Sentences with phrase «caused by the ocean currents»

No mention of the effects caused by ocean currents, especially from the NE Atlantic?

Also warming should be more pronounced at higher latitudes, but there is no, repeat no, warming in Antarctica except for the peninsula, where the warming is probably caused by ocean currents, not atmospheric CO2.

Not exact matches

The immediate disasters of The Day After Tomorrow remains wild exaggeration, but melting ice could yet cause dramatic climate changes by altering ocean currents

Extreme weather does not prove the existence of global warming, but climate change is likely to exaggerate it — by messing with ocean currents, providing extra heat to forming tornadoes, bolstering heat waves, lengthening droughts and causing more precipitation and flooding.

These observations of spatial variation in relation to the terrain features are likely driven in part by changes in ocean bottom current speeds produced by the hilly terrain; this causes changes in the settling and drifting of marine snow.

«Famine in the Horn of Africa (1984) was caused by El Nino and currents in the Indian Ocean.»

Information from these GPS signal reflections can be potentially used by scientists to monitor ocean currents by measuring the slopes currents cause in the ocean's surface.

Temperature observations are sparse around the hostile continent, but scientists recently modeled the ocean current knock - on effects of these wind changes, which have been caused by ozone thinning and by the buildup of greenhouse gases.

Strengthening ENSO over the current interglacial period, caused by increasing positive ocean - atmosphere feedbacks

The currents caused by large, swirling eddies at the ocean's surface may reach all the way to the sea floor, a new study suggests.

Real scientists (as opposed to climate modellers) have long maintained that the decline in Arctic ice is caused not by warmer air — in the past year or two Arctic air temperatures have actually been falling — but by shifts in major ocean currents, pushing warmer water up into the Arctic Circle.

It is possible the Arctic ice melt could also be related to ocean currents carrying highly saline water caused by the recent increased SSTs in the temperate oceans between 1985 and 2005 to the region.

Up welling may be from other causes such as when an ocean current is obstructed by an island.

But as cogently interpreted by the physicist and climate expert Dr. Joseph Romm of the liberal Center for American Progress, «Latif has NOT predicted a cooling trend — or a «decades - long deep freeze» — but rather a short - time span where human - caused warming might be partly offset by ocean cycles, staying at current record levels, but then followed by «accelerated» warming where you catch up to the long - term human - caused trend.

We have had lengthy heating phase caused by a spurt of insolation, now we have had a big El Nino, a subsequent shift to La Nina and the resulting warm currents moving up the the Western Pacific, causing warming polar oceans and changes in atmospheric water vapor content.

Density currents are also caused by differences in the amount of salt (salinity) on the ocean water.

They describe abnormally warm or cool sea surface temperatures in the South Pacific that are caused by changing ocean currents.

18 Deep Currents Deep currents are caused by differences in the density of oceaCurrents Deep currents are caused by differences in the density of oceacurrents are caused by differences in the density of ocean water.

Surface ocean currents are formed by winds that cause the water to move in the direction that the.

The largest and most powerful surface current in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf Stream, is caused by strong winds that blow regularly from the west.

The explanation of the that «incongruous» sea ice decline is very simple: Arctic warming is not caused by an imaginary AGW but by warm Gulf Stream water carried into the Arctic Ocean by North Atlantic currents.

11 Surface Currents Make up 10 % of oceans» water Up to maximum depth of 400 m Surface ocean currents are caused by the surface wind pCurrents Make up 10 % of oceans» water Up to maximum depth of 400 m Surface ocean currents are caused by the surface wind pcurrents are caused by the surface wind patterns.

6 Climate is caused by many factors including: Trapping of heat by the atmosphere Latitude Transport of heat by winds and ocean currents

Surface Currents Horizontal movements of ocean water caused by wind and occurring at or near the ocean's surface are called surface cCurrents Horizontal movements of ocean water caused by wind and occurring at or near the ocean's surface are called surface currentscurrents.

The present state of the Arctic is not caused by any global warming but is the consequence of North Atlantic currents carrying warm Gulf Stream water into the Arctic Ocean.

Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global - warming effect caused by mankind, Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said.

The cause of this emerging outbreak of methane, as explained by AMEG, is a horrendous cycle that started 20 - 30 years ago when Atlantic and Pacific Ocean currents, warmed by greenhouse gases, flowed into the Arctic Ocean.

Arctic ice periods caused by cyclic variations in ocean currents have been known for ages, too.

A new study on ice loss in Antarctica by the British Antarctic Survey confirms what we already know about the effects of global warming but it differentiates between the effects of ocean currents, their cause and the air temperature effects at the ice surface.

Rising surface temperatures in the last three decades of the 20th century were roughly half caused by man - made global warming and half by the ocean currents keeping more heat near the surface, it finds.

It's very clear (thanks to Steve M, Willis etc) that there are issues with both but given the current hyped claim by the «warmers» that the past effects of man - caused global warming have largely been masked by the warming of the oceans and that unless we reduce CO2 emissions now that we won't be able to mitigate future global warming when this «stored heat» eventually comes back out of the oceans and leads to catastrophic effects, I'm very interested in getting to the punchline of this debate on SSTs.

So while admitting, there probably is a very modest amount of AGW in the current warming cycle, it could just as easily have been caused by: i) the effects of the huge increase in global irrigation, ii) tiny changes in the sun's radiation, and / or iii) the knock on effects of changes in the intensity and direction of ocean currents.

The supposed acceleration of warming from 1978 to to 1998 was preceded by 1940 to 1978 cooling [exactly what the ocean currents should cause.]

For example, reductions in seasonal sea ice cover and higher surface temperatures may open up new habitat in polar regions for some important fish species, such as cod, herring, and pollock.128 However, continued presence of cold bottom - water temperatures on the Alaskan continental shelf could limit northward migration into the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.129, 130 In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.134

I also agree that question 7's statement that Antarctic ocean currents are caused by the ozone hole is interesting.

I attribute it to natural variability caused by the position of the jet stream, local and national currents, warmth of ocean water, direction of winds etc..

Of course, it is unacceptable in today's world for climate to be caused by geography or silly things like the ocean currents.

This has probably been true for centuries, they said, the result of motions in the ice sheet caused by winds and the force of ocean currents, as well as warming temperatures.

Meanwhile, the hot water rising causes an ocean current towards the cooler pole as cool water fills the space left by the rising heat.

A change in ocean currents, for example diversion of a warm pacific current to the Arctic for a prolonged period, could cause global cooling by eliminating ice in the Arctic all year.

As an instructive example, the argument that the current hiatus in surface temperature rise is being caused by energy storage in the ocean is an invocation of capacitance.

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None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2, Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.

Had the warming of the late 20th century been caused by a wobble in ocean currents as Ferrara insists, such a wobble would be plainly evident within palaeoclimate records.

In the almost sure knowledge that the earth never experienced a runaway greenhouse even with ancient CO2 levels 10 to 20 times greater than today, these anti-science scoundrels insist with a «high level of confidence» that this amplification is real and it's based on nothing more than faster than expected surface temperature rise in the past few decades which can be TOTALLY explained by multi-decadal cyclic behavior in ocean currents, trade winds, and / or solar magnetic activity causing small global average albedo changes.