Sentences with phrase «continued warming of the oceans»

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has published a study concluding that the continued warming of the oceans is the greatest hidden challenge of our generation.

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«If the winds continue to increase as a result of global warming, then we will continue to see increased energy in eddies and jets that will have significant implications for the ability of the Southern Ocean to store carbon dioxide and heat,» said Dr Hogg.

The coverage of living corals on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could decline to less than 10 percent if ocean warming continues, according to a new study that explores the short - and long - term consequences of environmental changes to the reef.

The coverage of living corals on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could decline to less than 10 percent if ocean warming continues, according to a new study.

«We continue to be stunned at how rapidly the ocean is warming,» said Sarah Gille, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography professor.

«An important result of this paper is the demonstration that the oceans have continued to warm over the past decade, at a rate consistent with estimates of Earth's net energy imbalance,» Rintoul said.

As waters to continue to warm and ocean acidification changes the chemistry of Earth's marine systems, corals, and the incredible diversity of life they support, are at risk of vanishing.

It takes a long time for the ocean to respond to increasing heat, so even if greenhouse gas emissions dropped to zero tomorrow, the world's seas would continue to rise for centuries because of the warming that's already happened.

The rapid northerly shifts in spawning may offer a preview of future conditions if ocean warming continues, according to the new study published in Global Change Biology by scientists from the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, Oregon State University and NOAA Fisheries» Northwest Fisheries Science Center.

«The reason that the ocean continues to warm is that Earth is out of energy balance,» Hansen writes.

Even as the surface warms, the deeps remain cool, and this cold water will continue to periodically push the ocean out of the El Niño state.

«Our research indicates that as global warming continues, parts of East Antarctica will also be affected by these wind - induced changes in ocean currents and temperatures,» Dr Jourdain said.

Another principal investigator for the project, Laura Pan, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., believes storm clusters over this area of the Pacific are likely to influence climate in new ways, especially as the warm ocean temperatures (which feed the storms and chimney) continue to heat up and atmospheric patterns continue to evolve.

Climate modeling shows that the trends of warming ocean temperatures, stronger winds and increasingly strong upwelling events are expected to continue in the coming years as carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increase.

If ocean warming continues, it is predicted that picocyanobacteria, which prefer high temperatures, will become more abundant and could increase 10 to 20 percent by end of century, said Chen.

The continued top ranking for 2016 may be due in part to El Niño, a cyclical climate event characterized by warmer - than - average waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, which generated some of the global heat that year.

The continued warming of tropical oceans is likely to cause stresses on ecosystems, such as coral bleaching, and stronger tropical cyclones.

And the warming of the upper 2 kilometers of the world ocean — a huge heat sink relative to the atmosphere — continued apace through the 2000s.

And, worryingly, the research suggests that as these glaciers melt and retreat backward, the shape of the seabed will continue to expose many of them to warm ocean water for hundreds of miles as the ice moves inland.

While the planet's surface didn't warm as fast, vast amounts of heat energy continued to accumulate in the oceans and with the switch in the PDO, some of this energy could now spill back into the atmosphere.

With the sun continuing to heat the ocean water at the tropical latitudes regardless of ice cap conditions up north, it would seem that the presence of an ice cap would result in a warmer ocean over the long term, with the converse also being true.

There is growing scientific concern that corals could retreat from equatorial seas and oceans as the Earth continues to warm, a team of international marine researchers warned toda...

From his own research in chemical oceanography, along with data from a number of recent studies, Weber points out that some negative consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and warming «are manifesting faster than previously predicted,» including ocean acidification and oxygen loss, which are expected to affect «a large fraction of marine species if current trends continue unchecked.»

Continued warming of low latitude oceans in coming decades will provide more water vapor to strengthen such storms.

William M. Gray wrote... I judge our present global ocean circulation 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.

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.

Given the atmospheric lifetime of carbon dioxide is many hundreds to thousands of years, we can now understand that long - lived greenhouses will also continue to exert a warming influence on the worlds oceans for a very long time.

The world's oceans have already risen 7.5 inches since 1901, and if warming continues unabated, they're projected to rise as much as 2 feet by the end of the century.

He later continued: «Now that ocean temperatures are considerably warmer than they were a few decades ago, the maximum potential intensity a hurricane can reach is higher, and we should expect to see a few Patricias sprinkled among the inevitable phalanxes of major hurricanes that will assault our shores in the coming decades.»

California sea lion crisis has deepened as the number of abandoned, sickly pups continues to increase and the Pacific Ocean becomes warmer.

