Sentences with phrase «gradual warming of the climate»

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.

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«Many believe greenhouse gas emissions are contributing to the gradual warming of our planet and changing of our climate.

As these particular events took place at the end of a local warm period caused by orbital forcing (see Box 6.1 and Section 6.5.1), these observations suggest that under gradual climate forcings (e.g., orbital) the climate system can change abruptly.

«Early flooding of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers is an example of climate change caused by global warming,» Atiur Rahman, an environmental economist, told IRIN, noting a gradual advance of the annual flooding over the past 50 years.

In this report, as an alternative to the scenarios of gradual climatic warming that are so common, we outline an abrupt climate change scenario patterned after the 100 - year event that occurred about 8,200 years ago.

-LSB-...] Velasco Herrera described as erroneous predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), pursuant to which the planet is experiencing a gradual increase in temperature, the so - called global warming.

The hope is that efforts such as these will lead to gradual improvement in our understanding of climate sensitivity at low and high latitudes, and therefore a better ability to predict the likely consequences of climate warming.

Climate change will affect fisheries and aquaculture through gradual warming, ocean acidification and through changes in the frequency, intensity and location of extreme events.

The question is not if but how the solar serial climate changer causes the cyclic gradual (mediavel warm period and the little ice age) and abrupt climate change (abrupt termination of the last 22 interglacial periods.

Few realize how strong the case is for global warming, so let me repeat here some of the items from the IPCC summary of where gradual climate change seems to be going, «Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis.climate change seems to be going, «Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis.Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis.»

Because 20 - year trends can be substantially influenced by just a few single or multi-year «warm» or «cold» events, they are not necessarily representative of the true response of the climate system to the more gradual changes in atmospheric composition that are taking place in response to human activities.

«TCR was originally defined as the warming at the time of CO2 doubling (i.e., after 70 years) in a 1 % yr — 1 increasing CO2 experiment (see Hegerl et al., 2007b), but like ECS, it can also be thought of as a generic property of the climate system that determines the global temperature response ΔT to any gradual increase in RF, ΔF, taking place over an approximately 70 - year time scale, normalized by the ratio of the forcing change to the forcing due to doubling CO2, F2 × CO2: TCR = F2 × CO2 ΔT / ΔF»

The air circulation systems move latitudinally poleward or equatorward depending on whether there is net cooling or warming of the air at a gradual if variable rate all the time and climate shifts in any given location depend mainly on the changing position of that location in relation to the latitudinal position of the major air circulation systems.

Plus Antarctic models are still FUBAR: The gradual warming of the North and tropical Atlantic Ocean is contributing to climate change in Antarctica, a team of New York University scientists supported by the National Science Foundation has concluded.

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.

The reason for this shift, new research suggests, is the gradual warming of winters brought on by climate change.It is thought that because brown owls are more visible to predators during times of heavy snow, they have, in the past, had a harder time surviving into the breeding season.

«What we're seeing is stark evidence that the gradual temperature increase is not the important story related to climate change; it's the rapid regional changes and increased frequency of extreme weather that global warming is causing.