Sentences with phrase «effects of a warming arctic»

Not exact matches

The findings back up a body of data suggesting that «the effects of global [warming] will be seen first, and will be most pronounced, in the arctic region,» says Mark Serreze, an arctic climatologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

Noise pollution, for example, may adversely affect echolocating mammals, and the ongoing effects of global warming degrade arctic environments.

black soot has also been found by a recent university of california study to be the direct cause of the albedo warming effect on the otherwise highly reflective and pristine white arctic ice & snow.

In fact, only warming by an enhanced greenhouse effect will warm nights more than day, polar regions (and especially the arctic *) more than tropical regions, and cool the stratosphere while warming the troposphere — all of which are features of the current warming.

with respect to the direct effect of the sun on arctic meltinc, i failed to mention that sunspot activity has been directly correlated to warming and cooling trends over the course of geohistory.

He says: «The arctic council's recent report on the effect of global warming -LRB-...) ignored a tickling time bomb buried in the Arctic -LRB-...).

Subject of some specific concern about global warming because of large temperature rises predicted for the arctic, and because of some arctic - specific feedback effects (e.g. the albedo feedback following loss of arctic sea ice).

Hansen got the warming right in the 1980s, the hockey stick is validated by numerous oth alternative research methods and ocean heat content and arctic ice continue to rise and shrink as predicted from the understanding of the physical effect of CO2, as have air temperatures in the area.

In Washington there was an awesome Earth Day warning from a government scientist, Dr. Jay Murray Mitchell said, «Pollution and over-pollution unless checked could so warm the earth in 200 years as to create a greenhouse effect melting the arctic ice cap and flooding vast areas of the world.»

The warming effect of carbon dioxide is strongest where air is cold and dry, mainly in the arctic rather than in the tropics, mainly in mountainous regions rather than in lowlands, mainly in winter rather than in summer, and mainly at night rather than in daytime.

It is arguably one of the most advanced of the seven in its impacts, with a 2011 GRL report putting its warming effect as equivalent to around 30 % of atmospheric anthro - CO2, and the recent report putting albedo loss from arctic sea - ice decline since»79 as providing a forcing equivalent on average to that from 25 % of the anthro - CO2 levels during the period.

I would suggest you do a simple Google Scholar search of «arctic response global warming» and read for a few days before making any more comments about the effects of global warming on the Arctic.

They estimate that without this offsetting effect, the arctic warming of 1.2 °C would have been about 3.0 °C.

This is why a look at the arctic temperatures reveals that it is WV, as the summers are not warming north of 80 north (because it takes more to do so when the mean temp is 275k) than when its 250K Its not that co2 has NO effect its that because of larger items around it, its very difficult to say its the climate control knob.

Therefore, the effect of warming in the arctic is cooling at the lower latitudes, from increased albedo from clouds and snow, and transportation of colder air from the arctic.

If so, then arctic temperatures are merely a side effect of events further south, and this is the wrong place to look for evidence of global warming.