Sentences with phrase «from continued global warming»

From a combination of climate models, satellite data, and paleoclimate records, Hansen and co-author Makiko Sato of Columbia's Earth Institute, conclude that the West Antarctic ice sheet, Arctic ice cover, and regions providing fresh water sources and species habitat are threatened from continued global warming.

From a combination of climate models, satellite data, and paleoclimate records the scientists conclude that the West Antarctic ice sheet, Arctic ice cover, and regions providing fresh water sources and species habitat are under threat from continued global warming.

The United Nations report mentions calamitous outcomes from continuing global warming that would affect the world's food supply, economies, and ways of life.

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Hacked e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at England's University of East Anglia (UEA) showed that CRU researchers were defending the thesis that humans are causing global warming by suppressing contrary evidence... Continue Reading

The rapid northerly shifts in spawning may offer a preview of future conditions if ocean warming continues, according to the new study published in Global Change Biology by scientists from the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, Oregon State University and NOAA Fisheries» Northwest Fisheries Science Center.

Since levels of greenhouse gases have continued to rise throughout the period, some skeptics have argued that the recent pattern undercuts the theory that global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by human - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

«If the energy - transport increase is confirmed from other data sets, and it continues to increase over the next years, it will be more and more likely that it is coupled to global warming,» says Graversen.

It's not clear how far north such thawing might extend if global average temperatures continue to warm until they match those from long ago.

As global temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter future, shortly after the next change in the winds.

Professor Drijfhout said: «The planet earth recovers from the AMOC collapse in about 40 years when global warming continues at present - day rates, but near the eastern boundary of the North Atlantic (including the British Isles) it takes more than a century before temperature is back to normal.»

Objectors often claim unfair benefits are given to the worst polluters, and that trading schemes obfuscate from the real problem — the excess of greenhouse gas emissions that continue to perpetuate global warming.

Letting global warming continue unabate could cause trillions in economic losses from drowned coastal cities to decreased agricultural productivity.

You can be certain that various anti-science, anthropogenic global warming denialist web blogs and op ed writers (with no scientific background) will take this study and trumpet it from the hills, completely out of context in order to continue to be disingenuous and to purposely mislead people.

IPCC [26] projects the following trends, if global warming continue to increase, where only trends assigned very high confidence or high confidence are included: (i) increased malnutrition and consequent disorders, including those related to child growth and development, (ii) increased death, disease and injuries from heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts, (iii) increased cardio - respiratory morbidity and mortality associated with ground - level ozone.

The notion of air, aside from being the one factor that distinguishes earth from all other planets, continues to shift in our mind with the advent of technological innovations (e.g. wireless communication) and environmental concerns (ozone layers, global warming).

[ANDY REVKIN responds: I daresay I've brought Dr. Hansen's research and conclusions as much or more publicity over the course of his career than any other science writer, starting with a 6,000 - word cover story on global warming in Discover Magazine in 1988 that opened with his Senate testimony and continuing through the period when political appointees at NASA tried to stop him from speaking out.

But if global warming continues at its current rate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates, the glaciers could be mostly gone from the mountains by 2035.

In climate science, we have been able to state that global warming is unequivocal (to paraphrase from the IPCC report) and will continue to some degree for decades regardless of mitigating actions.

The administration continues to align itself with their global warming disinformation campaign, which is shifting from outright denial to seeking to divert attention from adverse implications of global climate disruption.

As Democratic lawmakers and environmental groups continue to complain about Bush administration edits of Senate testimony on health risks from global warming, the White House today took the unusual step of having President Bush's science adviser, John Marburger III, issue a detailed explanation.

Aside from the loss of all these marvelously colorful, beautiful, pertinent frogs, Dr. Pound's prediction, along with the hundreds of other scientists who support global warming that the staggering loss of biodiversity will continue to be overwhelming is gut wrenching.

As an academic and historian reminded me recently, the core cause of a host of current concerns, from global warming to epidemic disease to hunger and tribal warfare, is that the population of the world continues to grow at a rapid rate.

It seems quite likely that continued global warming will increase the emissions of methane from permafrost deposits and marine hydrates.

But researchers from the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency said this month that the conditions appear favorable only once every 18 years and that «continuing global warming will lead to further diminishing chances of holding an Elfstedentocht.»

