Sentences with phrase «as global warming increases»

If it is later rather than sooner, at what cost to the economic structure as global warming increases?

The Associated Press wraps it up with this insight: «Will there be more or fewer twisters as global warming increases?

As global warming increases, the amount of water feeding into these rivers is likely to decrease, adding another stress factor on these waterways and the people who live near them.

The free air conditioning ought to make air cars popular in the tropics — and elsewhere, as global warming increases.

Drier means more dangerous for the forestry industry, as global warming increases drought problems and raises the chances of wildfires.

Not exact matches

Our action is creating new businesses and jobs now, and that will only increase as nations move to combat the impact of global warming.

And again: The IPCC claimed that there was an increase in extreme weather conditions as a result of human - induced global warming.

Economy and health care issues have increased in search prominence, while global warming is not as hot

An increase in snowfall has long been predicted as a result of global warming.

One aerosol, black carbon, is of increasing concern for Arctic nations worried about the pace of climate change in the far north, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

As a result, more of human emissions would remain in the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect that contributes to global warming and alters Earth's climate.

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.

Global warming is causing not only a general increase in temperatures, but also an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as flooding, heat waves and droughts.

But climate scientists worry that global warming will endanger vineyards, as the increase in very hot days takes a toll on delicate grapes.

As a result, 10 prominent scientists have written a letter to President Bush and other government leaders urging them to «shape policies to assure that government incentives for biofuels do not increase global warming.»

Changes in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere due to changes in solar activity can not explain global warming, as average cosmic ray intensities have been increasing since 1985 even as the world has warmed — the opposite of what should happen if cosmic rays produce climate - cooling clouds.

«If the winds continue to increase as a result of global warming, then we will continue to see increased energy in eddies and jets that will have significant implications for the ability of the Southern Ocean to store carbon dioxide and heat,» said Dr Hogg.

Either way, this finding means that increasing levels of carbon dioxide can affect trees both indirectly through global warming and directly as a chemical compound.

As global leaders gather in Paris seeking a much - anticipated agreement to keep global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, nations face increasing pressure to reduce emissions and contribute to decarbonizing the global economy.

Scientists already point to increased severity of hurricanes on the East Coast, major Midwest floods, and shrinking glaciers in the West as proof of global warming's onset.

«Dangerous» global warming includes consequences such as increased risk of extreme weather and climate events ranging from more intense heat waves, hurricanes, and floods, to prolonged droughts.

«Global warming and climate change... increase the renewal and wear rates of lubrication materials, as well as the possibility of track twisting and buckling,» said Kaewunruen in an earlier paper with Lei Wu, who is currently working on the Kuala Lumpur - Singapore High Speed Railway.

Global warming is increasing temperatures twice as fast in the Arctic as elsewhere on the planet.

Climate change made Hurricane Harvey more powerful and increased its deadly flooding, according to new research released as major storms may be driving more Americans to worry about global warming.

The analysis follows previous studies that show that a business - as - usual scenario, which assumes a continued growth of global emissions, would deliver a warming increase of 4.5 °C by 2100.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

Climate experts have long warned that global warming could bring an increase in extreme weather, such as hurricanes and drought.

As temperatures increase with global warming, more icebergs disintegrate in the ocean, creating a noisier environment

Again, green groups and scientists have criticized the commission's 40 % proposal as insufficient to limit global warming to a temperature increase of 2ºC — which is widely considered as the threshold above which climate change would cause severe effects; Greenpeace, for instance, had hoped for a 55 % reduction.

From the basic physics of the atmosphere, scientists expect that as the planet heats up from ever - mounting levels of greenhouse gases, net global precipitation will increase because a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture.

Tree mortality can radically transform ecosystems, affect biodiversity, harm local economies, and pose fire risks, as well as further increase global warming.

As evidence of global warming increased, removing carbon from the air had become important in the world outside.

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.

However, it says the observed changes in fire activity are in line with long - term, global fire patterns that climate models have projected will occur as temperatures increase and droughts become more severe in the coming decades due to global warming.

As global temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter future, shortly after the next change in the windAs global temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter future, shortly after the next change in the windas glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter future, shortly after the next change in the winds.

Such findings indicate that few places on Earth will be immune to global warming and that the tropics will likely experience associated climate impacts, such as increased tropical storm intensity.»

But the Berlin workshop concluded that the real figure is even higher — aerosols may have reduced global warming by as much as three - quarters, cutting increases by 1.8 °C.

However, the vast majority of study participants also associated global warming with risks wholly contrary to scientific evidence, such as an increase in the incidence of skin cancer.

«(VII) standards for practices and materials to achieve cool roofs in residential buildings, taking into consideration reduced air conditioning energy use as a function of cool roofs, the potential reduction in global warming from increased solar reflectance from buildings, and cool roofs criteria in State and local building codes and in national and local voluntary programs, without reduction of otherwise applicable ceiling insulation standards; and

The medieval warm was not a global event, was probably not synchronous even in the Northern Hemisphere, and was probably not as warm as we are now — and certainly was not as warm as we'll be in 2100 if CO2 continues to increase.

They tend to believe that as the planet warms, low - level cloud cover will increase, thus increasing planetary albedo (overall reflectiveness of the Earth), offsetting the increased greenhouse effect and preventing a dangerous level of global warming from occurring.

«It is ironic that high concentrations of molecules with high global warming potential (GWP), the worst - case scenario for Earth's climate, is the optimal scenario for detecting an alien civilization, as GWP increases with stronger infrared absorption and longer atmospheric lifetime,» say the authors.

The Hadley Centre has calculated the massive increase in atmospheric CO2 levels if the Amazon was to die back as a result of global warming (climate models differ on how likely this is, I understand).

As a consequence, their results are strongly influenced by the low increase in observed warming during the past decade (about 0.05 °C / decade in the 1998 — 2012 period compared to about 0.12 °C / decade from 1951 to 2012, see IPCC 2013), and therewith possibly also by the incomplete coverage of global temperature observations (Cowtan and Way 2013).

While the Alps could lose anything between 75 percent and 90 percent of their glacial ice by the end of the century, Greenland's glaciers — which have the potential to raise global sea levels by up to 20 feet — are expected to melt faster as their exposure to warm ocean water increases.

Dan Kellog, an engineer (not climate scientist) on another blog, has raised the issue of once a glacier has melted away, the local temps could rise dramatically (and perhaps, averaged altogether around the world as glaciers melt away, increase the rate of global warming).

The scientific evidence for global warming and for humanity's role in the increase of greenhouse gasses becomes ever more unimpeachable, as the [United Nations] IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Report] findings are going to suggest; and such activity has a profound relevance, not just for the environment, but in ethical, economic, social and political terms as well.

Gagliano says that as - yet - unpublished work shows that exposing adult reef fish to higher water temperatures and increasingly acid water — both of which are associated with global warming — increases the percentage of offspring born with asymmetrical otoliths.

Although many parts of west Africa are experiencing increased rainfall as a result of global warming, in northern Ghana, which is mostly arid savanna, it's diminishing or becoming unpredictable.

If the climate sensitivity is low, for example due to increasing low - lying cloud cover reflecting more sunlight as a response to global warming, then how can these large past climate changes be explained?