Sentences with phrase «future under a warming climate»

It is of interest to scientists because it is changing rapidly; it is thinning, accelerating and receding3, all of which contribute directly to sea level, and its future under a warming climate is uncertain.

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Although scientists aren't sure exactly how warming temperatures will manifest under climate change, Morgan said that «chances are good as it gets warmer we'll get more dry years in the future.»

That may cause climate modelers to rethink future sea - level rise under a warming climate.

To investigate this, DeConto and Pollard developed a new ice sheet - climate model that includes «previously under - appreciated processes» that emphasize the importance of future atmospheric warming around Antarctica.

«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.

He looked at both average seasonal snowfall and extreme snowfall events under current climate conditions, and also following projected future warming.

As can be seen your graph, our climate models make a wide range of predictions (perhaps 0.5 - 5 degC, a 10-fold uncertainty) about how much «committed warming» will occur in the future under any stabilization scenario, so we don't seem to have a decent understanding of these processes.

Accurate answers to this question are subject to data constraints, as neither of the available projection datasets under future climate change scenarios is designed for a 1.5 / 2 °C temperature warming levels.

Even if the study were right... (which it is not) mainstream scientists use * three * methods to predict a global warming trend... not just climate computer models (which stand up extremely well for general projections by the way) under world - wide scrutiny... and have for all intents and purposes already correctly predicted the future -(Hansen 1988 in front of Congress and Pinatubo).

[*) That's a really rapid warming under both scenarios, considering the baseline (1961 — 1990, so not «preindustrial») and the used definition of future climate (2070 - 2100)-RSB-.

Nepal 24 Hr: The Doha climate change conference this year was the most significant in nearly 20 years of gatherings under the U.N. Framework Convention process aimed at staving off future global warming disaster.

Screen shot 2015-07-07 at 2.51.21 PM.png «OUR COMMON FUTURE UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE» Published 7 July 2015 A major scientific conference «Our Common Future under Climate Change» opened on 7 July in Paris at the height of an intense, extensive and long - lasting European heatwave, which is consistent with the expected impacts of global waFUTURE UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE» Published 7 July 2015 A major scientific conference «Our Common Future under Climate Change» opened on 7 July in Paris at the height of an intense, extensive and long - lasting European heatwave, which is consistent with the expected impacts of global warUNDER CLIMATE CHANGE» Published 7 July 2015 A major scientific conference «Our Common Future under Climate Change» opened on 7 July in Paris at the height of an intense, extensive and long - lasting European heatwave, which is consistent with the expected impacts of global wCLIMATE CHANGE» Published 7 July 2015 A major scientific conference «Our Common Future under Climate Change» opened on 7 July in Paris at the height of an intense, extensive and long - lasting European heatwave, which is consistent with the expected impacts of global waFuture under Climate Change» opened on 7 July in Paris at the height of an intense, extensive and long - lasting European heatwave, which is consistent with the expected impacts of global warunder Climate Change» opened on 7 July in Paris at the height of an intense, extensive and long - lasting European heatwave, which is consistent with the expected impacts of global wClimate Change» opened on 7 July in Paris at the height of an intense, extensive and long - lasting European heatwave, which is consistent with the expected impacts of global warming.

The authors also published their own response with Carbon Brief, pointing out that they «present no evidence in our paper to suggest that future CO2 - induced warming under any emissions scenario will be lower than the projections given in AR5 [the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report]».

The American Southwest has experienced a series of severe droughts interspersed with strong wet episodes over the past decades, prompting questions about future climate patterns and potential intensification of weather disruptions under warming conditions.

Even if climate sensitivity is on the lower end, if we don't get our emissions under control, we will still see a dangerous amount of global warming (more details on this to come in a future blog post).

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The results can give us projections of future global warming under a variety of scenarios, and also give us an estimate of the global climate sensitivity.

In their study, Dim Coumou, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and Alexander Robinson, from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, used state - of - the - art climate models to project changes in the trend of heat extremes under two future warming scenarios — RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 — throughout the 21st cClimate Impact Research, and Alexander Robinson, from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, used state - of - the - art climate models to project changes in the trend of heat extremes under two future warming scenarios — RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 — throughout the 21st cclimate models to project changes in the trend of heat extremes under two future warming scenarios — RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 — throughout the 21st century.

Our climate is already warming, and if we do not get our carbon emissions under control the consequences for ourselves and future generations will be devastating.

Although we can not say at present whether more or fewer hurricanes will occur in the future with global warming, the hurricanes that do occur near the end of the 21st century are expected to be stronger and have significantly more intense rainfall than under present day climate conditions.

Scientists expect rainfall extremes to change in Europe under future climate conditions responding to changes in large - scale atmospheric circulation driven by global warming.