Sentences with phrase «further warming of our climate»

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It also has the advantage of being able to withstand warmer climates, preferring constant temperatures between 75 and 85 degrees, which enables it to grow at far lower altitudes than arabica.

However, the recent period of cooling does suggest that either manmade global warming may be smaller or that the impact of other factors may be greater than climate models have so far assumed.

Even though the actual rate of global warming far exceeds that of any previous episodes in the past 14,000 years, large changes in global climate have occurred periodically throughout Earth's history.

We have to go very far back into the geological history of the Earth to find a climate that is as warm as what we are heading towards.

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.

The finding suggests that an increase in hurricanes and tropical storms induced by global warming could turn forests into overall emitters of carbon dioxide, fuelling further climate change.

«Global warming boosts the probability of really extreme events, like the recent US heat wave, far more than it boosts more moderate events,» point out climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou in a blogpost on RealClimate.org.

Climate models have always offered a range of possible temperature rises, but it turns out the ones that best fit what's happened so far all predict even greater warming

In particular, the influence of warmer temperatures on moose nutritional condition and moose parasites, including a fatal brain worm parasite that is spread by white - tail deer, which have moved farther north into moose territory as the climate has gotten milder.

«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global warming this year.

In a paper that that was recently published in Nature Geoscience, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers provide new insight into this phenomenon by discovering that mid-latitude storms are steered further toward the poles in a warmer climate.

But calculating the fraction of warming is a far more contentious task, points out climatologist Stephen H. Schneider of Stanford University, because of the inherent uncertainty and variability of climate models.

A warm bias in sea surface temperature in most global climate models is due to a misrepresentation of the coastal separation position of the Gulf Stream, which extends too far north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

These sites permitted the repeated occupation of this marginal area from warmer climate zones further south

The results of this study contribute to our understanding of how plants and animals will respond to global climate change and highlight the need to slow and prevent further warming.

Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long - lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of widespread and profound impacts affecting all levels of society and the natural world, the report finds.

«This quantitative attribution of human and natural climate influences on the IPWP expansion increases our confidence in the understanding of the causes of past changes as well as for projections of future changes under further greenhouse warming,» commented Seung - Ki Min, a professor with POSTECH's School of Environmental Science and Engineering.

Climate modeler Christopher Bretherton of the University of Washington, Seattle, called the study «good, solid, important work... [suggesting] stratospheric aerosol injection is an approach to compensate greenhouse warming that is worthy of further study.»

(Reuters)- The U.S. electric industry knew as far back as 1968 that burning fossil fuels might cause global warming, but cast doubt on the science of climate change and ramped up coal use for decades afterward, an environmental watchdog group said on Tuesday.

Now, with regional climates shifting as a result of global warming, it is unclear just how far — and how fast — organisms will need to travel to keep up with moving climates.

Previously, scientists understood that global warming would further «green» the Arctic but had less understanding of the degree and how these shifts would interact with the climate itself.

But even with such policies in place — not only in the U.S. but across the globe — climate change is a foregone conclusion; global average temperatures have already risen by at least 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit (0.6 degree C) and further warming of at least 0.7 degree F (0.4 degree C) is virtually certain, according to the IPCC.

Thus the conclusion has been that because of climate inertia, further warming is inevitable.

``... From this we conclude that the elimination of carbon dioxide emissions leads to little or no further climate warming; that is, future warming is defined by the extent of future emissions, rather than by past emissions.»

Kilpatrick explained that the effects of climate change are expected to be seen at the edges of species» geographic ranges, as species adapted to warm climates move further north and cold - adapted species retreat from the southern parts of their ranges.

Angelo, the summary refers to what the authors see as a common misunderstanding (in their words, «an incorrect interpretation of climate science»): that we are committed to further warming from past emissions.

«The results imply that reforestation projects and efforts to avoid further deforestation are of the utmost importance in our pursuit to limit global warming to below 2oC, as stated in the Paris climate agreement.»

One of the methods championed by climate scientists is represented in the fraction of attributable risk [FAR (Allen, 2003; Stone and Allen 2005)-RSB-, which assesses the attribution of climate anomalies to anthropogenic warming of the atmosphere.

