Sentences with phrase «accelerated warming in»

The headline would have been more accurate if it said, «World poised to see accelerated warming in the coming decade.»

«With increased loading of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere through the 21st century, the models show an accelerated warming in the Southern Ocean,» writes Georgia Institute of Technology climatologists Jiping Liu and Judity Curry in an Aug. 16 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study.

The loss, in recent decades, of thousands of square miles of sea ice has accelerated warming in the Arctic, where temperatures are increasing at two to three times the rate of the globe as a whole.

With increased loading of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere through the 21st century, the models show an accelerated warming in the Southern Ocean, and indicate that anthropogenic forcing exceeds natural internal variability.

Meehl and Teng recently showed that when this is done, thereby turning a model projection into a hindcast, the models reproduced the observed trends — accelerated warming in the 1970s and reduced rate of surface warming during the last 15 years — quite well.

Don't tell me we have had accelerated warming in the last decade, when global temperature readings say just the opposite.

«When we look at actual climate data, however, we do not see accelerated warming in the tropical troposphere.

There should be accelerated warming in the Arctic since 1996 due to the increasingly negative NAO / AO episodes.

This suggestion of an accelerated warming in a deep layer of the ocean has been suggested mostly on the basis of results from reanalyses of different types (that is, numerical simulations of the ocean and atmosphere that are forced to fit observations in some manner).

I certainly have seen references to accelerated warming in the press, and I do think what they really have in mind is something like «accelerated impacts of warming,» which would be a fairer description of what has been coming out in the scientific literature.

The Arctic took another 3,000 - 4,000 years to warm this much, primarily because of the fact that the Northern Hemisphere had huge ice sheets to buffer warming, and the fact that changes in ocean currents and Earth's orbital configuration accelerated warming in the south.

Melting sea ice has accelerated warming in the Arctic, which in recent decades has warmed twice as quickly as the global average, according to a new study.

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And he ran down SoHe who was only 22 and a Toronto university studying molecular biology and he aimed the steering wheel at Betty and accelerated — Betty whose mother had long ago named her Mary Elizabeth — and who was revelling in one of the first warm April days in her 95th — and last — spring on this spinning orb.

Sea level has been rising slowly and inexorably since the end of the last ice age, and the rate has not accelerated in a warming climate.

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.

Warm early weather accelerated vine development and resulted in one of our earliest harvests.

«Such warming could cause accelerated melting of glacial ice and a consequent increase in the sea level of several feet over the next century,» she told a meeting of the UK's Royal Society.

«Two degrees Celsius [of warming] is a guaranteed disaster,» he says, noting the accelerating impacts that have manifested in recent years.

As the planet warms — and as that warming accelerates due to man - made climate change — «the cicada may yet reprise its role as climate indicator if its cycle is disrupted by a warming planet,» Wildlife Conservation Society entomologist Craig Gibbs wrote in an op - ed last week in The New York Times.

The researchers say that countries must also tackle short - lived climate pollutants like hydrofluorocarbons that accelerate warming greatly in the near term, and take some of the carbon that is currently in the atmosphere out.

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

As Roger Short of the University of Melbourne writes in the introduction, «The inexorable increase in human numbers is exhausting conventional energy supplies, accelerating environmental pollution and global warming, and providing an increasing number of failed states where civil unrest prevails,» among other faults.

But now due to global warming over the past 100 years, methane release in the Arctic seems to be accelerating, Walter says, and left unchecked, it will continue to rise well above the levels found 10,000 years ago.

The gathering will draw approximately 400 representatives from other Arctic nations and interested foreign observers, and will give Obama a platform to highlight how changes in the Arctic will affect the rest of the world by accelerating warming, contributing to sea - level rise and changing precipitation patterns at lower altitudes.

Northern latitude tundra and boreal forests are experiencing an accelerated warming trend that is greater than in other parts of the world.

In the past, these positive phases have coincided with accelerated global warming.

