Sentences with phrase «down in the global warming»

A slow - down in global warming is not a sign that climate change is ending, but a natural blip in an otherwise long - term upwards trend, research shows.

It is also one that has broken down in the global warming debate because so few people are open to contrary findings.

No issue is more turned upside down in the global warming debate than global temperatures and CO2 levels.

The recent slow down in global warming has been attributed to a number of factors, including excess heat being stored in the deep ocean and reductions of certain greenhouse gases.

There is no evidence * whatsoever * of even a slow - down in the global warming trend, in fact it's still accelerating.

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Also I'll start believing the «I don't shove this down your throat» stuff when the christian lobby stays out of the govenment and stops trying to hinder global warming, evolution, and really any sort of advance in our country.

Still, the prominent climate scientist James Hansen, who gained fame after sounding the alarm over global warming in the 1980s, criticized Sanders and said shutting down the plant would increase the need for more fracked gas.

A huge shift towards renewables and the clean economy is needed if we are going to bring down consumer bills in the long - term and take seriously our need to tackle climate change, honouring our commitment to the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.

The model also suggests that the decline in water vapour concentrations that occurred in 2001 slowed down the rate of global warming in the last decade by 25 per cent.

They found that while temperatures would go down by as much as 0.3 °C, global warming would push up temperatures by 3.7 to 4.5 °C — more than negating any effect of a global minimum (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2010gl042710, in press).

In his view, the problem boils down to resolution: Just as global warming can be masked by shorter - term ups and downs in temperature, so can the link to hurricanes be hard to spot in the short terIn his view, the problem boils down to resolution: Just as global warming can be masked by shorter - term ups and downs in temperature, so can the link to hurricanes be hard to spot in the short terin temperature, so can the link to hurricanes be hard to spot in the short terin the short term.

Instead of piping in natural CO2, it will use the greenhouse gas captured at a coal - fired power plant just completed nearly 100 miles north of here and send it down into the reservoir, pushing oil out and leaving the greenhouse gas deep below, safely locked away from the atmosphere, so it does not add to global warming.

In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change flagged an odd phenomenon: Atmospheric temperature data collected over the past few decades suggested that global warming had slowed down beginning around 1998.

By examining how Earth cools itself back down after a period of natural warming, a study by scientists at Duke University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirms that global temperature does not rise or fall chaotically in the long run.

Even when additional reduction measures are implemented against black carbon, or soot, which is released when fossil fuels are burned, they do little to slow down global warming in a 2 degrees scenario.

EUROPE»S plans for tackling global warming by driving down emissions of carbon dioxide may have backfired in Germany, where they have encouraged energy companies to build coal - fired power stations instead of gas - fired stations, which emit less CO2.

In this sense, the ocean has acted as a buffer to slow down the greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere and, thus, global warminIn this sense, the ocean has acted as a buffer to slow down the greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere and, thus, global warminin the atmosphere and, thus, global warming.

In 2013 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had noted that the temperature data seemed to suggest that global warming had slowed down beginning around 1998.

DUMBING DOWN In search of a global explanation for our cranial downsizing, some scientists have pointed to a warming trend in the earth's climate that also began 20,000 years agIn search of a global explanation for our cranial downsizing, some scientists have pointed to a warming trend in the earth's climate that also began 20,000 years agin the earth's climate that also began 20,000 years ago.

Governments are now trying to figure out how to phase them out in order to slow down global warming.

In this case, you had to read six paragraphs down to get the message people would care about and even argue heatedly about, which could have sparked headings like «Global Warming From CO2 Likely Lowballed».

Oftentimes we get bogged down discussing one of the many pieces of evidence behind man - made global warming, and in the process we can't see the forest for the trees.

If this is correct, then we could be seeing be a very limited negative feedback from global warming just now which increases hydroxyl concentrations which in turn breaks down the methane faster.

This means that when modern global warming trend began in the 1970's, the correlation between sun and climate broke down.

You can read a more recent discussion of the role the bark beetle and climate change are playing in burning down and reshaping the West in this National Wildlife Federation report, «Increased Risk of CatastrophicWildfires: Global Warming's Wake - Up Call for the Western United States.»

Over two dozen lawmakers who favored efforts to clamp down on heat - trapping emissions were swept away on Tuesday's anti-incumbent wave, ushering in a new class of Republicans who doubt global warming science and want to upend President Barack Obama's environmental and energy policies.

We talk to Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways), director of the underrated science fiction comedy - drama Downsizing, starring Matt Damon, in which people choose to be shrunk down to live in miniaturized cities as a way to help with global warming and overpopulation.

Millennials were nearly split down the middle in terms of deciding if global warming or the student loan crisis is the biggest problem facing the U.S.

Net energy gain is going down (it's more energy intensive to pump oil out of deep water than out of a ground - based well under pressure) coupled with peak oil that is either here or near in time, and global warming mandates reducing carbon emissions.

You can also see in this graph that the warming trend in the global data for the low troposphere, if we consider the whole set of data, i.e. from the average between 1980 - 1982 till now, with now meaning the average of the last three years, the warming trend is, AT MOST, 0.115 ºC / decade (0.3 ºC in 26 years), but the graph is going down recently, so it should be even less.

