Sentences with phrase «by gradual warming»

Either way it's still climate change.The new research, published in the journal Nature, shows that steady meltwater caused by gradual warming actually may slow down glaciers» flow towards the ocean, but sudden increases in water caused by weather extremes are driving the observed increase in melting.

A significant northward trend (reduction of ice) in the winter - maximum ice edge is apparent, however, and appears to be caused by the gradual warming of sea - surface temperatures in the region (paper available on this if you want it).

Not exact matches

«Gradual warming of the earth's atmosphere is caused by the developing countries as well as the developed countries,» says English professor Wang Xiansheng of Zhengzhou University, which is also facing rolling blackouts as a result of the current coal shortage.

Using climate models to understand the physical processes that were at play during the glacial periods, the team were able to show that a gradual rise in CO2 strengthened the trade winds across Central America by inducing an El Nino - like warming pattern with stronger warming in the East Pacific than the Western Atlantic.

This gradual shift in the Sahara's overall climate contradicts a common theory that the region dried rapidly over a few hundred years, and provides clues about a potential re-greening triggered by global warming, Kröpelin says.

Natural global warming is self - rectifying either by slow chemical weathering processes responsible for mineral sequestration of carbon or by gradual return of Earth's orbital parameters to what they were before the onset of global warming, thereby significantly reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

It should be pointed out here, that the amount of change in downward heat radiation from changes in cloud cover in the experiment, are far greater than the gradual change in warming provided by human greenhouse gas emissions, but the relationship was nevertheless established.

Her gradual softening — hastened by a well - turned omelette — mirrors the way Western producers have warmed to India as the kind of movie - mad territory it pays to get into.

These events produce rapid climate warming which is followed by a gradual, steady cooling over many years (centuries, in fact).

The attempts to stop the gradual exposure of the global warming deception by ignoring, bending, or breaking the general rules is failing.

As these particular events took place at the end of a local warm period caused by orbital forcing (see Box 6.1 and Section 6.5.1), these observations suggest that under gradual climate forcings (e.g., orbital) the climate system can change abruptly.

In the opposite transition to rapid warming in 1975, once again I am struck by the fact that while aerosol emissions ceased to rise, they did not disappear entirely from the atmosphere, but began a gradual decline from a high peak.

Natural global warming is self - rectifying either by slow chemical weathering processes responsible for mineral sequestration of carbon or by gradual return of Earth's orbital parameters to what they were before the onset of global warming, thereby significantly reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

«Early flooding of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers is an example of climate change caused by global warming,» Atiur Rahman, an environmental economist, told IRIN, noting a gradual advance of the annual flooding over the past 50 years.

Sediment samples gathered in south Australia led Kennedy's team to theorize that a catastrophic era of global warming was triggered some 635 million years ago by a gradual — and then abrupt — release of methane from frozen soils, bringing an end to «Snowball Earth,» when the entire planet was encrusted in ice.

5.3.5 In Latin America, warming and associated drier soils are projected to lead to a gradual replacement of tropical forest by savanna, and to salinization and desertification of agricultural lands.

In the Northern Hemisphere, they take the form of rapid warming episodes, typically in a matter of decades, each followed by gradual cooling over a longer period.

Instead, initial gradual melt has, in deep history, often been punctuated by very large melt pulses as glacial systems rapidly succumbed to warming environments.

In the models of greenhouse warming, the gradual dilution of northern oceans by rain eventually slows the flushing until it is about 25 percent below normal.

Because 20 - year trends can be substantially influenced by just a few single or multi-year «warm» or «cold» events, they are not necessarily representative of the true response of the climate system to the more gradual changes in atmospheric composition that are taking place in response to human activities.

«TCR was originally defined as the warming at the time of CO2 doubling (i.e., after 70 years) in a 1 % yr — 1 increasing CO2 experiment (see Hegerl et al., 2007b), but like ECS, it can also be thought of as a generic property of the climate system that determines the global temperature response ΔT to any gradual increase in RF, ΔF, taking place over an approximately 70 - year time scale, normalized by the ratio of the forcing change to the forcing due to doubling CO2, F2 × CO2: TCR = F2 × CO2 ΔT / ΔF»

Global warming, the gradual heating of Earth's surface, oceans and atmosphere, is caused by human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels that pump carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Over on the Huffington Post, blogger A. Siegel writes that the «It is cold in my backyard, therefore global warming isn't real» perspective may partly be explained by our difficulty in comprehending something as large and gradual as climate change for, among other reasons,

Plus Antarctic models are still FUBAR: The gradual warming of the North and tropical Atlantic Ocean is contributing to climate change in Antarctica, a team of New York University scientists supported by the National Science Foundation has concluded.

Quite predictable that with the reality of sea - ice disappearance and the gradual warming of freshwater lakes, that people would start to rationalize this turn of events by asserting that it would lead to previously undiscovered stores of crude oil!

Remember that both gradual warming and more volatile and extreme weather are both caused by climate change.

What happened in the Arctic, was a slow, very slow and gradual decrease in cooling, caused by progressively longer warmer seasons, with a feedback loop of warm air reducing albedo, with reduced albedo increasing warm air.

The reason for this shift, new research suggests, is the gradual warming of winters brought on by climate change.It is thought that because brown owls are more visible to predators during times of heavy snow, they have, in the past, had a harder time surviving into the breeding season.

D - O events seem to be rapid warmings followed by more gradual cooling while the YD was a rapid cooling event.

«This growth was likely spurred by several factors, including a warm winter that allowed builders to stick to construction schedules, last year's strong home construction starts, and a gradual shift from building apartments to individual homes,» says Joseph Kirchner, senior economist at realtor.com ®.