Sentences with phrase «change warms the globe»

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«There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human - caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.

Rice said that even the cold weather in the United States this past winter might make sense in relation to climate change because the rest of the globe was warmer.

Predicting the impact of climate change on ecological communities is tricky, but predicting the impact of El Niño, the cyclical warming in the Pacific Ocean that affects temperature and rainfall around the globe, is even trickier.

But how could a warming globe and a changing climate interrupt this process?

El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

But even with such policies in place — not only in the U.S. but across the globe — climate change is a foregone conclusion; global average temperatures have already risen by at least 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit (0.6 degree C) and further warming of at least 0.7 degree F (0.4 degree C) is virtually certain, according to the IPCC.

Climate Change: The Last Great Global Warming (p 56) The levels of carbon dioxide release and current speed of warming across the globe could lead to extinctions on a scale worse than previously thought, an article in this month's Scientific American suWarming (p 56) The levels of carbon dioxide release and current speed of warming across the globe could lead to extinctions on a scale worse than previously thought, an article in this month's Scientific American suwarming across the globe could lead to extinctions on a scale worse than previously thought, an article in this month's Scientific American suggests.

A group of experts all around the globe has come up with a climate change report that aims to highlight the importance of risk assessment and the impacts of global warming to the society.

The researchers also looked at the changing likelihood of «extremely warm summers,» defined as the real - world summer in each region with the highest average wet bulb globe temperature between 1973 and 2012.

In the paper Gray makes many extravagant claims about how supposed changes in the THC accounted for various 20th century climate changes («I judge our present global ocean circulation conditions to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.

The fundamental difference in opinion (which has not changed since Michaels and Hansen started debating each other in 1988) is that Hansen (and the vast majority of relevant experts) think that climate sensitivity (how much the globe will warm under a doubling of CO2) is around 3 (+ / -1) °C, while Michaels thinks that it is much less (< 1 °C).

Her research strives to answer such questions as: What changes have occurred in wild animals and plants in the past century with ~ 0.8 oC of warming around the globe?

11/01/2018 - Rainfall changes caused by global warming will increase river flood risks across the globe.

Exactly a decade after Al Gore delivered a blistering (and yes, incontrovertible) wake - up call about global warming and climate change in the Oscar - winning power - point documentary An Inconvenient Truth, he's back (not that he ever took a break) with this hopeful travelogue tracking his tireless globe - trotting crusade to help save the planet.

Its rise and fall is fraught, changing as the globe warms, and as we encroach and retract around its edges.

The fact is if you increase CO2 concentrations, the globe must warm unless the physics changes dramatically at 280 ppmv or current temperatures.

We are more confident than ever that the globe will warm up more, and faster, for a few decades beyond the time when serious changes in anthropogenic net emissions start.

Tomorrow you're going up to New York City, where you're going to, I assume, see people who are still suffering the effects of Hurricane Sandy, which many people say is further evidence of how a warming globe is changing our weather.

In particular, am interested in broad changes (who gets warmer, colder) over the globe.

And if the warming over the rest of the world is not attributable to greenhouse gases or «solar output», then «the greater climate change near the pole compared to the rest of the hemisphere or globe» is not attributable to them.

Such a feedback loop could result in accelerated warming throughout the globe, which will strongly impact ongoing climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts.

The truth is that public consciousness of this issue has faded in recent years despite the ongoing drumbeat of evidence, month after month, year after year, that the globe is warming and our climate is changing.

I think AGW is the best title as it states clearly that the globe may warm from mans actions, climate change is not a very good title because the climate changes all the time with or without us.

All that extra heat in the tropical Pacific Ocean warms up the atmosphere above it, leading to more rising air, which changes the circulation all around the globe.

According to Time Magazine: «Climate change skeptics are pointing to the record cold weather as evidence that the globe isn't warming.

This was due to a change in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation which entered its positive phase, warming the tropics, the west coast of North America and the globe overall.»

