Sentences with phrase «higher warming levels»

Similarly, in some countries in Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, Greece) the initial increase in impacts at 1.5 °C turns into more uncertain projections for higher warming levels, due to a substantial reduction in annual rainfall.

Not exact matches

It's mile - high sea level also makes it an excellent place to go in the event of global warming and rising sea levels.

A warm body in a chair does not equal high productivity levels.

He discusses another one of those ridiculous, «why conservatives think the way they do» articles soon to be published, and weighs in with a theory of his own for higher levels of global warming skepticism among the world's Rush Limbaughs.

The inundation came because the Bay of Bengal was some inches higher than normal (as climate changes, sea level rises because warm water takes up more space).

We are receiving increased levels of enquiry for wine industry assets and, in particular, large scale warm climate vineyards that can produce high volumes of fruit to take advantage of increased overseas demand for fruit and wine,» he said.

Mothers who have graduated from the programme are very positive about their parenting capability, reporting high levels of warm parenting, low levels of harsh discipline and levels of parenting stress similar to that in the normal population

A warm, professional attitude and high comfort level with birth, postpartum care and breastfeeding are necessary.

At this time, the high adrenaline levels of second stage, which have kept mother and baby wide - eyed and alert at first contact, will be falling, and a very warm atmosphere is necessary to counteract the cold, shivering feelings that a woman has as her adrenaline levels drop.

Customers report a high level of satisfaction with the rate at which the blanket warms up, and find that the distribution of heat is consistent over the whole blanket, with no cold or hot spots.

Response 17: The Chairperson has always shown the highest levels of respect and admiration for her predecessor and she maintains a very warm relationship with Dr. Kwadwo Afari - Gyan and his family.

That collision between very warm, humid air at low levels of the atmosphere and cool air at higher levels creates the upward vertical winds within a thunderstorm that sometimes turn into a tornado, said Thomas Schwein, deputy director of the National Weather Service's Central Region, which includes Missouri.

From climate campaigners to high - level diplomats, those who are committed to fighting global warming say making a strong agreement in Paris next year that radically reduces levels of greenhouse gas emissions is critical.

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.

Around 3 million years ago, when temperatures were just 1 to 2 °C higher than the average of the past couple of millennia before humans began warming the climate, sea level was at least 25 metres higher than present.

In comparable interglacials in the past half million years, when temperatures were less than 1 °C warmer than they are now, sea level was around 5 metres higher.

The first predications of coastal sea level with warming of two degrees by 2040 show an average rate of increase three times higher than the 20th century rate of sea level rise.

These big ice sheets have frozen and melted many times in the past (producing ice ages with low sea levels and warm periods with high sea levels).

During that time, temperatures were less than 1 °C warmer than they are today, but sea level stood about 5 to 9 meters higher due to large - scale ice sheet melt.

That representation matches the public discourse around global warming, in which previous studies have shown that media characterize climate change as unsettled science with high levels of scientific uncertainty.

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

His studies show that cosmic rays trigger cloud formation, suggesting that a high level of solar activity — which suppresses the flow of cosmic rays striking the atmosphere — could result in fewer clouds and a warmer planet.

The last time the earth was that warm was 130,000 years ago, and sea level was four to six meters higher than today.

A study published in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology has found that because the newer engines emit higher levels of the climate - warming pollutant black carbon than traditional engines, their impact on the climate is uncertain.

During the warm periods between recent ice ages, temperatures in Antarctica reached substantially higher levels than scientists had previously thought.

But because the surrounding ocean would have been warmer, and stabilizing sea ice less abundant, the massive East Antarctic ice sheet may have contributed to higher sea levels by flowing more quickly towards the ocean.

A study assesses flood impacts for three scenarios — of 1.5 °C, 2 °C and 3 °C warming — and finds that most of Central and Western Europe will experience substantial increase in flood risk at all warming levels, and the higher the warming, the higher the risk.

Zhou says the warming was caused primarily by vertical mixing of the air, rather than as a direct result of friction as air passes over the turbines» blades: the movement of the turbines is mixing the cooler ground - level air with warmer air higher up.

Another factor at play could be the delicate balance between precipitation and evaporation which Arctic lake levels depend on: warmer temperatures and higher winds could cause more evaporation.

These high sea levels, ranging from a few meters to 20 meters above today, imply that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is highly sensitive to climate warming.

Temperatures have been warmer before, sea levels have been much higher.

In truth, sea - level rise and greater frequency of storms are higher - order results of global warming, in that they would require several links in a causal chain to be proved.

The Obama administration will host a high - level meeting to discuss ways to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars in annual international global warming assistance, State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a recent speech.

(Cooler colors signal lower peptide levels; warmer colors signal higher levels.)

El Niño causes higher sea level pressure, warmer air temperature and warmer sea surface temperature in west Antarctica that affect sea ice distribution.

The scientists found that when raised under warming conditions, bryozoans altered their chemical composition by building higher levels of magnesium into their skeletons, particularly if they were also eating less food.

That may not have occurred during the warm period 400,000 years ago, known as Marine Isotope Stage 11 to scientists, which featured elements such as boreal forest on Greenland and higher sea levels.

The amount of warming that's already built in the system would bring Earth's temperature close to what it was when the sea level was 13 to 20 feet higher.

In the troposphere, the temperature is warmer at the bottom — ground level — and cools down at higher altitudes.

Warming temperatures and high precipitation levels contribute to destructive wildfires, extensive property damage and costly flooding, as was recently seen in northern California and in the aftermath of the rain and resulting flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Houston.

Indeed, conventional wisdom held that higher levels of aerosol pollution in the atmosphere should cool the earth's climate because aerosols can increase cloudiness; they not only reduce precipitation, which raises the water content in clouds, but they also increase the size of the individual water droplets, which in turn causes more warming sunlight to be reflected back into space.

Roughly 130,000 the Arctic enjoyed higher levels of solar radiation, leading to increased warming in the summer and the retreat of glaciers worldwide.

The warming at sea level is expected to reach 3 degrees Celsius by the year 2100, and possibly double that, or 6 degrees Celsius, at the highest mountain peaks in the low latitudes.

In winter, particulate levels can be twice as high as during the summer, because «inversion layers» of warm air trap cold air close to the ground.

The 8 inches of sea level rise produced by global warming so far has worsened the tolls of storm surges, including those caused by Hurricane Sandy, and subjected coastal cities to high tide flooding of unprecedented frequency.

«High carbon dioxide levels cause warming in tropics.»

Some scientists are linking the phenomenon to warmer waters and ocean acidification caused by high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The higher CO2 levels of the Pliocene have long been associated with a warmer world, but evidence from tropical regions suggested relatively stable temperatures.

This is because warmer temperatures and other changes in the atmosphere related to a changing climate, including higher atmospheric levels of methane, spur chemical reactions that lead to ozone.

In the midst of an unseasonably warm winter in the Pacific Northwest, a comparison of four publicly available climate projections has shown broad agreement that the region will become considerably warmer in the next century if greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere rise to the highest levels projected in the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) «business - as - usual» scenario.