Sentences with phrase «dampen global»

If the sun enters such a sustained period of low solar activity again, it could dampen the global avg temp by between 0.1 and 0.4 deg (eg recent paper by Rahmstorf; KNMI climate science update).

Sometimes these dampen global warming, and sometimes they amplify it.

SRM describes an array of methods — all of which remain hypothetical — for artificially reducing how much sunlight reaches the Earth's surface in order to dampen global warming.

Such protectionist policies would dampen global trade and economic growth and either directly or indirectly reduce Canadian exports and business investment.

Second, the risks and uncertainties that have been dampening global economic prospects have worsened.

One that dampens global warming — which would have to be explained by the global energy balance.

Cooling Pacific has dampened global warming, research shows.

Perhaps the negative feedback of cloud cover has kicked in, dampening global warming, or the ocean absorption of atmospheric heat is playing a new and more decisive role.

Not exact matches

Once seen as an attractive capital source for Australian companies, regulatory hurdles in Canada combined with depressed global markets have dampened enthusiasm for dual listings.

NEW YORK, April 23 - Global benchmark Brent crude turned positive in volatile trade on Monday as it jockeyed between downward pressure after Iran dashed hopes that OPEC would extend its production cap pact and support on fears that U.S. sanctions could dampen Iran's output.

Darby notes that tourism — which accounts for 6.5 % of the Thai economy — has been dampened at times; he chalks much of the economy's resilience up to continued foreign direct investment, conditions that have favored Thailand in global trade, and strong credit growth.

Though talk of an all - out global trade war has dampened, some analysts still believe that protectionism is a cause for concern — especially when it comes to tech.

The renewed sanctions would likely dampen Iranian oil exports, disrupting global oil supply.

In addition, a shift toward protectionism in advanced economies could reduce global growth and trade, impede capital flows, and dampen market sentiment.

Poloz's bold and unexpected move to cut rates this year — not once, but twice — has been credited for dampening the impact of the sharp drop in global oil prices on the Canadian economy.

U.S. and global stock markets have come under intense selling pressure this week, as concerns over a North Korea standoff dampen investor sentiment.

Had it continued, this posed the risk of significantly dampening the effects of the global recovery on Australia's export performance.

A weaker global environment could dampen demand pressures in the period ahead, although that appears to have become less likely recently.

All else equal, the stronger exchange rate would have a dampening influence on economic activity, although an important offset to this is the related improvement in the terms of trade and stronger global demand.

Global benchmark Brent crude turned positive in volatile trade on Monday as it jockeyed between downward pressure after Iran dashed hopes that OPEC would extend its production cap pact and support on fears that U.S. sanctions could dampen Iran's output.

The British government has sought to dampen down concern from conservation group WWF that «water wars» are a growing threat to global security.

In a statement published after the experiment was completed, the Alfred Wegener Institute, where Smetacek works, said the results «dampened hopes on the potential of the Southern Ocean to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide and thus mitigate global warming.»

But if instead the most optimistic prognosis for Cantarell is applicable, and global demand increase is simultaneously dampened, then we have the «best case» of maximum production in 2018.

That's down to natural fluctuations that temporarily boost or dampen the speed of warming, such as the global weather phenomenon known as El Niño, the paper notes.

Global temperature reconstructions also tend to dampen the amplitude of these smaller events.

Calls of Hollywood whitewashing and whatnot dampened excitement about the film, while others accepted Johansson's casting because of her global box office appeal.

On a more structural basis, Canadian investors may have a higher bar for considering a foreign currency hedge in their global equity book, since the volatility dampening properties of the loonie typically have been beneficial — a stark contrast to the U.S. dollar which has tended to amplify risk.

Economic data suggest that although the global economy has strengthened, uncertainty continues and is damaging business confidence and dampening investment in Canada's major trading partners.

Prudential Investment Management experts are focused on an aging global investing population that will continue to dampen economic growth and keep interest rates low globally — rivaling the impact of cyclical market trends heading into 2016.

