Sentences with phrase «climatic warming»

While some of these events might have occurred without the observed climatic warming, it's pretty likely that not all of them would.

In other words: If it's dry now — it will probably be worse in the future, as global climatic warming continues.

All five research groups came to the conclusion that last year's heat waves could not have been as severe without the long - term climatic warming caused by human emissions.

All five research groups came to the conclusion that last year's heat waves could not have been as severe without the long - term climatic warming caused by human emissions.

As climatic warming is expected to bring more intense droughts and stronger storms, understanding their effect on tropical and forest ecosystems becomes ever more important.

But the current climatic warming is occurring much more rapidly than past warming events.

Natural climatic warming and cooling has helped to shape the geography around us.

The authors note that although their study indicates a general decrease of rainfall under expected climatic warming, uncertainties remain, for instance regarding the response of clouds.

The recurring climate cycles clearly show that natural climatic warming and cooling have occurred many times, long before increases in anthropogenic atmospheric CO2 levels.

Overall, these high record numbers are quantitatively consistent with those expected for the observed climatic warming trend with added stationary white noise.

Recent research has focussed on exposing the dynamics of carbon cycling across rapid climatic warming events within the Eocene extreme «greenhouse», where he has offered an alternative explanation for their genesis compared to prevailing views that invoked repeated releases of carbon from buried sedimentary reservoirs.

Atmospheric black carbon's impact on climatic warming also varies due to its altitude.

The study contains an analysis of published records from a period of rapid climatic warming about 55 million years ago known as the Palaeocene - Eocene thermal maximum, or PETM.

In 1901, Hartz and Milthers provided evidence for climatic warming during the last glacial period, sourced from a clay - pit near Allerød (Denmark).

To explore the links between climatic warming and rainfall in drylands, scientists from the Universities of Cardiff and Bristol analysed more than 50 years of detailed rainfall data (measured every minute) from a semi-arid drainage basin in south east Arizona exhibiting an upward trend in temperatures during that period.

Pelini and her colleagues have made significant progress in this direction with their new study, «Climatic Warming Destabilizes Forest Ant Communities,» which looks at complex interactions of ant communities and their responses to warming.

A flow band model of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica: Response to CO2 - induced climatic warming.

«Climatic Warming in North America: Analysis of Borehole Temperatures.»

As described in the paper, climate warming specifically refers to the slow time evolution of the local July temperature as described by a smooth non-linear trend line, which reveals a significant climatic warming over the last three decades.

«They show a dramatic breakdown in ecosystem behaviour since the late 1800s, in a way that doesn't parallel what happened when major climatic warming took place at the end of the last Ice Age,» Dr Terry says.

Trying to figure out the increasing frequency of heavy precipitation over western Himalayas, the scientists said their analysis suggested that pronounced warming over the Tibetan plateau in recent decades due to elevation dependency of climatic warming signal favoured enhancement of meridianal temperature gradients.

«No other terrestrial record exists with the density of fossils necessary to test faunal response to the later hyperthermals [climatic warming].

Huybrechts, P. and J. De Wolde, The dynamic response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to multiple - centure climatic warming.

The main argument why Dole et al. conclude that climatic warming played no role in the Moscow heat record is because they found that there is no warming trend in July in Moscow.

Which «could have profound implications for pest management during future climatic warming.»

Twentieth century global sea level, as determined from tide gauges in coastal harbors, has been increasing by 1.7 - 1.8 mm / yr, apparently related to the recent climatic warming trend.

In the northwest for instance, climatic warming already happens at around twice average speeds.

These effects could alter the impacts and feedbacks of vegetation on climate and either slow down or accelerate climatic warming (Bonan 2008).

Scientists analyzed data from a major expedition to retrieve deep marine sediments beneath the Arctic to understand the Paleocene Eocene thermal maximum, a brief period some 55 million years ago of «widespread, extreme climatic warming that was associated with massive atmospheric greenhouse gas input.»

Under sustained climatic warming, the consequences of disappearing permafrost could be «very severe» for structures, Nelson said.

It's worth noting, even if Prof Gonzalez doesn't, that it doesn't help that to cope with the increased heat, both day and night, ubiquitous air conditioning blasts onto the streets and into the air, causing further experienced warming, as well as using increased amounts of energy leading to further climatic warming.

Current climatic warming simply does not accord with the trends, neither in terms of direction or (especially) amplitude.

What with humans pumping massive amounts of high heat capacity gasses into the atmosphere, the most likely hypothesis is that on - going climatic warming is anthropogenic.

1980 Charles Bentley, «Response of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to CO2 Induced Climatic Warming.»

Two weeks ago we looked at the Triassic - Jurassic mass extinction, some 200 million years ago, that was caused by a large climatic warming event after the break - up of supercontinent Pangaea led to the release of enormous amounts of first [volcanic] CO2 and then methane [from disturbed clathrates — a positive warming feedback] into the atmosphere.