Sentences with phrase «higher future temperatures»

Some are more resilient to increased temperatures and might be able to survive and compete under higher future temperatures.
As a result, these computer climate simulations predicted outlandishly high future temperatures.

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Just for future reference though, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, when heated to a high temperature in a pan, such as when making pancakes, causes the protein structure to change and that good, olive - y fat becomes a saturated fat!
Western Australian wheat growers face higher temperatures and lower rainfall in the future, which will challenge the profitability of wheat production on farm.
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The findings were not a total surprise, with future projections showing that even with moderate climate warming, air temperatures over the higher altitudes increase even more than at sea level, and that, on average, fewer winter storm systems will impact the state.
Colder temperatures and weaker high - altitude winds may make the arctic polar vortex even more intense in future winters and trigger greater ozone loss, says atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, although the losses probably won't approach those in Antarctica.
As the globe continues to spin toward a future with higher temperatures, crop yields will likely decrease if farmers do not adapt to new management or technology practices.
Higher temperatures and less rainfall suggest that the region's trees face an uncertain future
Future models may substitute molten sodium as the working fluid, which would allow higher temperatures without requiring higher pressures.
They also make more methane at higher temperatures, which doesn't bode well given Earth's toasty future.
The team's next steps are to analyze future data at lower RHIC energies and higher LHC energies to see how these temperatures might affect the plasma's behavior, especially near the phase transition between ordinary matter and the exotic matter of the quark - gluon plasma.
However, comparing the results of the climate simulations for the most recent interglacial with scenario calculations for the future reveals substantial differences: thanks to the more intense solar radiation, back then the air temperatures at higher latitudes were also a few degrees higher than at present.
And the efficiency with which a field generates electricity can be improved in the future by moving to higher temperature operation, he adds; the current design employs steam at 440 degrees Celsius and 63 kilograms per square centimeter of pressure at peak capacity.
Till now, climate modellers» forecasts of future warming have resembled the famous bell curve, with the most likely result of doubling CO2 being a temperature increase of about 3 °C, and with declining probabilities on either side for a narrow range of higher and lower temperature rises (see Graph).
Our work shows that an entirely different mechanism is active in this new material, giving us hope for even better — higher temperature and stronger — manifestations for the future
The research used historical data — mainly from North American, Europe and East Asia — and an ensemble of climate models to analyze the past and future risk of various extreme hot, wet and dry events, including the highest daytime and nighttime temperatures, mildest low temperatures, wettest days, and longest dry spells.
Of particular interest to the researchers is a projection from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that future temperatures on the planet will rise faster at high altitudes than they will at sea level.
«Given that the predominant thinking was that transmission was most likely to peak at very hot temperatures, which would mostly limit the diseases to the tropics, we were certainly surprised that the model and the field data suggested that high rates of transmission could occur at lower temperatures, possibly impacting more northern regions in the future,» Cohen said.
A higher population leads to a higher carbon price but a lower optimal peak temperature; this is because it is even more important to limit temperature rise when there are more future people who will suffer the damages.
Such favorable plasmas could possibly be achieved by future advanced spherical tokamaks operating at high temperature.
A recent analysis looked at historical damage to food crops from high temperatures during the growing season alongside projections of future warming.
Studies of future changes in river flow and river temperature and implications for ecosystems, changes in sea - level, changes in freshwater resources, and the role of feedbacks in climate change in the Arctic and high - altitude regions.
Global positioning satellites (GPS); remote sensing for water, minerals, and crop and land management; weather satellites, arms treaty verifications; high - temperature, light - weight materials; revolutionary medical procedures and equipment; pagers, beepers, and television and internet to remote areas of the world; geographic information systems (GIS) and algorithms used to handle huge, complex data sets; physiologic monitoring and miniaturization; atmospheric and ecological monitoring; and insight into our planet's geological history and future — the list goes on and on.
The scientists behind today's analysis used the same 13 climate models to investigate how often we might see a repeat of such high Arctic winter temperatures in future as warming continues.
Future global temperature change should depend mainly on atmospheric CO2, at least if fossil fuel emissions remain high.
For the study, the research team used 11 different high - resolution simulations of future temperatures across the United States between 2041 and 2070.
CO2 accounts for more than 80 % of the added GHG forcing in the past 15 years [64], [167] and, if fossil fuel emissions continue at a high level, CO2 will be the dominant driver of future global temperature change.
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Would a higher or indeed lower absolute mean global temperature now affect this forcing as temperature increased due to CO2 in the future or is the effect minimal.
