Sentences with phrase «expected in a warmer world»

Dry places are expected to get drier with climate change, while wet places are expected to get wetter, but Crouch said that the particular precipitation pattern seen in June isn't what is expected in a warming world, according to the National Climate Assessment that was released in May.

That is to be expected in a warmer world, the authors wrote.

The heavy snow even paradoxically fits with what is expected in a warming world, despite declines in seasonal snowfall.

This is consistent with what you'd expect in a warming world.

I think the current data has the establishment of record highs far outpacing record lows, which would be expected in a warming world.

Extreme heavy downpours are consistent with what climate scientists expect in a warming world.

In context of current increased forcing and in consideration of all relevant natural and forced events and time scale, it is valid to say that this is expected in a warming world.

«The heat we saw in the U.S. is consistent with what we expect in a warming world,» Deke Arndt, chief of the climate monitoring branch at the center, said on a conference call.

The Zwally paper that established that Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate, as all scientists expect in a warming world?

Extreme heavy downpours are consistent with what climate scientists expect in a warming world.

All roughly what you would expect in a warming world.

In a Politico article, Deke Arndt, chief of the climate monitoring branch at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center writes, «The heat that we saw in the U.S. (in 2012) is consistent with what we would expect in a warming world.

More record highs than record lows is exactly what you'd expect in a warming world and the trend has been tipping toward more and more highs compared to lows for decades.

Worse, neither are willing to link the recent extreme weather with climate change, even though scientists say we're seeing exactly what we should expect in a warmer world.

Not exact matches

These are the types of storms climate scientists to expect to see more of in a warmer world.

Much like the legendary warm welcome you'd expect from Glasgow, Whyte and Mackay would like to extend that welcome to our whisky also - wherever you happen to be in the world.

The scientists expect further warming in the Arctic as levels of greenhouse gases will continue to increase and aerosol particle emissions will likely decrease to combat air pollution in different parts of the world.

That would narrow estimates of how much warming the world can expect for a given level of CO2 in the atmosphere.

The IPCC report does suggest that extreme weather events should be expected as the world warms but the prediction is couched in cautious terms and the risk is assessed as «medium» confidence.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

In a warming world, atmospheric water vapour content is expected to rise due to an increase in saturation water vapour pressure with air temperaturIn a warming world, atmospheric water vapour content is expected to rise due to an increase in saturation water vapour pressure with air temperaturin saturation water vapour pressure with air temperature.

The group also used a general circulation model to predict what might be expected to happen in the world's wine locales in the next 50 years and determined that an average additional warming of two degrees C may occur.

«The sea ice in the Antarctic is probably growing a little, but that is still consistent with expected behavior in a warming world.»

«The land ice in the Arctic and very likely in the Antarctic is losing mass and shrinking, and the sea ice in the Arctic is shrinking, all as expected in world warming from our CO2,» Alley said.

This suggests more precipitation fell away from the tropics in a colder climate, the opposite of what is expected as the world warms.

Climate change models predict that the Arctic sea ice will continue to shrink in a warming world (as much as 40 % of the ice is expected to be gone by midcentury), and the resulting changes — including later formation of ice in the autumn, rain falling on the snow, and decreasing snow depths — will make it increasingly difficult for the seals to construct their snow caves, NOAA says.

If, for example, it turns out the extra CO2 released during El Niño is largely due to microbial activity in soils and decomposing plant material, Malhi says, «I wouldn't expect it to last» as the world warms further.

In general, it is expected that heavy downpours will increase as the world warms due to the buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, because a warmer atmosphere contains more moisturIn general, it is expected that heavy downpours will increase as the world warms due to the buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, because a warmer atmosphere contains more moisturin the atmosphere, because a warmer atmosphere contains more moisture.

Velders says his team came up with higher warming estimates than IPCC because their model accounts for trends that others don't, such as the faster - than expected adoption of HFCs driven by the Montreal Protocol, and an air - conditioning boom in the developing world.

They found that although still a rare event, such heavy rainfall is now expected roughly once in 200 years while it would only have been a 1 in 350 year event in a world without global warming.

Global warming often conjures scenes of sweaty, scorching summer days, but daytime temperatures aren't the only thing expected to rise in a warming world.

In a warming world the vapour capacity of the atmosphere increases, and more extreme rainfall, like Texas is witnessing right now, is to be expected as a result.

Can you summarize current state of the world regarding research on expected ENSO behavior in warming climate, i.e.: a) About the same b) Expect distribution of La Nina / El Nino / Neutrals to change c) Insufficent data to be able to say much

In a world without global warming, you'd expect to set a roughly equal number of high and low records over time.

Ground - level ozone formation increases under the hot and stagnant conditions that are expected to increase in a warmer world.

All of the indicators expected to increase in a warming world, are in fact increasing, and all that are expected to decrease, are decreasing:

Extremes of the hydrologic cycle are expected to intensify in a warmer world.

Searing heat is the signature of climate change, and the scorching summer temperatures blanketing much of the nation this week are exactly what we should expect in an ever warming world.

That's certainly what one expects in he majority of local climatologies in a warming world, although of course the local response to global warming will be larger in some areas than other and etc...

This week, PNAS published our paper Increase of Extreme Events in a Warming World, which analyses how many new record events you expect to see in a time series with a trend.

Can you summarize current state of the world regarding research on expected ENSO behavior in warming climate, i.e.: a) About the same b) Expect distribution of La Nina / El Nino / Neutrals to change c) Insufficent data to be able to say much

RE the possibility that negative arctic oscillations may also be expected to become more frequent in a warming world (see http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/12/cold-winter-in-a-world-of-warming), here is an effect on Mexican agriculture at http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2011/02/12/commerce-news-mexicos-new-agricultural-crisis/:

It is logical to expect that, as atmospheric greenhouse gases increase and the world warms up, the extra energy in the atmosphere and oceans will move things around in unusual ways for which we are not prepared.

Eventually, if not right now, we would expect to see increase in storm intensity and perhaps frequency in a globally warming world, all things being equal... which they are not, since even weathermen can't well predict next week's weather due to some butterfly flapping it's wings in Japan gumming up the wind system.

Any agreement coming out of Copenhagen that does not commit the parties to continuing, substantial emissions reductions through 2050 can not claim to have succeeded in putting the world on a path limiting expected warming to 2 degrees C.

In a warming world — if it warms — we might expect a broadening of the tropical and an enhancement of deep convection.

However, in a warming world, that snow will tend to melt earlier in the year, and thus we expect to see spring and summer snow cover extent decline.

All the indicators expected to increase in a warming world are found to be increasing.

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.

It's the kind of abnormal event we've now come to expect in a world driven 1 C + warmer than 1880s levels by a merciless burning of fossil fuels that just won't quit.