Sentences with phrase «faster in a warmer climate»

Until now, it had only been possible to sequence the genomes of hominin fossils found in cold climates; DNA breaks down faster in warmer climates like Spain's.

«Ice sheets as large as Greenland's melted fast in a warming climate.»

From time to time, check it to make sure it's full as water evaporates faster in warmer climates.

It has a lot to do with water stored in soils, which gets lost faster in a warmer climate due to higher evaporation rates.

In addition, the development of mosquito larvae is faster in warm climates than cold ones, and thus with global warming, the mosquito will become a transmitting adult earlier in the season.

The abstract is as follows: The Greenland ice - sheet would melt faster in a warmer climate and is likely to be eliminated — except for residual glaciers in the mountains — if the annual average temperature in Greenland increases by more than about 3 °C.

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Thus the estimated fraction of food - spoilage bacteria inhibited by the spices in each recipe is greater in hot than in cold climates, which makes sense since bacteria grow faster and better in warmer areas.

In warmer climates like Hong Kong, it takes between 24 hours in winter and as fast as 8 hours in summeIn warmer climates like Hong Kong, it takes between 24 hours in winter and as fast as 8 hours in summein winter and as fast as 8 hours in summein summer.

One aerosol, black carbon, is of increasing concern for Arctic nations worried about the pace of climate change in the far north, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

That includes the potential for abrupt climate change and the factors amplifying warming in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

The Antarctic Peninsula is the fastest warming region on Earth at present (2.5 °C in the last 50 years) and it is sensitive to many aspects of climate change.

Of all the possible ways in which climate change could affect our planet, this is the most bizarre: as the oceans warm up, Earth will start rotating a wee bit faster, reducing the length of a day.

For example, sequestrating short - lived climate pollutants, such as methane and black carbon, yields much faster reductions in global warming compared to reductions in CO2.

According to the report, climate models consistently estimate that warming will occur faster in the Middle East - North Africa region, accentuating the growing scarcity of water.

Previous work by Hook using satellite data indicated that many lake temperatures were warming faster than air temperature and that the greatest warming was observed at high latitudes, as seen in other climate warming studies.

The conclusion that limiting CO2 below 450 ppm will prevent warming beyond two degrees C is based on a conservative definition of climate sensitivity that considers only the so - called fast feedbacks in the climate system, such as changes in clouds, water vapor and melting sea ice.

Their findings, based on output from four global climate models of varying ocean and atmospheric resolution, indicate that ocean temperature in the U.S. Northeast Shelf is projected to warm twice as fast as previously projected and almost three times faster than the global average.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aClimate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aclimate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

The pines in a warmer world then ran through their stored supplies of water and energy faster than those in today's climate.

Climate models predict that as the world warms, heat in inner Asia will continue to rise substantially faster than the global mean.

The section of the 2007 IPCC report that deals with climate impacts, called Working Group II, included a statement in its chapter on Asia (see p. 493) that Himalayan glaciers are receding faster than any other glaciers on Earth and «the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.»

Faster flow is more turbulent, and in this turbulence more heat is mixed into AABW from shallower, warmer ocean layers — thus warming the abyssal waters on their way to the Equator, affecting global climate change.

Our study of the faster increases in apparent temperature has produced important findings for this kind of climate change impact assessment, providing a strong scientific support for more stringent and effective climate change mitigation efforts to combat global warming.»

Climate models do not predict an even warming of the whole planet: changes in wind patterns and ocean currents can change the way heat is distributed, leading to some parts warming much faster than average, while a few may cool, at least at first.

I say «may» because research that tries to take gaps in measurement into account (particularly in the fast warming Arctic) or that takes into account temporary phenonomena (like volcanoes, solar variability, etc) show that there has barely been any slowdown in this one aspect of climate change.

Across most of the continental U.S., winter is the fastest warming season, and is the only season that has seen significant warming in each climate division.

I'm not even an amateur climate scientist, but my logic tells me that if clouds have a stronger negative feedback in the Arctic, and I know (from news) the Arctic is warming faster than other areas, then it seems «forcing GHGs» (CO2, etc) may have a strong sensitivity than suggested, but this is suppressed by the cloud effect.

A new paper published in the Journal of Climate reveals that the lower part of the Earth's atmosphere has warmed much faster since 1979 than scientists relying on satellite data had previously thought.

