Sentences with phrase «global cooling as»

Oh, hang on - are you now saying that humans are causing global warming after a couple of thousand years of slight global cooling as shown by Marcott et al and others?
The problem, in this context is that it is unwise to increase sulfate production to aid in global cooling as that would kill all our crops anyway (acid rain) and increase human health problems.
Could it be possible that we are heading for a period of global cooling as a result?
There's of course all the new solar physics models that have been released in the past few years which indicates the sun, not CO2, is the primary climate factor, and they are predicting global cooling as well (and having a difficult time getting published and taken seriously by the «consensus» holders):
Indeed, since 2010 GAT has been falling off a cliff and if the current rate of cooling continues for another decade we'll be in a world of hurt from global cooling as growing seasons grow shorter, late spring and early fall frosts take their tolls, and colder winters requiring more fuel with a rising price per BTU attached to it.
From 1940 through 1980 the concern was global cooling as temperatures declined.
A risk of global cooling as well.
* CROP FAILURE wheat crop fail from intense late colds: http://www.agweb.com/article/concerns-mount-over-freeze-damage-to-winter-wheat-crops-naa-associated-press/ * 2016 Pakistans meteorological dept. issues a report predicting global cooling as a result of solar activity.
Far more important to seek how to accommodate the likely global cooling as we leave the current interglacial warm period.
Man was blamed for global cooling as he is blamed today for global warming.
The aim of the C - SIDE working group is to reconstruct changes in sea - ice extent in the Southern Ocean for the past 130,000 years, reconstruct how sea - ice cover responded to global cooling as the Earth entered a glacial cycle, and to better understand how sea - ice cover may have influenced nutrient cycling, ocean productivity, air - sea gas exchange, and circulation dynamics.

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Global investor confidence grew in the U.S. in the past year but cooled in some previously hot emerging markets such as Brazil, China and India, according to a report released today by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Deloitte's Emerging Growth Company Practice.
As China's growth show signs of cooling and the Communist Party prepares for its all - important 19th Congress, a cadre of reformers led by CBRC chairman Guo Shuqing is warning that these swashbuckling global buyers aren't national champions but lightning rods for financial risk.
Well, hold on a moment: if China continues to grow at past rates, China becomes more than 90 percent of the entire global steel market — which is unlikely, and so it seems likely that the iron ore capacity may be rising just as slowing capital investments in China cools demand.»
To that extent, it may also be open to Douglas Carswell and Tory Bear who are in the «warming myths» and global cooling» camp to dismiss her as a sell - out for being much more open to the global warming myth than they are.
On a global scale, the heating of atmospheric molecules causes the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, to expand and stretch higher during the day; it then settles back down as it cools at night.
Cool It, a documentary based on his 2007 book of the same name, continues Lomborg's cry to rethink the world's responses to global warming: Abandon toothless agreements about carbon cuts and instead invest in renewable energy, along with geoengineering as a fail - safe.
This timeframe is particularly relevant for the evolution of past climate as it is a period of intense cooling coupled with increased aridity at a global scale.
Changes in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere due to changes in solar activity can not explain global warming, as average cosmic ray intensities have been increasing since 1985 even as the world has warmed — the opposite of what should happen if cosmic rays produce climate - cooling clouds.
«These strategies range from lighter colored roofs or road surfaces» that could reflect sunlight, cooling cities, «to something as controversial as putting particles high in the stratosphere,» explains Ken Caldeira, a climate modeler at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University.
Scientists know that the clouds can act as a sunshield, cooling parts of the globe and offsetting the global warming caused by the greenhouse effect (see «Not warming, but cooling», New Scientist, 9 July 1994).
Also, it is quite likely that, as global temperature rises, diseases that were previously found only in warmer areas of the world may show up increasingly in other, previously cooler areas, where people have not yet developed natural defenses against them.
Interestingly, some scientists argue that without the cooling effect of major volcanic eruptions such as El Chichn and Mount Pinatubo, global warming effects caused by human activities would have been far more substantial.
Climatologists who spent the past decade warning about global warming are fast reaching the conclusion that cooling poses just as big a threat.
As time passed, the global climate cooled, with ice ages coming and going.
