Sentences with phrase «as global temperatures»

Green roofs help reduce urban heat and associated energy use, which is a particular concern as global temperatures rise.

So Perth sea levels haven't risen by up to 10 mm per year since 1993, they aren't rising three times faster than the global average, land subsidence indicates they've been closer to flat and possibly even fallen since 1993, and the leaked IPCC report confirms they've been as stable as global temperatures for well over a decade.

At first glance, sea - level rise is a straightforward phenomenon: As global temperatures increase, glaciers melt, pouring additional water into the oceans.

A team of scientists in Germany says record - breaking heavy rainfall has been increasing strikingly in the last 30 years as global temperatures increase.

So is there reason to believe hurricanes are on the rise as global temperatures warm?

But, as global temperatures rise, cities hosting the Winter Olympics may find it increasingly difficult to ensure, or at least confidently predict, the weather will allow the games to be possible.

As global temperatures increase, we are very likely to see «tipping points,» where the climate - system shifts from one stable situation to another stable situation.

[ii] The range of uncertainty for the warming along the current emissions path is wide enough to encompass massively disruptive consequences to societies and ecosystems: as global temperatures rise, there is a real risk, however small, that one or more critical parts of the Earth's climate system will experience abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.

Once an isolated place for adventurers, the mountain is now extremely crowded, polluted, and facing dramatic changes as global temperatures rise.

As global temperatures increase with increasing greenhouse gas emissions, scientists predict the American Southwest will see a corresponding rise in temperatures, by 4 - 10 °F, in the coming decades.

Many researchers predict that thawing permafrost could release huge amounts of methane — a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide — as global temperatures rise.

«There is no evidence of any trend in the number of potent tornadoes (category F2 and up) over the past 50 years in the United States, even as global temperatures have risen markedly.»

As global temperatures hit record highs, the petition points out that «climate change is unquestionably a national emergency.»

As global temperatures have risen, many of the world's glaciers have already started to shrink and retreat.

But as global temperatures rise, phytoplankton are declining in the north while increasing further south.

The Nobel Prize for this should go to Al Gore's 2006 film showing Michael Mann's graph — which ends just short of AD2000, as global temperatures started to plateau.

As global temperatures climb, so do the costs of adapting to a warmer world.

The result is less snow overall as global temperatures increase, but more extreme snowstorms.

He had good reason to do so as global temperatures fit his curve less well than do his (idiosyncratic) European temperatures:

As global temperatures rise, so too do average sea surface temperatures.

Last year was actually the fifth warmest year on record as far as global temperatures were concerned.

As global temperatures increase, sea level rise and extreme weather become even bigger threats to communities at home and around the world.

Do model projections tend to show us areas that will see more storm activity over the coming century as global temperatures warm?

As global temperatures increase and cause accelerated melting in the Polar Regions, sea - level rise could affect thousands of coastal communities worldwide.

As global temperatures rise, that permafrost is starting to melt, raising concerns about the impact on the climate as organic carbon becomes exposed.

First they must reproduce existing observations, a test current models are failing as the global temperatures remain nearly constant.

The new study of shrinking salamanders gives credence to the theory that as global temperatures rise, animals tend to get smaller.

Rainfall is expected to become more intense as global temperatures continue to rise, but how the duration...

No detectable or measurable reduction in CO2 emissions arising from the imposition of the renewable energy industries on the populace and consequently no need at all for any of this gross distortion of economies, of industries, of the political processes and of employment levels and of immense wealth transfers from the poor to the rich as global temperatures are stable for the last 16 years.

Even now, their models are increasingly wrong as global temperatures continue to fall.

Antarctica's ice shelves are facing other forces as global temperatures rise.

More than one study has found that the Atlantic coast of the US could face harder and more frequent battering as global temperatures creep up in response to ever - increasing use of fossil fuels that leave ever - growing ratios of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

As global temperatures rise many species are shifting their ranges, particularly towards the cooler...

As global temperatures rise, the frequency of extreme El Niños in the models then increases at a similar pace.

For example, energy required for heating is decreasing as global temperatures rise, but the energy demand for cooling in the residential and commercial sectors is rising.

As global temperatures rise on average in the coming decades — as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere increase with the continued use of fossil fuels — so regions such as the American southwest will experience greater extremes of heat and longer periods of drought.

As global temperatures (black line) decrease slowly after 2050, the frequency of extreme El Niño events (purple line) continues to rise.

Climate models have long predicted that as global temperatures warm, evaporation of surface water will increase and more moisture will be held in the atmosphere.

Our next step was to see whether these conditions will become more or less likely as global temperatures rise.

Unfortunately, as global temperatures rise along with consumer demand, this sort of thing will become more common.

Though such a nightmare melt scenario was recently theoretical, it represented a very real potential near - future event as global temperatures rose into the 1 - 2 degrees Celsius above 1880s range during recent years.

Dead zones — massive stratified columns of oxygen - deprived water — could become the new normal in oceans around the world as global temperatures continue to rise.

A worrying risk for rapid sea level rise occurs as global temperatures warm to between 1.5 and 2.5 C.

But as global temperatures rise due to climate change, snow on Christmas Day could increasingly become a rarity — even a distant memory.

In context, the current drought emergency has taken place as global temperatures hit near 1.2 degrees Celsius hotter than 1880s averages.

The winds within that ice zone keep the water extremely cold, enabling the sea ice cover to grow in recent years even as global temperatures have risen markedly.

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From the Himalayas to Alaska, glacier melting has accelerated in recent decades as global temperatures increased.

New Berkeley Lab research maps how Earth's myriad climates — and the ecosystems that depend on them — will move from one area to another as global temperatures rise.

A new study finds that the number of days wildfires are likely to burn each year is increasing as global temperatures rise.