Sentences with phrase «climatic warming in»

«Climatic Warming in North America: Analysis of Borehole Temperatures.»

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• We are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, causing changing climatic conditions and global warming.

The average temperature was 57.1 degrees F, up from the old record, in 1998, which landed an average of 54.3 degrees F. «We had our fourth warmest winter (2011/2012) on record, our warmest spring, a very hot summer with the hottest month on record for the nation (July 2012), and a warmer than average autumn,» Jake Crouch, a scientist at the National Climatic Data Center, told NBC News.

Preserving its full - bodied flavor and nutritional value, our cacao powder is made from premium organic Criollo cacao beans harvested in the warm, climatic regions of Peru.

Some of them in a Citi News interview expressed worry about perishable food products stored in deep freezers coupled with the warm climatic condition.

Cato's ecological climatologist, Patrick Michaels, a critic of mainstream assertions around global warming, appeared in more than 20 media interviews within two weeks of the «Climategate» e-mail breach at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, the report says.

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.

The calculations are in line with estimates from most climate models, proving that these models do a good job of estimating past climatic conditions and, very likely, future conditions in an era of climate change and global warming.

That adjustment would negate the warming effects of 44 gigatons of carbon dioxide, the researchers report in an upcoming issue of Climatic Change.

That bests the previous warmest January - June in 1934 by 1.1 °F — a substantial difference, said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist with NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.

To explore the links between climatic warming and rainfall in drylands, scientists from the Universities of Cardiff and Bristol analysed more than 50 years of detailed rainfall data (measured every minute) from a semi-arid drainage basin in south east Arizona exhibiting an upward trend in temperatures during that period.

Pau's findings suggest that tropical forests, which have evolved over millennia to flourish in warm, equatorial conditions, may be more sensitive to subtle climatic changes than some ecologists predicted.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

Pelini and her colleagues have made significant progress in this direction with their new study, «Climatic Warming Destabilizes Forest Ant Communities,» which looks at complex interactions of ant communities and their responses to wWarming Destabilizes Forest Ant Communities,» which looks at complex interactions of ant communities and their responses to warmingwarming.

(C) potential metrics and approaches for quantifying the climatic effects of black carbon emissions, including its radiative forcing and warming effects, that may be used to compare the climate benefits of different mitigation strategies, including an assessment of the uncertainty in such metrics and approaches; and

Our results stress the importance of external climatic forcing of the dynamics of the seafloor, and the role of the rapid warming following the Younger Dryas in pacing the marine gas hydrate reservoir.

We know, however, that rapid warming of the planet increases the risk of crossing climatic points of no return, possibly setting in motion large - scale ocean circulation changes, the loss of major ice sheets, and species extinctions.

Fossil evidence and reconstructions of past climatic conditions suggest that early flowering plants lived in warm tropical environments, explained co-author Jeremy Beaulieu, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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.

In a recent article in Climatic Change, D.G. Martinson and W.C. Pitman III discuss a new hypothesis explaining how the climate could change abruptly between ice ages and inter-glacial (warm) periodIn a recent article in Climatic Change, D.G. Martinson and W.C. Pitman III discuss a new hypothesis explaining how the climate could change abruptly between ice ages and inter-glacial (warm) periodin Climatic Change, D.G. Martinson and W.C. Pitman III discuss a new hypothesis explaining how the climate could change abruptly between ice ages and inter-glacial (warm) periods.

A headline in the Daily Mail claims that Phil Jones, ex-director of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, said «there has been no global warming since 1995».

During the June 18 to 24 period, 731 daily high temperature records and 798 daily warm low temperature records were set or tied in the U.S., compared to 154 record cold daily high temperatures and 131 record cold daily low temperature records, according to the National Climatic Data Center.

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.»

While there has been a 70 percent increase in heavy precipitation events in the region since 1958, most of that has been in warm weather rainstorms, Ken Kunkel, a researcher at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., said.

In their research, which was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Christy and McNider found the climatic effects of El Niño / La Niña warming and cooling events in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean largely cancelled each other out over the study perioIn their research, which was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Christy and McNider found the climatic effects of El Niño / La Niña warming and cooling events in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean largely cancelled each other out over the study perioin the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean largely cancelled each other out over the study period.

During the June 18 - to - 24 period, 731 daily high temperature records and 798 daily warm low temperature records were set or tied in the U.S., compared to 154 record cold daily high temperatures and 131 record cold daily low temperature records, according to the National Climatic Data Center.

«It has been an unusually mild winter,» said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. «The Northeast region had their fifth warmest December on record, and January has been warmer than average,» he told OurAmazingPlanet.

cultivated in cultural conditions of warm agri - climatic macroregion, 2009

You essentially use the past and present climatic and social response to global warming to predict problems the world is likely to encounter in the future.

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.

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.

If we assume for a moment we are indeed in the midst of a historical warming pattern or cycle, and if we also assume that humanity is not the initiator of climatic change, then it follows how important it is to understand that humanity is fully capable of exacerbating the situation, by accelerating the inevitable cyclical.

-LSB-...] Moreover, this study highlights that modern glacier retreat on Kilimanjaro is much more complex than simply attributable to «global warming only», a finding that conforms with the general character of glacier retreat in the global tropics [Kaser, 1999]: a process driven by a complex combination of changes in several different climatic parameters [e.g., Kruss, 1983; Kruss and Hastenrath, 1987; Hastenrath and Kruss, 1992; Kaser and Georges, 1997; Wagnon et al., 2001; Kaser and Osmaston, 2002; Francou et al., 2003; Mölg et al., 2003], with humidity - related variables dominating this combination.

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.

5 Earth's surface and deep ocean waters warmed by ∼ 5 ◦ C, of which part may have oc - curred prior to the CIE.. However, few records document continental climatic trendsand changes in seasonality have not been documented.

3) Consider the cost, in lives and money, exacted by today's climatic extremes, let alone those worsened by warming.

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.

N. Y. Times (Aug. 8, 08)- We are much more likely to experience global freezing than we are global warming in the future but who cares about facts - please check out Earth's geological and climatic history before reachin any conclusions - g

Whilst this is the basic cause of the cyclical nature of the ice age and the warmer inter ice age climate of the earth in the last few million years at least, there are natural «feedbacks» in the earth which then exaggerate this climatic change.

The successful forecast is described in a nice post on Realclimate.org commemorating the approaching 35th anniversary of «Climatic Change: Are We on the Bring of a Pronounced Global warming?»

We predicted that an increase in fire, due to climatic warming and drying, was more likely to have occurred in moist, temperate forests near the coast than in arid and semi-arid woodlands of the interior, due to inherent contrasts in the respective dominant fuel types (woody litter versus herbaceous fuels).

I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.

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.

Honestly, anybody who claims that «there has been global cooling or that global warming has halted since 2000 (or whatever)» really does not understand climatic trends nor the difference between a long - term underlying trend vs. short - term fluctuations which have a larger magnitude (in both directions) than the trend.

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.

This is also something that has been observed, e.g. in Norway, where the climatic trends result in more warm than cold seasons.

Global warming has of late felt like a new issue, but it's useful once in a while to review the generations - long line of analysis that points to substantial climatic and environmental consequences from rising emissions of greenhouse gases.

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.