Sentences with phrase «about current warming»

Warnings about current warming trends came out years before Mann's hockey - stick graph.

They simply could not bring themselves, after the many statements they had made individually prior to their study, in support of Mann and their beliefs about current warming, to say that his paradigm changing study so fundamental to the IPCC, 2001 conclusions was simply WRONG.

Since the HotSpot is supposed to create a negative feedback, and it hasn't happened, what does that indicate about current warming?

Tim Flannery appeared very concerned (to my mind) about current warming from the ecosystem point of view and probably got carried out somewhat in stating this.

Not exact matches

Other things being equal, doubling the CO2 concentration, from our current 390 ppm to 780 ppm will directly cause about 1 degree Celsius in warming.

Here (they will think) was a people who behaved as though the interesting and important thing about the Mass was the prospect of restyling the package; as though sin and folly resulted from a bad condition of the ecclesiastical machine; as though, given only a rending of garments according to current fashion and theory, our cold hearts would warm up naturally and painlessly.

The current injury came about because the so called professional didn't warm up before coming on the pitch as a sub.

But so long as we have to choose between one or the other when playing big games, and as long as that means the PL's top scorer has to warm the bench, then I will continue to think there's something» not right» about our current squad.

He already worries about crime, poverty, endangered animals, global warming, and war without exposure to current events.

The lights of Jerusalem twinkle around him on a warm evening as he worries, open - collared, about his current work as Middle East peace envoy.

About half of this near - term warming represents a «commitment» to future climate change arising from the inertia of the climate system response to current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.

Instead, the fossil record indicates they vanished during the Earth's glacial - interglacial transition, which occurred about 12,000 years ago and led to much warmer conditions and the start of the current Holocene period.

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 science team obtained vital information about the physical characteristics within one large warm - water eddy, which likely originated from the North Brazil Current, and analyzed its potential influence on sub-surface ocean conditions during the passage of tropical cyclones.

But there are many unknowns about the current status of 11 species of marine mammals who depend on Arctic sea ice to live, feed and breed, and about how their fragile habitat will evolve in a warming world.

With oil prices soaring and concerns about global warming and climate change growing, the pressure is on to find new ways of managing the current and future energy supply.

She also emphasises the importance of the study to current debates about a human role in climate warming: «Cumulative archaeological data clearly demonstrates that humans are more than capable of reshaping and dramatically transforming ecosystems.

In the current analysis, Bohr wanted to find out if people's particular political orientations and beliefs about global warming changed at all during periods of so - called temperature anomalies, when temperatures above or beyond the normal are experienced.

The current goals would drop that to about 3.5 °C of warming, one degree lower.

Rising seas The current warming of the seas and the associated expansion of their waters account for about one - third of sea level rise around the world.

This would not give us a more informative an answer about what the relative attribution of the 20th century warming is, but would perhaps give us a range on what it could be, given our current lack of knowledge and understanding.

The editors have perfected the art of specious framing of the scientific question, which is not about climate change, but is about anthropogenic global warming as a (major) contributor to current and recent climate change.

On a related note, is a «runaway greenhouse» effect impossible, given the current data and understanding about global warming?

The current era (at least under present definitions), known as the Holocene, began about 11,700 years ago, and was marked by warming and large sea level rise coming out of a major cool period, the Younger Dryas.

Would this change anything substantive about our current understanding of the past warming trend worldwide?

Can you summarize current state of the world regarding research on expected ENSO behavior in warming climate, i.e.: a) About the same b) Expect distribution of La Nina / El Nino / Neutrals to change c) Insufficent data to be able to say much

This is much less than the current «best estimate» of about 3 deg.C, and would imply that there is * not * any unfelt warming «still in the pipeline» from greenhouse gases we've already emitted.

Raypierre and also Chris (comment 29) noted that «sceptics» should not just magically forget about or omit the established greenhouse gas physics when trumpeting exotic solar explanations for current warming.

