Sentences with phrase «as average temperatures rise»

And, of course, if under such a scenario it is vulnerable, it continues to become more vulnerable as average temperatures rise and extreme events become more frequent, and more extreme.

Surface water will be harder to come by, and groundwater will be drained, as average temperatures rise.

On the spindly peninsula that stretches out toward South America, temperatures have risen rapidly, nearly 5 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years, about 10 times as much as the average temperature rise worldwide.

Not exact matches

Wildfires have gotten worse in recent years because of climate change, and that trend is expected to continue as Earth's average temperature rises.

As Mann explained, the rising temperatures in the region add up to 1 °C to 1.5 °C higher temperatures than average a few decades ago.

There is a direct connection between the current changes in the world's atmosphere and the rise in average temperature; this is known as global warming or the «greenhouse effect».

But climate models predict reductions in dissolved oxygen in all oceans as average global air and sea temperatures rise, and this may be the main driver of what is happening there, she says.

The average summer temperature in Boston stands to increase by as much as 14 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, bringing with it a sharp rise in the number of deadly hot spells.

Reducing the amount of fossil fuels (such as gasoline for cars and coal burned for electricity) that we use can help slow how quickly the ice is melting (by slowing the rise in average temperatures).

But when average temperatures rise, as is happening in many places around the world because of climate change, big blocks of ice melt more quickly than they can grow during the winter.

As we flood the atmosphere with more CO2, and average global temperatures rise, some areas of the planet are getting wetter.

Climate change is aiding shipping, fisheries and tourism in the Arctic but the economic gains fall short of a «cold rush» for an icy region where temperatures are rising twice as fast as the world average.

It's an area described as a climate «hot spot,» with temperatures in many parts rising faster than the global average.

On average, nearly four Central Valley residents die prematurely every day because of the pollution, and experts predict that within the next few years, as temperatures continue to rise and population growth raises smog levels, one of every four children will have asthma.

Moreover, the annual number of hot days — defined as average temperatures exceeding between 25 and 30 degrees Celsius, depending on location — rose by almost two a decade.

A new study predicts where the cat - like primates are likely to seek refuge if average temperatures throughout the island rise by 1.1 to 2.6 degrees by 2050, as predicted.

Despite a significant rise in temperatures, bumblebees have failed to track north to escape the heat further south, clipping an average of 300 kilometres from the southern limits of their ranges as a result compared with the baseline.

Those models will look at impacts such as regional average temperature change, sea - level rise, ocean acidification, and the sustainability of soils and water as well as the impacts of invasive species on food production and human health.

The authors defined a heat event as three or more successive days in which the 24 - hour daily mean temperature rose above a certain historical average high for July and August — in Philadelphia's case, 27 degrees Celsius.

By the end of this century, according to the new research, some «megapolitan» regions of the U.S. could see local average temperatures rise by as much as 3 degrees Celsius, in addition to whatever global warming may do.

Doniger notes that Bush has refused to sign on to a plan that calls for a 50 percent cut in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 2050 or to an effort to hold average temperatures from rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, as have been proposed by other countries.

Any reforms to come from the process, starting next week, would affect about 62 percent of New York state's population, the proportion estimated to reside now in areas that could be hard hit as rising land and ocean temperatures raise average sea levels around the globe.

As world leaders hold climate talks in Paris, research shows that land surface temperatures may rise by an average of almost 8C by 2100, if significant efforts are not made to counteract climate change.

With its latest annual effort at what is known as decadal forecasting, the Met Office is predicting that global temperatures will continue to rise from 2016 through 2020, with those years likely falling between 0.5 ° and 1.4 °F (0.28 and 0.77 °C) above the 1981 - 2010 average.

The major carbon producers data can be applied to climate models to derive the carbon input's effect on climate change impacts including global average temperature, sea level rise, and extreme events such as heat waves.

But skyrocketing Arctic temperatures, which are rising twice as fast as the global average, have set off a downward spiral in sea ice levels.

