Sentences with phrase «extremely high global warming»

HFCs have been commercialized to replace the chemicals that were destroying the ozone layer, but while HFCs do not destroy ozone, they have extremely high global warming potentials and are contributing to global climate change.

Not exact matches

We're already seeing extremely high energy costs, food shortages around the globe (which can be tied, at least in part, to biofuel production) and droughts, floods, etc., from global warming.
I doubt this would be significantly higher even at 6C global warming as the EAIS is under extremely cold air so that the warming would have little effect.
As such, AMEG has declared: «An extremely high international security risk of acute climate disruption followed by runaway global warming
«The authors write that «the Mediterranean region is one of the world's most vulnerable areas with respect to global warming,»... they thus consider it to be extremely important to determine what impact further temperature increases might have on the storminess of the region... produced a high - resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years... from the sediment bed of Pierre Blanche Lagoon [near Montpellier, France]... nine French scientists, as they describe it, «recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300 - 6100, 5650 - 5400, 4400 - 4050, 3650 - 3200, 2800 - 2600, 1950 - 1400, and 400 - 50 cal yr BP,» the latter of which intervals they associate with the Little Ice Age.
«We were looking at whether or not global warming has made the occurrence of extremely high pressure in the region on an annual basis more likely,» he said.
Climate science deniers are very fond of showing extremely deceptive temperature graphs: They plot the data starting in 1998, when temperatures were higher than average, so it looks like the world hasn't gotten much warmer since then, and talk about the global warming «pause.»
HFCs are extremely harmful to the climate, with global warming potentials hundreds and thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide (CO2).
Although the extremely persistent high pressure is at least a century - scale occurrence (8), anthropogenic global warming has very likely increased the probability of such conditions (8, 9).
HFCs are chemicals primarily used in refrigeration, air conditioning, and foam blowing, which were introduced to replace the ozone depleting chemicals phased - out by the Montreal Protocol, despite the fact that HFCs are extremely harmful to the climate with global warming potentials hundreds and thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide (CO2).
Now if American's really want to do something about agw / cc and specifically the extremely high cumulative and ongoing contribution to global warming by the USA then maybe they should do something about Citizen's United?
Recent work in modelling the warm climates of the Early Eocene shows that it is possible to obtain a reasonable global match between model surface temperature and proxy reconstructions, but only by using extremely high atmospheric CO2 concentrations or more modest CO2 levels complemented by a reduction in global cloud albedo.
«Warming during the past half century can not be explained without external radiative forcing Global Extremely likely (> 95 %)[1] Anthropogenic change has been detected in surface temperature with very high significance levels (less than 1 % error probability).
Even though Category 5 storms, which sustain catastrophic gusts that blow at 157 mph or higher, are extremely rare, scientists predict an increase in strong hurricanes with global warming.
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