Cities can combat the urban heat island
effect under global warming with trees, white roofs and other fixes
Not exact matches
Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate
global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings
under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of
effects of temperature increases.
While the water
under the Antarctic ice is not itself related to
global warming, the suprisingly large amount of water, the surprising speed with which it moves, and its
effect of «lubricating» the movement of the Antarctic ice, may affect how the ice sheets respond to
warming.
Current studies include the exploration of Arctic deep - sea life
under the ice, and the long - term observation of the
effects of
global warming on polar ecosystems as well as on hypoxic aquatic ecosystems.
«These technologies will be critical to keeping
global warming under 2 °C, but we need to remain cognizant of their
effects on the environment, such as their higher use of metals like steel and copper in manufacturing.
My research, (which amounts to amassing thousands of stories, websites, reports, and international meeing and treaty summaries, along with a close following of all international bodies concerned with
global warming, into a huge, huge, disorganized, bookmark list,) indicates, that, for the worst
effects of
global warming to be SOMEWHAT diminished, we would need to get
under 300 ppm.
They discussed the
effect of variables being non-iid on the extreme value analysis, and after taking that into account, propose that changes in extreme precipitation are likely to be larger than the corresponding changes in annual mean precipitation
under a
global warming.
I doubt this would be significantly higher even at 6C
global warming as the EAIS is
under extremely cold air so that the
warming would have little
effect.
If they can not provide a verifiable experiment regarding the present amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and how it
effects the climate and creates their anthropogenic
global warming, then believing that it does so is akin to believing that Santa Clause is real and you need to be good to get something left
under the tree.
«In places like Iceland, for example, where you have the Eyjafjallajökull ice sheet, which wouldn't survive [
global warming], and you've got lots of volcanoes
under that, the unloading
effect can trigger eruptions,» McGuire said.
-- Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator, taking into consideration the public health and environmental impacts of black carbon emissions, including the
effects on
global and regional
warming, the Arctic, and other snow and ice - covered surfaces, shall propose regulations
under the existing authorities of this Act to reduce emissions of black carbon or propose a finding that existing regulations promulgated pursuant to this Act adequately regulate black carbon emissions.
Every time the evidentiary basis of AGW is knocked out from
under it, its proponents simply change the name (e.g.: «
Global Warming» becomes «Climate Change») or the predicted
effects of AGW («the earth's temperature will rise by X degrees» becomes «the earth's temperature will maybe rise or fall by X degrees»).
according to paper 1, the paper by Ramanathan entitled «Trace - Gas Greenhouse
Effect and
Global Warming», the author states on page 3 (which is really labeled page 189 since it was in a larger journal i guess)
under the section Anthropogenic Enhancement of the Greenhouse
Effect — «an increase in greenhouse gas such as CO2 will lead to a further reduction in OLR.»
If heat flow into the deeper ocean (
under 300m) is driven independently of
Global Average Surface temperature or the «greenhouse» effect, then we have no reason to suppose that the latter produces any «global warming» a
Global Average Surface temperature or the «greenhouse»
effect, then we have no reason to suppose that the latter produces any «
global warming» a
global warming» at all.
For example, the Center recently petitioned for listing of the polar bear (link to polar bear page)
under the Endangered Species Act, in part because of the detrimental
effects of
global warming on habitat for this species.
After years of demanding little action on
global warming, voters could suddenly and angrily urge their leaders to shower government aid on the farmers, coast - dwellers and other populations suffering
under the
effects of a changing climate.
While
global dimming may be causing us to
under - estimate the amount of
global warming, other
effects may be causing us to over-estimate it.