Sentences with phrase «future temperature increases many»

Indeed, working with predictions for future temperature increases and glacier melt rates generated by ten separate global climate models — all of which are also used by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change - the team have concluded that these smaller ice sources will contribute around 12 centimetres to world sea - level increases over the remainder of the century, with this likely to have catastrophic consequences for numerous natural habitats as well as for hundreds of thousands of people.

Large precipitation increases could counteract the declines that these all - but - certain future temperature increases will cause.

Going forward and without knowing the origin for the need of the efficacy measures significantly different than unity, one might well conclude that prediction of future temperature increases from AGW would be the same with or without the efficacy measure.

«Data from the past helped calibrate our model, and will improve sea level rise projections under scenarios of future temperature increases,» says Rahmstorf.

''... while claiming «strong evidence» exists that warming has been caused «largely by human activity», it acknowledges that the size of future temperature increases and other aspects of climate change are «still subject to uncertainty» and that the attribution of forced cl...

The implication is that if one wants to reduce future temperature increases, then reducing total CO2 emissions is necessary.

How do you spur world action on this issue when there are still questions out there about future levels of CO2 in the atmosphere and the range of future temperature increases?

Climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, a senior researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric research, says that each and every person in the world would have to reduce his and her per capita consumption of fossil fuels by 75 percent to keep additional future temperature increases to no more than 1 degree.

I have once before seen a plot of global mean temperature against modeled future temperature increases.

Choice 4: Why would we want to limit future temperature increase to 2 degC above pre-industrial temperature when: a) we don't know what pre-industrial temperature was, b) the most recent pre-industrial temperature occurred during the LIA, c) temperature rises representing a significant chunk of the remaining allowed increase have happened in the past without anthropogenic forcing, and, d) we really don't know how to achieve this goal?

To limit future temperature increase to 2 °C, emissions must peak soon, as shown by the blue line on the right.

Not exact matches

Studies by the ICO suggest that prices may stabilize in the future and that production in some countries, such as Ethiopia and Vietnam may increase as warming temperatures make more ground available for coffee cultivation, but much will depend on factors outside the coffee industry.

The findings were not a total surprise, with future projections showing that even with moderate climate warming, air temperatures over the higher altitudes increase even more than at sea level, and that, on average, fewer winter storm systems will impact the state.

Combining the asylum - application data with projections of future warming, the researchers found that an increase of average global temperatures of 1.8 °C — an optimistic scenario in which carbon emissions flatten globally in the next few decades and then decline — would increase applications by 28 percent by 2100, translating into 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year.

Although the era Secord and his colleagues studied experienced a similar increase in temperatures (five degrees Celsius or more) as is predicted for us for the near future (four degrees C), he points out the ancient animals had tens of thousands of years to adapt to changing temperatures — rather than just centuries.

Current climate change models indicate temperatures will increase as long as humans continue to emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but the projections of future precipitation are far less certain.

The discoveries of these proteins and genes have the potential to address a wide range of critical agricultural problems in the future, including the limited availability of water for crops, the need to increase water use efficiency in lawns as well as crops and concerns among farmers about the impact heat stress will have in their crops as global temperatures and CO2 levels continue to rise.

The researchers expect that in the future, the alloy composition will be optimized to increase the operation temperature of the Mg - Sc SMA, and the biocompatibility and biodegradable characteristics of the present alloy system will be evaluated.

Some are more resilient to increased temperatures and might be able to survive and compete under higher future temperatures.

The study found that, if the patterns from 2002 to 2008 hold in the future, an increase in average temperature in Mato Grosso of just 1 degree Celsius will lead to a nine to 13 percent reduction in overall production of soy and corn.

The implication: because average temperatures may warm by at least one degree C by 2030, «climate change could increase the incidences of African civil war by 55 percent by 2030, and this could result in about 390,000 additional battle deaths if future wars are as deadly as recent wars.»

Till now, climate modellers» forecasts of future warming have resembled the famous bell curve, with the most likely result of doubling CO2 being a temperature increase of about 3 °C, and with declining probabilities on either side for a narrow range of higher and lower temperature rises (see Graph).

