Sentences with phrase «additional global warming of»

Based on climate model studies and the history of the Earth, the Hansen and Sato conclude that additional global warming of about 1ºC (1.8 ºF) or more, above global temperature in 2000, is likely to be dangerous.

Implications include (i) the expectation of additional global warming of about 0.6 °C without further change of atmospheric composition; (ii) the confirmation of the climate system's lag in responding to forcings, implying the need for anticipatory actions to avoid any specified level of climate change; and (iii) the likelihood of acceleration of ice sheet disintegration and sea level rise.

It is also inferred that the planet is now out of radiation balance by 0.5 to 1 W / m2 and that additional global warming of about 0.5 °C is already «in the pipeline».

«Based on climate model studies and the history of the Earth the authors conclude that additional global warming of about 1 °C (1.8 °F) or more, above global temperature in 2000, is likely to be dangerous.»

Not exact matches

They estimate that, across about 60 % of the global vegetated area, greening has buffered warming by about 14 %; for the remaining areas, which mostly include boreal zones, LAI trends have amplified the raise in air temperatures, leading to an additional warming of about 10 %.

If the British feasibility tests are successful, the balloon - and - hose contraption could be used to inject additional particles into the stratosphere, thereby reflecting more of the sun's energy back into space, and hopefully curbing some of the effects of global warming.

These findings, along with those from Alaska, point to global warming as the culprit, but additional work over a longer period of time is needed before scientists can be certain of that.

However, even if global warming would be limited to the internationally acknowledged threshold of 2 degrees Celsius of global warming, this would bear the risk of additional day - to - day variability between 8 and 24 percent above the pre-industrial level, according to the analysis.

As it does, it could release tons of additional methane gas, which has 20 times the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide, possibly increasing the rate of global warming.

Schlesinger and Ramankutty reach broadly similar conclusions, but they also point out that even though greenhouse gases now dominate global warming, if part of the warming during this century is indeed due to solar changes, the additional greenhouse effect may be weaker than was previously thought (Nature, vol 360, p 330).

The study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that nearly 4 million square kilometres of frozen soil — an area larger than India — could be lost for every additional degree of global warming experienced.

To have any hope of slowing the pace and holding down the upper level temperatures that global warming will bring over this century, the human population of the world will need to make large reductions of the additional billions of tons of greenhouse gases they are projected to be pumping into the atmosphere, each year.

Future global warming can be predicted much more accurately than is generally realized... we predict additional warming in the next 50 years of 3/4 + / - 1/4 °C, a warming rate of 0.15 + / - 0.05 °C per decade.

-LSB-...] The CAA as amended in 1990 does mention «carbon dioxide» and» global warming potential,» but only once, in the context of non-regulatory provisions, and each time followed by a caveat admonishing EPA not to infer authority for «pollution control requirements» or «additional regulation.»

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 will also include complicated models of interconnected ecosystem feedbacks.The panel's last report noted that preliminary knowledge of such feedbacks suggested that an additional 100 billion to 500 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions would have to be prevented in the next century to avoid dangerous global warming.

A clear explanation of radiative forcing, CO2 infrared opacity and how additional atmospheric CO2 will contribute to significant warming would be important to many of trying to explain the physics of global warming.

To have any hope of slowing the pace and holding down the upper level temperatures that global warming will bring over this century, the human population of the world will need to make large reductions of the additional billions of tons of greenhouse gases they are projected to be pumping into the atmosphere, each year.

For global warming scenarios, additional forcing comes into play: surface warming and enhanced high - latitude precipitation, which will also reduce density of northern surface waters (an effect which alone has shut down deep water formation in some model experiments, e.g. Manabe and Stouffer 1993, 1994).

With even further warming more hydrates are released, additional global soil feedback (extreme soil respiration rates, compost bomb instability) and weathering becomes a driver, now Ocean very stratified, maybe things like permanent El Nino, weather systems probably move very slow — everything gets stuck due to lack of perturbed ocean, no or very little frozen water at the poles.

In the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change — an additional global mean warming of 1 degree Celsius above the last decade — is far beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting to it.

Global average surface temperatures are not expected to change significantly although temperatures at higher latitudes may be expected to decrease to a modest extent because of a reduction in the efficiency of meridional heat transport (offsetting the additional warming anticipated for this environment caused by the build - up of greenhouse gases).

Though an additional key, which people that are dead and determined to label this as shear man made global warming need to remember we are coming out of a mini ice age (1400 - 1800ish).

A counterpoint to this argument is exemplified by Gerald Marsh in his «Global Warming Primer» (www.nationalcenter.org/NPA420.pdf) where he claims...» additional carbon dioxide does have an influence at the edges of the 14.99 micron band.

One way or another, expect a lot more stories like Mr. Yiryel's in Africa, where demographers expect an additional one billion people by midcentury and science has revealed patterns of withering drought, with or without global warming.

