Sentences with phrase «found as a result of global warming»

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A group of researchers from Germany has taken to investigating the potential changes in extreme rainfall patterns across the UK as a result of future global warming and has found that in some regions, the time of year when we see the heaviest rainfall is set to shift.

Statistically, the pattern is too extreme to be considered a result of chance, found a new study, which pointed a finger directly at global warming as the underlying cause of the recent spike in extra-hot summers.

Finally, Dr. Michaels and Mr. Knappenberger also went after the media for trumpeting the findings of the 2006 paper asserting that tropical frogs were dying off as a result of global warming.

The research is the first to assess how the impacts of global warming could affect the quality of the diets available to people and found fewer fruit and vegetables would be available as a result of climatic changes.

A previous University of Reading study led by Dr Williams found that clear - air turbulence will become stronger and more frequent as a result of global warming.

I've found myself at the center of such episodes more than once, as a result of what's become known as the iconic «hockey stick» diagram that my co-authors and I had published in the late 1990s — a graphic display of the data that made plain the unprecedented rate of global warming.

If one looks over the past half century one would expect to find that, as a result of the clearly measured increase in atmospheric CO2, the Global Temperature is warming.

A report published by the National Wildlife Federation finds that the majority of Americans can expect to suffer mental health problems as a result of global warming and warns that our mental health system is not equipped to handle it.

Global warming may not affect sea levels, study finds — January 11, 2008 Excerpt: Excerpt: The most pessimistic predictions of sea level rises as ice sheets are melted by global warming may have to be scaled back as a result of an extraordinary discovery that ice persisted when the Earth was much hotter than Global warming may not affect sea levels, study finds — January 11, 2008 Excerpt: Excerpt: The most pessimistic predictions of sea level rises as ice sheets are melted by global warming may have to be scaled back as a result of an extraordinary discovery that ice persisted when the Earth was much hotter than global warming may have to be scaled back as a result of an extraordinary discovery that ice persisted when the Earth was much hotter than today.

As Muller notes, the original BEST results confirmed the accuracy of the surface temperture record, finding 0.87 °C global surface warming over land during the past 50 years (Figure 1).

Their finding gives teeth to the long - held prediction that freshwater runoff into the ocean would increase in the Arctic as a result of global warming.

In both cases, the scientists have found evidence that the most intense hurricanes are already occurring more often as a result of human - caused global warming.

Sea level rise has happened, and will happen in the future, as a result of global warming, the report finds.

As a result, climate scientists have found it difficult, if not impossible, to persuade Republicans to take global warming seriously, said Kerry Emanuel, an atmospheric scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is also a registered Republican.

Berkeley Lab researchers Dev Millstein and Surabi Menon found that atmospheric feedback — such as changes in cloud cover or precipitation — does have an important effect, resulting in different amounts of cooling in different cities, but that cool roofs and pavements are still beneficial for combating global warming.

That finding struck Smith, a Republican from Texas who maintains that human - caused emissions of greenhouse gases are not causing global warming, as suspicious, and he began a dogged effort to determine if the scientists had manipulated data to arrive at politically - motivated results.

As expected, we found that at mid - and high latitudes, projected warming will reduce the number of days below freezing, resulting in more suitable growing days (the average global number of days above freezing will increase by 2 %, 5 %, and 7 % under RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5, and RCP 8.5, respectively; Fig 2A, S5A — S5D Fig, S6A — S6C Fig)[35].

Cook et al. (2013) found the same 97 % result through a survey of over 12,000 climate abstracts from peer - reviewed journals, as well as from over 2,000 scientist author self - ratings, among abstracts and papers taking a position on the causes of global warming.

They found that global fisheries catches were increasingly dominated by warm - water species as a result of fish migrating towards the poles in response to rising ocean temperatures.