Sentences with phrase «especially high global warming»

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Previous research has shown that alpine flora and fauna are especially vulnerable when it comes to global warming and that the upper and lower boundaries of populations» home ranges have been moving higher up the mountain with every successive generation.

Global warming is caused by the Sun, especially its radiation over the past century plus or minus a half century which is dominantly absorbed and stored in the ocean because the ocean is dark and because it has a high heat capacity (inertia in some Earth sciences).

Raymond wrote, «Proponents of the global warming theory say that higher levels of greenhouse gases — especially carbon dioxide — are causing -LSB-...]

In contrast, modern warming (especially post-1970) is global in scale, and confidence in attribution to CO2 forcing has risen to a very high level.

Interest was especially high this particular December because a race was on: since mid - to late summer, the scientists in all three groups had been telling their friends and acquaintances, including those in the news media, that 2005 might turn out to be the warmest year on record — since about 1880, that is, when station coverage first became global enough to permit a meaningful estimate.

They found that the warming in the data - sparse regions was progressing faster than the global average (especially during the past couple of years) and that when they included the data that they derived for these regions in the computation of the global average temperature, they found the global trend was higher than previously reported — just how much higher depended on the period over which the trend was calculated.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn/background.aspx [2] «Rice yields decline with higher night temperature from global warming» www.pnas.org/content/101/27/9971.full [3] «This paper concludes that a stronger link between energy and nonenergy commodity prices is likely to be the dominant influence on developments in commodity, and especially food, markets.»