Record global temperature in 2014, achieved with little assistance from the tropical ENSO cycle, confirms continuing global warming.

They are telling you that global warming will continue as expected, and it may be a little high or a little low from ENSO.

If the trend continues, the dramatic changes in energy use in the United States — in particular, the switch from coal to newly abundant natural gas for generating electricity — will have only a modest impact on global warming, observers warn.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

From a July 15, 2013 Huffington Post article, Desmogblog's Brendan DeMelle (yes, that Desmog) said in response to the news confirming the existence of a 97 % scientific consensus on man - caused global warming: Continue reading →

Between 1966 and 1974, the Sierra Club started to favor coal over nuclear, even though prominent nuclear advocates like Oak Ridge National Lab's Alvin Weinberg were warning the world of the threat of global warming from continued coal use.

They start from the premise that global mean sea level rise will continue beyond 2100, and from the prediction that for every 1 °C of climate warming, humans should expect an eventual 2.3 metre rise in sea levels.

IPS: While world leaders were wrapping up the United Nations conference on climate change (COP 18) in Doha, Qatar this past weekend with the annual vague promise to tackle the enormous crises brought on by extreme weather and global warming, a delegation of youth gathered far from the high - level conference halls to say «no» to [continue reading...]

Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R - Wisconsin) channeled the reckless spirit of the late Sen. Joe McCarthy in an effort to lead a December 3 House global warming committee hearing toward a witchhunt based on e-mails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit in... Continue reading →

But despite the onslaught from the influential denialists, the fact remains that — according to Oreskes» own figures — 62 % of the US public «believe that life on Earth will continue without major disruptions only if society takes immediate and drastic action to reduce global warming».

These methods have been significantly improved by fully coupling the hydrologic cycle among land, lake, and atmosphere.94, 95 Without accounting for that cycle of interactions, a study96 concluded that increases in precipitation would be negated by increases in winter evaporation from less ice cover and by increases in summer evaporation and evapotranspiration from warmer air temperatures, under a scenario of continued increases in global emissions (SRES A2 scenario).

Oreskes kicks off with statistics from a recent poll which suggest that «72 % of Americans [are] completely or mostly convinced that global warming is happening» and that «sixty - two percent... believe that life on Earth will continue without major disruptions only if society takes immediate and drastic action to reduce global warming».

It is becoming increasingly challenging to keep global warming to 2oC, according to the cacophony of warnings from scientific and policy organisations including the Intergovernmental Panel on [continue reading...]

As long as humans continue to increase the greenhouse effect by burning massive quantities of fossil fuels, the planet will continue to warm, as is clear from the acceleration of global warming since 2000.

It is 2013 and realists such as myself are well aware that the strong warming from rising CO2 goes on and will lead to global warming continuing over coming decades.

Exceeding the 400 parts per million level of worldwide atmospheric carbon dioxide later this decade continues a troubling trend which brings the world closer to the potential to reach a global warming tipping point in which global warming accelerates rapidly as the potent greenhouse gas methane is liberated from the frozen state that it has been in for millions of years.

The vote by students at an elite U.K. university illustrates the continued shift of public support away from the global warming scare.

By the way, despite almost everybody assuming that global warming should continue sometime in the near future, once the recovery ends the most probable outcome would be a return to Holocene general cooling and I don't think we can put enough GHGs in the atmosphere to prevent that from happening.

If we want to prevent global warming from continuing along its present path, some significant changes will have to be instituted.

However, notwithstanding the «pause» papers» conclusions and the fact that global warming continues unabated, the framing of a short - term fluctuation as a problem for science departs from long - standing stastistical and climatological knowledge.

The continuing planetary imbalance and the rapid increase of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel assure that global warming will continue on decadal time scales.

This was created when they shifted the focus from global warming to climate change because CO2 continued to increase while temperatures stopped increasing.

Global warming continues, at some times natural unforced variability will subtract from the observed temperature record, at other times it will add to it.

(01/27/2014) Global warming continues apace as 2013 was the seventh warmest year in the past 133 years, according to a new analysis from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).

In this case it is clear the fossil fuel industries benefit from continued inaction on global warming.

And his predictions are even worse:» The continuing planetary imbalance and the rapid increase of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel assure that global warming will continue on decadal time scales.»