Diurnal temperature range (DTR) decreased by 0.07 °C per decade averaged over 1950 to 2004, but had little change from 1979 to 2004, as both maximum and minimum temperatures rose at similar rates.

Extreme heat is one of the hallmarks of global warming; as the average temperature of the planet rises, record heat becomes much more likely than record cold.

However, at the increased levels seen since the Industrial Revolution (roughly 275 ppm then, 400 ppm now; Figure 2 - 1), greenhouse gases are contributing to the rapid rise of our global average temperatures by trapping more heat, often referred to as human - caused climate change.

The researchers studied all 571 European cities to assess the likely impact of flooding, drought and heatwaves in the latter half of the century, under a climate model where average temperatures rise between 2.6 C and 4.8 C - the current widely accepted business - as - usual trajectory.

As greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere and trap heat, Alaska could see its average annual temperature rise another 6 °F to 12 °F (3 °C to 7 °C) by the end of the century depending on the location.

As average global temperatures rise, researchers project that the risk of wildfires in America's West will accelerate.

The WMO warned that continuing on a business as usual path of rising emissions could put the world on track for 10.8 °F (6 °C) increase in the global average temperature.

And the Arctic, where the average temperature is rising twice as fast as the rest of the world, has become the unfortunate laboratory where researchers can best measure their impact.

The Fourth Assessment Report finds that «Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising mean sea level.

For example the Central England Temperature record tells us that annual average temperatures in the 1690s (in the depths of the Maunder Minimum) plummeted as low as 7.27 deg C (in 1695) but rose to 10.47 deg C (in 1733 - note that the figure for 2005 is 10.44 deg C).

Rising CO2 levels have been linked to the globe's average temperature rise as well as a host of other changes to the climate system including sea level rise, shifts in precipitation, ocean acidification, and an increase in extreme heat.

Alaska is an anomaly, with temperatures rising an average of 3 degrees in the last 60 years, twice as fast as the continental U.S. Scientists predict that temperatures will rise another two to four degrees by 2050.

The city has an average temperature of around 5 - 6 °C at this time of year which slowly rises as the month progresses.

Across July, daily average temperatures gradually rise as the month progresses.

All I can say is that my funny internal feelings tell me that there is no hard data to show that average global temperatures, in 2007, are rising as fast as the GCMs predict.

Can anyone provide hard data which demonstrates that, here in 2007, average global temperatures are rising as fast as the GCMs predict?

Global warming does not mean no winter, it means winter start later, summer hotter, as Gary Peters said «The global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.»

There seem to be two answers; either temperatures are going to rise at an average annual rate as predicted by the IPCC and the GCMs, or temperatures are going to reach a maximum and then decline.

If one postulates that the global average surface temperature tracks the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, possibly with some delay, then when the CO2 concentration continues to rise monotonically but the global average surface temperature shows fluctuations as a function of time with changes in slope (periods wherein it decreases), then you must throw the postulate away.

My questions, the answers to which I may have missed in this string, are how can one relate the forcing at 2XCO2 to an expected atmospheric temperature rise in a way that a citizen can understand; and is the forcing as stated as a degree C to be compared with the forcing at 280 ppm (pre industrial) NOT with today's measured temperature or rise above average?

As the distribution of land and ocean areas in the two hemispheres is markedly different the redistribution of heat via MOC leaves open the possibility of the world getting hotter in the first sense whilst the averaged temperatures only rise a little or stagnate.

However their predictions are about much more than just the average near - surface air temperature, they are mainly focused on how heat mixes into the ocean and how that affects the rise in surface temperature as CO2 is doubled over 100 years.

Given the decadal averages and the issue of what is meant by «the next» decade, Romm does have a point that the result of the paper could more clearly be described as representing «a period of flat global mean temperatures extending somewhat into the coming decade, following by a very rapid rise in temperature leaving the planet on its long - term trend line by 2030.»

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level.