Sentences with phrase «delayed warming»

The oceans beneath delay the warming of the surface waters due to thermal inertia.

What climate scientists say is that a new Maunder minimum like period would only delay the warming by a decade or so.

The increase of effective heat capacity, in turn, results in the reduction of the rate of increase in surface temperature, reducing and delaying the warming as shown by Hoffert et al (1980) and Hansen et al. (1984).»

Our calculations suggest that around Antarctica the ozone hole may have delayed warming due to greenhouse gases by several decades.

Even an outlay of this order, he has said, would merely delay warming for six years by the end of the century.

«These offsets help delay warming that would otherwise take place if actual CO2 emissions are not reduced,» says Surabi Menon, staff scientist at Berkeley Lab and lead author of the paper.

The delayed warming resulting from escapes of gas would occur gradually for hundreds of years, but could be problematic and expensive for future generations who would have to figure out how to recapture the C02 from the atmosphere, said study author Gary Shaffer, a professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Concepción in Chile.

Alternatively, if a deepening of the subtropical gyres gives rise to an increase in the heat stored in this water mass, with a corresponding non-zero trend in the surface heat flux; then I should think that a restoration towards conditions of the past must somehow give rise to a delayed warming of the atmosphere (if the surplus is not somehow lost to space).

For example, if high temperatures lead to widespread crop failures in the tropics, people may be motivated to delay warming or slow the rate of warming in the hopes of providing additional time to develop heat resistant crop varieties.

The next stage might be to include some of the history of the subject and then proceed to the real experiment which would be to include some science, particularly the following topics, forcing, sensitivity, the role of water vapour, the oceans, feedbacks, delayed warming, finger - prints and understanding the ice cores.