Sentences with phrase «while modest warming»

While modest warming of the tropical East Pacific did occur, the atmosphere never really responded to the oceanic changes in a meaningful way, and model forecasts by early summer quickly fell toward a borderline event, at best.

Not exact matches

I love that most of»em make a statement while being relatively modest, and I also appreciate that they keep me a little warmer and provide some added sun protection, depending on where I am.

Wish I Was Here is Zach Braff's second film as director - his first was the modest 2004 indie hit Garden State - and while it overreaches itself at times, it's a warm, engaging and winningly sincere comic drama.

And while methane from Siberian lakes is a relatively modest contributor to climate change compared to human greenhouse emissions by industry and automobiles, it helps intensify a positive feedback mechanism for global warming.

In climate change experiments with our LES framework, the Cu regime shows a modest positive shortwave feedback under warming, while the Sc and Sc - over-Cu regimes both show strong but state - dependent positive shortwave feedbacks, with a possible break - up of Sc layers in very warm climates.

So while admitting, there probably is a very modest amount of AGW in the current warming cycle, it could just as easily have been caused by: i) the effects of the huge increase in global irrigation, ii) tiny changes in the sun's radiation, and / or iii) the knock on effects of changes in the intensity and direction of ocean currents.

These are the «fast acting» efforts that can yield critical near - term reductions in warming while delivering substantial co-benefits that justify the relatively modest costs of mitigation.