Given those two factors and ignoring future emissions that will drive the temperature even higher, we are already over +2 C warming once we stop emitting short - lived coal smoke and other pollutants into the air and we give the Earth time to reach temperature equilibrium.
The fact is if the lower range results are typical of future temperatures then not only do we have little to fear, but we may actually reap some benefits from a climate more conducive to higher world agricultural productivity.
The basic story of human caused global warming and its coming impacts is still the same: humans are causing it and the future will bring higher sea levels and warmer temperatures, the only questions are: how much and how fast?
As the effects, the true costs of our current fossil fuel use will be felt to the greatest extent in the future, it seems reasonable to pay the price for those costs now, not leave the debt for future generations to pay with higher cancer rates and global temperatures.
Insurers are convinced that with higher temperatures and more energy driving storm systems, future losses will be even greater.
«Future projections based on theory and high - resolution dynamical models consistently suggest that greenhouse warming will cause the globally averaged intensity of tropical cyclones to shift towards stronger storms,» Knutson et al. (2010); Grinsted et al. (2013) projected «a twofold to sevenfold increase in the frequency of Katrina magnitude events for a 1 °C rise in global temperature
It is you that claims that the emitting body is sentient, knows the location, future location, and future temperature of every other body in the whole Universe, including bodies that are yet to form, like new stars, such that when that emitted energy arrives the body that emitted it is of a higher temperature than the body that received it, in your hamfisted incomprehension of the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
Pebble bed reactors have a high enough temperature that they can combine water and CO2 into liquid fuels in the future.
The take home point is that the higher that temperatures are adjusted now, for whatever reason, the cooler the future looks vs now.
That may mean that some of the highest estimates of future temperature rises, of more than 6C within several decades, are less likely, but it does not let the world off the hook — warming of more than 2C is still highly likely on current high emissions trends, and that would cause severe consequences around the world.
The author's points on non-linearity and time delays are actually more relevant to the discussion in other presentations when I talked about whether the climate models that show high future sensitivities to CO2 are consistent with past history, particularly if warming in the surface temperature record is exaggerated by urban biases.
With a drier future and higher regional temperatures amplifying possible late - century droughts, the situation presents a major adaptation challenge for managing the region's water needs, explains Ault, who along with lead author Benjamin Cook and Jason Smerdon, both of NASA, published their new study, «Unprecedented 21st Century Drought Risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains Drought Risk in Western North America.»
In fact, they may do so more efficiently than more uniform temperature change; warming one hemisphere with respect to the other is an excellent way of pulling monsoonal circulations and oceanic ITCZs towards the warm hemisphere (the last few years have seen numerous studies of this response, relevant for ice ages and aerosol forcing as well as the response to high latitude internal variability; Chiang and Bitz, 2005 is one of the first to discuss this, in the ice age context; I'll try to return to this topic in a future post.)
«The increased risk of ozone damage to vegetation is mainly due to rising ozone concentrations and higher temperatures in the future,» says Jenny Klingberg at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences.
A nice atmospheric pressure passive safe high temperature reactor that can burn used fuel in the future, is much better than fielding a complex PWR today.
Operating cost for electric cars is $ 0.50 to $ 0.75 per mile versus $ 0.10 for gasoline powered cars once battery replacement costs are included By 2020, Chinese PER CAPITA emissions will be higher than America's Does not believe that the 0.6 degree temperature rise to date is the West's «fault,» but does believe that China is the future problem Whatever U.S. does about emissions reduction and what people do as individuals is totally trivial in face of the fact that China is adding huge amounts of coal fired generating capacity The most meaningful emissions reduction strategy today would be to convert China from coal to natural gas The claim that there are more frequent or more intense hurricanes and tornadoes as a result of AGW is not scientifically supported We can reduce emissions, but it is important that we do the RIGHT things (and NOT the WRONG ones) Not worried about «peak oil;» coal can be converted to liquid fuel
CERN concludes that climate models used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to estimate future temperatures are too high and that the models should be redone.
Under the assumption that society will work to avoid crossing a key temperature threshold, from figure 2a, the cumulative emission metric confirms that we have a choice of high emissions soon followed by rapid decarbonization, or more stringent emission cuts occurring soon with a lower rate of decarbonization in the future.
High temperature, fast neutron reactors are the obvious future source of both electricity and liquid fuels.
Using an ensemble of four high resolution (~ 25 km) regional climate models, this study analyses the future (2021 - 2050) spatial distribution of seasonal temperature and precipitation extremes in the Ganges river basin based on the SRES A1B emissions scenario.
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