Sentences with phrase «global warming spell»

That global warm spell, called the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period, may also have been related to the closing of the Central American Seaway and the consequent rearrangement of global ocean circulation.

Not exact matches

Global warming could make the next wet spell happen sooner than we think.

«The finding that cold spells could become more common due to global warming is an interesting one, but it is also a controversial one in our field,» Vecchi said.

And the recent warm spell in the United States happens to be more than offset by cooling elsewhere in the world, so its link to «global» warming is weaker than tenuous.

The study, which was published on July 13, 2009 in the peer - reviewed journal Nature Geoscience, found CO2 was not to blame for a major ancient global warming period and instead found «unknown processes accounted for much of warming in the ancient hot spell.»

(See the Edutopia article, «Truth and Consequences: Teaching Global Warming Doesn't Have to Spell «Doom».»)

Or do we think Stu Ostro with his «While natural factors are contributing to this warm spell... there is a hivh probability that global warming is having an influence upon its extremity» is just full of it?

Given how much yelling takes place on the Internet, talk radio, and elsewhere over short - term cool and hot spells in relation to global warming, I wanted to find out whether anyone had generated a decent decades - long graph of global temperature trends accounting for, and erasing, the short - term up - and - down flickers from the cyclical shift in the tropical Pacific Ocean known as the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, cycle.

SINGAPORE, March 25 (Reuters)-- Global warming is more than a third to blame for a major drop in rainfall that includes a decade - long drought in Australia and a lengthy dry spell in the United States, a scientist [Peter Baines] said on Wednesday.

I don't see a few heat waves or cold spells here and there as examples of global warming.

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.

Low energy prices, the distraction of the first Persian Gulf war, and a temporary cool spell following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines all helped tamp down global warming as an issue through much of the 1990's, outside the brief burst of triumphant proclamations with the 1997 negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol, a stricter addendum to the faltering 1992 climate pact.

This finding sparked a valuable discussion among scientists of how to consider, and communicate, drought risks related to human - driven global warming when truly monstrous dry spells — dwarfing anything in modern experience — are an underlying norm.

While there's evidence that increasing greenhouse heating of the planet is exacerbating hot spells and extreme downpours, and may be related to hurricane intensity (but not frequency), a combination of imprecise records and deep complexity in the mix of forces that generate killer tornadoes has clouded any link to global warming.

And it's not because humanity is any less likely to overshoot the 2 - degree Celsius target that spells dangerous levels of global warming.

«Extreme events Global warming of 2C vs 1.5 C is likely to lead to more frequent and more intense hot extremes in most land regions as well as to longer warm spells.

«Increasing Frequency, Intensity and Duration of Observed Global Heat Waves and Warm Spells.»

The occurence of large temperature differences spells bad news, as they can trigger methane releases, the more so as wide and rapid temperature changes on Antarctica look set to become even more frequent and intense with further global warming.

That is all Environmentalism has to offer us, as spelled out, as it happens, in the sub-title of Sir David King's book, The Hot Topic — How to Tackle Global Warming and Still Keep the Lights On.

It is no coincidence that all those strong El Ninos of the recent warming spell have now faded away at the same time as the sun became less active, the jets became more meridional, global cloudiness increased, the tropospheric warming stalled and the stratosphere stopped cooling.

4) A change in global weather patterns which I noticed as long ago as 2000 whereby the jet streams moved back towards the equator from the positions they adopted during the warming spell.

Press Trust of India: India will work with global community to meet the challenges of climate change, Government today said and spelt out local action plans to tackle the warming.

And when global temperatures are getting as low as they have been in nearly three decades, predicting «a cold spell» is no work of genius, and neither is the «prediction'that it will get warm again... at some point.

Most importantly, «global warming» entails a directional prediction of rising temperatures that is easily discredited by any cold spell, whereas «climate change» lacks a directional commitment and easily accommodates unusual weather of any kind.

I don't remember the specific time of it, but sometime toward the end of my seven months of searching for the ICE memos, I learned both how to do more effective internet phrase searches and that there was a variation of the ICE memo phrase spelled out as «reposition global warming as theory (not fact).»

And the recent warm spell in the United States happens to be more than offset by cooling elsewhere in the world, so its link to «global» warming is weaker than tenuous.

It is no more unreasonable than the explanations of how «global warming» produces unusual cold spells.

What neither appears to have appreciated is that if the science of this study is to be taken seriously then it spells disaster for the man - made global warming industry.

During Record Cold Spell, The Guardian Warns of Global Warming https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/no-joke-during-record-cold-spell-the-guardian-warns-of-global-warming/

Indeed, it has been suggested that global warming results in more extremes of every kind including exceptional cold spells.

First, the setup for Ron's article: Back late 2009, in my efforts to figure out where the infamous «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase came from — the line spelled out in Al Gore's movie and in Ross Gelbspan's book «The Heat is On», which they portray as a sinister top - down industry directive that skeptic climate scientists are paid to follow — I ran across Naomi Oreskes» widely repeated Powerpoint presentation from 2008 where she said the leaked memo set containing that phrase was in the archives of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Inhofe wasn't mindlessly saying a brief cold spell meant the collective whole of global warming was a hoax, he was lampooning the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and their predictions of warmer snowless winters (full text here).

So, imagine you are just an ordinary citizen who might have seen a mention of disinformation campaigns rampant in the global warming issue, perhaps even seeing the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase spelled out in connection to the Information Council on the Environment.

The IPCC * itself * acknowledges that there has been no such warming now for the last 16 - 17 years; that no dramatic imminent change is seen to that for the next couple of years at least; that the previous spell of 15 years or so was precisely the duration of warming that underlay so much of the evidence cited for its alarms of the long and terrible global trend if forecast; that not a single model the IPCC had or has seems to have come even close to predicting what we've now seen; that the IPCC can only suggest possible explanations for all this so logically meaning it can have no reason to believe that whatever is causing it isn't going to continue forever; that more and more studies are coming in attributing global temperatures not to CO2 but instead other things such as solar fluctuations; that a number of predictions are now coming in that in fact say we are now in for a lengthy period of * cooling.

On the Asian side of the city, windsurfers with the Istanbul Wind Surf Center painted the numbers 3, 5, and 0 on their sails and took to the waters of the Marmara Sea, sailing together to spell out «350» to draw attention to the danger global warming poses to the world's oceans.

I asked Dr. Mann about the European cold spell as well at a different venue, and his initial thinking was that the event was not «global warming induced» (instead brought on by natural variability), but then left open the idea that it would be, because of what Rahmstorf was saying regarding the loss of sea ice.

Global warming advocates have suggested this year's wild winter spells are proof of climate change.

Every time there's a warm spell it's global warming.

After the end of the last Ice Age came a warm spell, which ended a few thousand years ago as the global temperature dropped fairly steadily — until the 20th century.

Weather plus global warming (or 7 degrees plus El Nino plus solar max plus a hot spell) equals??? A scared Little Mouse

I begin to suspect that the problem is that Global Warm - mongers KNOW that we've been in a mild spell (very possibly correctly) and have been frustrated at how hard it is to prove conclusively.

Al Gore cited that same tobacco company memo in his 2006 «An Inconvenient Truth» movie, right before he spelled out the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase full screen.

The date this piece is September 22, 2006, a bit less than three months after the release of Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» movie, so it would not be much of a stretch to guess that when the writer says he recently came to understand this «false sense of uncertainty» situation, he gleaned it from the movie, where Gore spelled out the «reposition global warming» phrase full screen and then immediately followed it with a reference to the infamous «Doubt is Our Product» leaked memo phrase from the tobacco industry.