Sentences with phrase «global little ice»

Hence skeptics are extremely adamant there was a very cold and global little ice age, but from the other side of their mouth they will rubbish all lines of evidence like tree ring reconstructions and the instrumental record that are needed to make such an adamant claim about the little ice age.

So the very existence of a global Little Ice Age is a myth.

It was important in that it cast serious doubt on the notion both of a global Medieval Warm Period warmer than the 20th century and of a global Little Ice Age, both long - time (cautiously) accepted features of the last 1,000 years of climate history.

Not exact matches

Frankly, if I wanted to worry about climate change, I would worry about global cooling again, since the sun is behaving very weakly just now, and sun - watching scientists have even dared to suggest that a reprise of the Little Ice Age is in the offing.

A change in solar activity may also, for example, have contributed to the post Little Ice Age rise in global temperatures in the first half of the 20th Century.

(Global average temperature fell by about a degree during the Little Ice Age, although scientists have struggled to quantify local cooling.)

Some scientists speculate that the sun may be entering a prolonged inactive phase, similar to the one that lasted from 1645 to 1715 and coincided with the «little ice age» in Europe — although there is no evidence that the sun will rescue us from global warming.

«When we look forward several decades, climate models predict such profound loss of Arctic sea ice that there's little doubt this will negatively affect polar bears throughout much of their range, because of their critical dependence on sea ice,» said Kristin Laidre, a researcher at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center in Seattle and co-author of a study on projections of the global polar bear population.

On top of that, explorations occurred during a time of global cooling known as the Little Ice Age, which stretched from the 13th to early 20th centuries.

In contrast, the consensus view among paleoclimatologists is that the Medieval Warming Period was a regional phenomenon, that the worldwide nature of the Little Ice Age is open to question and that the late 20th century saw the most extreme global average temperatures.

Usually, it's a minor annoyance, but as a global cooling period known as the «little ice age» took hold in the 16th and 17th centuries, the sandstorms were unusually fierce.

There is some debate about when the «Little Ice Age» — the last time when global average temperatures were falling — ended, but it is well documented that glaciers started receding around that time as a result of the relative warming of the planet.

Global sea - level contribution from the Patagonian Icefields since the Little Ice Age maximum.

As alluded to in our post, one important issue is the possibility that changes in El Nino may have significantly offset opposite temperature variations in the extratropics, moderating the influence of the extratropical «Little Ice Age» and «Medieval Warm Period» on hemispheric or global mean temperatures (e.g. Cobb et al (2003).

Moreover, there is little evidence that Antarctica is losing ice due to global warming.

The European Alps have been growing since the end of the last little Ice Age in 1850 when glaciers began shrinking as temperatures warmed, but the rate of uplift has accelerated in recent decades because global warming has sped up the rate of glacier melt, the researchers say.

Pratt already had been familiar with Cziczo because of their related research in cloud - ice formation, a little understood yet important aspect in predicting global climate change.

He attributes the current temperature increase to Earth recovering from the Little Ice Age and, in the same article, states that «no consensus exists that man - made emissions are the primary driver of global warming or, more importantly, that global warming is accelerating and dangerous.»

Global warming has hit the Ice Age and things are getting a little drippy.

The assessment examines the following content; global warming, the greenhouse effect / gases, natural and human causes of past climate change, evidence of the little ice age, features of tropical storms and the effects and response to tropical storms.

Seeking to now provide «a little bit of balance to this concept of unstoppable retreat» of the Antarctic ice sheet, Rignot clings to hope the global community can «actually, possibly, prevent some of the big ice sheets» from inevitably melting.

Sci., 105, 13252 - 13257, 2008 Mann, M.E., Zhang, Z., Rutherford, S., Bradley, R.S., Hughes, M.K., Shindell, D., Ammann, C., Faluvegi, G., Ni, F., Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly, Science, 326, 1256 - 1260, 2009

With respect to # 27, it is worth noting that in fact there is a serious question as to whether the «Little Ice Age» was a global event, or was largely restricted to Europe.

As alluded to in our post, one important issue is the possibility that changes in El Nino may have significantly offset opposite temperature variations in the extratropics, moderating the influence of the extratropical «Little Ice Age» and «Medieval Warm Period» on hemispheric or global mean temperatures (e.g. Cobb et al (2003).

First, ask yourself why the global temperatures have steadily increased since the «Little Ice Age».

Firstly a search of «historic global temperatures» reveals oodles of info showing an increase from the little ice age and middle ages warm period that precede it and we still have a way to go to get back to the warmer times.