Given how much yelling takes place on the Internet, talk radio, and elsewhere over short - term cool and hot spells in relation to global warming, I wanted to find out whether anyone had generated a decent decades - long graph of global temperature trends accounting for, and erasing, the short - term up - and - down flickers from the cyclical shift in the tropical Pacific Ocean known as the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, cycle.

In Beijing the interests of the Party come first, second and third, and global warming is somewhere further down the list.

For global warming scenarios, additional forcing comes into play: surface warming and enhanced high - latitude precipitation, which will also reduce density of northern surface waters (an effect which alone has shut down deep water formation in some model experiments, e.g. Manabe and Stouffer 1993, 1994).

When we look at solutions down the road for global warming, for other environmental problems, for horrible inequities in income and wealth distribution in the world, we would do well to remember Einstein's warning, «We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.»

If hurricanes like this have hit with some regularity in the past (which they have), is it not jumping the gun a little to slap down a global - warming tag on it.

The true motivation underlying the global warming movement is almost certainly ideological and political in nature, and I predict that anthropogenic Global Warming, as currently presented, will go down as the greatest fraud of allglobal warming movement is almost certainly ideological and political in nature, and I predict that anthropogenic Global Warming, as currently presented, will go down as the greatest fraud of alwarming movement is almost certainly ideological and political in nature, and I predict that anthropogenic Global Warming, as currently presented, will go down as the greatest fraud of allGlobal Warming, as currently presented, will go down as the greatest fraud of alWarming, as currently presented, will go down as the greatest fraud of all time.

Given continued assertions that human - driven global warming could be playing a role in the havoc down south, it's also worth revisiting something that Walker S. Ashley, a meteorologist at Northern Illinois University, said last week on Dot Earth:

But the sheer rate of increase over just the past 55 years shows how fast global warming could hit us in the future — and the present — and underscores how much we've failed as a planet to slow down carbon emissions.

It first needs to be emphasized that natural variability and radiatively forced warming are not competing in some no - holds barred scientific smack down as explanations for the behavior of the global mean temperature over the past century.

One way to look at the climate is that global mean surface temperatures have wandered up and down, to the left and the right, warmer and cooler, over the last thousand years, but have generally stayed a straight course, represented by the dashed line placed on the graph by the I.P.C.C. in 1990.

If global warming does slow down or partially reverse with a sunspot crash, industrial polluters and reluctant nations could use it as a justification for turning their backs on pollution controls altogether, makingmatters worse in the long run.

Low energy prices, the distraction of the first Persian Gulf war, and a temporary cool spell following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines all helped tamp down global warming as an issue through much of the 1990's, outside the brief burst of triumphant proclamations with the 1997 negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol, a stricter addendum to the faltering 1992 climate pact.

And the odds go down from there on attributing other recent shifts in weather - related disasters to global warming.

It also helps explain the initial cooling after the Industrial Revolution began (the smoke effect overwhelmed the relatively weak warming effect back then), the increase of global temperture during WW2 (shut down of industries) and decrease after WW2 (re-industrialization) and acceleration in the 1970's after the passage of the Clean Air Act.

We can write down a simple recipe for the GHE, but it is indeed challenging to reconcile a presence of a negative feedback with our observations, or explain the current observed global warming in any other terms.

The full quote was «In a long, and interesting speech, he characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way: «We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions «cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.

In 2006 a pattern emerged at NASA in which political appointees repeatedly acted in ways that the agency administrator concluded were inappropriate, including telling public affairs officers to issue fewer press releases on global warming in 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companieIn 2006 a pattern emerged at NASA in which political appointees repeatedly acted in ways that the agency administrator concluded were inappropriate, including telling public affairs officers to issue fewer press releases on global warming in 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companiein which political appointees repeatedly acted in ways that the agency administrator concluded were inappropriate, including telling public affairs officers to issue fewer press releases on global warming in 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companiein ways that the agency administrator concluded were inappropriate, including telling public affairs officers to issue fewer press releases on global warming in 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companiein 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companiein the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companiein heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companies.

Could anything be more out of date, backward - looking, or antiquated in spirit than the Carlin report's repackaging of yesterday's denialist illusions and pseudoscientific nonsense about climate — fantasies that have been shot down time and again, that don't have a melting Greenland glacier's chance in a warming climate when exposed to the light of reason, yet which have been presented to the world as if they were a brilliant refutation of the CO2 - global warming link by the sharpest analytical minds in the field of climatological research?

Any serious treatment of man made emissions and global warming would either be so watered down (as in the excerpts above) or accurate enough to unleash attacks from the Inhofes and Lutzs of the world as to be useless or further polarizing.

Seems to me the debate about AGHG global warming and increasing TC frequency / intensity / duration boils down to the fact that as sea surface temperatures, as well as deeper water temperatures rise, the wallop of any TC over warmer seas without mitigating circumstances like wind sheer and dry air off land masses entrained in the cyclone will likely be much more devastating.