Sentences with phrase «if current warming»

The base is currently buried about 35 meters below the surface but the part of the ice sheet that covers the camp may start to melt by the end of the century if current warming trends continue, scientists warned.

If the current warming is NOT unusual, the theory fails.

«If current warming rates are maintained,» it stated, «Himalayan glaciers could decay at very rapid rates.»

If current warming rates are maintained, Himalayan glaciers could decay at very rapid rates, shrinking from the present 500,000 km2 to 100,000 km2 by the 2030s.

The «second order» review draft of the SPM for the Working Group II volume said «If current warming rates are maintained Himalayan glaciers could decay at very rapid rates, shrinking from the present 500,000 km2 to 100,000 km2 by the 2030s.»

What is more, past global warming has included both minor and mass extinction events (e.g. PETM, Permian - Triassic extinction) so even if current warming is in line with what's repeatedly been experienced in the past, it doesn't follow that either the process of warming or the end result are desireable from the perspective of maintaining an advanced, affluent, complex human society based on creating reliable surpluses of food for 7.5 + billion people.

Professor Kug notes that further research is needed to obtain a general conclusion on the matter, but this research delivers important implications for climate adaptation because the analysis shows that if current warming trends continue, it is feasible to conclude that the ecosystems in regions affected by the anomalous climate will suffer greater damages due to the cold and dry spells.

This disagreement ties into the debate over man - made global warming, because if the Current Warm Period is not that unusual, then man - made global warming could be either (1) superimposed over considerable «natural global warming» or (2) non-existent (in which case global warming would have nothing to do with our «carbon footprint»).

Not exact matches

«But if the current trajectory of carbon pollution levels continues unchecked, the world is on track for at least three degrees of warming.

Given this simple fact, I can not see how Mr. Carson can argue so categorically that we ought not think that (a) global warming is occurring, and (b) that if it is occurring our current behavior is not partly responsible for it.

If you are not comfortable with giving your toddler a warm bath at his current condition, you can sponge bath them with lukewarm water.

However, if you're looking for bargains and packs of leggings, then check out Carter's current sale on all things leggings and leg warmers!

President Trump's first term is ostensibly just warming up, but luminaries in his own party, (including VP Mike Pence, according to the NY Times), have begun what amounts to a shadow campaign for 2020 — as if the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue weren't involved.

Redmond said current warming trends could reduce the number of areas with microclimates favorable for future pinyon pine recovery, not if but when the next drought happens.

If you decouple that ice from where it's grounded — something that currents of warming water, already circulating around the Antarctic coast, could do — then water could flow beneath the inland ice and lubricate its slide into the ocean.

If climate change gets catastrophic — and the world sees more than 6 degrees Celsius warming of average temperatures — the planet will have left the current geologic period, known as the Quaternary and a distant successor to the Ordovician, and have returned to temperatures last seen in the Paleogene period more than 30 million years ago.

«At 1.5 degrees Celsius, half of the time we stay within our current summer sea ice regime whereas if we reach 2 degrees of warming, the summer sea ice area will always be below what we have experienced in recent decades.»

If global warming continues unabated, by 2100, average global temperatures could rise by 4.25 degrees Celsius compared with current temperatures.

If global emissions continue at the current trajectory, Australia is expected to warm more than 9 F by 2090.

Other researchers have used computer models to estimate what an event similar to a Maunder Minimum, if it were to occur in coming decades, might mean for our current climate, which is now rapidly warming.

Climate model projections neglecting these changes would continue to overestimate the radiative forcing and global warming in coming decades if these aerosols remain present at current values or increase.

«Having said all that,» said Larsen, «the current climate could slow down the advance of Yahtse or it could stop it a lot sooner than it would if we didn't have this warming trend going on right now.»

If it is permanent, «it is logical to suggest that the winds and ocean currents change accordingly and switch us into a new regime where heat is not buried so deeply, and we jump to the next level in global warming,» Trenberth said.

Time is running out: if global warming continues at its current rate, glaciers at an altitude below 3,500 metres in the Alps and 5,400 metres in the Andes will have disappeared by the end of the end of the 21st century.

If the new results are correct, that means warming will come on faster, and be more intense, than many current predictions.

The section of the 2007 IPCC report that deals with climate impacts, called Working Group II, included a statement in its chapter on Asia (see p. 493) that Himalayan glaciers are receding faster than any other glaciers on Earth and «the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.»

The report also predicts what implications warming seas may have for our planet in the near future if current trends continue.

For every 100 people in the US, there will be six additional sleepless nights per year by 2050, if global warming continues at its current rate.

In the current analysis, Bohr wanted to find out if people's particular political orientations and beliefs about global warming changed at all during periods of so - called temperature anomalies, when temperatures above or beyond the normal are experienced.

The effect is so strong, she said, that if Earth continues to warm at the current rate, the LC50 for one species she has studied, fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas), will be only half as much in 2060 as it is now.

Organisms that have evolved in environments that have little if any change in environmental conditions, for example, may not be able to adapt well if currents increasingly mix warm surface waters down to the seafloor.