«This effect could add up in future warm periods and thus weaken the convection — especially with regard to the rising temperatures and increased melting,» the oceanographer concludes.

They applied this data in models as a baseline to estimate future climate and vegetation scenarios based on different temperature increases.

They found that AP increased faster than air temperature (AT) over land in the past few decades, especially in the low latitude areas, and the rise is expected to continue in the future.

«The overall predictions for the future of the area is of a more maritime climate, particularly warmer temperatures and increased precipitation during winter,» Høye says.

Several studies suggest that recent Californian droughts have a humanmade component arising from increased temperatures, with the likelihood of such warming - enhanced droughts expected to increase in the future.

Climate change has resulted in increased temperatures, and a major portion of the area is projected to be uninhabitable in the future.

Future global wheat harvest is likely to be reduced by six per cent per each degree Celsius of local temperature increase if no adaptation takes place.

Using climate models to project into the future, the team found the amount of time increased temperatures are expected to strip the air of moisture could up to double by the 2080s.

«We then used models to forecast future habitat loss in the national forests from expected temperature increases in the region,» says Andrew Dolloff, research fishery biologist for the Forest Service Southern Research Station and a co-author of the study.

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.

«This effect could add up in future warm periods and thus weaken the convection - especially with regard to the rising temperatures and increased melting», the oceanographer concludes.

Several studies suggest that recent Californian droughts have a manmade component arising from increased temperatures, with the likelihood of such warming - enhanced droughts expected to increase in the future.

In the 487th Brookhaven Lecture, Stephen Schwartz speaks about his research on why Earth's temperature has not increased as much as expected from the observed increase in greenhouse gases, and what this might mean for the future.

The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have increased by about 30 % over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming.

It concluded that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations had already increased by about 25 percent in the past century, and continued use of fossil fuels would lead to substantial temperature increases in the future.

Pat argues that it is the general tendency of climate models when forced with exponentially increasing CO2 concentrations (as were the models used in Dr. Covey's CMIP project) to produce a nearly linear temperature rise into the future.

What this means for the future is difficult to predict: rainfall is projected to increase, as is temperature, both of which lead to more methane emissions, but some models predict a drying out of soils which would reduce said emissions... I guess we'll find out.

There is strong evidence that both temperatures and precipitation will increase in the future.

Making use of mountain snow line data indicating larger temperature changes at altitude, Lindzen proposed a new kind of model of the tropical response, which fit the CLIMAP data and indicated very low sensitivity to CO2 increases in the future.

The kinder, gentler model from the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in the United Kingdom estimated a wetter, warmer future: Rainfall may increase 20 percent to 25 percent, mean annual temperatures could increase 2 degrees Fahrenheit by 2030 and 4 degrees by 2100.

Though, researchers are quick to point out that this bleak future depends on how much greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, and on how this will affect temperature, snowfall and rainfall in the area.

Rising seawater temperatures and increased nutrient concentrations could lead to a decline of the bladder wrack Fucus vesiculosus in the Baltic Sea in the future, according to experiments conducted by marine scientists from Kiel and Rostock.

«The signal of future glacier change in the region is clear: continued and possibly accelerated mass loss from glaciers is likely given the projected increase in temperatures,» Joseph Shea, a glacier hydrologist at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, who led the study, said in a statement.

The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere have increased by about 30 percent over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming.

What this means for the future is difficult to predict: rainfall is projected to increase, as is temperature, both of which lead to more methane emissions, but some models predict a drying out of soils which would reduce said emissions... I guess we'll find out.

On the basis of this, unless CO2 produces dramatic Arctic warming and tropical cooling (or no change) in the future, the future GAT will rise more than during the Eemian but will not have proportionally similar Arctic temperature or ice melt increases as during the Eemian.

It's a short (10 question) poll, covering topics like the rate of CO2 increase, predicted future temperatures, sea ice and sea level states, and hurricane frequencies.

What I wrote was that the historical record does not rule out the possibility that at current temperatures and cloud covers, a future increase in CO2 or surface temperature may increase cloud cover.