Sentences with phrase «even modest warming»
It notes the vast scale of the carbon reservoir beneath the tundra in the far north and the centuries of greenhouse gas emissions that could escape on even modest warming trajectories.
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The warm atmosphere of the site UKChristianDate.com will make even the most modest individuals feel at ease.
If it hadn't been for that relatively short - term trend, no one would even be talking about global warming today, because there is nothing alarming about the very modest warming we've experienced since.
Moreover, even if methane leakage were to remain modest in some areas, long - term climate models suggest that warming trends have less to do with the rate of methane leakage and more to do with other variables, such as the thermal efficiency of future coal plants and whether the switch to gas is permanent or a bridge to zero - carbon energy.
Re # 4, Hansen et al say «We find evidence of local human effects («urban warming») even in suburban and small - town surface air temperature records, but the effect is modest in magnitude and conceivably could be an artifact of inhomogeneities in the station records.
The presentation of her report at a major scientific convention in 1856 was accompanied by postulation that even modest increases in the concentration of CO2 would result in significant atmospheric warming.»
... was accompanied by postulation that even modest increases in the concentration of CO2 could result in significant atmospheric warming.»
According to the IPCC, the costs of reducing emissions to limit warming to below 2C are modest, even before taking into account co-benefits such as energy - security benefits and health improvement due to reduced air pollution.
Even at the rate of warming expected by the most alarming promoters of climate doom, it will take hundreds of years to achieve more than a modest rise in sea level.
Even before the recent global warming pause, temperatures were warming at a relatively modest pace.
«These results warn against drawing over-optimistic conclusions from the relatively modest loss of mountain plant populations likely to be observed during the coming decades», says Stefan Dullinger from the University of Vienna, «because the final consequences of climate warming on plant distribution in the Alps will only become realized with a delay of decades or even centuries.»
Perhaps some warming that is so modest that it is hard to even measure in the temperature data.
For instance, even a relatively modest warming over the coming decades is very likely to have a meaningful effect on the timing and distribution of precipitation and evaporation rates, which will, in turn, have a substantial impact on freshwater supplies.
Even with the «modest warming» thus far, the signs of what's to come are not good.
In fact, even a 3 % chance of a warming this great is enough to render useless all traditional cost - benefit analyses that argue for delay or only modest action, as Harvard economist Martin Weitzman has shown.
For example, it warned that large tracts of the Amazon rain forest might be wiped out by global warming because they are extremely susceptible to even modest decreases in rainfall.
In fact, depending on the endpoints chosen, recent warming has been modest or even negative (slight cooling).
But a new study published in the journal Science Advances has concluded that another impact of global climate change might help coral reefs survive increasing sea temperatures: «even a modest sea level rise can substantially reduce temperature extremes within tide - dominated reefs, thereby partially offsetting the local effects of future ocean warming,» the authors of the study write.
The modest global warming seen to - date (around 0.13 degrees Celsius per decade) is likely to accelerate over the coming century - and models have even the US Corn Belt in the firing line.
Even modest amounts of global warming could trigger a carbon «time bomb» and release massive amounts of greenhouse gases from frozen Arctic soils, a new study has warned.
Those who have been paying even modest attention to climate scientists in recent years know that more intense storms are almost assured as we continue warming the planet.
Until recently even Gavin Schmidt admitted that whatever warming there might be, it has been «modest.»
Turkey, Syria, and Iraq are already spatting about water flow from the Euphrates River, which the IISD report predicts «even modest global warming» could shrink by a further 30 percent.
Even with the modest warming so far experienced yields have stagnated and quality declined.
Even when Earth resumes its modest warming, which it likely will at some point in the next couple of decades, the pace of warming will continue to be quite modest and beneficial to human welfare and global ecosystems.»
Even if solar variations have had some modest effect on climate today, he adds, they would be more than offset by greenhouse - gas warming.