Sentences with phrase «explain warming slowdown»

The recent wave of news and magazine articles about scientists struggling to explain the warming slowdown could prolong or deepen the public's skepticism.But the «consensus» never extended to the intricacies of the climate system, just the core belief that additional greenhouse gas emissions would warm the planet.

His article is subtitled, ««Climate scientists struggle to explain warming slowdown,» said Reuters.

This isn't a puzzle; climate scientists are well aware of several contributing factors, as a recent Reuters article — «Climate scientists struggle to explain warming slowdown» — eventually discussed.

Not exact matches

«Such a slowdown is consistent with the projected effects of anthropogenic climate change, where warming and freshening of the surface ocean from melting ice caps leads to weaker overturning circulation,» DeVries explained.

A cryptic chemical weather log kept by Tarawa Atoll's stony coral in the tropical Pacific archipelago has been cracked, helping scientists explain a century of peaks and troughs in global warming — and inflaming fears that a speedup will follow the recent slowdown.

That understanding suggests that the «slowdown» in warming is unlikely to continue, as England explains in his guest post, below.

This was one of the motivations for our study out this week in Nature Climate Change (England et al., 2014) With the global - average surface air temperature (SAT) more - or-less steady since 2001, scientists have been seeking to explain the climate mechanics of the slowdown in warming seen in the observations during 2001 - 2013.

May be this partly explains the slight slowdown in warming during the last decade, this is however uncertain because the sulfur dioxide emission for the last 5 years are not available.

Reuters didn't connect the dots between these two articles, telling us one week that oceans help explain the surface warming slowdown, and the next week claiming the slowdown is puzzling climate scientists.

That would help explain the slowdown in surface warming but would also suggest that the pause may be only temporary and brief.»

(5) explains the cause of the slowdown in global warming after around 2000 — cooling from increased Eastern SO2 emissions offset the warming caused by Western Clean Air efforts, resulting in a net slowdown in the rate of decreasing global SO2 emissions.

A leaked draft of the next major climate report from the U.N. cites numerous causes to explain the slowdown in warming: greater - than - expected ash from volcanoes, a decline in heat from the sun, more heat being absorbed by the deep oceans, and so on.

An assessment of whether or not there was a meaningful slowdown or «hiatus» in global warming, was recently discussed by Tamino and others (i)(see comments beginning here) in response to a paper by Fyfe, Meehl, England, Mann, Santer, Flato, Hawkins, Gillett, Xie, Kosaka, and Swart, with Ed Hawkins explaining in a more expository piece.

mehus @ 19 - I believe that paper is actually discussing the lack of warming higher in the atmosphere, but it could also explain the slight slowdown in ocean warming over the past few years.

The increased overturning can explain a slowdown in the global warming, and the association between these aspects can be interpreted as an entanglement between the greenhouse effect and the hydrological cycle, where reduced energy transfer associated with increased opacity is compensated by tropospheric overturning activity.