Sentences with phrase «climatic warming event»

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.

Chew examined the size of over 7500 fossil teeth from over one hundred types of mammals, and compared them before, during and after the climatic warming events.

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.

Not exact matches

It will never be possible to substantiate such a claim about an individual climatic event, but most climate models predict that the frequency and intensity of such events will increase as the world warms.

The 1980s was easily the warmest decade on record and exhibited an unprecedented number of extreme climatic events, such as storms and droughts.

Warmer weather may increase the frequency of an unusual climatic condition called a rain - on - snow event, says earth system scientist Jaakko Putkonen of the University of Washington, Seattle.

While there has been a 70 percent increase in heavy precipitation events in the region since 1958, most of that has been in warm weather rainstorms, Ken Kunkel, a researcher at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., said.

In their research, which was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Christy and McNider found the climatic effects of El Niño / La Niña warming and cooling events in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean largely cancelled each other out over the study period.

Because they feed in Arctic and subarctic benthic environments, gray whales are thought to be relatively sensitive to changes in climate, and climatic events such as the Medieval Warm Period (ca. 900 — 1200 AD) or Little Ice Age (ca. 1300 — 1850 AD) could have caused a population decline.

I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.

But to understand the mechanisms of climatic changes, one needs to know the sequence of events — for example, one needs to know whether a particular warming in Antarctica happens before, after, or at the same time as a warming in Greenland.

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

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In this report, as an alternative to the scenarios of gradual climatic warming that are so common, we outline an abrupt climate change scenario patterned after the 100 - year event that occurred about 8,200 years ago.

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Over the past three decades, most natural disasters (90 %) have been caused by climate - related events, they say, and extreme climatic events are likely to become more frequent because of global warming.

Luterbacher et al. (13) estimated a return period for this type of extreme event as being about 100 y in the European region, taking climatic warming into account.

Our interpretations of the δ18O and MS records suggest a warming event ~ 400 k.y. prior to the Cretaceous - Paleogene (K - Pg) boundary, and a period of climatic and environmental instability in the earliest Danian.

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The interglacial and the glacial planetary temperature data shows cycles of warming and cooling interrupted by very strong «RCEs» (Rickies) Rapid Climatic Change Events (For example the Younger Dryas abrupt cooling event and the termination of the last interglacial).

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«We conclude that extreme climatic events are key drivers of biodiversity patterns and that the frequency and intensity of such episodes have major implications for predictive models of species distribution and ecosystem structure, which are largely based on gradual warming trends.»

The report quoted David Viner, senior research scientist at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, long considered an authoritative resource for global warming research, as saying snow would soon be «a very rare and exciting event» in Britain.

Climate change is the long - term average of a region's weather events lumped together.There are some effects of greenhouse gases and global warming: melting of ice caps, rising sea levels, change in climatic patterns, spread diseases, economic consequences, increased droughts and heat waves.

The growing research area of extreme event attribution has provided pertinent scientific evidence for a number of such warm events for which the forced climate response rises above internal climatic variability.

But scientists say that crop failures related to climatic events will be inevitable in the planet's warmer future.

As if this were not daunting enough, in 2002 the US National Academies of Science not only endorsed the IPCC's conclusions but produced a new report entitled Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable surprises, which argued that global warming may trigger «large, abrupt and unwelcome regional or global climatic events» such as severe droughts and floods.

Ocean temperatures tied with 2006 as the fifth warmest on record, and a warming trend in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific signals a coming El Nino event, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center stated.

Periodic events called El Niño and La Niña alter the circulation of warmer and cooler water in ocean currents, leading to changes in climatic patterns across large regions.

But as this Holland dataset confirms, the actual empirical global and regional trends of a climatic shift of ever more severe weather events do not support the alarmists» predictions; the irrational fears of more frequent / larger weather disasters as a result of CO2 or global / regional «warming» is unjustified, per the scientific evidence.

But the paleoclimate record also reveals that the current climatic warming is occurring much more rapidly than past warming events.

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

If nothing is done to stop global warming, progress in almost all areas of human endeavor will gradually slow over the next fifty years because of more frequent, and more scary, climatic events — and worse will follow.

Scientists predict that hurricanes, droughts, and other severe weather events will increase in frequency as the planet warms, so tomorrow's suburbs must be prepared for climatic emergencies.

The Cenozoic Era — encompassing the past 65.5 million years, the time that has elapsed since the mass extinction event marking the end of the Cretaceous Period — has a broad range of climatic variation characterized by alternating intervals of global warming and cooling.

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