Sentences with phrase «gradual warming»

That's our situation with gradual warming and abrupt cooling.
So we should welcome gradual warming and fear large decreases in global temperatures.
It seems this happened 55 million years ago, when gradual warming of the atmosphere penetrated to the ocean depths and unlocked the methane, which caused a much greater warming that resulted in the extinction of millions of species.
«We conclude that extreme climatic events are key drivers of biodiversity patterns and that the frequency and intensity of such episodes have major implications for predictive models of species distribution and ecosystem structure, which are largely based on gradual warming trends
A revision is expected sometime this year, and while the agency hasn't released details, horticulturalists and experts who have helped with the revision expect the new map to extend plants» northern ranges and paint a sharp picture of the continent's gradual warming over the past few decades.
Either way it's still climate change.The new research, published in the journal Nature, shows that steady meltwater caused by gradual warming actually may slow down glaciers» flow towards the ocean, but sudden increases in water caused by weather extremes are driving the observed increase in melting.
Paleoclimate data reveal instances of rapid global warming, as much as 5 — 6 °C, as a sudden additional warming spike during a longer period of gradual warming [see Text S1].
What we need to fear is not gradual warming but descent into a new ice age, which is historically about due, and would bring huge suffering for humans and most other living things.
The Younger Dryas cold spell was followed by a more gradual warming, ending at temperatures even higher than the present.
Read the original research: Melt - induced speed - up of Greenland ice sheet offset by efficient subglacial drainage Combine this was some research published in December, which showed that the Greenland Ice Sheet is more able to accommodate gradual warming than it can short - term extreme weather events.
Looking forward, climate researchers have already predicted a rise in global temperatures to occur over the course of centuries, not the relatively gradual warming which occurred over thousands of years in the case Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum.
Gradual warming of sun to Red Giant (earth will be a cinder before R.G. stage) 7.
Paleoclimate data reveal instances of rapid global warming, as much as 5 — 6 °C, as a sudden additional warming spike during a longer period of gradual warming [see Text S1].
This warmer allows for a gradual warm and has been tested on breastmilk and not shown to affect any of the milk's properties.
The modelling revealed that gradual warming of the local climate has made it more likely that these smaller sheep survive the winter, which pushes the average size down over successive generations (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1173668).
Urban says the data call for larger and longer - term experiments to test how these species may adapt to gradual warming.
«Gradual warming of the earth's atmosphere is caused by the developing countries as well as the developed countries,» says English professor Wang Xiansheng of Zhengzhou University, which is also facing rolling blackouts as a result of the current coal shortage.
Yet no one knew whether the gradual warming of the globe is intensifying these events, in part because records are short and spotty in the remote parts of the Pacific where El Niño hits hardest.
Gradual warming, paradoxically, can trigger abrupt cooling.
His gradual warm - up to a 25 - year - old woman (Greta Gerwig) and estranged friend (Rhys Ifans) is freeing, funny and powerfully told.
This bundle contains 10 ready - to - use Global Warming Worksheets that are perfect for students who want to learn more about Global warming which is the name given to the gradual warming up of the Earth's surface.
With the gradual warming of our climate mosquitoes are staying active longer each year therefore year - round heartworm prophylaxis is recommended.
A significant northward trend (reduction of ice) in the winter - maximum ice edge is apparent, however, and appears to be caused by the gradual warming of sea - surface temperatures in the region (paper available on this if you want it).
«Many believe greenhouse gas emissions are contributing to the gradual warming of our planet and changing of our climate.
There's a gradual warming over the record.
It is likely that an increase will continue in the future... it appears plausible that an increased amount of CO2 in the atmosphere can contribute to a gradual warming of the lower atmosphere, especially at high latitudes».
These changes include the gradual warming that brought us out of the last ice age, the fairly recent transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age in Europe, and the recent 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption that measurably cooled the atmosphere for a brief period.
But, the development of the urban heat island would have also introduced a gradual warming bias into the NWS weather record.
Anthropogenic global warming is the gradual warming of the earth over time caused by human activities, namely, the burning of fossil fuels.
The gradual warming of the climate system caused by human activities is superimposed on natural phenomena such as El Niño Southern Oscillation, a climate cycle driven by changes in atmospheric and ocean circulation and sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific.
Then the gradual warming then presto change - o, the hockey stick.
A.1 % chance of an Iranian nuke going off in anger that would lead to vast socio - political and economic turmoil is just as big a deal for investment planning as a long, gradual warming of the climate.
I believe that the world has much more to fear with a sudden onset of cooling rather than from the gradual warming that has been observed to date.

Phrases with «gradual warming»

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