Could you comment on the recent articles about the reduction in sunspot activity possibly negating the effect of global warming and even putting us into another Little Ice Age.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

At the hemispheric - mean scale, the «Little Ice Age» is only a moderate cooling because larger offsetting regional patterns of temperature change (both warm and cold) tend to cancel in a hemispheric or global mean.

BUT Reversing the Atlantic ocean current due to fresh water ice melt, is a local phenomenon, not global AND it does little to reduce the slow steady heat / energy buildup globally — so warming will continue.

During the Little Ice Age, global temperatures dropped sharply.

The paper also finds that several significant past climate fluctuations — including a warm spell that peaked around 1100 A.D. called the medieval warm period and the so - called little ice age from the 1400s through the 1700s — were global in scope.

During the Little Ice Age, the fall in average global temperature is estimated to have been less than 1 Â °C and lasted 70 years.

Moreover, there is little evidence that Antarctica is losing ice due to global warming.

I'm concerned that little bits of info (e.g., more ice here, less ice there, sick animals here, winter storms there, and etc.) can be much more confusing than illuminating in the absence of a general understanding of the basic dynamics of global warming as (the majority of) scientists see them.

Over the past millennium this graph, most of which is obtained from Antarctic ice cores, shows CO2 holding steady at 280 ± 5 ppm up to 1800, when global population was about a billion people and sailing ships and the horse - and - buggy were the most advanced forms of transportation, consuming relatively little energy per capita compared with today.

The Little Ice Age was a global event.

Some scientists have even warned that weakening solar activity could spark another «Little Ice Age,» arguing conditions mirror the centuries of global cooling the Earth went through from the late Middle Ages to the mid-19th Century.

Mann M.E., Zhang Z., Rutherford S., Bradley R.S., Hughes M.K., Shindell D., Ammann C., Faluvegi G., and Ni F. (2009) Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly, Science, 326, 1256 - 1260.

I suspect that it looked OK in your view or you didn't check; «the paper i cited talks of the hiatus in global temperatures for the past 20 years or so, that the Little Ice Age was global in extent, and that climate models can not account for the observations we already have let alone make adequate predictions about what will happen in the future.

There are many who will not like this recent paper published in Nature Communications on principle as it talks of the hiatus in global temperatures for the past 20 years or so, that the Little Ice Age was global in extent, and that climate models can not account for the observations we already have let alone make adequate predictions about what will happen in the future.

As the rate of ice loss has accelerated, its contribution to global sea level rise has increased from a little more than half of the total increase from 1993 - 2008 to 75 - 80 percent of the total increase between 2003 - 2007.

The Little Ice Age is troublesome for global - warming alarmists, since historical evidence suggests the period had extremely low global temperatures, which began recovering only as recently as the mid-19th century.

These articles actually refer to the Little Ice Age (LIA)-- a period about 500 to 150 years ago when global surface temperatures were about 1 °C colder than they are today.

All this Global Warming if you plot it on a graph with the vertical y - axis incremented in whole degrees you could free hand a straight line starting from the end of the Little Ice Age all the way to the current day and see there has been no dramatic global average temperature change since the turn of the 19th ceGlobal Warming if you plot it on a graph with the vertical y - axis incremented in whole degrees you could free hand a straight line starting from the end of the Little Ice Age all the way to the current day and see there has been no dramatic global average temperature change since the turn of the 19th ceglobal average temperature change since the turn of the 19th century.

It is sometimes argued that the global warming we are observing is due to internal variability, a recovery from the Little Ice Age etc..

«Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly.»

«The global temperature has been rising at a steady trend rate of 0.5 °C per century since the end of the little ice age in the 1700s (when the Thames River would freeze over every winter; the last time it froze over was 1804)...

«To summarize - Using the 60 and 1000 year quasi repetitive patterns in conjunction with the solar data leads straightforwardly to the following reasonable predictions for Global SSTs 1 Continued modest cooling until a more significant temperature drop at about 2016 - 17 2 Possible unusual cold snap 2021 - 22 3 Built in cooling trend until at least 2024 4 Temperature Hadsst3 moving average anomaly 2035 — 0.15 5Temperature Hadsst3 moving average anomaly 2100 — 0.5 6 General Conclusion — by 2100 all the 20th century temperature rise will have been reversed, 7 By 2650 earth could possibly be back to the depths of the little ice age.

Choices regarding emissions of other warming agents, such as methane, black carbon on ice / snow, and aerosols, can affect global warming over coming decades but have little effect on longer - term warming of the Earth over centuries and millennia.