Sentences with phrase «accelerate warming further»

This Human Carbon Volcano seems to be already triggering other positive feedbacks that could substantially accelerate the warming further.

Higher methane levels will accelerate warming further and faster.

This instrument delivers important, and sobering, studies — such as the recent finding that as anthropogenic (human - caused) warming occurs, lakes naturally emit more methane which accelerates the warming further (or makes our cuts in emission worth more, if you want to look at the positive side).

Not exact matches

There is every reason to believe that a life of material austerity, of pride and pleasure in the quality of workmanship rather than in the amount consumed, a life lived in a warm and supportive community, would be far healthier for our society, ecologically and sociologically, than our present dominant pattern of ever - accelerating consumption.

This change leads to a higher percentage of emitted carbon dioxide remaining in the atmosphere, which then further accelerates global warming.

Most climatologists expect that on average the atmospheres water vapor content will increase in response to surface warming caused by the long - lived greenhouse gases, further accelerating the overall warming trend.

Warmer, wetter conditions in the Arctic are accelerating the loss of carbon stored in tundra and permafrost soils, creating a potential positive feedback that further boosts global temperatures, a Dartmouth College study finds.

When the snow melts, it exposes dark land below it, further accelerating regional warming.

The net rise in sea level associated with this decline is about 1.3 mm / yr, which will likely accelerate with further warming.

Plants speed up their respiratory metabolism as temperatures rise, leading to a long - held concern that as climate warms the elevated carbon release from a ramped - up metabolism could flip global forests from a long - term carbon sink to a carbon source, further accelerating climate change.

Since so much of the ice sheet is grounded underwater, rising sea levels may have the effect of lifting the sheets, allowing more - and increasingly warmer - water underneath it, leading to further bottom melting, more ice shelf disintegration, accelerated glacial flow, and further sea level rise, and so on and on, another vicious cycle.

A greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, methane in the atmosphere would accelerate global warming even further.

Presumably, if we follow your argument that further wealth / industrialization will descrease atmospheric carbon, we should also believe that if we were to return to an agrarian economy, this would accelerate global warming.

In other words, the harmful effects of global warming may open opportunities for further accelerating the harmful effects of global warming.

An impact that could further accelerate human - caused warming.

While the Earth seems to be managing the steady increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide relatively well so far (although the effects of this increase may not be felt for many decades to come), there are concerns that passing the 400 parts per million atmospheric carbon dioxide threshold will bring the Earth's atmosphere closer to a tipping point at which global warming accelerates rapidly with dire consequences for mankind and other creatures on Earth.

Climate models also point to a more - likely - than - not probability that even greater impacts will result from feedback mechanisms such as permafrost and ice sheet melting beginning or accelerating, unleashing further warming.

There is much that can still be done to reduce future climate impacts, and those efforts will depend far more on how quickly we can accelerate declines in the carbon intensity of the global economy than on what target we pick today for eventual warming.

Hence CO2 ramped up ever faster in the atmosphere, further accelerating warming, until you have the same symptoms of a global - warming - mass - extinction like the end Triassic or even Permian (ocean acidification, jump in global temperatures, ocean anoxia, etc).

Since the ESA forbids the Federal Government from funding any activities which might harm a listed species, why not sue to prevent the ridiculous Federal subsidies on Ethanol, on the grounds that the production, distribution, and use of ethanol have a net negative impact on carbon dioxide emissions when compared with petroleum products, thus accelerating global warming and further endangering the polar bears.

These eight major phenomena are the primary interactive feedbacks as far as I understand them, but besides their delayed interactions by the warming from each after the ~ 35 yr timelag then accelerating almost all of them, they are also being driven by a great many direct coupling mechanisms with little or no timelag.

No doubt that is why, although the models predicted that global warming would accelerate during the first decade of the 21st century, so far this century there has been no recorded global warming at all.

As soils frozen for tens of thousands of years begin to thaw, they could surrender vast quantities of nitrous oxide to accelerate further global warming.

A flurry of recent research strongly suggests that recent observations like these are indeed linked to California's long - term warming trend — and that snowpack losses are expected to accelerate further over the next few decades.

Arctic warming alters weather patterns far from the region and also accelerates sea level rise globally with the melting of the massive Greenland ice sheet.

Meanwhile, scientists are concerned that the rate of sea level rise could further accelerate in a world forced to rapidly warm by human fossil fuel burning.

Billions of tons of carbon trapped in high - latitude permafrost may be released into the atmosphere by the end of this century as the Earth's climate changes, further accelerating global warming, a new computer modeling study indicates.

Reducing global warming by 0.5 °C may not sound like much, but when it comes to climate change, every tenth of a degree matters, and slowing near - term warming is particularly important to avoid triggering feedback loops that could accelerate further warming.

However, if we look further, then we have some indications that there are after, say after 2015 or 2020, you know, global warming will accelerate again.

As I have pointed out in the «essay», what has happened (in an accelerating manner since 1246 CE) is that the insolation reaching far northern latitudes has increased during the first half of each year, and this should be anticipated to cause earlier and more - extensive spring melting of snow and ice, and therefore a progressively - earlier albedo reduction, and therefore more sunlight subsequently being absorbed across spring and summer: the ice albedo feedback effect acting positively (causing warming).

In further evidence — if any were needed — that global warming is accelerating glacier melt in the Himalaya, a new research reveals that nearly 400 glaciers have come into existence in the last four decades alone.

A) Human - induced warming is already rapid and is expected to further accelerate.

He added that the study is «just further evidence» that global warming is linked to accelerating extinctions worldwide.

When the snow melts, it exposes dark land below it, further accelerating regional warming.

(And I still can't see how a newly open and increasingly warm summer Arctic Ocean won't produce more water vapor, vapor whose GHG properties will further accelerate Arctic warming — or is that completely offset by increased cloud formation??)

An increase in shipping under current pollution controls in the Arctic could further accelerate warming.

In a separate study, the USGS reports that roughly 53 % of America's carbon — material that could stay in the permafrost or, in a warming world, escape into the atmosphere to accelerate climate change even further — is stored in the forests, wetlands and permafrost of Alaska.

As more and more scientists defect from the crumbling alarmist bandwagon, however, critics say the hysterical shrieking and dangerous rhetoric from politicians only serve to further illustrate the accelerating collapse of what many climate experts refer to as the «global - warming hoax.»

Warming accelerates this snow aging process, leading to further albedo reduction.

This new computer modelling study predicts that rather than absorbing carbon from the earth's atmosphere, by the end of the century the melting permafrost will release billions of tons of carbon that will further accelerate global warming.

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