Because this issue continues to affect all coupled ocean - atmosphere models (e.g., 22 — 24), the warming (Fig. 3) represents the expression of positive biotic feedback mechanisms missing from earlier simulations of these climates obtained with prescribed PI concentrations of trace GHGs.

Is it not the case that if the relative lack of El Niño's and predominance of La Nina's is in fact due to global warming, rather than natural variability, then the current increase in the rate of warming of the ocean below 700m may continue.

Given the number of ways that things can go wrong with continued CO2 emissions (from ocean acidfication and sea level rise to simple warming, shifting precipitation patterns, release of buried carbon in perma - frost, and the possibility of higher climate sensitivities — which seem to be needed to account for glacial / inter-glacial transitions), crossing our fingers and carrying on with BAU seems nothing short of crazy to me.

«The climate patterns responsible for the expected above - normal 2007 hurricane season continue to be the ongoing multi-decadal signal (the set of oceanic and atmospheric conditions that have spawned increased Atlantic hurricane activity since 1995), warmer - than - normal sea surface temperatures in key areas of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, and the El Nino / La Nina cycle»

And there is no doubt that continued global warming will lead to a reduction in the amount of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.

Thus if the oceans are continuing to heat while atmospheric warming has reached some sort of plateau, it would be inaccurate to claim that the heat has somehow been transferred from the latter to the former, thus nullifying the hiatus.

Terrell Johnson, reporting on a recent NASA publication concluding that deep ocean temperatures have not increased since 2005 (http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/deep-ocean-hasnt-warmed-nasa-20141007): «While the report's authors say the findings do not question the overall science of climate change, it is the latest in a series of findings that show global warming to have slowed considerably during the 21st century, despite continued rapid growth in human - produced greenhouse gas emissions during the same time.»

The fact that you don't understand the mechanisms of how increased CO2 warms the oceans is irrelevant, since the heat content of the oceans is increasing (and, thus, the planet, as a whole has continued warming despite your «hiatus»).

But even if CO2 were to stop increasing tomorrow, that extra 100ppm will remain there for many, perhaps hundreds of years, continuing to add warmth, and as the ocean slowly warms to equilibrium then more of the warming will be felt at the surface.

«While these improvements in the land and ocean temperature record reveal a rate of warming greater than previously documented, ****** we also found that our computed trends likely continue to underestimate the true rate of warming.

@ 48 If your speculation is correct, I assume that another consequence would be that, if / when concentrations of greenhouse gases start to drop, corresponding reductions in surface ocean / land temperatures would take place at a much slower rate than would otherwise be the case: the surplus heat stored in the deep ocean will gradually make its way to the ocean surface, and continue to warm the atmosphere for decades, if not longer.

There are continuing major questions about the future of the great ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica; the thawing of vast deposits of frozen methane; changes in the circulation patterns of the North Atlantic; the potential for runaway warming; and the impacts of ocean carbonization and acidification.

BUT that if we continue to add CO2 to the air, the air has the added heat capacity to get warmer, IF and ONLY IF driven by the sun, but rapidly come to equilibrium with the ocean, by means of rain and the daily heating & condensation of the water vapor feedback mechanism.

The arctic will be ice free in summer within 5 - 6 years, progressing rapidly to all the remaining 9 months of the year as the arctic ocean continues to warm.

even as we are probably being propelled into a new ice age, by forces independent of human activity, the warming oceans, most probably largely caused by undersea volcanic activity in the pacific ocean, may cause a continuing warming trend in alaska.

They looked at the potential long - term consequences of oceans ever richer in dissolved carbon dioxide, as humans burn ever more fossil fuels and emit greenhouse gases that continue to warm the atmosphere.

You continue, «Lets consider LWR (long wave radiation) and SWR (short wave radiation) with LWR not being able to warm a small volume of water and especially not the deep ocean when compared to SWR.

You continued, «In fact if a strong self sustaining unforced warming of the oceans as we have seen, around 0.8 W / M ^ 2 does exist, the climate of the earth would be in the process of an unstable runaway condition.»

Of course, even if we ceased to put carbon in the atmosphere tomorrow, the warming would continue until the various carbon sinks had time to reduce atmospheric carbon so we can't even stop the warming of the oceans if we wanted tOf course, even if we ceased to put carbon in the atmosphere tomorrow, the warming would continue until the various carbon sinks had time to reduce atmospheric carbon so we can't even stop the warming of the oceans if we wanted tof the oceans if we wanted to.

Hansen got the warming right in the 1980s, the hockey stick is validated by numerous oth alternative research methods and ocean heat content and arctic ice continue to rise and shrink as predicted from the understanding of the physical effect of CO2, as have air temperatures in the area.