Sentences with phrase «general climate warming»

There already have been reports of mass coral death around the Pacific atoll of Kiribati this year — and widespread coral bleaching worldwide, a phenomenon that scientists attribute to a strong El Niño event surfing atop a general climate warming trend.

Because of the orientation of land masses, mountain ranges and oceans — general climate warming will also lead to meanders in the above - mentioned ITCZ.

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Pulling the same legal levers as those involved in its climate change investigation of ExxonMobil, the New York state attorney general's office obtained an agreement from coal giant Peabody Energy to end misleading statements and disclose risks associated with global warming.

The State's Attorney General says the Buffalo snowstorms are more evidence that climate change is happening, and that New York and the nation need to work harder to combat the causes of global warming.

These fluctuations superimpose the general global warming trend since the beginning of industrialization and thus complicate the accurate determination of human influence on the climate.

«Such decadal climate fluctuations are superimposed on the general warming trend, so that at times it seems as if the warming trend slowed or even stopped.

Professor Kug notes that further research is needed to obtain a general conclusion on the matter, but this research delivers important implications for climate adaptation because the analysis shows that if current warming trends continue, it is feasible to conclude that the ecosystems in regions affected by the anomalous climate will suffer greater damages due to the cold and dry spells.

U.S. and China called out on global warming United Nations Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon urged the U.S. and China to play «a more constructive role» in combating climate change, punctuating release of this year's fourth and final report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate change, punctuating release of this year's fourth and final report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

Mountains are useful for exploring the effects of climate change because they show predictable changes in temperature and humidity with elevation: In general, sites at low elevations are warmer and drier than higher elevation sites.

At least half of current vegetated areas are predicted to shift to a different type of vegetation class, with a general trend of now - present grasses and small shrubs yielding to larger shrubs and trees as the climate warms, the scientists said.

Climate analysts said they were buoyed by Kerry's general comments on global warming and said they are hoping to see him take a more personal interest in the U.N. treaty negotiations.

Since then, there have been small - scale climate shifts — notably the «Little Ice Age» between about 1200 and 1700 A.D. — but in general, the Holocene has been a relatively warm period in between ice ages.

In general, climate scientists expect heavy downpours to increase over the U.S. and elsewhere, as a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, making more of it available to fall as rain.

If so, it may even help slow — but not stop — the progression of the climate's general warming trend.

However, it seems that one common trait among some climate models is the indication that a global warming may result in a more a general El Niño - type average state (eg.

After a general trashing of various things including surface observations and climate models, he admitted that his prediction for the globally - averaged warming (of ~ 1.5 C by 2100) is within the IPCC range... albeit at the low end.

To be entirely clear; group A contains any kind of activist while group B contains both «climate skeptics» (except, of course, those who fit in group A) and people supporting the general paradigm of «global warming / antropogenic climate change» (again not those in group A).

It appears that the climate changes according to a repeating 60 year or so pattern with 30 years of general warming and 30 years of general cooling, this pattern superimposed, we hope, on a very slow longer term warming trend.

The relationship between warmer air and the greater amounts of moisture it contains is one of the most well - accepted tenets of climate science, and underpins one of the more solid projections, that warming will lead to more heavy downpours in general across the globe.

Our response is structured around five general themes that are misrepresented by Ollier in his argument that ice sheets are not responding to recent climate warming...»

There is no evidence whatsoever that «politics» in any way, shape or form has influenced actual climate science, or its overwhelming conclusions regarding both the reality of anthropogenic global warming and the danger that it poses to humanity and to life on earth in general.

First, the hypothesis of manmade global warming is only supported by general circulation models, which are known to be imperfect representations of the Earth's climate systems.

Tropical plants in general have naturally higher levels of saturated fats in their tissues due to the warmer climate.

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In general, warmer climates tend to increase damage, but other issues can have an impact on battery failure, such as infrequent start - ups and discharged batteries freezing at 320 F. It's recommended that a trained professional inspect and service your battery to help ensure the system is working properly.

After a general trashing of various things including surface observations and climate models, he admitted that his prediction for the globally - averaged warming (of ~ 1.5 C by 2100) is within the IPCC range... albeit at the low end.

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).

