Sentences with phrase «gradual warming of»

Over the past 150 years, the Earth has experienced a gradual warming of about 1 °C (1.8 °F).

«Some researchers believe that if people immediately halted emissions of greenhouse gases, gradual warming of the oceans would ultimately contribute to an additional warming of the atmosphere of between 0.9 ºF and 2.7 ºF, or 0.5 ºC and 1.5 ºC (Mahlman, 2001, p. 8).»

Even as CO2 is rising steadily in the atmosphere, leading to gradual warming of Earth's surface, many natural factors are modulating this long - term warming.

On August 23, 1856, Eunice presented a paper at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science explaining her experiments that demonstrated the effects of the sun on various gases and theorized that those gases could lead to a gradual warming of the earth's atmosphere.

The reason for this shift, new research suggests, is the gradual warming of winters brought on by climate change.It is thought that because brown owls are more visible to predators during times of heavy snow, they have, in the past, had a harder time surviving into the breeding season.

Quite predictable that with the reality of sea - ice disappearance and the gradual warming of freshwater lakes, that people would start to rationalize this turn of events by asserting that it would lead to previously undiscovered stores of crude oil!

Plus Antarctic models are still FUBAR: The gradual warming of the North and tropical Atlantic Ocean is contributing to climate change in Antarctica, a team of New York University scientists supported by the National Science Foundation has concluded.

The gradual warming of the tropics may not seem as weird as March Madness, but it has much more important implications for biodiversity, food security and the stability of world financial markets.

Obviously, human activity must be contributing in some way to the gradual warming of the Earth's atmosphere.

It seems this happened 55 million years ago, when gradual warming of the atmosphere penetrated to the ocean depths and unlocked the methane, which caused a much greater warming that resulted in the extinction of millions of species.

A.1 % chance of an Iranian nuke going off in anger that would lead to vast socio - political and economic turmoil is just as big a deal for investment planning as a long, gradual warming of the climate.

But this gradual warming of the Arctic ocean did not begin just a decade ago, but has been gradually occuring for many decades.

It is likely that an increase will continue in the future... it appears plausible that an increased amount of CO2 in the atmosphere can contribute to a gradual warming of the lower atmosphere, especially at high latitudes».

A main control on atmospheric CO2 appears to be the ocean surface temperature, and remains a possibility that a significant part of the overall increase of atmospheric CO2 since at least 1958 (start of Mauna Loa observations) simply relflects the gradual warming of the oceans as a result of the prolonged period of high solar activity since 1920 (Solanki et al., 2004).

«Many believe greenhouse gas emissions are contributing to the gradual warming of our planet and changing of our climate.

A significant northward trend (reduction of ice) in the winter - maximum ice edge is apparent, however, and appears to be caused by the gradual warming of sea - surface temperatures in the region (paper available on this if you want it).

«Gradual warming of the earth's atmosphere is caused by the developing countries as well as the developed countries,» says English professor Wang Xiansheng of Zhengzhou University, which is also facing rolling blackouts as a result of the current coal shortage.

Not exact matches

The transition is usually gradual, but your baby may be returned to the warmer environment at the first sign of inability to maintain temperature.

Instead of going from the dark, warm water environment to the sudden shock of the outside in that moment of birth, there's a more gradual transition,» she said.

Like the evolution of mammals themselves, the evolution of warm - bloodedness was apparently a very gradual process.

«I've always thought that the phrase «global warming» was something of a misnomer because it suggests that the phenomenon is something that is uniform around the world, that it's all about temperature, and that it's gradual,» Holdren said yesterday at the annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C. (AAAS publishes ScienceInsider.)

global warming The gradual increase in the overall temperature of Earth's atmosphere due to the greenhouse effect.

Incidentally, as I see it, your reconstruction of Manns data showing the 15th century to be warmer than now is even more damming than Manns original construct, as it indicates a gradual decline in global temperatures until 1850, before human influence reversed that trend.

Natural global warming is self - rectifying either by slow chemical weathering processes responsible for mineral sequestration of carbon or by gradual return of Earth's orbital parameters to what they were before the onset of global warming, thereby significantly reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

However, Petrenko found that the gradual, natural global warming and rapid regional warming that characterized the deglaciation 12,000 years ago — events that were in some aspects comparable to the current human - driven global warming — did not trigger detectable releases of methane from these reservoirs.