The researchers focused their global simulations on the U. S. and modeled the country's evolving economic activities in different geographic regions to determine the water requirements for five main sectors: thermoelectric cooling; public supply, such as for drinking water and other public utilities; industrial demand; mining; and irrigation.
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.
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.
«Earlier hypotheses suggested that anthropoids as a group may have evolved in response to the global cooling and drying that occurred at the Eocene - Oligocene boundary.
People who claim we can stop worrying about global warming on the basis of a cooler year or a cooler decade — or just on questionable predictions of cooling — are as naive as a child mistaking a falling tide, or a spring low tide, for a real long - term fall in sea level.
The bottom line is that, just as a few hot years do not prove global warming is real, neither would a few cool years prove it is not.
Predictions of global cooling in the short term are partly based on the idea that sea surface temperatures will fall in the northern Atlantic, due to slow, irregular swings in conditions known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.
Phenomena such as El Niño or La Niña, which warm or cool the tropical Pacific Ocean, can contribute to short - term variations in global average temperature.
Researchers and some energy experts say that this form of cooling — known as solar thermal — could help to slake the growing global demand for fuel to run energy - hungry air conditioning.
So the report notes that the current «pause» in new global average temperature records since 1998 — a year that saw the second strongest El Nino on record and shattered warming records — does not reflect the long - term trend and may be explained by the oceans absorbing the majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as well as the cooling contributions of volcanic eruptions.
«The mounting evidence is coalescing around the idea that decades of stronger trade winds coincide with decades of stalls or even slight cooling of global surface temperatures, as heat is apparently transferred from the atmosphere into the upper ocean,» Linsley said.
Evidence for approximately contemporaneous global cooling in sediments that do contain YTT glass shards has been found in marine core oxygen isotope records from the South China Sea (3), as have terrestrial carbon isotope and pollen records from Northern India and Bengal (23).
Various aerosols also rise up in the atmosphere, but their net effect on global warming or cooling is still uncertain, as some aerosols reflect sunlight away from Earth, and others, in contrast, trap warmth in the atmosphere.
The second - place finish of this February makes that contribution clearer, as El Niño dissipated last summer and was even followed by a mild La Niña, which tends to cool global temperatures.
«(VII) standards for practices and materials to achieve cool roofs in residential buildings, taking into consideration reduced air conditioning energy use as a function of cool roofs, the potential reduction in global warming from increased solar reflectance from buildings, and cool roofs criteria in State and local building codes and in national and local voluntary programs, without reduction of otherwise applicable ceiling insulation standards; and
He determines the solar cycle contributes 0.18 °C cooling to global temperatures as the sun moves from maximum to minimum.
As discussed elsewhere on this site, modeling studies indicate that the modest cooling of hemispheric or global mean temperatures during the 15th - 19th centuries (relative to the warmer temperatures of the 11th - 14th centuries) appears to have been associated with a combination of lowered solar irradiance and a particularly intense period of explosive volcanic activity.
These can have a limited effect on ozone levels (by serving as hetrogeneous reaction sites) and can reflect enough of the sun's light back into space to cause a notable global cooling.
As we discussed a while back (Antarctic cooling, global warming?)
These extended, cool and hence red stars are key targets for stellar evolution studies as well as galactic studies for several reasons: a) many stars go through a red - giant phase; b) red giants are intrinsically bright; c) large stellar internal structure changes as well as changes in surface chemical abundances take place over relatively short time; d) red - giant stars exhibit global intrinsic oscillations.
El Niño is one of the biggest drivers of year - to - year variability, increasing the likelihood of warm weather in the Pacific Northwest and cooler weather in the Southeast as well as a host of other global impacts.
That left the El Chichon and Pinatubo volcanic eruptions in 1982 and 1991 as the remaining major natural perturbations to the climate trend, although that had as much to do with the timing of the eruptions as it did with the cooling caused by the nearly global distribution of volcanic ash in the upper atmosphere.
The main point is that just as surface temperatures has experienced periods of short term cooling during long term global warming, similarly the ocean shows short term variability during a long term warming trend.
Cooling sea - surface temperatures over the tropical Pacific Ocean — part of a natural warm and cold cycle — may explain why global average temperatures have stabilized in recent years, even as greenhouse gas emissions have been warming the planet.
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