Some of the world's most recognisable and important landmarks could be lost to rising sea - levels if current global warming trends are maintained over the next two millennia.

If greenhouse gas emissions continue on their current trend, the rate of warming will reach 0.7 °F per decade and stay that high until at least 2100.

However, even if we're lucky and the climate sensitivity is just 2 °C for doubled atmospheric CO2, if we continue on our current emissions path, we will commit ourselves to that amount of warming (2 °C above pre-industrial levels) within the next 75 years.

Even if the rest of the year were simply average temperature-wise, 2015 would surpass the current record - holder of 1934 by 0.5 °F, she said, and with a strong El Niño in place, it's likely that temperatures will stay on the warmer side for the remainder of the year.

From his own research in chemical oceanography, along with data from a number of recent studies, Weber points out that some negative consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and warming «are manifesting faster than previously predicted,» including ocean acidification and oxygen loss, which are expected to affect «a large fraction of marine species if current trends continue unchecked.»

Running simulations with an Earth System model, the researchers find that if atmospheric CO2 were still at pre-industrial levels, our current warm «interglacial» period would tip over into a new ice age in around 50,000 years» time.

Even if world manages to limit global warming to 2 °C — the target number for current climate negotiations — sea levels may still rise at least 6 meters (20 feet) above their current heights, radically reshaping the world's coastline and affecting millions in the process.

We took them all on an abnormally warm (and windy) Sunday so if I seem underdressed for current Chicago conditions that's why.

If I were only allowed to keep three, I would have to choose my Hugo Boss Tuxedo (slightly oversized with a satin collar detail and the nearest I have come to Le Smoking thus far); the Skinny Fit Joseph Blazer (shiny black, shrunken fit, lightweight, good for any given day); my Emanuel Ungaro tweedy brocade (hip length, lined, warm, doubles as a coat in fall, looks like Chanel, brilliant with jeans, or with a slip dress); Vintage Armani (mannish, loose fit, hip length, two vintage moth holes, but if I keep my right arm down no one knows)... But oops that's four — but I have mulled this over on a number of occasions and my selection often differs, and that's why I can't give any of them up and in fact usually end up acquiring another one, and why I'm not opposed to adding to my collection either, so I'm looking at 3 current Blazer trends to play with and maybe I can retire a few to storage for a whilIf I were only allowed to keep three, I would have to choose my Hugo Boss Tuxedo (slightly oversized with a satin collar detail and the nearest I have come to Le Smoking thus far); the Skinny Fit Joseph Blazer (shiny black, shrunken fit, lightweight, good for any given day); my Emanuel Ungaro tweedy brocade (hip length, lined, warm, doubles as a coat in fall, looks like Chanel, brilliant with jeans, or with a slip dress); Vintage Armani (mannish, loose fit, hip length, two vintage moth holes, but if I keep my right arm down no one knows)... But oops that's four — but I have mulled this over on a number of occasions and my selection often differs, and that's why I can't give any of them up and in fact usually end up acquiring another one, and why I'm not opposed to adding to my collection either, so I'm looking at 3 current Blazer trends to play with and maybe I can retire a few to storage for a whilif I keep my right arm down no one knows)... But oops that's four — but I have mulled this over on a number of occasions and my selection often differs, and that's why I can't give any of them up and in fact usually end up acquiring another one, and why I'm not opposed to adding to my collection either, so I'm looking at 3 current Blazer trends to play with and maybe I can retire a few to storage for a while.

Speaking of «Panda 3,» I wonder if the relationship between Po and Tigress will advance from its current status as what might be called a warm friendship.

If current trends continue, 2012 may very well turn out to be the warmest summer on record.

However, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that our current exhibition by the Albuquerque - based collective, Basement Films, entitled «Happiness is a Warm Projector» (on view through May 31), is mounted in conjunction with the «On the Map» initiative in Albuquerque, and I believe we're the only Santa Fe arts organization involved in that effort.

However, the temperature as an added signal which is either a cooling or warming one based on current «weather» influenced by ENSO inter alia and this additional «weather» signal in the temperature record is only averaged in the models if included at all.

Almost as if on cue, representatives from NOAA's National Weather Service have been dispatched to tell us that the event e.g. «has absolutely nothing to do with global warming», but instead is entirely due to the impact of the current El Nino event.

but even if the current tooo - short - to - call cooling trend reverses, and it is proved that co2 MIGHT have some limited effect on planetary warming, then the question is, how much warming?

Could GCM projections substantially overestimate temperature trends for the western US if PDO shifts from its current warm phase to a cool phase?

Is it not the case that if the relative lack of El Niño's and predominance of La Nina's is in fact due to global warming, rather than natural variability, then the current increase in the rate of warming of the ocean below 700m may continue.

Just wanted to let you know that I have filed a class action lawsuit on global warming in the International Criminal Court in the Hague, against all current leaders on all nations on Earth, in behalf of all future generations not born yet, forever and ever, as long as this human species shall last...... and for US$ 1 billion in damages, to be donated if case is accepted and won to groups fighting global warming now!

I don't see a compelling reason for middle school science teachers to go into details of the earth's current warming, although they should be free to do that if they want to.