It is no surprise to anyone that the Bank of Canada maintained its target overnight rate at 1/2 percent today, judging that although the global economy has strengthened, uncertainty continues and is damaging business confidence and dampening investment in Canada's major trading partners.

It would seem to me that the global average approach would serve to dampen errors.

I haven't thought much about the THC although I've expressed doubt about seeing large regional cooling if it did shut down or change direction, mainly because global warming is so rapid that any cooling effect with time would be dampened by warming factors going on.

Of course, incredibly cold winters and massive evidence that global cooling is a much bigger concern will also dampen people's enthusiasm for ruining our economy just to make the Sierra club happy.

«But it has dampened hopes on the potential of the Southern Ocean to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and thus mitigate global warming.»

Although these questions still need to be resolved through future research, the underlying global warming trend remains, and the short - term dampening won't last forever.

BERLIN (AFP) Indian and German scientists have said that a controversial experiment has «dampened hopes» that dumping hundreds of tonnes of dissolved iron in the Southern Ocean can lessen global warming.

However, as we have previously discussed, the average global surface temperature over the first decade of this century has indeed warmed at a dampened rate.

«Any delay in fighting global warming would be detrimental to our economic stability — costing us billions of dollars and dampening the state's most important economic sectors.»

Even the idea that such a collapse could increase the chance global nuclear war, appaarently does not seem to dampen their enthusiasm.

As shown in Figure 2, the IPCC FAR ran simulations using models with climate sensitivities (the total amount of global surface warming in response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2, including amplifying and dampening feedbacks) correspoding to 1.5 °C (low), 2.5 °C (best), and 4.5 °C (high).

The stadium wave periodically enhances or dampens the trend of long - term rising temperatures, which may explain the recent hiatus in rising global surface temperatures.

But the defeat of federal climate legislation, the failure of leadership at the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the struggling economy and the rise of global warming skepticism in U.S. politics dampened prospects for climate policy.

And a large global recession that politicians which media supported, created, also dampen the appeal of even more excessively wild government spending - hundreds of billions or trillions depending how want to measure it, which of course involved massive government fraud and waste which obviously created too much unemployment and poverty in general.

«But if doing these things has the tradeoff of dampening the incentives for longer - term innovation, there can be a real problem, particularly when dramatic levels of technological change are needed, such as in the case of stabilizing the global climate.»

Firstly, even with man - made global warming taken into account, because of the short - term noise due to the internal variability in the climate system, climate models predict that there will be decades where natural cycles dampen the man - made warming trend.

And while the global warming trend spans many decades, the longest cooling trend over this period is 10 years, which proves that each was caused by short - term noise dampening the long - term trend.

Many climate «skeptics» are trying to capitalize on this dampening, trying to argue that this time global warming has stopped, even though it didn't stop after the global warming «pauses» in 1973 to 1980, 1980 to 1988, 1988 to 1995, 1995 to 2001, or 1998 to 2005 (Figure 1).

In short, global surface temperatures in the 1990s were mostly amplified by El Niños, while those in the 2000s and 2010s thus far have mostly been dampened by La Niñas - a recipe for a temporary surface warming «pause».

, according to NASA scientists: «Coincidence, conspired to dampen warming trends» — Excuse number 10 for global warming «pause» or «standstill» — NASA's Gavin Schmidt & colleagues finds «that a combination of factors, by coincidence, conspired to dampen warming trends in the real world after about 1992» — Latest excuse for global temperature standstill mocked by skeptics: «Apparently, if you go back and rework all the forcings, taking into account new data estimates (add half a bottle of post-hoc figures) and «reanalyses» of old data (add a tablespoon of computer simulation) you can bridge the gap and explain away the pause.»

The IPCC FAR ran simulations using models with climate sensitivities (the total amount of global surface warming in response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2, including amplifying and dampening feedbacks) of 1.5 °C (low), 2.5 °C (best), and 4.5 °C (high) for doubled CO2 (Figure 1).