Sentences with phrase «expect less warming»

There is also no reason to expect less warming in the future — in fact, perhaps rather the opposite as the climate system will catch up again due its natural oscillations, e.g. when the Pacific decadal oscillation swings back to its warm phase.

Not exact matches

Messi's problem was less serious than initially expected and he returned to training four days before the initial scheduled date, making his return to the pitch with a 35 - minute performance against Deportivo La Coruña last Saturday, and Leo even scored in a perfect warm - up for Wednesday's game.

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Warmer temperatures brought in less revenue than expected.

When the researchers simulated a second effect of climate change in addition to warming, namely drought, the results were even the opposite as expected: The soil animals ate less, and also the microorganisms living in the soil showed a decline in respiration — an indication that they also consumed less food.

Over the course of coming decades, though, trade wind speed is expected to decrease from global warming, Thunell says, and the result will be less phytoplankton production at the surface and less oxygen utilization at depth, causing a concomitant increase in the ocean's oxygen content.

Analysis of the first seven years of data from a NASA cloud - monitoring mission suggests clouds are doing less to slow the warming of the planet than previously thought, and that temperatures may rise faster than expected as greenhouse gas pollution worsens — perhaps 25 percent faster.

«In the short term, there is maybe a bit less warming than expected,» says Otto.

«They are therefore expected to respond positively to the warmer, less saline and smelly water of estuaries, but only once they've reached a certain stage of development.

Scientists measured how much carbon dioxide the artificially warmed plants respired — released into the air via their leaves — and learned that over time, the trees acclimated to warmer temperatures and increased their carbon emissions less than expected.

«This kind of study discusses the natural cycle and could help define the likely positive feedbacks we can expect in the long - term future, [for example] as temperatures warm, the ocean will want to give up more CO2, or rather absorb less,» says climatologist Gavin Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies.

I expect the rate of warming to proceed at a steady pace, about one and a half degrees over land in the next 50 years, less if the oceans are included.

What is alarming is that the volume of water and the extent and rapidity of its movement is suprisingly much greater than previously believed, and that a possible, perhaps likely, effect of this on ice sheet dynamics is to make the ice sheets less stable and more likely to respond more quickly to global warming than previously expected.

Winters have been warming more rapidly than summers, and while less extreme cold sounds appealing, the future effects of blistering summer heat are expected to outweigh the benefits of milder winters.

She takes a bit to warm up to new people but given her past, we would expect no less.

But don't expect everything to be idyllic — while the island is a warm and welcome relief from the day - to - day, it is not free of the less - comforting associations with escape and isolation.»

I have observed greater variations in Arctic Inversions lately, the tendency is towards less steep inversions, this is expected when the Arctic lower atmosphere warms during winter, if the models maintain a stronger inversion while its observed weakening this may explain why sea ice models fail, strong boundary layers appear to be collapsing.

... Based on these results, further warming and drying of tropical forests is expected to result in less uptake and more release of carbon on land, unfortunately amplifying the effect of fossil fuel emissions warming the climate.

In other words, global warming will lead to less North Atlantic hurricanes, not more as had been generally expected because of the rise in sea surface temperatures.

The opportunities for preparation are one reason why economists expect the damage from global warming to be different, and perhaps less, than from natural disasters that hit by surprise.

This means that warmer seas are expected to lead to less productive oceans — something which is not proof of anything changing with regard to the THC or wider ocean circulation.

Given that the warming then is less than that predicted for this century, is that what we can expect for Africa's future?

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We expect from CO2 - based warming less severe «extreme weather events» because of the blanket effect and less heat differential between the equator and the poles.

Greater warming over land and in the Arctic regions, and less warming in the sub-polar oceans, are what we expect from our understanding of climate physics, and this is what we observe.»

Warmer water holds less oxygen, and the researchers found that 94 percent of the world's dead zones are in areas expected to see a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius or more by the end of the century.

They were expecting with less ice at - least a small GLOBAL warming — to get them out of trouble — but nature is controlled by the laws of physics — not by their wishful thinking.

I will be the first to admit that there has been less of it than I expected, but that doesn't mean there hasn't been an avalanche of news about how this summer is what global warming looks like.

As the earth warms, we expect to see currently wet regions receiving more rainfall, and dry regions receiving less, although there will be exceptions,» Stocker said.

A study surveying «leaky valves and pipes in the rapidly growing natural gas industry» observed 50 % more methane leakage than expected, but the extra atmospheric contribution still causes less global warming than coal.

They show, as before, that the observed warming over either period is very likely less than that expected from GHG forcing.

If the cooling from 1940 to 1975 was due (mainly) to aerosols, I would expect then that we would still be experiencing cooling, roughly equal to the 1960s, but certainly not warming faster than the pre-1940 era (when there was less volcanic activity, more active sun etc).

National Weather Service forecaster Rick Thoman says to expect a warmer - than - normal winter and less snow.

Thus even if the satellite data showed say nearly 0.1 degC warming between 1979 to about 1996/7 (which is not statistically significant) then one would expect to see less than this amount of warming in the land based thermometer record if the warming is due to the GHE.

Some shift in Americans» global warming views might have been expected this year, given the near - record warm temperatures experienced this winter across much of the country — Gallup finds 79 % of Americans reporting that the weather in their area was warmer than usual, though less than half of these attributed this to global warming.

«I didn't expect two people independently to say so explicitly that «catastrophic anthropogenic global warming» was just a figment of their imagination...» — hunter (the lesser)

From an OSU press release: CORVALLIS, Ore. — An analysis of 35 headwater basins in the United States and Canada found that the impact of warmer air temperatures on streamflow rates was less than expected in many locations, suggesting that some ecosystems may be resilient to certain aspects of climate change.

«Some reduction in the risk of death related to extreme cold is expected... the reduction in deaths as a result of relatively milder winters attributable to global warming will be substantially less than the increase in deaths due to summertime heat extremes.»

I am aware of papers explaining other reasons why surface warming has been less than expected.

Its true that there are a number of indicators that indicate warming, but they mostly indicate way less warming than you'd expect from the surface measurements.

But the uncertainty cuts both ways — it might warm more than we expect, just as much as it might warm less.

Land warms more than oceans, so when we include the ocean we expect the total global warming to be less.

The most likely explanation for UAH data warming less than expected is that the UAH data set is biased low.

Despite a record (or near record, depending on who you ask) high for global temperatures in 2010, the general rate of warming over the past decade and half (going on two decades) is generally less than it was expected to be.

Hang on... we've been told for years by apparent top climate scientists to expect less snowfalls, climate models predict warmer winters, ex-politicians claiming ice - free polar caps, hand - wringing news articles of children who would never experience snowfalls, on and on... but now we're expected to believe exactly the opposite because that's what's happening now.

It is this colder deeper water reaching the surface waters that restrains an increase in GMST to less than that naively expected from solar or atmosperic changes just as it is warmer water rising to the surface (such as, obviously, El Nino) that boosts an increase in GMST to more than that naively expected from solar or atmosperic changes.

Solar forcing is the only known natural forcing acting to warm the climate over this period but it has increased much less than greenhouse gas forcing, and the observed pattern of long term tropospheric warming and stratospheric cooling is not consistent with the expected response to solar irradiance variations.

This is as to be expected, since continued efforts to reduce atmospheric aerosols in the West have resulted in less dimming (more warming), while in the East increasing pollution has caused more dimming (less warming).

Because the added warmth is making vegetation less able to absorb our carbon emissions, scientists expect the rate of warming to jump substantially in the coming years.

In the Northwest, that's expected to mean warmer weather, higher sea levels, less snow and more forest fires.