For example, I am patiently waiting for someone at the Guardian to address the serious misrepresentations of Oxburgh and Muir Russell made by Steve McIntyre at last week's panel discussions in the U.K. (Not to mention McIntyre's characterization of paleoclimatology as little more than «phrenology» or his inability to answer a simple question about attribution of current warming — and don't get me started on Fred Pearce).

My current HIIT session consists on a 5 min walk to warm up, then about 15 - 20 minutes of sprinting 30secs on at 15.5 -16 kmph and then rest for 30 sec.

Facts and anecdotes examine the historic, scientific, economic, political, cultural, and literary aspects of coal, as well as the current debates about energy consumption, developing nations, and global warming.

While the warm water, high visibility (about 20 metres), short distances, and turtle sightings attract beginner divers to the islands, veteran divers are seduced by shipwrecks, drift dives amidst crazy currents, and not - so - infrequent shark sightings.

«What's especially concerning about this current northern fur seal crisis is that this species has a particularly difficult time recovering from unfavorable ocean conditions, such as these warmer waters,» says Tenaya Norris, marine scientist at The Marine Mammal Center.

No matter our age, nationality or current lifestyle, we are bound to love them, since they tell heart - warming stories about the human experience.

So that is our context and how these statements can be used to confuse others about the significance of GCR's regarding our current global warming event.

Would this change anything substantive about our current understanding of the past warming trend worldwide?

Current global temperatures are warmer than about 75 % of temps over that period.

Can you summarize current state of the world regarding research on expected ENSO behavior in warming climate, i.e.: a) About the same b) Expect distribution of La Nina / El Nino / Neutrals to change c) Insufficent data to be able to say much

Isotopious would rather we forget about such inconveniences as Conservation of Energy — e.g. where the energy causing the current warming is coming from.

In the first plot, relating to ocean temperatures, it is clearly warmer about 1000 years ago but current temperatures are clearly warmer at the surface.

The current rate (over the last 2 years) is about 1 m per century and we still have a lot more warming to cause in a BAU scenario.

While it has gotten about one degree warmer since 1900, there is no clear evidence that current climate is anywhere outside of natural variability, and mankind is, at this time, successfully living in climate extremes ranging from the far North to the Equator where climate differences are much more than 3C.

So, I was wondering what the thinking was about thresholds with respect to the current warming trend on this blog.

We can, therefore, compare the present warming trends (and warming / cooling cycles; think about the «mini-ice age» of the 19th Century) with the geological record and make statistical extrapolations about changing rates and develop hypotheses about causes (whichh, basically, is what current climate scientists have been doing).

Since a commenter mentioned the medieval vineyards in England, I've been engaged on a quixotic quest to discover the truth about the oft - cited, but seldom thought through, claim that the existence of said vineyards a thousand years ago implies that a «Medieval Warm Period «was obviously warmer than the current climate (and by implication that human - caused global warming is not occuring).

In so far as M&M are trying to distort the climate data over the last 1000 years to show that the so - called «Medieval Warm Period» replicates or exceeds the current warming — and so natural variability could possibly account for that warming — I thought it worthwhile to put out some information about Medieval climate.

That said, although I believe I understand what he is saying (and I agree with him regarding the confusion, lost credibility, and inaccuracies that often result when many current weather events are claimed to be a direct result of global warming), I have a few comments about some aspects of his recent post.

It's too soon to say whether the current «pause» in warming is anything more than statistics being clouded by one unusual El Nino event, but we should be thinking now about possible explanations just in case something more interesting is going on.

However, if either A we are simply dead wrong about the impact of GHGs and / or B we are missing the forest (solar / astronimical and tectonic things) for the trees (gas mixture things) and the actual future, among the several possible futures, turns out to be one of cooling — possibly the outright end of the current interglacial, then all those people wound up to believe in a warm future are going to be cold, hungry and out for blood.

While, in theory, human activities have the potential to result in net cooling, a concern about 25 years ago, the current balance between greenhouse gas emissions and the emissions of particulates and particulate - formers is such that essentially all of today's concern is about net warming.