And while the amount of cold air will be on the gradual decline in a warming world, it does not mean snowstorms will cease to exist.

Paleoclimate data reveal instances of rapid global warming, as much as 5 — 6 °C, as a sudden additional warming spike during a longer period of gradual warming [see Text S1].

It should be pointed out here, that the amount of change in downward heat radiation from changes in cloud cover in the experiment, are far greater than the gradual change in warming provided by human greenhouse gas emissions, but the relationship was nevertheless established.

«In situations like New York has had this year --[with cold and warm weather alternating instead of a gradual progression to warmer temperatures]-- trees will bloom because they're dependent on the light cycle, not the temperature,» Ponda explained.

A thorough warm - up and cool down will also help to prevent injuries, as will a gradual development of the intensity of the exercises performed.

Longer shadows and golden light signal the gradual change that's been taking place lately, but I've been making the most of the odd warm day to bring out something you've not yet seen this year.

Her gradual softening — hastened by a well - turned omelette — mirrors the way Western producers have warmed to India as the kind of movie - mad territory it pays to get into.

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Furthermore, the iceberg also conveys the phenomenon of global warming and the gradual disappearance of sea ice.

«Wavelet analysis shows that this relative urban warming trend was primarily manifested in the form of multi - decadal and interseasonal cycles that are likely attributable to gradual increased winter heating in Ottawa (heat island effects) associated with population growth.

So, while there may be a long term gradual decline in solar irradiance, it is barely significant compared to current rate of warming.

Even under strong warming the melting of permafrost takes time and the release of greenhouse gases will be quite gradual and will manifest itself as increased leakages.

This would serve multiple purposes, of (a) weaning us from dependence on foreign oil and simultaneously depleting terror - exporting countries of their revenue stream, (b) reducing other pollutants besides CO2, (c) encouraging a more gradual and less economically disastrous transition from an economony based on a finite resource, (d) slow global warming, (e) move us in the direction of a VAT tax rather than an income tax (actually, personally I don't think e is such a great thing, but as many conversative groups favor it, I don't see why they would oppose a revenue - neutral tax on fossil fuels.

In a ranking of near - term «fatal discontinuities» in his 2008 book, «Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years,» Vaclav Smil puts asteroid collisions far below the persistent risk of large - scale war (particularly because so many nuclear weapons are still arrayed around the world), great earthquakes and tsunamis and pandemics, but above global warming (because of its gradual slope).

The attempts to stop the gradual exposure of the global warming deception by ignoring, bending, or breaking the general rules is failing.

As these particular events took place at the end of a local warm period caused by orbital forcing (see Box 6.1 and Section 6.5.1), these observations suggest that under gradual climate forcings (e.g., orbital) the climate system can change abruptly.

Through the gradual build - up of more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, Earth is warming.

A plateau where there is no warming is more difficult to explain than a wiggly gradual increase in temperature where the rate of increase is less than predicted.

Taken from the Maunder minimum of course, there is a gradual warming but it's inconsistent with CO2.

I expect a gradual warming since we have had such since the end of the little ice age, but I remain unconvinced that anyone has taken a strong look at real data.

Natural global warming is self - rectifying either by slow chemical weathering processes responsible for mineral sequestration of carbon or by gradual return of Earth's orbital parameters to what they were before the onset of global warming, thereby significantly reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

«Early flooding of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers is an example of climate change caused by global warming,» Atiur Rahman, an environmental economist, told IRIN, noting a gradual advance of the annual flooding over the past 50 years.

Over the 5 long term, this warming conforms to a complex trend that can be simplified as a monotonic curve, but the actual pathway is steplike... this rules out gradual warming, either in situ in the atmosphere or as gradual release from the ocean, in favour of a more abrupt process of storage and release.

The fact that the cooling spans are gradual while warming episodes are short - term and abrupt is an issue that has been comfortably dealt with yet, regardless of the pet theory applied.

The best evidence in support of that proposition of slow long term solar background changes is the gradual and irregular change from Roman Warm period to The Dark Ages to the Mediaeval Warm Period and thence to the Little Ice Age and finally to our recent Modern Maximum.