One also has an additional problem that global warming is likely to be good for a not insignificant number of people.

According to the SEI study, global warming could increase the long - term water shortfall by a quarter, adding an additional 282 million to 439 million acre feet of water to the 1.815 billion acre feet shortfall already expected.

The Nature commentary by Penner et al. on which this argument is based actually says that on top of the global warming caused by carbon dioxide, other short - lived pollutants (such as methane and black carbon) cause an additional warming approximately 65 % as much as CO2, and other short - lived pollutants (such as aerosols) also cause some cooling.

Some climate scientists have looked at the potential impact of such an event and concluded that it likely would delay additional global warming — but only until the sun returned to more - normal swings in sun - spot activity.

Its definition as a pollutant relies entirely on its alleged causation of significant global warming and on the additional assumption that a warmer climate is damaging.

Four degrees of warming could raise global sea levels by 1 or possibly even 2 meters by 2100 (and would lock in at least a few additional meters over future centuries).

Psychologists studying climate communication make two additional (and related) points about why the warming - snow link is going to be exceedingly difficult for much of the public to accept: 1) people's confirmation biases lead them to pay skewed attention to weather events, in such a way as to confirm their preexisting beliefs about climate change (see p. 4 of this report); 2) people have mental models of «global warming» that tend to rule out wintry impacts.

According to the company's SEC filings, food price increases during 2013 have made them more wary of the effects of global warming on their food, and the company expects there to be «additional pricing pressures on some of those ingredients, including avocados, beef, dairy and chicken during 2014.»

New research has found evidence of a positive feedback mechanism brought on by climate change in which global warming itself may intensify a rise in greenhouse gases, resulting in additional warming.

But to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and keep the world on a path that could limit global warming to 2 degrees C, IEA projects that an additional 18 percent, or $ 5 trillion, in cumulative investment would be needed through 2035.

Dr Dieter Gerten, research expert on water scarcity, and lead author of one of the three studies contained in the PIK paper, said mean global warming of 2ºC − the target set by the international community − is projected to expose an additional 8 % of humankind to new or increased water scarcity.

You seem to be leaving out the ocean temperature data, as additional evidence for global warming independent of the urban heating effect: http://www.john-daly.com/mobydick/oceans.htm

Option C won't make it go away either because simulations are so massaged by confirmation bias that many reasonable people, understanding this, may tentitively choose option A. On the other hand, the problem of catastrophic global warming may well go away with additional data.

The study, conducted by climate change experts from the universities of Leeds and Exeter and the Met Office, all in the UK, and the universities of Stockholm and Oslo, suggests that nearly four million square kilometres of frozen soil — an area larger than India — could be lost for every additional degree of global warming the planet experiences.

«The climate alarmists maintain that man's emissions of CO2 caused such a rapid increase world - wide, and further increases in CO2 will create additional catastrophic global warming.

Although there is considerable scientific evidence that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C is necessary to prevent very dangerous warming, a fact implicit in the recent Paris Agreement in which nations agreed to work to keep warming as close as possible from exceeding 1.5 degrees C additional warming, if the international community seeks to limit warming to 2 degrees C it must assure that global emissions do not exceed the number of tons of CO2 emissions that will raise atmospheric concentrations to levels that will cause warming of 2 degrees C.

As I have also noted in recent public comments, additional mechanisms have been identified by which changes in atmospheric circulation patterns that may be a result of global warming could be affecting droughts in the American West.

The scientists say their findings provide a hint, but only a hint, that additional global warming could further intensify the cycle, the El Niño - Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, and thus bring more bouts of destructive weather.

Methane hydrates that are on the edge of stabilization can be disturbed by global warming in two additional ways, temperature and pressure: Warming of the Earth's crust as heat penetrates sediments on the sewarming in two additional ways, temperature and pressure: Warming of the Earth's crust as heat penetrates sediments on the seWarming of the Earth's crust as heat penetrates sediments on the seafloor.

Anyone needing additional confirmation need only read the national headlines for a couple of months and observe its ongoing response to Anthropogenic Climate Change (nee Anthropogenic Global Warming).

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].

«Arctic Ice in «Death Spiral» with additional heating due to global warming, the extent of sea ice cover has gotten smaller and smaller over the summers since the 1980s.

«Also in 2006,» Michaels told the Vermont court, «when a $ 100,000 contract between New Hope and electric utility Intermountain Rural Electric Association to synthesize and research new findings on global warming became public knowledge, a public campaign was initiated to change the composition of the Intermountain board of directors so that there would be no additional funding.

For example, with each degree of warming, renewable water resources are projected to decline by at least 20 percent for an additional 7 percent of the global population.

To avoid the worst effects of global warming, there is broad scientific agreement that we must limit additional warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels.