Sentences with phrase «continuing increases of greenhouse gases»

«Barring a large volcanic eruption, a record global temperature clearly exceeding that of 2005 can be expected within the next few years, at the time of the next El Nino, because of the background warming trend attributable to continuing increases of greenhouse gases.»

The consequences of continued increase of greenhouse gases extend far beyond extermination of species and future sea level rise.

Not exact matches

«This funding and the demonstration project ensure that Ontario will continue to lead in the development of smart grid technology,» said Bob Leigh, President, Prolucid Technologies Inc. «Utilities globally face significant challenges to change the model of power consumption, reducing greenhouse gases and increasing the efficiency of the grid.

«If the world does not reduce greenhouse gas emissions, continued heating could increase the vulnerability of plants, wildlife, physical features, and cultural resources in the globally unique US national parks.»

Assuming that greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, the widespread adoption of cool roofs in the Los Angeles metropolitan area would offset some of the warming expected by midcentury, the team reported in 2016 in Environmental Research Letters.

When we mitigate greenhouse - gas emissions, we also create huge co-benefits in the nature of energy security, because if we continue to increase our consumption of fossil fuels, we're really going to put pressure on limited resources of these fossil fuels.

Levels of the potent greenhouse gas continue to rise and scientists aren't sure where most of it is coming from, though likely suspects include fracking, increased coal mining in China and a melting Arctic

Above - average warmth continues as a result of increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

The scientists expect further warming in the Arctic as levels of greenhouse gases will continue to increase and aerosol particle emissions will likely decrease to combat air pollution in different parts of the world.

Under the worst - case scenario (RCP 8.5), which assumes that greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century, the authors show the potential for extremely large net increases in temperature - related mortality in the warmer regions of the world.

Current climate change models indicate temperatures will increase as long as humans continue to emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but the projections of future precipitation are far less certain.

The ability of the oceans to take up carbon dioxide can not keep up with the rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which means carbon dioxide and global temperatures will continue to increase unless humans cut their carbon dioxide emissions.

If these rates continue, emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide on 100 - year time scales, will increase 4 percent over the next decade.

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.

In a paper published this month in Geophysical Research Letters, Lovejoy concludes that a natural cooling fluctuation during this period largely masked the warming effects of a continued increase in human - made emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

Such climate changing pollution continues to increase — in 2010, the world emitted some 49 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases, thanks largely to increased coal burning in countries such as China.

Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long - lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of widespread and profound impacts affecting all levels of society and the natural world, the report finds.

Expansion of the IPWP due to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will likely continue.

Yet despite all the complexities, a firm and ever - growing body of evidence points to a clear picture: the world is warming, this warming is due to human activity increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and if emissions continue unabated the warming will too, with increasingly serious consequences.

Scientists have not pinpointed the reason for the strengthening of the low pressure system in the Amundsen Sea, but the number and intensity of storms in the region could continue to increase throughout the 21st century as a consequence of greenhouse gas warming, Thomas said.

Meanwhile, global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases continue to increase, promising far worse to come.

This continues the trend of warming winters over the past few decades as the climate warms from increasing greenhouse gases, with the eastern two - thirds of the country warming the most during the winter.

As warming continues from the increasing amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, that ratio will likely continue to rise.

Moreover, anthropogenic forcing from increased greenhouse gases might outweigh orbital forcing for as long as intensive use of fossil fuels continues [9].

Projections based on 29 climate models suggest that the number of high wildfire potential days each year could increase by nearly 50 percent by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.

But over the long term, as the planet continues to warm from the increase in greenhouse gases, extended streaks of heat are

«We know natural patterns contribute to global temperature in any given year, but the very warm temperatures so far this year indicate the continued impact of increasing greenhouse gases,» Stephen Belcher, the head of the Met Office's Hadley Center, said.

Unless the twin pillars of population growth and economic growth are whittled down and put into some ecological perspective, greenhouse gas emissions will continue to increase for decades.

If nations continue to increase their emissions of greenhouse gases in a «business - as - usual» scenario, the U.S. ratio of daily record high to record low temperatures would increase to about 20 to 1 by midcentury and 50 to 1 by 2100.

This continuous cooling trend is... a result of increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere [and so will continue].

It was caused by natural factors that likely continued through the 20thcentury, making the recent warming more difficult to explain without the impact of increased greenhouse gases.

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.»

At Jim Hansen's now famous congressional testimony given in the hot summer of 1988, he showed GISS model projections of continued global warming assuming further increases in human produced greenhouse gases.

In 2009, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions were projected to continue increasing indefinitely, but President Obama set an ambitious goal to cut emissions in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels in 2020.

Mass extinctions, of more than half the species on the planet, have occurred several times when the Earth warmed as much as expected if greenhouse gases continue to increase.

Note also that there appears — already started — to be a likely increase in drought frequency with atmospheric warming and associated acceleration of the hydrologic cycle, assuming continued greenhouse gas emissions.

And most scientists argue the world will continue warming because of increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate models try to project how this global warming will continue, but they differ in their response to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases.

However, if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase along current trajectories throughout the 21st century, there is an 80 percent likelihood of a decades - long megadrought in the Southwest and Central Plains between the years 2050 and 2099.

Continued greenhouse gas emissions leading to further warming would mean that the chances of seeing years at 1.5 °C or more would likely increase in future years.»

As a result, global warming will continue to affect life on Earth for hundreds of years, even if greenhouse gas emissions are reduced and the increase in atmospheric levels halted.

Heat stress is projected to increase as a result of both increased summer temperatures and humidity.55, 61 One study projected an increase of between 166 and 2,217 excess deaths per year from heat wave - related mortality in Chicago alone by 2081 - 2100.62 The lower number assumes a climate scenario with significant reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases (B1), while the upper number assumes a scenario under which emissions continue to increase (A2).

However, current estimates of lake level changes are uncertain, even for continued increases in global greenhouse gas emissions (A2 scenario).

Scenario A assumes that growth rates of trace gas emissions typical of the 1970s and 1980s - will continue indefinitely; the assumed annual growth averages about 1.5 % of current emissions, so the net greenhouse forcing increases exponentially.

However, McCollam claimed that «our knowledge is currently so limited that we can not yet judge with any accuracy what might be the results of continued increases in greenhouse gases.»

The modeling results indicate that, if nations continue to increase their emissions of greenhouse gases in a «business as usual» scenario, the U.S. ratio of daily record high to record low temperatures would increase to about 20 - to - 1 by mid-century and 50 - to - 1 by 2100.

However, the idea that continued emissions of greenhouse gases increase the likelihood of catastrophe is entirely consistent with scientific knowledge»

«As we predicted last year, 2007 was warmer than 2006, continuing the strong warming trend of the past 30 years that has been confidently attributed to the effect of increasing human - made greenhouse gases,» said James Hansen, director of NASA GISS.

These results suggest that as the Arctic continues to warm faster than elsewhere in response to rising greenhouse - gas concentrations, the frequency of extreme weather events caused by persistent jet - stream patterns will increase.