Are you suggesting a much faster rate of warming should be used in the climate forcing?

published in the Journal of Climate reveals that the lower part of the Earth's atmosphere has warmed much faster since 1979 than scientists relying on satellite data had previously thought.

According to a new study co-authored by Allen and published Thursday in Nature Climate Change, the eventual peak level of warming that the planet will see from greenhouse gas emissions is going up at 2 percent per year, much faster than actual temperatures are increasing.

Major climate data sets have underestimated the rate of global warming in the last 15 years owing largely to poor data in the Arctic, the planet's fastest warming region.

In these high latitudes, temperatures are predicted to warm so fast and to such a degree so as to cause unprecedented melting of ice that even the most ardent of climate skeptics would be forced to concede the verity of global warming theory.

The study of past warm climates may not narrow uncertainty in future climate projections in coming centuries because fast climate sensitivity may itself be state - dependent» http://www.pnas.org/content/110/35/14162.full

The long lifetime of the fossil fuel carbon in the climate system and the persistence of ocean warming for millennia [201] provide sufficient time for the climate system to achieve full response to the fast feedback processes included in the 3 °C climate sensitivity.

Home to one of the nation's fastest - growing and most acclaimed wine regions, a stretch of relatively uncrowded yet spectacular beach communities, the legendary Hearst Castle, a sunny and moderate to warm year - round climate, and the lively and welcoming college town for which it is named, San Luis Obispo County occupies a gorgeous stretch of California's legendary Central Coast and ranks among the best spots in the state for a fun, action - packed weekend getaway.

According to a paper his group published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2007, humans are now pumping out climate - warming gases nearly three times faster than the IPCC authors anticipated in their worst - case scenario.

Human activities are releasing greenhouse gases more than 30 times faster than the rate of emissions that triggered a period of extreme global warming in the Earth's past, according to an expert on ancient climates.

There is no denying that the arctic is melting at a record - setting pace and that this is related to global warming and climate change, but Box is pursuing a theory that soot from wildfires and burning coal in power plants is making Greenland's glaciers melt even faster than they would because of global warming alone.

One issue is how to represent accurately the range of reasoned views on critical questions like the sensitivity of climate to greenhouse gases (basically, how warm the world will get from a particular rise in gas concentrations); how fast and far seas will rise; how ecosystems will, or won't, respond.

The study of past warm climates may not narrow uncertainty in future climate projections in coming centuries because fast climate sensitivity may itself be state - dependent» http://www.pnas.org/content/110/35/14162.full

Aerosols remain one of the key uncertainties in how fast our fossil fuel burning is pushing the climate system to warmer levels.

The pace of ice loss — both its extent and the amount of the older, thicker ice that survives from summer to summer — has been faster than most models predicted and clearly has, as a result, unnerved some polar researchers by revealing how much is unknown about ice behavior in a warming climate.

Kenaf is a fast - growing annual related to the cotton - plant and which is best suited for warm climates found in Texas, Central America, China, Africa and more.

As I've written before, while 20 years of intensifying inquiry has greatly reinforced confidence that humans are influencing climate in ways that could profoundly disrupt human and natural affairs, it has not substantially clarified climate outcomes that matter most: how fast and far temperatures and seas will rise in the next 100 years, how hurricanes will respond to warming, how regional conditions will change.

All reputable scientists in this area know and acknowledge that there remain uncertainties with respect to climate sensitivity (how warm, how fast in response to a given level of GHGs)-- indeed that's where most of the research is going — along with a better understanding of the speed of impacts (e.g. ice loss).

c) He states «Climate models predicted in the 1970s that the Arctic would warm faster the Antarctic.»

Further divisions appeared in the fragile developing - country bloc when the US offered to take part in setting up a $ 30 billion «fast start» fund over the next three years to help developing countries adapt to global warming and grow on a more climate - friendly path.

The findings are «interesting», but could hold «limited relevance» to understanding future climate change, which is occuring at a much faster rate than the warming observed from the LGM to the Holocene, says Prof Amanda Maycock, a research fellow from the University of Leeds who was not involved in the new study.

As the Arctic continues to warm faster than the majority of the Earth, correctly capturing changes in the Arctic may become increasingly important in order to provide a complete picture of climate change.