The release of CO2 during forest fires could increase further as the climate warms, he adds.

Additionally, it is postulated that the warming climate will likely extend melt seasons, leading to increases in biological activity and thus contributing further to the darkening of glaciers and ice sheets (Benning et al., 2014).

That is a situation that may well change as the climate warms further, in particular with an increase in the frequency of extreme weather, such as droughts, the authors note.

I think your discussion about anthropogenic global warming is a little «off topic» in this blog entry, which is about due diligence in climate science, but with the permission of those running the blog, I'd like to explore it a little further.

For years, we at Greenpeace have been working to make public the secret paper trails that show what everyone already knows: climate science deniers - #Fakexperts - are few and far between, and most of them are paid by companies most responsible for global warming to downplay the problem.

«Of course, if the natural trend was greater than zero — if the natural climate was warming even a little bit — then the models have the atmospheric sensitivity to CO2 even further out of whack than that.&raquOf course, if the natural trend was greater than zero — if the natural climate was warming even a little bit — then the models have the atmospheric sensitivity to CO2 even further out of whack than that.&raquof whack than that.»

The discovery of other, smaller magnitude, rapid greenhouse warming events (called hyperthermals) in the millions of years following the PETM provides further opportunities to examine the response of organisms to global climate change.

The groundbreaking and far - reaching educational recommendations for climate change and health curricula aim to expand the numbers of health professionals equipped to recognize and respond to the health challenges of a warming climate, including deadly heat waves, flooding, air pollution, and wildfires; greater spread of disease vectors like ticks and mosquitos; and growing food and drinking water insecurity.

The film's trailers have so far shown a mix of heavyweight wool and tweed for Jacob during his time at university, moving to denim and leather workwear, with a stripping down of the basic suit elements (i.e. unbuttoned waistcoat) in the warmer climate.

When you mix this with all year round warm, tropical climate and the fact it is the only place in the World where two UNESCO World Heritage listed national parks sit side by side, you begin to get a picture of why a holiday to Cairns and Far North Queensland is a must for all travellers.

This october why not head to the wilds of far north queensland to discover the impact of climate change on this world heritage listed ecosystem and see how endemic animals of the area are adapting to a warming environment.

The warmer climate also means that the player's management of their T - ENG is far less restrictive.

There had to have been feedbacks that moved the global climate much further in the direction of warming than it would have gone just from the Milankovitch cycles.

As a far - flung member of the global climate change blogging community, focusing specifically on the possible need for sustainable «polar cities» in the far distant future to house potential survivors of catastrophic global warming events, in say the year 2500 or so (okay, so I am being generous; I don't want to be accussed of fear - mongering in the present).

For the Moscow heat record of July 2010, they found that the probability of a record had increased five-fold due to the local climatic warming trend, as compared to a stationary climate (see our previous articles The Moscow warming hole and On record - breaking extremes for further discussion).

Absorption of thermal radiation cools the thermal spectra of the earth as seen from space, radiation emitted by de-excitation is what results in the further warming of the surface, and the surface continues to warm until the rate at which energy is radiated from the earth's climate system (given the increased opacity of the atmosphere to longwave radiation) is equal to the rate at which energy enters it.

I would go as far to say that the majority of the educated American public knows that the people who suffer the most from climate change and global warming at not those who contribute the most to the problem (i.e. the United States).

Further research will be required to investigate if this fluctuation carries features of projected future climate change and the CO2 growth rate anomaly has been a first indicator of a developing positive feedback between climate warming and the global carbon cycle.

... Based on these results, further warming and drying of tropical forests is expected to result in less uptake and more release of carbon on land, unfortunately amplifying the effect of fossil fuel emissions warming the climate.

Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes in all components of the climate system.

As a result, a bigger worry is that there has been higher levels of negative forcing masking much of our AGW and the warming we see so far is associated with relatively low levels of net positive forcing coupled with a high climate sensitivity.

Three IPCC climate models, recent NASA Aqua satellite data, and a simple 3 - layer climate model are used together to demonstrate that the IPCC climate models are far too sensitive, resulting in their prediction of too much global warming in response to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.