5:30 p.m. Updated with a tweet Jack Cushman, a Times journalist with a longstanding interest in the environment, just sent me a recent National Geographic web feature on a Vatican decision,
prompted by the warming climate, to approve a change in a centuries - old annual Catholic ritual and prayer in a couple of villages high in the Swiss Alps.
The Northern Rocky Mountain forests are particularly sensitive to the changes
brought by a warming climate and earlier spring snowmelt, said A. LeRoy Westerling, co-director of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at the University of California, Merced.
The potential effects of such processes were taken to the extreme in the 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow, in which floating meltwater
produced by warming climate caused the North Atlantic to freeze over almost instantly, in turn locking much of the United States in ice within days.
The head of the World Meteorological Society, Michel Jarraud has warned that of all the threats
posed by a warming climate, shrinking water supplies are the most serious.
And by filing suit, too, New York is jumping into an international fight over who should pay the growing costs
imposed by a warming climate.
What if a hurricane even nastier than Katrina — made
stronger by the warmer climate — were to barrel through Florida and leave a trail of destruction in its path?
It is found that North Atlantic Deep Water formation is
favored by a warm climate, while cold climates are more likely to produce Southern Ocean deep water or deep - decoupling oscillations (when the Southern sinking region is halocline covered).
Rising sea levels
caused by a warming climate threaten greater future storm damage to New York City, but the paths of stronger future storms may shift offshore, changing the coastal risk for the city, according to a team of climate scientists.
The inescapable if unfashionable conclusion is that the human use of fossil fuels has been causing the greening of the planet in three separate ways: first, by displacing firewood as a fuel; second,
by warming the climate; and third, by raising carbon dioxide levels, which raise plant growth rates.
And it's happening because of carbon dioxide and global warming: «human use of fossil fuels has been causing the greening of the planet in three separate ways: first, by displacing firewood as a fuel; second,
by warming the climate; and third, by raising carbon dioxide levels, which raise plant growth rates.»
In a new study, just published in Nature Climate Change, we show that the increased frequency of Beijing winter severe haze is not just due to pollution from China's rapid economic development, but also because of changes in wind patterns caused
by a warming climate.
And, grape harvests are only one of many biological cycles already being affected
by warming climate, with uncertain results.