Sentences with phrase «certain effects of the warming»

No one can see much advantage in the rising seas, which are one of the most certain effects of the warming projected during the coming decades.

Not exact matches

Because the Earth's climate has a certain amount of natural variability, and those natural cycles can have warming and cooling effects that last for a couple of decades or even longer, Tebaldi said, it takes time to detect a change.

The certainty of the forecasts is particularly important as warming leads to shifts from temperate to subtropical drylands, which leads to changes in precipitation and soil moisture, which in turn has profound effects on ecological services, provided to humanity, including the viability of certain temperate agricultural systems.

Using the change in temperature from the last glacial maximum as a ruler, if the change in temperature from that is near 6 Kelvin, then 2 K warmer than pre-industrial means a certain level of effects.

Unfortunately for policymakers and the public, while the basic science pointing to a rising human influence on climate is clear, many of the most important questions will remain surrounded by deep complexity and uncertainty for a long time to come: the pace at which seas will rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), the impact on hurricanes, the particular effects in particular places (what global warming means for Addis Ababa or Atlanta).

Let me try to be more explicit: if you want to assume (or, if you prefer, conclude) that aerosols produced by the increased burning of fossil fuels after WWII had a cooling effect that essentially cancelled out the warming that would be expected as a result of the release of CO2 produced by that burning, then it's only logical to conclude that there exists a certain ratio between the warming and cooling effects produced by that same burning.

Using the change in temperature from the last glacial maximum as a ruler, if the change in temperature from that is near 6 Kelvin, then 2 K warmer than pre-industrial means a certain level of effects.

The climate system is already committed to a certain amount of warming from carbon dioxide emissions of the past, but the worst effects of global warming can still be avoided.

Alternative, more indirect, but not for that reason ultimately not effective approaches must be developed, including «demonstration» projects which show that people working together an have a positive effect on certain contributors to warming, including black soot produced by millions of stoves that use dung for fuel.

Just as the theory of relativity sets an upper limit on velocity, his theory sets an upper limit on the greenhouse effect, a limit which prevents it from warming the Earth more than a certain amount.

Beginning in 2003, McKitrick, along with retired Canadian mining executive Stephen McIntyre, began to probe two aspects of the research: the statistical method and the reliability of certain tree - ring samples, which they charged exaggerated the warming effect.

A task force of the Ministry calculated that thanks to these alternative solutions, 120 million tons of CO2 - equivalent (a figure for global warming potential measuring how much of a certain greenhouse gas contributes to the greenhouse effect) was eliminated in 2010.

He added that certain processes, such as how clouds will respond to changes in the atmosphere and the warming or cooling effect of clouds, are uncertain and different modeling groups make different assumptions about how to represent these processes.

Somewhere recently I read that Ben Santer singlehandedly edited the scientists» report to IPCC so that, instead of it reading as the scientists wrote it, to the effect that they could NOT be certain of human influence in global warming, it read to the effect that they WERE (at least «reasonably») certain of human influence.

If the negative effects of climate change, the rising air temperatures, the changing precipitation, the prevalence of extreme weather events, and the rising sea levels, become too disruptive or costly, we have the option to deploy certain climate altering technologies to remove greenhouse gases directly from the air or reflect sunlight back out of the atmosphere before it warms the earth.

So apparently you are pretty much certain that the rate of anthropogenc CO2 - caused warming over the past 5 or 6 decades would not = more than 50 % of warming if projected on a centennial scale (so certain that it would be «foolish» to think otherwise)... but the effect that you do think is attributable to anthropogenic CO2 will obviously increase proportional to a greater rate of CO2 emissions.

4 Greenhouse Effect Certain atmospheric gases trap some of the infrared radiation that escapes from the Earth, making the Earth warmer than it would be otherwise.

However, it made certain criticisms, in particular that there was an emphasis on worst - case scenarios and little mention of the positive effects of warming in some regions.

From a scientific point of view the exact execution and framing could be criticized on certain aspects (e.g. ECS is linearly extrapolated instead of logarithmically; the interpretation that recent record warmth are not peaks but rather a «correction to the trend line» depends strongly on the exact way the endpoints of the observed temperature are smoothed; the effect of non-CO2 greenhouse gases is excluded from the analysis and discussion), but the underlying point, that more warming is in store than we're currently seeing, is both valid and very important.

The reason is that without the cooling effect of aerosols formed from certain emissions, the models significantly overpredict warming from greenhouse gases.

When even genuine climate scientists can not get a short article published, that tries make other climate scientists aware of data that might have a slightly negative effect on AGW theory (as in the CO2 warming might not be as bad as predicted by climate models), well, you know for certain that climate science is no - longer functioning as a science.

It includes the cyclical long term patterns as well as the human influences (anthropogenic induced global warming - which is one of the effects measurable in certain places).

Written by thousands of science, policy, and economics experts from around the world, the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports represent a synthesis of existing climate research knowledge, focusing on the evidence of a warming climate («virtually certain»), the global impacts, and the ways we might avert its most catastrophic effects.

The warming of the oceans past a certain threshold also has a detrimental effect on coral reefs and the biota that live in and around them.

That made it 99 percent certain that the greenhouse effect was the cause of this warming.

Where the science is much less certain is both, what is the scale of the feedbacks and what are the consequences of the total effects (direct plus feedback) of CO2 warming?

Symbiodinium trenchi, which normally occurs in very low numbers in the Caribbean, was able to take advantage of the warming event and become more prolific because of its apparent tolerance of high temperatures... the species appears to have saved certain colonies of coral from the damaging effects of unusually warm water.

The warming could, under certain circumstances, increase the sublimation, but the effect of this on ablation is generally small, because of the high energy required for sublimation.

Greenhouse effect The insulating effect of certain gases in the atmosphere, which allow solar radiation to warm the earth and then prevent some of the heat from escaping.

Karl Sandeman and his co-workers think that their material - a blend of cobalt, manganese, silicon and germanium - could help to usher in a new type of refrigerator that is up to 40 percent more energy - efficient than conventional models.The «magnetic fridge» envisaged by the Cambridge team would use a phenomenon called the magnetocaloric effect (MCE), whereby a magnetic field causes certain materials to get warmer (a positive MCE) or cooler (a negative MCE).

Yes, certain effects can reasonably be said to amplify warming (ice albedo is probably one of them) but there must exist negative feedbacks that tend to damp out temperature movements.

In fact, one almost certain effect of global warming will be an increase in the evaporation rate of the oceans.

Stylish and more unusual than asphalt, these choices — particularly tiles — look best on certain styles of homes, such as Spanish or Mediterranean, and are found more often in warm - weather regions (clay heats up slowly so it can have a moderating effect on hot temperatures).