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Even small changes in temperatures can affect our physiology significantly without shivering, without too much sweating and things like that,» said van Marken Lichtenbelt, who was quick to add that diet and exercise were still undoubtedly the best ways to get fit.
«Plants are highly sensitive to environmental changes and
even small changes in temperature impact on their growth,» he said.
Even small changes in temperature cause significant changes in its viscosity, or thickness,» says Kim.
Even a small change in temperature or humidity can radically alter the shape and size of a snowflake, making it notoriously difficult to model these ice crystals on a computer.
Essentially what this means is that those areas currently identified by their warm, humid climate will be particularly affected by a seemingly slight change in climate; these regions are disproportionately impacted by
even the smallest changes in temperature, and the population will most likely be especially disturbed by future climate change.
Not exact matches
They could be thrown off course by
even the
smallest vibration or
change in temperature, he argues.
In addition, wheat yield declines due to climate change are likely to be larger than previously thought and should be expected earlier, starting even with small increases in temperature,» points out Prof. Dr. Reimund Rötter from Natural Resources Institute Finlan
In addition, wheat yield declines due to climate
change are likely to be larger than previously thought and should be expected earlier, starting
even with
small increases
in temperature,» points out Prof. Dr. Reimund Rötter from Natural Resources Institute Finlan
in temperature,» points out Prof. Dr. Reimund Rötter from Natural Resources Institute Finland.
As global
temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the
small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an
even hotter future, shortly after the next
change in the winds.
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Even relatively
small changes in the
temperature and water content of the magma can drastically alter the chemical and physical properties of the unerupted magma,» explained lead author Dr. Mike Cassidy from the Institute of Geosciences at Mainz University.
In Antarctica, even small variations in temperature can give rise to rapid and dramatic change
In Antarctica,
even small variations
in temperature can give rise to rapid and dramatic change
in temperature can give rise to rapid and dramatic
changes.
Even what look
small changes in global
temperature may have an enormous effect on life on Earth.
Gavin Schmidt says: «The deep ocean is really massive and
even for the large
changes in OHC we are discussing the impact on the deep
temperature is
small (I would guess less than 0.1 deg C or so).
As for how this could be — and
in light of the findings of the references listed above — Rankl et al. reasoned that «considering increasing precipitation
in winter and decreasing summer mean and minimum
temperatures across the upper Indus Basin since the 1960s,» plus the «short response times of
small glaciers,» it is only logical to conclude that these facts «suggest a shift from negative to balanced or positive mass budgets
in the 1980s or 1990s or
even earlier, induced by
changing climatic conditions since the 1960s.»
Although this century kicked off with the hottest decade on record, 2010 was the hottest year and
in 2011 the Arctic may have broken both the summer and the winter melting record, there has still been heat missing: the rise
in global
temperatures is
smaller than what one would expect from the rise
in greenhouse gas concentrations, which — despite UNFCCC attempts to tackle climate
change since Kyoto 1997 and Copenhagen 2009 — has
even accelerated.
Scientists agree that
even a
small increases
in the global
temperature lead to significant climate and weather
changes, affecting cloud cover, precipitation, wind patterns, the frequency and severity of storms, and the timing of seasons.
The point I was trying to make, was that with only these few variables, you can have lots of
temperature variation caused by relatively
small changes in one of the parameters and depending on the scale of the
changes, or the coincidence of one or more
changes acting together, or
even opposing each other, the readjustment time of the
temperature in the room would vary.
To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase
change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but
in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that
in last years land
temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but,
in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a
small part
in temperature trends for some regional area, but just
small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands»
temperatures are often measured
in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity
in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters»
temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities
temperature trends actually show an increase
in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very
small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a
small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live
in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI
in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but,
in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many
small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least
in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough
in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a
small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe
even that a
small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).
But why would the first two land use decadal blobs, which represent negative forcing, result
in positive
temperature change,
even if
small?
Even a
small change in average global
temperature leads to a big
change in the frequency and severity of heat waves.
(
Even though the absolute
temperature appears as the 4th power
in the SB law, we only have to do relatively
small changes in the
temperature — from, say 288 K to 293 K to compensate for this big drop
in emissivity)
Although the global
temperature data show short periods of greater and
smaller warming trends, and
even short periods of cooling, the team's key question was whether or not these are statistically significant
in showing a
change in the form of a slowdown or acceleration of global warming, or whether they are merely expected fluctuations — or noise —
in the data.
Given the much larger size of the oean sink,
even a
small change in the size of this exchange could significantly impact atmospheric
temperatures while being a trivial
change in the oceans heat content.
Even seemingly
small changes in global
temperature have far - reaching effects on sea level, atmospheric circulation, and weather patterns around the globe.
Specifically, is the climate dominated by positive feedbacks, such that
small CO2 - induced
changes in temperatures are multiplied many times, or
even hit a tipping point where
temperatures run away?
Given that > 93 % of warming is going into the oceans, ~ 2.3 % into the atmosphere,
even a
small rate
change in ocean warming relative to the total greenhouse gas imbalance will have a huge effect on air
temperatures.
Once started, that is a self fulfilling, rapid transition,
even without any further help of CO2, until the
change in ice / vegetation area is too
small to induce more albedo /
temperature change.
We see a
smaller scale example of the LIA
in each sunspot cycle and
temperature changes there hold no surprises relative to TSI
changes, but the solar
changes seem to also have a strong positive feedback comparable with the value expected for CO2, possibly
even more, making a nonsense of low - sensitivity ideas.
What he shows is that a
change in the radiative balance between the surface and the atmosphere
even by a larger amount, such as 10 W / m ^ 2 would result
in only a very
small surface
temperature change while a
change in the greenhouse effect (i.e., the radiative balance between the earth and space) by 10 W / m ^ 2 results
in a much larger surface
temperature change (almost 2 orders of magnitude larger if I recall correctly).
As the forcing and resulting
temperature changes are
small, internal variability has a significant effect on simulated
changes even when comparing 25 year means, with
changes varying
in sign over some land areas and most of the ocean.
In the almost sure knowledge that the earth never experienced a runaway greenhouse even with ancient CO2 levels 10 to 20 times greater than today, these anti-science scoundrels insist with a «high level of confidence» that this amplification is real and it's based on nothing more than faster than expected surface temperature rise in the past few decades which can be TOTALLY explained by multi-decadal cyclic behavior in ocean currents, trade winds, and / or solar magnetic activity causing small global average albedo change
In the almost sure knowledge that the earth never experienced a runaway greenhouse
even with ancient CO2 levels 10 to 20 times greater than today, these anti-science scoundrels insist with a «high level of confidence» that this amplification is real and it's based on nothing more than faster than expected surface
temperature rise
in the past few decades which can be TOTALLY explained by multi-decadal cyclic behavior in ocean currents, trade winds, and / or solar magnetic activity causing small global average albedo change
in the past few decades which can be TOTALLY explained by multi-decadal cyclic behavior
in ocean currents, trade winds, and / or solar magnetic activity causing small global average albedo change
in ocean currents, trade winds, and / or solar magnetic activity causing
small global average albedo
changes.
It went something like this: hotel check -
in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron
temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron
temperature dial is indecipherably
in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible
small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion,
change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague
in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get
in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine
in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very
small client office
in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up
in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the
in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is
even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails
in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (
in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.