Now, scientists can trace the beginning of this accelerated melting to a surge of warming in the Pacific Ocean more than 70 years ago.

Regardless of how old the polar bear is as a species, or whether it's a species at all, the purpose of such studies is to gain a better understanding of the great white bear's ability to survive in the Arctic, which is now rapidly transforming as a result of accelerated 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.

A major release of methane trapped in the frozen seabed off Russia could accelerate global warming and cause $ 60 trillion in damage, almost the size of world GDP, it said.

3 Earth's Frozen Methane Stash Global warming seems to be accelerating the release of methane trapped in permafrost and below Arctic ice.

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.

Using sediment gathered from the ocean floor in different areas of the world, the researchers were able to confirm that as the ice sheets started melting and the climate warmed up at the end of the last ice age, 18,000 years ago, the marine nitrogen cycle started to accelerate.

The melt rates are comparable with the Arctic, where accelerated melting of permafrost has become a regularly recurring phenomenon, and the change could offer a preview of melting permafrost in other parts of a warming Antarctic continent.

In reality, say its scientists, planned new forests, called «carbon sinks», will swiftly become saturated with carbon and begin returning most of their carbon to the atmosphere, temporarily accelerating global warming.

Dr Marino adds: «Recent studies have shown that Southern Ocean warming linked with human - caused greenhouse effects is driving accelerated melting in Antarctica.

Countering a widely - held view that thawing permafrost accelerates atmospheric warming, a study published this week in the scientific journal Nature suggests arctic thermokarst lakes are «net climate coolers» when observed over longer, millennial, time scales.

In the long term, this could contribute to accelerate Antarctic warming in the real worlIn the long term, this could contribute to accelerate Antarctic warming in the real worlin the real world.

A possible cause for the accelerated Arctic warming is the melting of the region's sea ice, which reduces the icy, bright area that can reflect sunlight back out into space, resulting in more solar radiation being absorbed by the dark Arctic waters.

At the same time as the surface is cooling, the deeper ocean is warming, which has already accelerated the decline of glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment.»

The accelerating pace of climate warming in the earth's polar regions is spurring a new sense of scientific urgency.

Also at the AGU meeting, Yasunari's co-author and Goddard colleague William Lau presented the results of a separate study today suggesting that soot heating the atmosphere over India could accelerate the glacier - melting effects of the warm currents that rise up to the Himalayan chain, in a «heat pump» effect.

Managing Director Martin Rasmussen, who could not be reached for comment, noted on the Pattern Recognition in Physics website that he was concerned by a special issue in December in which the editors concluded that they «doubt the continued, even accelerated, warming as claimed by the IPCC project.»

In the past 50 years, as regional temperatures have warmed, the growth of bristlecone pine trees at high altitudes has been accelerating, whereas that of trees lower down the slopes has not, according to the results of a study published November 16 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceIn the past 50 years, as regional temperatures have warmed, the growth of bristlecone pine trees at high altitudes has been accelerating, whereas that of trees lower down the slopes has not, according to the results of a study published November 16 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencein the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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

Changes come even with lower warming What was most surprising, Diffenbaugh said, is that the accelerated melting of the snowpack would occur even if the world were able to limit warming to the target of a 2 - degree - Celsius increase agreed upon in international climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark.

And if ice loss continues to accelerate in the warming Arctic, this effect may only become more pronounced in the future.

These waters have become warmer and moved to shallower depths in recent decades, causing glacier retreat to accelerate.»

«Without the existence of these proteins that could help phytoplankton cope in these stressful environments, the phytoplankton diversity in many regions of the ocean would be much lower, in particular by reducing large phytoplankton such as diatoms that are known to take up a lot of carbon dioxide, thus possibly accelerating the pace of a warming planet,» said Marchetti, assistant professor of marine science at UNC - Chapel Hill.

The combination of global warming and accelerating sea level rise from Greenland could be the trigger for catastrophic collapse in the WAIS (see, for instance, here).