Sentences with phrase «climate warming led»
Boulder, Colo., USA: Cretaceous climate warming led to a significant methane release from the seafloor, indicating potential for similar destabilization of gas hydrates under modern global warming.
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Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, led a delegation that made a three - day visit to the opening of the Olympics and the North Korean leader later said he wanted to boost a «warm climate of reconciliation and dialogue».
«We had a tipping point in the industry where climate change led to warmer, windier weather that points up the need to innovate to strengthen the coffee industry,» said Rodriguez, his skin sun - kissed from working the fields, a Starbucks cap perched on his salt - and - pepper hair.
Stephen Harper's opposition to remedial climate measures led to Canada withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, the immediate cause of the warming trend.
A team of 15 executive chefs lead the food preparation on the 10 ships throughout the year as the cruising season shifts from warm climates like the Caribbean and Australia in the North American winter to Europe and the Pacific Northwest for the summer.
Turns out climate change is a force in developing the Tasmanian industry as warmer weather leads mainland producers to invest in the island's cooler climate.
Some of the world's leading authorities on climate change have endorsed meat reduction as an effective way of fighting global warming, including former US Vice President Al Gore, Chair of the IPCC Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Lord Nicholas Stern and former UK Government Chief Scientific Advisor Sir David King.
The Meat Free Monday campaign has had an incredible response since its launch in 2009, with many of the world's leading authorities on climate change endorsing meat reduction as an effective way of fighting global warming.
In recent years India and Taiwan have emerged as leading warm climate whisky producers while the southern Australian island of Tasmania has long been known as a hot spot for high quality single malts.
«Our results indicate that areas of eastern Texas, Florida, the south - east and mid-Atlantic are areas where rapid population growth, acting in concert with a warming climate, will lead to a significant increase in exposure to heat extremes,» says Jones.
«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The latest research shows that climate talks must lead to more aggressive action to avoid the catastrophic effects of global warming
A University of Alaska Fairbanks - led research project has provided the first modern evidence of a landscape - level permafrost carbon feedback, in which thawing permafrost releases ancient carbon as climate - warming greenhouse gases.
«All six years since the last report (2001 to 2006) are among the seven warmest years on record,» notes Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and another lead author.
Climate scientists have long warned that global warming will lead to more heatwaves, droughts and floods.
Coral bleaching is the most immediate threat to reefs from climate change; it's caused when ocean temperatures become warmer than normal maximum summer temperatures, and can lead to widespread coral death.
New University of Colorado Boulder - led research has established a causal link between climate warming and the localized extinction of a common Rocky Mountain flowering plant, a result that could serve as a herald of future population declines.
Three British investigations focused on the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, site of the stolen e-mails and a leading center for studying global warming.
Lead researcher Alex Chepstow - Lusty of French Institute of Andean Studies in Lima, Peru, says warmer temperatures enabled the Inca to build mountainside terraces for growing crops at altitudes previously too cold to support agriculture, and provided meltwater from the Andean glaciers for irrigation (Climate of the Past, vol 5, p 375).
A Swiss - led group using tree - ring data to look at Central European summer climate patterns during roughly 2,500 years saw that periods of prolonged warming and of colder than usual spells coincided with social upheavals.
Some researchers have suggested that climate change, which has resulted in a rapidly warming Arctic, is leading to jet stream kinks that keep extreme weather in place, although that hypothesis is still being debated (ClimateWire, April 3).
«Under climate change, the Pacific Islands region is projected to become warmer, less oxygenated, more acidic, and have lower production of plankton that form the base of oceanic food webs,» said lead author Rebecca Asch, Nereus Program alumnus and Assistant Professor at East Carolina University.
Some have even taken the lead in providing incentives to combat global warming, hoping to forestall any more Katrina - like climate disasters that could potentially ruin them.
«You see a rapid increase in population size from about 18,000 years ago, just as the climate began warming up after the last Ice Age,» says lead author Rebecca Dew.
Professor Julian Murton, from the University of Sussex, who led on the study, said: «As our climate warms mountain rock walls are becoming more unstable — so working out how to predict rock falls could prove crucial in areas where people go climbing and skiing.
How a warming climate leads to freezing penguins, with journalist and author Jon Bowermaster, who has kayaked the world's seas, most recently in Antarctica.
