Sentences with phrase «fastest warming region»

It is true that some parts of Antarctica have cooled but only in the last two decades; Will neglects to mention that the Antarctic Peninsula is the fastest warming region on earth.

US secretary of state will fly to the world's fastest warming region to join ministers in a statement that could sit uncomfortably with his president's anti-climate agenda

Actually Fielding's use of that graph is quite informative of how denialist arguments are framed — the selected bit of a selected graph (and don't mention the fastest warming region on the planet being left out of that data set), or the complete passing over of short term variability vs longer term trends, or the other measures and indicators of climate change from ocean heat content and sea levels to changes in ice sheets and minimum sea ice levels, or the passing over of issues like lag time between emissions and effects on temperatures... etc..

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.

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.

Higher air and water temperatures in the Arctic — the fastest warming region in the world — are two of the main culprits spurring the decline.

In fact, the computer modeling suggests cutting black carbon could forestall as much as two thirds of the warming in the Arctic — the fastest warming region of the globe — over the next 30 years.

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.

West Antarctica is one of the fastest warming regions on Earth and its ice sheet has been stage to dramatic thinning in recent years.

The fact that ARGO sampling pretty much misses out one of the fastest warming regions in the world while having no such deficiencies in regions of cooling means any analysis using only ARGO data will produce trends lower than the true global average, unless the analysis somehow accounts for this bias.

Not exact matches

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.

This picturesque region has warmed at least twice as fast as Earth's overall average.

Ocean floats provide yet more evidence of global warming, revealing that rainy regions are getting wetter and dry regions drier much faster than predicted

It now seems this warming will probably be distinguishable from natural variability much faster in tropical regions than in mid-latitudes.

Its replacement is not due to come online until 2017, leaving a huge data gap at a time when the Arctic is warming faster than any other region and its ozone hole is approaching the size of the Antarctic's.

While the Antarctic region still provides a sanctuary for micro-organisms, global warming in the Arctic means mammals adapted to the cold are fast running out of places they can live, according to Kleinteich.

Since the 1970s the northern polar region has warmed faster than global averages by a factor or two or more, in a process of «Arctic amplification» which is linked to a drastic reduction in sea ice.

Thanks to these feedback processes, the Arctic has begun to warm twice as fast as any other region on the planet.

Blooms of algae in the Arctic Ocean could add a previously unsuspected warming feedback to the mix of factors driving temperatures in the north polar regions up faster than any other place on the planet, according to the authors of a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

MHW intensity between 1982 — 1998 and 2000 — 2016 increased in over 65 % of the global ocean, most notably in all five western boundary current regions, where the mean warming has been considerably faster than the global average39, and most mid-latitude ocean basins (Fig. 1e).

With the Arctic warming twice as fast compared to the rest of the world, the region's summer sea ice has declined by about 30 percent since 1979.

Blooms of algae in the Arctic Ocean could add a previously unsuspected warming feedback to the mix of factors driving temperatures in the north polar regions up faster than any other place on the planet, according to the authors of a new study in

Why It Matters: The Arctic is warming faster than any other region of the world.

Given the one percent rise of temperature over the last century is an «average», and the Arctic and Antarctic regions are now warming faster, purportedly by up to eleven degrees, there must be areas that are now cooler.

And cities in the Southwest — where most of the region's population lives — are some of the fastest - warming in the country.

Eight countries are set to agree a ministerial statement on cooperation in the region, which is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world.

Alaska is one of the fastest - warming states in the U.S., largely because the nearby Arctic region is warming rapidly in response to manmade global warming and natural variability.

Climate change is warming the Arctic twice as fast as the rest of the world, melting sea ice to historically low levels and threatening the viability of the region's vibrant ecosystems.

The point at which a trend becomes clear within the average temperature data for a given region — known as the «time of emergence» — depends on when the source of the warming begins, how fast it happens and the amount of background «noise» obscuring the signal.

«We really don't detect any change with the Americans,» said one of the officials, Aleksi Härkönen of Finland, who chairs the eight - nation Arctic Council's key group of senior officials, who are charged with protecting a region warming faster than any other on Earth.

«The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on Earth and is changing beyond recognition as open water replaces sea ice and permafrost is thawing.

Still, it all fits a by - now familiar picture of an Arctic warming up considerably faster than the mid-latitudes, with consequences that could extend far outside of the polar region, says Rafe Pomerance, a former deputy assistant secretary of state who sits on the National Academy of Sciences» Polar Research Board.

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Given the one percent rise of temperature over the last century is an «average», and the Arctic and Antarctic regions are now warming faster, purportedly by up to eleven degrees, there must be areas that are now cooler.

So there are issues of the areas not included and they assume the 17 percent of the ocean not sampled warms at the same rate, but in fact the Arctic and Indonesian regions are warming much faster, but at least they did include something.

In the polar regions — where warming happens fastest — what happens more often?

To some extent, this is again due to the factors mentioned above, but additionally, the models predict that the North Atlantic as a whole will not warm as fast as the rest of globe (due to both the deep mixed layers in this region which have a large thermal inertia and a mild slowdown in the ocean heat transports).

Hank states,» In the polar regions — where warming happens fastest — what happens more often?

Yet O'Donnell et al.'s results — if correct — suggest that is is warming quite fast at the surface there; at the rate they show, we could be seeing significant summer melting in that region within a few decades.

The rapid warming of the Arctic introduces an interesting dilemma: large regions of the Arctic are not covered by either surface stations or satellites, so the temperatures that increase the fastest are not being measured in most of the datasets.

Vertical diffusion is slower, but happens over most of the oceans, while downward advection of anomalously warm water happens in fewer spots but is faster (the North Atlantic, «Mode» water formation regions north of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, shelf water formation in Antarctica).

In both hemispheres, land regions have warmed at a faster rate than the oceans in the past few decades, consistent with the much greater thermal inertia of the oceans.

As greenhouse gases heat up the planet, the polar regions and high elevations are warming the fastest.

Surface temperatures over land regions have warmed at a faster rate than over the oceans in both hemispheres.

This is because, in this region, wind power depends on the temperature difference between the land and the sea, and previous research has shown that warming occurs faster on land than above oceans.

Thus, a slightly warmer atmosphere acts like a control knob to create a much warmer ocean and even faster warming polar region.

Not only are polar regions warming fastest and experiencing some of the earliest effects of climate change, but they are also critical for global climate.

And science is emerging suggesting a link between the melting of Arctic sea ice on one hand and faster warming in the region and changes to the northern hemisphere jet stream on the other, explaining why some weather systems appear to get «stuck in place» — to often - devastating effect.

«We really don't detect any change with the Americans,» said one of the officials, Aleksi Härkönen of Finland, who chairs the eight - nation Arctic Council's key group of senior officials, who are charged with protecting a region warming faster than any other on Earth.

Furthermore, Siberia would be one of the regions for which climate change would indeed be a regional warming - it is already heating up [wikipedia.org] much faster than any other part of the globe, and if it keeps doing so, it will become much more prospective for human settlement and agriculture, and in short - term perspective provide for easier access to the vast natural resources of the region.