Sentences with phrase «current warming trends»

Warnings about current warming trends came out years before Mann's hockey - stick graph.

The base is currently buried about 35 meters below the surface but the part of the ice sheet that covers the camp may start to melt by the end of the century if current warming trends continue, scientists warned.

Anyway, just to be sure I'm understanding you properly, according to you there is no way that Mars» warming is linked to Earth's current warming trends.

A more reasonable natural variability / forcing argument might go something like this: 1) There is natural variability of climate due to solar activity 2) Climate is changing now 3) Forcing can result in climate change, but the response of the C cycle to forcing is poorly understood 4) Forcing is happening now 5) Forcing and / or solar activity could be to blame for current warming trends Is this unreasonable?

The exercise doesn't prove anything but it's no worse (probably better) than projecting current warming trends 50 - 100 years into the future.

The fact that human factors are forcing current warming trends is one outcome of those investigations.

Anyway, just to be sure I'm understanding you properly, according to you there is no way that Mars» warming is linked to Earth's current warming trends.

Professor Kug notes that further research is needed to obtain a general conclusion on the matter, but this research delivers important implications for climate adaptation because the analysis shows that if current warming trends continue, it is feasible to conclude that the ecosystems in regions affected by the anomalous climate will suffer greater damages due to the cold and dry spells.

Redmond said current warming trends could reduce the number of areas with microclimates favorable for future pinyon pine recovery, not if but when the next drought happens.

The authors write that their observation that the modern collapse of the LIS - B is a unique event supports the hypothesis that the current warming trend in the northwestern Weddell Sea is longer and bigger than past warm episodes.

Given the strength of the Hurst coefficients — something we all agree on — is it not possible that a large portion of the current warming trend is a product of internal climate variability, as mediated by complex dynamics of ocean circulation?

Naivety is believing that there is some other magical explanation for the current warming trend and that AGW won't have significant impact on society.

So, I was wondering what the thinking was about thresholds with respect to the current warming trend on this blog.

That, and the destabilized structures in the arctic from the melting permafrost demonstrate that the «cost» side of the current warming trend is already occurring and making people's lives more difficult, especially those who are losing their homes.

And while the «hockey team» shows the late 20th century and current warming to be unusual, it is not as important in my view as the current warming trend itself.

Data show that the earth's current warming trend is 200 years old and running.

There is no such shortage of data for the current warming trend.

This means that the current warming trend is qualitatively different from those we can study through ice cores etc., even if past warming was amplified by a CO2 feedback.

There are many natural climatic cycles that we already know of, and the current warming trend may just be part of one that we have not yet identified.

Climate science is telling us that CO2 from human activity is the cause of the current warming trend and it's a serious problem.

Compelling scientific evidence supports the claim that CO2 from human activity is driving the current warming trend, that the trend is potentially dangerous, and is already having negative impacts.

Karlsson claims that «human emissions of carbon dioxide and other anthropogenic greenhouse gases is [sic] a substantial influence on the current warming trend.»

While we are not suggesting that the current warming trend will necessarily be quickly reversed, this statistical exercise reveals that examining temperature records over a longer time frame may offer a different perspective on global warming than that which is commonly expressed.

The physical evidence clearly shows that carbon dioxide is causing the current warming trend.

«The current warming trend... is very likely human induced...» — National Aeronautic and Space Administration website, 2011

Sure, it only extends back to the 1880s and you could argue the current warming trend is a result of Earth «naturally» coming out of LIA.

But GCM - tuning exercises strongly suggest that external forcings from GHGs must be involved in producing the current warming trend.

The result; a long upwards trend, instead of one more fairly representing the ups and downs we can observe over a thousand years, with the current warming trend starting around 1700, making Giss a staging post of increasing warmth and not the starting post.

The current warming trend is 0.13 to 0.16 degrees per decade.

When I say recovery from the Little Ice Age in some sense «explains» global warming, I mean to say that the current warming trend began when the LIA ended and has been proceeding more or less apace ever since.

This is also true of the current warming trend — an increase in carbon dioxide is leading to an increase in temperatures.

And, of course, whatever was that caused it, don't you think that it may still be playing a major role in the current warming trend?

Since you base your belief on the current warming trend on the opinions of experts on the matter, do you know of their answers to the questions I asked?

That said, the main reason we think that the current warming trend is not natural is because the small increase in solar irradiance from 1975 to current is much less than from the first half of the century.

If they were natural why do you believe the current warming trend isn't?

Then come back and tell me that you still think the current warming trend is something to get worked up about.

In the report, the panel emphasized that the significant remaining uncertainties about climate patterns over the last 2,000 years did not weaken the scientific case that the current warming trend was caused mainly by people, through the buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

How unprecedented is the current warming trend?

Ultimately for me as a non expert, I haven't seen any convincing explanation to explain why the paleo record (which shows a warmer arctic and no corresponding large methane release) isn't a good analogue of the current warming trend in the arctic.

However they fail to address the question of the source of the current warming trend.

The current warming trend is many times faster than back then, making potential adaptation to new conditions more difficult.

Co-author S. Fred Singer said: «The current warming trend is simply part of a natural cycle of climate warming and cooling.

Ambiguities regarding projected greenhouse warming call in much the same way for clearer information regarding the role of the Sun, as a possibly important contributor to the current warming trend.

Given the strength of the Hurst coefficients — something we all agree on — is it not possible that a large portion of the current warming trend is a product of internal climate variability, as mediated by complex dynamics of ocean circulation?

The current warming trend 1998 - 2005, has no precedent in recent Arctic memory, there were a few unique occasions when open water was seen during mid-winter over Barrow Strait, but this was at roughly 10 year intervals, now the intervals are totally irregular, but between Islands ice cover is not the best indication of warming, monthly temperature readings for the past 4 years or so, have been mostly above normal by 1 to the occasional 4 to 5 degrees.

RE: # 1 I think that Richard Sycamore has asked some key questions — «is it not possible that a large portion of the current warming trend is a product of internal climate variability» and «how it is you decide that GHGs are responsible for a deterministic forced trend».

What seems to be the break between scientists and the average person is that the average person believes that 100 % of the current warming trend is man made (as if the Earth has never gone through one before).

That is, the IPCC itself makes no connection between the current warming trend and hurricane intensity.

On the other hand, Victor has been unable to explain why CO2 is not causing the current warming trend.

It kind of amazes me how quickly «skeptics» move from saying we don't understand enough about climate to attribute the current warming trend to CO2 — the portion of the climate system we probably understand best — to saying we need to start geo - engineering with aerosols — where we have greatest uncertainty.