Sentences with phrase «faster rate of global warming»

Some models project a faster rate of global warming than others, but it is not yet clear whether this involves systematic differences at the regional scale.

Not exact matches

Oceans, which have warmed at an increasingly faster rate, account for as much as 50 percent of global sea level rise, according to a new study.

However, the big unknown remaining is whether corals can adapt to global warming, which is now occurring at an unprecedented rate — at about two orders of magnitude faster than occurred with the ending of the last Ice Age.

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.

What I'm confused about is that I'm under the assumption that the rate of global warming is increasing at a faster rate but Jones figures indicate they've been pretty even.

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.

That said, during long periods of negative PDO, the rate of global warming is slower, and during positive periods of the PDO, the rate of warming is faster.

Global warming does not mean no winter, it means winter start later, summer hotter, as Gary Peters said «The global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.&Global warming does not mean no winter, it means winter start later, summer hotter, as Gary Peters said «The global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.&global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.»

But the sheer rate of increase over just the past 55 years shows how fast global warming could hit us in the future — and the present — and underscores how much we've failed as a planet to slow down carbon emissions.

Since the source of anthropogenic global warming is ostensibly increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, it makes no sense to posit that over time the oceans will warm at a faster rate than the atmosphere above them.

Qin Dahe, also co-chair of the working group, said: «As the ocean warm, and glaciers and ice sheets reduce, global mean sea level will continue to rise, but at a faster rate than we have experienced over the past 40 years.»

Alternet: Global temperatures may be climbing at a rate too fast for our forests and its biodiversity to adapt, a scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) warned after the World Bank predicted a 4 °C warming of the planet if policymakers continue to be apathetic about greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

That is roughly twice as much as scientists previously thought and three times the overall rate of global warming, making central West Antarctica one of the fastest - warming regions on earth.

This is a hemispheric warming rate of approximately 2.0 °C per decade, which is 40 times faster than the 0.05 °C per decade global warming rate since 1850 (and 1998).

Fast action to reduce short - lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) could slow the rate of global warming while saving millions of lives over the next several decades from air pollution — which now kills more than 6 million people a year.

The results here reveal a larger picture — that the western tropical Indian Ocean has been warming for more than a century, at a rate faster than any other region of the tropical oceans, and turns out to be the largest contributor to the overall trend in the global mean sea surface temperature (SST)»

Despite fears that global warming is harming the Arctic region faster than the rest of the world, Greenland is defying climate scientists and currently growing at its fastest rate in four years.

When the warming of the Earth's entire climate system is considered, global warming continues to rise at a rate equivalent to about 4 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second, faster over the past 15 years than the prior 15 years.

iii) Over the last 3 decades, every individual station north of 70o indicates warming, 13 of 17 are significant at 95 % confidence, all estimated trend rates are faster than the global average, some are more than five times as fast.

Note that regional proxies, such as the oxygen - isotope temperature reconstructions from the Greenland Ice Core Project that record Dansgaard - Oeschger events, often indicate faster regional rates of climate change than the overall global average for glacial - interglacial transitions, just as today warming is more pronounced in Arctic regions than in equatorial regions (Barnosky et al., 2003; Diffenbaugh and Field, 2013).

The current rate of global warming, faster than any observed in the geological record, is already having a major effect in many parts of the world in terms of droughts, fires, and storms.

Because the observed and predicted rate of increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and global warming is faster than seems to have happened during the Last Interglacial may mean that we are heading into uncertain territory.

Since the ocean surface warms overall at about only half the rate of the land surface (due to the larger thermal inertia), it is to be expected that the lower troposphere wouldn't warm as fast as the global surface average.

As this column has sometimes pointed out ways in which the effects of global warming are happening more slowly than predicted, it is fair to record that this rate of decline in Arctic sea ice is faster than many predicted.