Some issue advocates have argued that the term climate change is more likely to engage Republicans in the issue, however, the evidence from these studies suggests that in general the terms are synonymous for Republicans — i.e., neither term is more engaging than the other, although in several cases, global warming generates stronger feelings of negative affect and stronger perceptions of personal and familial threat among Republicans; they are also more likely to believe that global warming is already affecting weather in the United States.

I think he's downplaying the scientific case, built on basic climate principles («everything we do know»), for long - term warming, but his general point is worth exploring.

In the post, Dr. Archer, who has tested his chops with a couple of books for general audiences (I forgive him for recycling «Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast,» the title of my 1992 book on climate; — RRB -, tries out a nice analogy relating carbon dioxide and methane emissions to various troubles that can endanger a driver:

Using a time period when CO2 did not change at all, to support a general conclusion that «CO2 is not the driver of climate change» and hence is not responsible for the current warming, is hardly logical.

This might be an important resource to persuade the general public of the reality about global warming (climate crisis!).

A General Agreement on Climate Change (GACC) would consist of core agreements on allowable national contributions to global warming over time and would enable a wide range of other agreements on technology transfer, funding mechanisms and other issues as needed to accommodate the interests of nations.

I suspect one of the reasons that he brought it up is that the general public, when told there is no debate amongst experts as to whether warming is occurring, are also told that the hundreds of scientists they hear about in the news dismissing warming (or saying that there is a debate) are not climate change experts and therefore shouldn't be believed.

Another difficulty for the 21st - century projection of TCs (and also for the projection of tropical climate in general) is that it is not certain how ENSO behaves as the mean climate warms.

I know in general terms that the hydrological cycle should intensify with warming and that one event is hard to pin on climate change, but it would be good to do a catch up on how the broad trend of extreme weather fits the models.

General American Climate Value Survey Findings -73 percent of Americans believe global warming is happening - But only 18 percent «strongly believe» global warming is real, and is harmful and caused by humans -74 percent said they want the US to be an international leader in global warming solutions

«One of the most significant signals in the thermometer - observed temperature record since 1900 is the decrease in the diurnal temperature range over land, largely due to warming of the minimum temperatures... Climate models have in general not replicated the change in diurnal temperature range well.

Now if there's a correlation, it must be so that in general global climate shifts from warming to cooling at maximum CO2 «forcing» and vice versa.

Harris cites the work of PhD - level climate scientists and atmospheric physicists who've studied global warming for decades, and none of these skeptics deny climate science in any general sense of the word — that's another unsupportable talking point from believers of catastrophic man - caused global warming.

Let me just quote Jones and Mann: «««Medieval Warm Period» and «Little Ice Age» are therefore restrictive terms, and their continued use in a more general context is increasingly likely to hamper, rather than aid, the description of past large - scale climate changes.

A broad array of leading climate scientists and policy specialists were also criticizing the panel for the exact opposite reason: They believe the main conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may be too general and too conservative to convey a clear message about the grave threat of warming and to inform policies to address local climate change climate scientists and policy specialists were also criticizing the panel for the exact opposite reason: They believe the main conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may be too general and too conservative to convey a clear message about the grave threat of warming and to inform policies to address local climate change Climate Change (IPCC) may be too general and too conservative to convey a clear message about the grave threat of warming and to inform policies to address local climate change climate change issues.

As I said in my reply to Wegman, ordinarily I would agree with him that science shouldn't be conducted through blogs, but in the case of climate science an opinion about global warming in general, or the validity of multiproxy reconstructions or climate models in particular seems to constitute for some a political viewpoint that must be either trumpeted from the rooftops or suppressed by any means possible regardless of its scientific merit.

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This finding, though based on uncertain reconstructions of past ENSO behaviour, is entirely independent of previous analyses confined to the restricted instrumental climate record...... such a trend would seem consistent with the response to the general increase in explosive volcanism during the fifteenth — nineteenth centuries in conjunction with reduced solar irradiance that is responsible for the millennial cooling trend of Northern Hemisphere mean temperature before modern anthropogenic warming.

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And, in general, scientists have documented how the warming climate has caused plants to grow and flower earlier.

It's a general aspect of climate change and ocean warming that seas add heat at all levels.

It was irresponsible of the mainstream media to talk about the Texas storm, Harvey, while essentially never mentioning its connection to climate change, let alone the strong connection of population growth to both global warming and environmental disruption in general.

If you wonder why the anthropogenic climate change theory («global warming») is losing credibility among the general population, you need not look any further than articles and statements such as your recent paper.