period of rapid climatic warming about 55 million years ago known as the Palaeocene - Eocene thermal maximum, or PETM.

As detailed in section V of this notice, it is widely recognized that greenhouse gases (GHGs) have a climatic warming effect by trapping heat in the atmosphere that would otherwise escape to space.

Since individual clouds have a life time of hours, and the CRF - interpretation involves changes in the reflected light as well as ionisation, a climatic response from change in CRF is hypothetically almost instantaneous, and it is a challenge to explain why the night side (where there is no sunlight and hence reflection can not play a role) warms more strongly than the dayside, if the CRF were to drive the recent warming trend.

The National Climatic Data Center has released its review of worldwide sea surface temperatures for August and for the stretch from June through August and finds that both the month and the «summer» (as looked at from the Northern Hemisphere) were the warmest at least since 1880, when such records were first systematically compiled.

The research is the first to assess how the impacts of global warming could affect the quality of the diets available to people and found fewer fruit and vegetables would be available as a result of climatic changes.

A discussion of the November 2009 Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident, referred to by some sources as «Climategate,» continues against the backdrop of the abortive UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) discussing alternative agreements to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that aimed to combat global warming.

Even as many promoting the global - warming theory have moderated their language in the interest of restoring credibility, others on the same side of the table have actually employed more alarmist language, as if to compensate for the lack of climatic temperature increase by turning up the verbal heat.

This warmth coincided with the period known as the Medieval Climatic Anomaly, also known as the Medieval Warm Period, which we will discuss below.

During the Medieval Climatic Anomaly, some areas, most notably in the North Atlantic and parts of Europe, were at least as warm as today, if not warmer.

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If model X indicates a smaller warming than model Y, this may be because the two models treat an important climatic process, such as cloud formation, in different ways.

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It's hard to find an explanation for the global temperature record in the El Niño / La Niña Southern Oscillation (ENSO), although that climatic oscillation did play a major role in influencing weather patterns worldwide throughout 2010, as ENSO switched from a warm El Niño in early 2010 to a powerful La Niña somewhere from July — showing little interest in the intermediate.

so many climatic tipping points will have been passed that global warming will become self perpetuating release of methane from permafrost and under Arctic Ocean, release of carbon from tropical peat, loss of sea and forests as carbon sink etc..

Cutting - edge research has identified ways in which changes to climatic conditions — such as abnormally warm summers — reduce economic activity, damage food production systems, increase social conflict, and generate migrants.

All five research groups came to the conclusion that last year's heat waves could not have been as severe without the long - term climatic warming caused by human emissions.

In this report, as an alternative to the scenarios of gradual climatic warming that are so common, we outline an abrupt climate change scenario patterned after the 100 - year event that occurred about 8,200 years ago.

The late tenth to early thirteenth centuries (about AD 950-1250) appear to have been exceptionally warm in western Europe, Iceland and Greenland (Alexandre 1987, Lamb, 1988) This period is known as the Medieval Climatic Optimum China was, however, cold at this time (mainly in winter) but South Japan was warm (Yoshino, 1978) This period of widespread warmth is...

DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.

This shift is caused by global climatic warming that leads to higher energy in the general circulation: The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)-- known more commonly as monsoon — increases in strength due to increased convection and convergence.

As described in the paper, climate warming specifically refers to the slow time evolution of the local July temperature as described by a smooth non-linear trend line, which reveals a significant climatic warming over the last three decadeAs described in the paper, climate warming specifically refers to the slow time evolution of the local July temperature as described by a smooth non-linear trend line, which reveals a significant climatic warming over the last three decadeas described by a smooth non-linear trend line, which reveals a significant climatic warming over the last three decades.

Rather than questioning the primary role of the atmospheric CO2, our modelling results allow us to put forward that the atmospheric CO2 is not the whole story and that, owing to the overwhelming effect and interplay between the paleogeography, the water cycle and the seasonal response, the climate system may undergo subtle climatic changes (as the 4 °C global warming simulated here between the Aptian and the Maastrichtian runs).

The temperature fluctuations derived from the Greenland ice cores delineate the Holocene Climatic Optimum, Egyptian, Minoan, Roman, and Medieval Warm Periods and their relative warmth, as well as intervening cool periods such as the Little Ice Age.

Twentieth century global sea level, as determined from tide gauges in coastal harbors, has been increasing by 1.7 - 1.8 mm / yr, apparently related to the recent climatic warming trend.

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As the climatic empirical evidence kept growing though, it became obvious these models were atrocious at climate prediction, specifically due to their myopic reliance on CO2 as the principal global warming forcinAs the climatic empirical evidence kept growing though, it became obvious these models were atrocious at climate prediction, specifically due to their myopic reliance on CO2 as the principal global warming forcinas the principal global warming forcing.