«We found that vegetation change may have a greater impact on the amount of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects of climate warming,» said lead author Ryan Bart, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.
«Using more recent data and better analysis methods we have been able to re-examine the global weather balloon network, known as radiosondes, and have found clear indications of warming in the upper troposphere,» said lead author ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Chief Investigator Prof Steve Sherwood.
The results — along with a recent Dartmouth - led study that found air temperature also likely influenced the fluctuating size of South America's Quelccaya Ice Cap over the past millennium — support many scientists» suspicions that today's tropical glaciers are rapidly shrinking primarily because of a warming climate rather than declining snowfall or other factors.
«Considering the Southern Ocean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.
The recent slowdown in global warming has brought into question the reliability of climate model projections of future temperature change and has led to a vigorous debate over whether this slowdown is the result of naturally occurring, internal variability or forcing external to Earth's climate system.
The researchers suggest the cause may be a change to a warmer, wetter climate, which reduces tree growth and may lead to a thinner layer of leaf litter, where the animals live.
«The evidence before the committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming,» the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in its report on the matter in December 2007.
«As the climate gets warmer, the thawing permafrost not only enables the release of more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, but our study shows that it also allows much more mineral - laden and nutrient - rich water to be transported to rivers, groundwater and eventually the Arctic Ocean,» explained Ryan Toohey, a researcher at the Interior Department's Alaska Climate Science Center in Anchorage and the lead author of theclimate gets warmer, the thawing permafrost not only enables the release of more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, but our study shows that it also allows much more mineral - laden and nutrient - rich water to be transported to rivers, groundwater and eventually the Arctic Ocean,» explained Ryan Toohey, a researcher at the Interior Department's Alaska Climate Science Center in Anchorage and the lead author of theClimate Science Center in Anchorage and the lead author of the study.
Since 1999, the IPO has been in a negative phase but consecutive record - breaking warm years in 2014, 2015 and 2016 have led climate researchers to suggest this may have changed.
Species have begun to respond to current climate warming, but it remains unclear whether such changes will lead to persistence or decline.
Jet engine exhaust emits carbon dioxide, which drives climate change by warming the atmosphere, leading to increasing global temperatures, rising seas and extreme weather.
That desire of balance lead the program's creators to avoid terms like «climate change» or «global warming» in lesson plans, Rowe said, «which would have sent a biased point of view.»
Jason Grumet, the Obama campaign's lead energy and environment advisor, has indicated that the president - elect plans to move quickly on getting climate change legislation through in 2009 and working to make the U.S. a leader on mitigating global warming.
His discoveries have also revealed how warming ocean temperatures and acidification of ocean water caused by climate change lead to coral bleaching and death.
But the toxic algae bloom that led to the ban is still floating around Lake Erie and ones like it could become more common as the climate continues to change in a warming world.
The conclusion of the authors: The warming climate triggers not only the natural production of biogenic methane, it can also lead to stronger emissions of fossil gas.
«We examined average and extreme temperatures because they were always projected to be the measure that is most sensitive to global warming,» said lead author from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Dr Andrew King.
With the U.S. Congress set to take up climate change legislation next week, Obama Administration officials today joined with leading climate scientists to emphasize that global warming is real, it's going to get worse, and that action is needed sooner rather than later.
The IPCC chapter on long - term climate change projections that Wehner was a lead author on concluded that a warming world will cause some areas to be drier and others to see more rainfall, snow, and storms.
«For the first time we can quantify how oceans responded to slow, natural climate warming as the world emerged from the last ice age,» says Prof. Eric Galbraith from McGill University's Department of Earth and Oceanic Sciences, who led the study.
«When we included projected Antarctic wind shifts in a detailed global ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).
Using 19 climate models, a team of researchers led by Professor Minghua Zhang of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University, discovered persistent dry and warm biases of simulated climate over the region of the Southern Great Plain in the central U.S. that was caused by poor modeling of atmospheric convective systems — the vertical transport of heat and moisture in the atmosphere.
Research led by the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) at the University of Adelaide, published in Science Advances, has revealed that it was only when the climate warmed, long after humans first arrived in Patagonia, did the megafauna suddenly die off around 12,300 years ago.
One study, led by Chris Funk of the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of California, Santa Barbara's Climate Hazard Group, looked at long - term warming of the sea surface in the North Pacific.