Sentences with phrase «generally warmer world»

Anyway, it seems like a generally warmer world will be...

A generally warmer world holds more moisture in the atmosphere.

Even in a generally warming world, temperatures don't increase year on year.

Water and jungles dominated the polar environments, and in the generally warm world, mammals for the first time grew in number, size and diversity.

Not exact matches

Independent computer models (about 23 or so world - wide, I believe), generally show a warming of the surface and even more in the tropsophere in the tropics due to increased water vapor (warm the air up and it has more available water vapor (a greenhouse gas)..

o 8000 of the 10000 years since the last ice age were warmer than now and generally had less CO2 and lower sea levels o For 3000 years (from 5000 BP to 2000 BP) world temperatures were falling whilst CO2 levels were rising o Manâ??

However keen you may be to demonstrate my arguments are misleading, I am afraid to report I am simply a scientist who feels stongly about protecting our natural environment, and who agrees global warming is a potential risk, but yet who remains unconvinced by the generally alarmist claims that the end of the world is nigh.

Scientists generally agree that climate change will increase the likelihood of extreme weather events, but the jury is still out on how tornadoes will fare in a warming world.

For example, the world has generally warmed over the last 18,000 years as it emerged from the last Ice Age.

Generally, the remaining uncorrected effect from urban heat islands is now believed to be less than 0.1 C, and in some parts of the world it may be more than fully compensated for by other changes in measurement methods.4 Nevertheless, this remains an important source of uncertainty.The warming trend observed over the past century is too large to be easily dismissed as a consequence of measurement errors.

That's why climate is generally defined in terms of multiple decades of data, why Santer et al. find that you need at least 17 years of data to compare models and the real world, and why real scientists don't say «OMG GLOBAL WARMING HAS STOPPED!»

The most commonly used method for representing lightning in global atmospheric models generally predicts lightning increases in a warmer world.

Operating under United Nations auspices, the 2500 - member expert panel provides policymakers around the world with rigorous, consensus - based assessments generally regarded as the most authoritative word on global warming and its causes.

Never - the-less, it is generally accepted by most all climate scientists that, in the absence of feedbacks, future increases in atmospheric CO2 will have less effect on world temperature than past increases, and that there is a cap (in this chart around 1.5 degrees C) on the total potential warming.

In a world where significant parts of the Arab world are involved in violent conflict, where two large Security Council members actively curb freedoms, where the causes of global warming generally seem to be tolerated, and where there's a lot of other stuff to be depressed about, this is a hopeful document.