Furthermore, Siberia would be one of the regions for which climate change would indeed be a regional warming - it is already heating up [wikipedia.org] much faster than any other part of the globe, and if it keeps doing so, it will become much more prospective for human settlement and agriculture, and in short - term perspective provide for easier access to the vast natural resources of the region.

As the globe becomes warmer and the changes in weather more extreme, that climate is harder to find, and cultivation areas suitable for Arabica moves to higher altitudes.

Climate change refers to a change in the «average weather» of an area caused by the unnatural warming of the globe.

Climate change alarmists continue to preach the dogma of global warming in a textbook case of cognitive dissonance, despite record low temperatures in different points around the globe.

some parts of the globe appear to be warming, other parts appear to be cooling (notably the US appears to have cooled since the 1930s / 40s), and some parts of the globe appear to have undergone little if any change (the Antarctic shows no warming for the entirety of the satellite record, and during that time Antarctic ice appears to have increased, but not statistically).

Adapting to changes already underway: As the Climate Hot Map demonstrates, the impacts of a warming world are already being felt by people around the globe.

«For climate change, it is the long - term trends that are important; measured over decades or more, and those long term trends show that the globe is still, unfortunately, warming,» according to Skeptical Science.

He blamed Western industrialized nations for hunger, desertification and floods across the globe, and called for «drastic solutions» to global warming, and «not solutions that partially reduce the effect of climate change.»

I was hoping that by including three examples of change in the system (energy input, water volume, pot size) I'd avoid the direct and obvious comparison between warming the globe and turning up the stove:)

Once such an IPCC exposition of the assumptions, complications and uncertainties of climate models was constructed and made public, it would immediately have to lead, in my view, to more questions from the informed public such as what does calculating a mean global temperature change mean to individuals who have to deal with local conditions and not a global average and what are the assumptions, complications and uncertainties that the models contain when it comes to determining the detrimental and beneficial effects of a «global» warming in localized areas of the globe.

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At any point in time, at anyplace on the globe, there could be significant warming, while significant cooling is simultaneously happening at another locale, and both can be associated with vast regional areas of insignificant temperature change.

It is the lowest kilometer of atmosphere that has seen a temperature change as the globe has warmed.

Climate change: IPCC issues stark warning over global warming Call to «stop dithering about fossil fuel cuts» as expert panel warns entire globe is affected

The actual truth is clear: the climate is changing, the globe is warming, and all the denying, all the noise, all the letter writing you can do will not change those simple facts.

Global warming will clearly change the temperatures and influence the patterns of precipitation, but it won't make any difference to the available hours of sunlight at any point on the globe.

Rainfall changes caused by global warming will increase river flooding risks across the globe by the 2040s, says a new study.

When Lomborg presents himself as occupying the middle ground we have to ask what the «middle ground» is when the vast preponderance of scientific evidence tells us that the globe is warming and climate change presents a serious threat to the future.

The report warned that poor and marginalized communities around the globe will be some of the first and hardest hit victims of climate change: «The poorest people in the world, who have had virtually nothing to do with causing global warming, will be high on the list of victims as climate disruptions intensify.»

Concensus AGW science predicts «X» as a consequence of «A.» But that doesn't mean it has to happen — it's still possible that AGW is sound but there something quirky about the Arctic that they missed, or that the changes will happen more slowly than expected, so it won't warm faster than the globe and / or sea ice won't decline.

When cold weather is excused as a cold snap weather pattern and hot weather is touted as the globe warming due to climate change and these two temperature differences are plugged into models differently, then the scam is on.

1 April: Yahoo: Even Doubters Want to Prepare for Global Warming by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Some still insist that climate change is a hoax, but the vast majority of Americans believe the globe is warming, a new survey finds — and they want to prepare for theWarming by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Some still insist that climate change is a hoax, but the vast majority of Americans believe the globe is warming, a new survey finds — and they want to prepare for thewarming, a new survey finds — and they want to prepare for the worst.

(c) Scherhag (op.cit., 1937) states that a thorough research of the temperature changes over the whole northern half of the globe during the period 1921 - 1930 confirmed that the largest part of the investigated region had been, indeed, considerably warmer during the decade 1921 - 1930.

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