Sentences with phrase «at current warming»

«Tuvalu's future at current warming is already bleak.

I look at the current warming of the North Pacific, and I expect that heat in the water will cause the Pacific storm tracks to move, and change the weather up and down the West Coast of North America.

I look at the current warming of the North Pacific, and I expect that heat in the water will cause the Pacific storm tracks to move, and change the weather up and down the West Coast of North America.

Not exact matches

«But if the current trajectory of carbon pollution levels continues unchecked, the world is on track for at least three degrees of warming.

Under current policies, the IEA puts the chances of holding global temperature increases to less than 2 degrees — the threshold at which global warming tips us into the danger zone — at a scant 2 percent.

It's a «feel good» message that gives everyone warm feelings before they die and go to Hell because the «chaplin» wanted to make sure that they were «at peace» in their current state, and lost sight of the state to follow.

A new study that looks at climate change over the past 11,300 years — a record length of time for any study — suggests that the current trend of global warming is unprecedented.

Belgian international Vermaelen has been left to warm the bench for the best part of a year and is said to have told Wenger he wants to seek a move away at the end of the current campaign.

The current weather conditions aren't bad at all; it's warmer in Nikolai and McGrath than it is elsewhere along the race route.

Arsenal's fans have never really warmed to the 29 - year - old France international since his arrival from Montpellier in 2012, and his current profligacy at a crucial time in the season has seen the tide of opinion turn even further against him.

If you are not comfortable with giving your toddler a warm bath at his current condition, you can sponge bath them with lukewarm water.

The current regulations are aimed at cutting tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide, a major contributor to global warming.

«A modest reduction in flows at Hinckley right now will alleviate any further threat from current low levels and the potential impact of the warm - weather months to come.

But new models show that at the current rates of greenhouse gas emissions, warming seas will push these foraging grounds much farther south.

But under those future warmer conditions, monarchs raised on the tropical milkweed survived at only one fifth the rate of butterflies raised under current conditions.

A recent study (pdf) estimated that at the current rate of global warming, Manhattan will face a sea level rise of 2 feet or more by 2080.

'' [E] missions of black carbon are the second strongest contribution to current global warming, after carbon dioxide emissions,» wrote Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a prominent climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Greg Carmichael, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Iowa, in the April 2008 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience.

The fall of the temperature of the sea water is sometimes a sign of the proximity of ice, although in regions where there is an intermixture of cold and warm currents going on, as at the junction of the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream, the temperature of the sea has been known to rise as the ice is approached.

At that time, CO2 levels are thought to have been close to current levels — around 390 parts per million — but global temperatures were warmer.

However, in light of our substantiation of the effects of «grand solar minima» upon past global climates, it could be speculated that the current pausing of «Global Warming», which is frequently referenced by those sceptical of climate projections by the IPCC, might relate at least in part to a countervailing effect of reduced solar activity, as shown in the recent sunspot cycle.»

Climate researchers from the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group ECUS at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam have now investigated how temperature variability changed as the Earth warmed from the last glacial period to the current interglacial period.

«At 1.5 degrees Celsius, half of the time we stay within our current summer sea ice regime whereas if we reach 2 degrees of warming, the summer sea ice area will always be below what we have experienced in recent decades.»

Map of current land and ice separating the Weddell and Ross seas, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Wutsje / CIA Octopuses have made themselves at home in most of the world's oceans — from the warmest of tropical seas to the deep, dark reaches around hydrothermal vents.

Increased flow of the East Australian Current, for example, has meant waters south - east of the continent are warming at two to three times the global average.

If global emissions continue at the current trajectory, Australia is expected to warm more than 9 F by 2090.

At current global warming rates, the band could shift north 5 degrees by 2100, drying out Ecuador, Columbia and the U.S. Southwest.

At the same time, the Indian Ocean Dipole, a current discovered only in the past decade, cools the eastern tropics and warms western currents, lessening spring rains in the southeast.

Launching his long - awaited plan to combat climate change today, Obama explicitly linked current hardships to our planet's warming trend: «Farmers see crops wilted one year, washed away the next, and the higher food prices get passed on to you,» he told an audience at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

But current methods to desalinate water come at a very high cost in terms of energy, which means more greenhouse gases and more global warming.

Changes in ocean currents, Kennett says, triggered the methane bursts by channeling warmer water over continental slopes, as at Storegga.

Climate model projections neglecting these changes would continue to overestimate the radiative forcing and global warming in coming decades if these aerosols remain present at current values or increase.

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Time is running out: if global warming continues at its current rate, glaciers at an altitude below 3,500 metres in the Alps and 5,400 metres in the Andes will have disappeared by the end of the end of the 21st century.

Hamilton noted that the commission's report is not the first time The Lancet has taken a stab at climate change, but previous reports focused on the worst - case scenarios of global warming and their devastating health consequences, whereas the current report highlights the benefits of addressing climate change and touts «no regrets» actions that benefit the environment and health.

The application of gentle cooling and warming currents inside the ear canal can provide relief for migraine sufferers, new research at the University of Kent has helped show.

The section of the 2007 IPCC report that deals with climate impacts, called Working Group II, included a statement in its chapter on Asia (see p. 493) that Himalayan glaciers are receding faster than any other glaciers on Earth and «the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.»

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.

Climate models do not predict an even warming of the whole planet: changes in wind patterns and ocean currents can change the way heat is distributed, leading to some parts warming much faster than average, while a few may cool, at least at first.

The discovery in the 1980s of «high - temperature» superconductors that work at warmer temperatures (though still not room temperature) was a giant step forward, offering scientists the hope that a complete understanding of what enables these materials to carry loss - free current would help them design new materials for everyday applications.

These are materials in which all resistance to an electrical current disappears at temperatures ranging from near absolute zero to as «warm» as around — 170 degrees Fahrenheit -LRB--- 112 degrees Celsius).

For every 100 people in the US, there will be six additional sleepless nights per year by 2050, if global warming continues at its current rate.

He looked at both average seasonal snowfall and extreme snowfall events under current climate conditions, and also following projected future warming.

In the current analysis, Bohr wanted to find out if people's particular political orientations and beliefs about global warming changed at all during periods of so - called temperature anomalies, when temperatures above or beyond the normal are experienced.

At least half of current vegetated areas are predicted to shift to a different type of vegetation class, with a general trend of now - present grasses and small shrubs yielding to larger shrubs and trees as the climate warms, the scientists said.

The effect is so strong, she said, that if Earth continues to warm at the current rate, the LC50 for one species she has studied, fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas), will be only half as much in 2060 as it is now.

The perception that future climate warming is inevitable stands at the centre of current climate - policy discussions.

This so - called constant - composition commitment results as temperatures gradually equilibrate with the current atmospheric radiation imbalance, and has been estimated at between 0.3 °C and 0.9 °C warming over the next century.»

Their results do NOT imply that we can continue emitting at current levels without experiencing warming — but that sure is easy to read into the abstract.

If greenhouse gas emissions continue on their current trend, the rate of warming will reach 0.7 °F per decade and stay that high until at least 2100.

«Some feedback loop or other processes that aren't accounted for in these models — the same ones used by the IPCC for current best estimates of 21st Century warming — caused a substantial portion of the warming that occurred during the PETM (Palaeocene - Eocene thermal maximum of 55 million years ago)», oceanographer Gerald Dickens, a professor of Earth science at Rice University and study co-author said.